Fitzgerald Ave focus. VAMPIRES ARE A PAIN IN THE NECK.
05.05.11. Ten weeks post 22 February 2011 quake, I saw that sign on a campervan at a Fitzgerald Ave business. Vampires sucked Christchurch blood since the 4 September 2010 quake, Boxing Day quake & 22 February 2011 quake. On business-windows or next to broken- buildings, busines-signs sprouted along Fitzgerald Ave:
A1 AUTO
OPEN
FITZGERALD
MEDICAL
OPEN
CHRISTCHURCH
CITY
MISSION
AT THE HEART OF THE CITY
OPEN 431 TUAM ST
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, repaired, quake damaged house, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, open for business sign, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Civil Defence bldg inspection, yellow sticker, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged wall & sign prices, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. City Mission sign, Fitzgerald Ave. Feb 22 quake tilted Hotel Grand Chancellor backdrop. Hotel Grand Chancellor would be demolished
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Fitzgerald Ave sign:
CACTUS EQUIPMENT
AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
FACTORY SHOWROOM AND STORE
OPEN
90 FITZGERALD AVE...
IDEAL
ELECTRICAL
SUPPLIES
YES WE ARE OPEN...
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, bldg inspection, yellow sticker, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Fitzgerald Ave, business relocation sign:
KMBE have moved to 21 MICHELLE
ROAD, MIDDLETON while our building
undergoes earthquake damage assessment.
We are 100% operational and our
staff are safe and working from our
new premises.
All other details remain unchanged
Ph...
Please support Canterbury owned businesses
during these difficult times.
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, green & blue portaloos by wood braced bldg, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Fitzgerald Ave, WE ARE FULLY OPERATIONAL sign:
WE ARE
FULLY
OPERATIONAL
(working from home)
ALL
ENQUIRIES
Please call...
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, business signs by concrete block & metal braced bldg, Fitzgerald Ave. C meant Clear, no bodies
Learn to
Dance
* Salsa
*Tango
*Zumba
*Hip Hop
Free 1st class
Grab a flyer...
The business tilt-slab concrete-wall was propped by steel-poles & concrete-blocks, DANGER KEEP OUT white-plastic-barrier-tape-cordoned.
Vampires perpetuated damages: They strained Christchurch's broken roads, broken sewers, broken water-systems, broken electricity-system & broken telecommunication. Vampires used rental-accommodation before those who'd lost their homes in quakes
Vampires from outside Christchurch were well paid: Contractors; demolishers; sewage-suckers; media; military; foreign cops; USAR / TF teams; EQC-inspectors (Aussie-cops & other incompetents); bureaucrats; backpackers camping at the airport; celebrities; foreign, preachy architects; Wellington & Auckland politicians.
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Council sewer repair sign, Fitzgerald Ave / St Asaph St
05.05.11. Orange / white, plastic bollards, steel mesh fence cordon. Red crane, Feb 22 quake, signs & sewer repair, Fitzgerald Ave / St Asaph St
Since the 22 February 2011 quake, I'd trekked bits of Fitzgerald Ave, according to National State-of-Emergency cordoned-zones. Although the National State-of-Emergency was over, Christchurch-CBD was still steel-mesh-fence-cordoned, but I was closer to the grey quakemired jugular.
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Christchurch CBD, obsolete walks sign, Ferry Rd / Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. I trekked Fitzgerald Ave, both sides, Kilmore St to Moorhouse Ave return. Road-lanes were mostly repaired with good traffic-flow, some sewage-pipe repairs by St Asaph St crossing, but footpaths were still cracked & buckled, grey-quakemire in places & roadside-potholes, like at Lichfield St crossing. Further down side-streets, CBD-side, I saw NO GO, red-zone areas with NZDF-soldiers' blue-tarped-huts at steel-mesh-fence-cordons.
05.05.11. Plastic, road cone cordon. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction pothole, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction silted pavement, Fitzgerald Ave / Tuam St
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned pavement & blue portaloo, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, leaky, liquefactioned pavement, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake buckled pavement, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, orange, plastic, road cones, steel & orange, plastic mesh, fence cordoned road excavation, Fitzgerald Ave / Moorhouse Ave
05.05.11. CONTRACTORS ENTRANCE to CBD red zone, No Go cordon, Fitzgerald Ave /
Tuam St
Road signs: SHOULDER
CLOSED
AUTHORISED
VEHICLES
CONTRACTOR
ENTRANCE
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned pavement & business signs, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake pothole, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned, Fitzgerald Ave / Lichfield St
Fitzgerald Ave / Moorhouse Ave: Bus-depot-ruins: fallen brick-walls, collapsed roofs, exposed roof-spaces, exposed rooms, brick-rubble in carpark & on footpath, orange-plastic-road-cone-cordoned, white-plastic-barrier-taped. Bus-depot-ruins would be demolished. Ruined RC Basilica backdrop: shipping-containers supported part-collapsed twin-towers & cracked transept-sides.
Fitzgerald Ave: A business-ruin I passed was still liquefaction-flooded: warehouse Inward Goods & Outward Goods doors jammed closed by grey-quakemire.
05.05.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged bus depot, Fitzgerald Ave / Moorhouse Ave. Quake damaged RC Cathedral behind. Bus depot bldgs would be demolished
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, business signs on steel mesh fence cordon by part demolished Pickwicks bldgs, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction silt & flooded business, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Warehouse doors jammed closed by Feb 22 quake liquefaction mud, Fitzgerald Ave
Some closed-buildings had broken-windows, & their silted-showrooms stank! Several closed-businesses had grey-quakemire across doorways & in footpath-gutters. One showroom had piles of putrid Persian carpets. Another muddy-showroom had silted, rusting gym-machines. Colourful portaloos polluted Fitzgerald Ave footpaths.
ROSS GALT
Has relocated
to building across
other side of
car park
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned office doors, red stickered, quake damaged bldg, Fitzgerald Ave. The bldg would be demolished
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction damaged showroom, Fitzgerald Ave. The bldg would be demolished.
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, 2 blue portaloos, Fitzgerald Ave business
Some buildings were part-damolished or completely-demolished. Some new buildings were being constructed. There were efforts to preserve some older buildings. Many ruins awaited slow EQC-settlements & slow insurer-settlements. Patched-chimneys, tarped-roofs, smashed-windows, boarded-windows, boarded-walls, broken-walls, crooked-structures, quakemired-offices & quakemired-showrooms stood testament to slow insurer- payouts & no rebuilds. Whimpering about risks & aftershocks, for months insurers refused to take on new Canterbury insurance & were slow with payouts. Post-quakes, insurance-premiums increased hugely.
Damaged houses: 1. Two-storey fallen brick-parapet, roof-space exposed, fallen brick-chimney, broken wooden-balcony, rubble-heap in driveway. 2. Two-storey, fallen brick-chimney, brick-rubble in garden, windows-boarded. 3. Fallen concrete garden-wall. Steel garden-fence, yellow-plastic-barrier-tape-cordoned. 4. Fallen brick garden-wall. Yellow spray-painted, NZRT-graffiti on rest of brick-wall & window, dated 27/2. Green, spray-painted NZRT-graffiti on footpath, dated 4/3.
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, 2 storey house, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Fitzgerald Ave
Signs on buildings, footpaths, fences & road-islands. CD & building-inspector red-stickers, or yellow-stickers, or green-stickers, road-direction signs, USAR / TF-graffiti on walls, windows & footpaths. Another example of confusing Council inspection-stickers: Red-stickers AND yellow-stickers on the same building, 4-5 Fitzgerald Ave, 2/4/11, 16.50, Peter Alderton, Level 2 inspection. Yellow-sticker allowed access to the building. Red-sticker forbade entry. Take your pick! Unusual signs:
WE ARE
NOT
MUNT'D [destroyed]
OUR THOUGHTS TO
THOSE WHO HAVE
LOST LOVED ONES
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, WE ARE NOT MUNT'D business sign, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, OUR THOUGHTS TO THOSE WHO HAVE LOST LOVED ONES sign, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, bldg inspection, red sticker, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, bldg inspection, yellow sticker, Fitzgerald Ave
VANTAGE VA
NOW
OPEN
7 CLARKSON AVE...
QUATTRO
CAFE
50M
285 CASHEL ST
MAPWORLD
OPEN
41 MOORHOUSE
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, USAR / TF graffiti, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, WE WILL TRY TO SAVE THIS HOUSE sign, Fitzgerald Ave
Ruined-house near Kilmore St crossing: Walls wood-braced, windows-boarded, black spray-painted sign on boards: WE WILL TRY TO SAVE THIS HOUSE. Green-digger, brick-rubble & wood-rubble in garden.
Across the road, red-stickered Pickwicks ruin, part-demolished, a mess: Two-storey, fallen roof, fallen upper-storey brick-walls, exposed rooms, brick-rubble on footpath, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. USAR / TF orange, spray-painted graffiti on broken-wall & pink, spray-painted graffiti on boarded-door:
COLLAPSE QLD TF
C 28/2
QLD TF 15:00
8.30
28.2.11
Both graffiti had the usual horizontal line through the middle with surrounding square & circle showing safe-entry / safe-exit by USAR / TF personnel.
Fitzgerald Ave: There were many old business-signs on buildings, some businesses open, some closed. New signs on footpaths solicited trade, or informed about relocations, or business-closures. There were several business-signs on the steel-mesh-fence-cordon, obstructing traffic, by part-demolished Pickwicks. It wasn't business-as-usual on Fitzgerald Ave, still grey-quakemired. But I couldn't fault business- tenacity & business-optimism.
Post 22 February 2011 quake when CD & CERA strangled the CBD, many businesses relocated to the suburbs. When CERA occupied the CBD, surrounded by ruins within red-zone steel-mesh-fence-cordons & NZDF-checkpoints, CERA would demolish scores of commercial-buildings & residential-buildings. CERA's occupation of the red-zone CBD & military-checkpoints for another two years would discourage businesses returning to the CBD. By February 2015, few businesses had returned to the CBD. There were some rebuilds by private enterprise, but no CERA Blueprint anchor-projects were built four years post 22 February 2011 quake. After CERA's demolition frenzy, CERA's rebuild stopped.
So much for NZ National government intervention in the form of vampire CERA. Except for elected CERA minister Brownlee, CERA bureaucracy would disband in 2016, after five years' tenure. But CERA would continue, renamed Regeneration Christchurch. Sucking Christchurch blood was too lucrative for CERA vampires to vanish at dawn. After the Labour coalition government took over, in 2018 Dr Megan Woods would briefly become the Greater Christchurch Regeneration minister & minister responsible for EQC.
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, steel mesh fence cordoned, demolition site, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, business sign, Fitzgerald Ave
DUE TO THE EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE
THIS STORE IS NOW CLOSED
YOU CAN FIND US AT OUR HORNBY SITE
202 MAIN SOUGH RD
BY THE SOCKBURN OVERBRIDGE
PH...
WHYTE
CONSTRUCTION
WE HAVE MOVED!!
16 November 2010
95 Fitzgerald Avenue 37 Leslie Hills Drive
We look forward to seeing you there!
Call...
DATELINE
IMPORTS LTD
YES
WE ARE
OPEN
8am - 5pm
Mon - Fri
SPECIALISED
PANEL & PAINT
OPEN
243 Lichfield St...
After Fitzgerald Ave, I drove down Barbadoes St: Provincial Hotel, Cashel St corner, damaged in the 4 September 2010 quake, was gone.
RC Basilica ruin was being deconstructed, stone by stone: piles of broken Oamaru whitestones.
There were many shipping-containers on broken-roads, protecting contractors, or bracing ruins, like the RC Basilica. Shipping-containers obstructed traffic, supposedly protecting citizens from aftershock debris. I never saw fallen debris on shipping-containers.
There were many home-made SLOW DOWN signs on suburban broken-roads. Vampires drove large, ground-vibrating vehicles, yet citizens were chastised by cops for breaking 30 km/h speed-limits on broken-roads. How much road-damage did patrolling cop-cars do?
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, bldg inspection sticker, Fitzgerald Ave
05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, business sign, Fitzgerald Ave
GOOSES
SCREEN DESIGN LTD
We have
relocated
to 77
Durham St
KUMHO TYRES
MOTORS
STILL
OPEN
STANDEVEN
TIMBER.CO.NZ
EARTHQUAKE
HELPING REBUILD
CHRISTCHURCH I.T.
J.I.T. SYSTEMS
COMPUTER & NETWORK SPECIALISTS
PH...
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05.05.11. USAR / TF graffiti, Pickwicks bldgs, post Feb 22 quake, Fitzgerald Ave. Pickwicks would be demolished.
09.05.11. M4 quake, 11:52, depth 10km, 20km W of Christchurch. (GeoNet). Not over yet.
10.05.11. M5.3 quake, 3:04, depth 15km, 20km W of Christchurch (GeoNet). Woke us in bed.
*Trekked Fitzgerald Ave. 86 snaps.
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
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