CERA Regime. Day 1 June 13, M6.3 Quake. FREE BRICKS HELP YOURSELF

14.06.11. June 13 quake collapsed, brick, garden wall, Rossall St / Glandovey Rd. The wall collapsed in 2 former quakes & would be thrice rebuilt


14.06.11. DANGER KEEP OUT. June 13 quake, white / red, plastic, tape cordon, liquefactioned driveway, Strowan Rd / Heaton St


14.06.11. Red, plastic, tape cordon. June 13 quake damaged, brick house, Strowan Rd / Heaton St. The house was damaged in 2 previous quakes & would be demolished & rebuilt

14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned Madras St, between Edgeware Rd & Bealey Ave. Madras St was liquefactioned & damaged in the Feb 22 quake too












Richmond focus. 13 June 2011, the Day CERA began occupying Christchurch CBD! Tues 14.06.11. After June 13 Quake, M6.3, Leah arrived home from Jean Seabrook Memorial School, London St, spooked by the quake. Staff & students had dived under desks, like in the Feb 22 Killer Quake, till the quake stopped. It was the second time in 4 months since the Feb 22, M6.3 Killer Quake her school was liquefactioned & closed for safety checking. As the CBD was red zone cordoned post Feb 22 Quake & as 1000s had left Christchurch after that quake, there were no fatalities during June 13 Quake, although both quakes were M6.3.


14.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake & June 13 quake, liquefactioned lot, London St. Townhouses would be built on the lot


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned pavement, entrance to Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St. SMcK Cntr entrance was liquefaction flooded in the Feb 22 quake too


14.06.11. June 13 quake, 2 beige portaloos in liquefactioned carpark, Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St. The 2 portaloos were used since Feb 22 quake


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefaction boil, Seabrook McKenzie Centre carpark, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned pavement outside Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, orange, Hi-Vis vested workman checking sewage pipes outside Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefaction boil opp Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St

Leah had waited till kids left with parents, while mud boils & mud volcanoes oozed on 3 sides of her ground floor, end classroom, in the playground & in the school carpark. Deja vu 22.02.11 Killer Quake.

Leah drove home to Burnside along liquefactioned, gridlocked roads. Deja vu 22.02.11 Killer Quake: Quakemire & flooding along Cranford St & Heaton St. While we avoided death & destruction from quake shaking & liquefaction, CERA regime affected us mainly by road detours & obstructive steel mesh fence cordons.


14.06.11. June 13 quake, fallen rubbish bin in classroom, Jean Seabrook Memorial School, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, small items OK in classroom, big items like computer & metal cupboard toppled in classroom, Jean Seabrook Memorial School, London St

Tues 14.06.11. I drove to Leah's Jean Seabrook Memorial School, Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St, via Wairakei Rd, Heaton St, Forfar St, Madras St, Bealey Ave. Deja vu route I'd trekked during Feb 22 Killer Quake.


14.06.11. June 13 quake, scattered office items, Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, muffin on a chair, Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St

Places along the way which were liquefactioned in the Feb 22 Killer Quake were liquefactioned in the June 13 Quake too: Wairakei Rd / Ilam Rd; (garden brick wall collapsed, Glandovey Rd / Rossall St, fixed twice already, third wall collapse in 3 different quakes); Heaton St, Innes Rd, Severn St not too bad; Forfar St; Madras St bad, new sinkholes, deep silt, flooding, bumpy mess. Bumpy Bealey Ave OK, traffic flowing, business as usual.


14.06.11. June 13 quake, papers scattered in director's office, Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St

London St: I wanted to see closed Jean Seabrook Memorial School before others arrived, messing pristine liquefaction. I also wanted to see shops which had collapsed, Stanmore Rd / Worcester St. Quake trashed shops had already been demolished across the road, where two people died in Wicks Fish during Feb 22 Killer Quake.


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefaction boil, Seabrook McKenzie Centre carpark, London St. SMcK Cntr was liquefactioned in the Feb 22 quake too


London St: I parked at Jean Seabrook Memorial School. Snapped mounds of sticky, grey, quakemire in the carpark. Mud had oozed under the school's glass front doors. Mud boils were beside the carpark's 2 beige portaloos & the front & back gates. Concrete paths beside & in front of Leah's ground floor class in the 2 storey school were covered in sticky, quakemire. The playground before Leah's class was covered in mud boils. The sand pit, about half a metre above ground level, had a mud boil next to it, through concrete. Glass front door notice:

WE ARE CLOSED
FOR THE REST OF
THE DAY DUE TO
THE
EARTHQUAKE

Snapped upside-down chaos through locked, glass doors: toppled cupboard & computer in Leah's classroom; papers scattered behind the director's chair in her office; table overturned in another office. A stale muffin smeared cream on a chair in another room.

London St: Two workmen in orange, Hi-Vis vests inspected a manhole in the middle of the road, checking sewage pipes. An empty lot near the school, liquefactioned by the Feb 22 Killer Quake, was more liquefactioned by the June 13 Quake, sticky, grey mud everywhere. Town houses would be built on the liquefactioned lot.


14.06.11. Grey portaloo, Pavitt St pavement. June 13 quake, Richmond Creche liquefactioned carpark view, liquefactioned Seabrook McKenzie Centre carpark, Pavitt St. Both carparks & Pavitt St were liquefactioned in the Feb 22 Killer Quake too

London St / Pavitt St: The creche was liquefactioned: Kids' playground equipment, covered in yellow, plastic CAUTION tape; fallen apples sprinkled on top of liquefaction volcanoes in the playground. Slippery quakemire covered pavements fronting Jean Seabrook Memorial School & the creche. Green, plastic, sewage tank was outside the creche since the Feb 22 Killer Quake.


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned Pavitt St. Liquefactioned in the Feb 22 quake too



14.06.11. June 13 quake, green, plastic, sewage tank, liquefactioned London St / Pavitt St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefaction boil, Creche carpark, Pavitt St

14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned Creche, London St

Across London St: Richmond Working Mens Club brick wall, damaged in the Feb 22 Killer Quake, trashed in the June 13 Quake, roof collapsed. Two security men, dressed in black, faces grim, stood by the carpark entrance. The club would be demolished, rebuilt 2020, named Richmond Club. 2021... Jake would chef at Richmond Club.


14.06.11. June 13 quake, Pavitt St view, London St gate to liquefactioned Richmond Working Mens Club



14.06.11. Orange, plastic, road cones, steel mesh fence cordon. June 13 quake, green, plastic sewage tanks on London St since Feb 22 quake & view of Feb 22 quake collapsed, June 13 quake trashed Richmond Working Mens Club brick wall, London St / Stanmore Rd. The Club would be demolished, rebuilt 2020, named Richmond Club


14.06.11. Orange, plastic, road cones, steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake collapsed, June 13 quake trashed brick wall & roof, Richmond Working Men's Club, London St / Stanmore Rd. That cnr of Richmond Working Men's Club would soon demolished. The Club would be demolished, rebuilt 2020, named Richmond Club






Stanmore Rd: Traffic flowed, business as usual during that crisp, frosty morning: New World open; Gas being sold; roadside Espresso van, sold coffee; some shops open, some ghosts. Where prior quakes had weakened bldgs, June 13 Quake trashed them. Liquefactioned carpark by a block of flats. People shovelled & swept sticky, grey mud off pavements.


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned Stanmore Rd & Richmond Village Green. Liquefactioned in the Feb 22 quake too


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned Stanmore Rd. Liquefactioned in the Feb 22 quake too


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned Vincent de Paul, Stanmore Rd. Vincent de Paul closed post quake & would be demolished


14.06.11. June 13 quake damaged, Stanmore Rd Bridge. Damaged in Feb 22 quake too


14.06.11. June 13 quake cracked Avonside Dr by Stanmore Rd Bridge. There were new quake cracks on patched Feb 22 quake cracks. Over many months, those cracks would be repeatedly tarsealed due to unstable Avon River bank slumping, caused by lateral spreading.


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned Stanmore Rd. Liquefactioned in the Feb 22 quake too


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned housing, trashed in the Feb 22 quake, Stanmore Rd. Trashed Parish Hall, Avonside Trinity Anglican Church behind. Parish Hall & Trinity Church would be demolished. The church would be rebuilt


14.06.11. June 13 quake collapsed, concrete brick wall, Stanmore Rd


14.06.11. June 13 quake: Feb 22 quake damaged, boarded house, Stanmore Rd



14.06.11. WE MISS YOU MUMMY XX. June 13 quake, demolition site, memorial board to Wicks Fish shopkeeper killed in the Feb 22 quake, Worcester St. Two people died there in the Feb 22 quake

Stanmore Rd / Worcester St: Snapped the demolition site of previous damaged bldgs. By a small pile of bricks, on the demolition site where Wicks Fish once stood, a sign:

FREE BRICKS
HELP YOURSELF


14.06.11. June 13 quake, FREE BRICKS sign on Feb 22 quake demolition site, Worcester St

Another sign with photos:

     WE
    MISS
    YOU
MUMMY
     XX


14.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, June 13 quake trashed, wood braced, boarded, gun shop, Worcester St. The bldg survived the quakes


The sign with pics & messages honoured Wicks Fish owner who'd died in the Feb 22 Killer Quake. Two people died in Wicks Fish in the Feb 22 Killer Quake. Talon Arms gun shop was the only neighbouring shop which would survive the June 13 quake.

Incompetent EQC: Useless Call Centre staff passed the bldg assessment buck to Council. EQC had poorly trained assessors who lost bldg assessment files. In Dec 2011, the Royal Commission would reveal that pre Feb 22 Killer Quake, a lost EQC file had a warning that quake damaged, Wicks Fish's brick walls were dangerous. (Wicks Fish shared a Sept 4 Darfield Quake damaged, brick wall with the next door $2 shop, which collapsed into Wicks Fish in the Feb 22 Killer Quake). EQC boss Simpson said such information wasn't revealed to neighbouring bldg owners to protect property prices! Post Feb 22 Killer Quake, due to Wicks Fish deaths, EQC policy would change regarding warnings about dangerous bldgs. (The Press, 16.12.11).

Opp Wicks Fish the row of cnr shops had collapsed: corrugated iron roof wonky, roof space exposed, verandah roof collapsed, walls peeled off, rooms exposed, rubble on pavement: Dairy; Pacific Indian Spices; Gluten Free Bakery; Souvlakis Kebabs; Big Pizza; First Sovereign Pokies Lounge / The Worcester Tavern. The shops were already damaged by the Feb 22 Killer Quake. While I snapped the collapsed shops, 2 men wearing yellow & orange, Hi-Vis vests reeled out DANGER KEEP OUT white, plastic threat tape & checked the double, steel mesh fence cordon. Orange, plastic, road cones & steel fencing fronted the cordon obstruction.


14.06.11. White, plastic tape, orange, plastic, road cones, steel fence, 2 layered, steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged, June 13 quake collapsed shops, Stanmore Rd / Worcester St. The shops would be demolished.


14.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, June 13 quake collapsed Linwood Community Arts Centre, opp Feb 22 quake / June 13 quake damaged / trashed shops, Stanmore Rd / Worcester St. Post quakes, Linwood Community Arts Centre was in a collapsed, dangerous, cordoned state for many months. Linwood Community Arts Centre would be restored.

Stanmore Rd / Worcester St: Opp the collapsed shops, Feb 22 Killer Quake damaged, June 13 Quake trashed, Linwood Community Arts Centre ghost teetered behind a steel mesh fence cordon: Unstable brick chimney. Collapsed back, brick wall & back, corrugated iron, red roof. Dusty piano stood inside an exposed room. Brick rubble in garden. Linwood Community Arts Centre would be dangerous for months before restoration.




14.06.11. Back of Feb 22 quake damaged, June 13 quake trashed Linwood Community Arts Centre, Stanmore Rd / Worcester St. Post quakes, Linwood Community Arts Centre stood collapsed, dangerous, cordoned for months. Linwood Community Arts Centre would be restored


Signs on sewage sucker truck parked next to Linwood Community Arts Centre:

HYDROCARBONS
(LIQUID)
IN EMERGENCY
DIAL 111
FIRE BRIGADE

INFECTIOUS
SUBSTANCES
In case of damage or leakage
immediately notify public
health authority

HYDROVAC
ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORT
*Drain unblocking
*Sump and Tank Cleaning
*Trade Waste Removal & Disposal
*CCTV Drain Inspections / Locations
*Septic System Maintenance
*Root Cutting

Herds of sucker trucks roamed Christchurch, sucking crap from broken drains & broken pipes. Sucker trucks also blasted water along pipes, dislodging quakemire, also sucked, dumped at Burwood Dump.


14.06.11. June 13 quake, sucker truck euphemisms, a load of crap, Stanmore Rd


Over the last 9 months since the Sept 4 Darfield Quake, we'd witnessed quaked Christchurch reverting to swampland, by tidal rivers, estuaries, Pacific. With rotten, old, brick bldgs, collapsing in the CBD red zone in the June 13 Quake, there'd be lots more "Free Bricks Help Yourself."

Stanmore Rd / Worcester St: By the only intact shops, I chatted to 2 friendly Maori blokes, enjoying survivor drinks in bright winter sunlight. One nose-rubbed me in greeting, chatting like a long lost friend. His cousin with full face tattoo asked, "Where ya from?"


14.06.11. Feb 22 quake & June 13 quake damaged shops, Worcester St / Stanmore Rd


"Durban," I said. "We've lived here 16 years, our sons grew up in Christchurch. Despite the quakes, I feel safer in Christchurch than SA." He pointed his index finger at me, cocked his thumb. I agreed. He snapped us with his camera.


14.06.11. June 13 quake tilted garage, Worcester St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, undamaged glassware on shop shelves, but toppled silverware, Worcester St


14.06.11. June 13 quake toppled shop goods, Worcester St


Behind a closed shop window, shelves full of glassware, not fallen in the June 13 Quake. Inside the shop, bottles & packets flung from shelves, scattered on the floor. By a table, scores of plates, scattered on the floor.

14.06.11. HUMAN WASTE ONLY. June 13 quake: Feb 22 quake, green, plastic, sewage tank, Stanmore Rd


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned roadside, pavement & shops, Stanmore Rd


14.06.11. Espresso coffee van, Stanmore Rd. It was the first shanty shop I saw around town post quake -  all sorts of shanty shops: shipping containers, trailers, vans, caravans, porta-cabins, huts


14.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged, June 13 quake trashed shop, brick wall, Stanmore Rd


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned roadside, pavement & shops, Stanmore Rd


14.05.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned shops, Stanmore Rd. The shops would be demolished, rebuilt as Stanmore Bazaar


14.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged, June 13 quake trashed, brick, Piccolo Coffeebar, Stanmore Rd. Piccolo Coffeebar would be demolished, rebuilt as Stanmore Bazaar


14.06.11. June 13 quake, Indian Restaurant, quake survivor, next to a Sept 4 quake demolition site, Stanmore Rd


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned flats, Stanmore Rd

Stanmore Rd Bridge over Avon River: Snapped new quake cracks at span / abutment joins. On the other side of the bridge, a new crack was on Avonside Dr, where tarseal patches covered previous quake patches. Two workmen wearing orange, Hi-Vis vests inspected cracks.

Stanmore Rd: Further down, I snapped Feb 22 Killer Quake ghost flats & a ghost house, wall peeled off by prior quakes. I drove past those ghosts daily when I took Luke to Sullivan Ave tech. Behind the ghost flats & ghost house stood Holy Trinity Avonside, Parish Hall ghost seen. Holy Trinity Avonside would be demolished, rebuilt on site. The cemetery would remain as is, the green Lych Gate & wooden Church Office would survive the quakes.

Stanmore Rd: I trekked back, snapping sticky, liquefactioned pavements, quake trashed flats, red stickered, ghost shops: Piccolo Coffeebar; Sandwich Shop; Hairstylist; Pets; Computer Shop. The shops would be demolished, rebuilt as Stanmore Bazaar. Ubiquitous, green, plastic, sewage tank stood roadside, a threat sign:

HUMAN WASTE
ONLY

WASH YOUR HANDS AFTER DISPOSAL!!
BEWARE OF SPLASHBACK!!

With sewage polluted rivers, broken sewers, roaming sucker trucks, pavement portaloos & chemical toilets being hand-emptied into waste tanks, it was a wonder typhus hadn't infested Christchurch. Never mind sewage saturated, quakemire, heaped at roadsides for weeks. Stink!


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned front gate, Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned carpark & front gate, Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, beige portaloo in carpark, portaloo used since Feb 22 quake, Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefaction by portaloo & school playground fence, Jean Seabrook Memorial School, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned front door, Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefaction mud on concrete path, school playground, Jean Seabrook Memorial School, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned playground gate & fence, Jean Seabrook Memorial School, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned playground, Jean Seabrook Memorial School, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefaction boil through 1/2 m concrete, by school sand pit & fence, Jean Seabrook Memorial School, London St


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefaction boils in carpark, Seabrook McKenzie Centre, London St



14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefaction flooding, Bealey Ave nr Fitzgerald Ave crossing

On my drive back to Burnside I stopped on Bealey Ave , snapping liquefaction puddles near Fitzgerald Ave cnr. Cranford St, grey quakemire in gutters all the way to Westminster St.

Oxley Ave: Opp where Jake "flatted" in a Feb 22 Killer Quake damaged garage, I snapped driveways covered in sticky, grey quakemire. Where a car was stuck in sinkhole mud during the Feb 22 quake, I snapped two June 13 sinkholes, marked by orange, plastic, road cones & a yellow, wooden chest.


14.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned Cranford St opp Oxley Ave






14.06.11. June 13 quake, orange, plastic, road cones marking liquefaction mud & quake sinkholes, Oxley Ave nr Cranford St



Wed 15.06.11. Pavitt St, London St: Using spades & barrows, Leah, staff & parents (all females) dug away all the grey silt from the school playground & carpark & dumped it on roadsides for Council haulage. They were in good company, as many suburban residents slung mud too.


15.06.11. June 13 quake, porta-cabin office nr liquefactioned sand pit, Jean Seabrook Memorial School, London St


15.06.11. Staff & parent team of liquefaction mud diggers 2 days post June 13 quake, Seabrook McKenzie Centre carpark, London St





15.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned pavement & blue portaloo by Seabrook McKenzie Centre fence, Pavitt St


15.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. June 13 quake, liquefaction mud dug from Seabrook McKenzie Centre & Jean Seabrook Memorial School carpark & playground, London St. Feb 22 & June 13 quake liquefactioned lot behind

*Trekked Rossall St / Glandovey Rd crossing, Madras St, London St, Pavitt St, Stanmore Rd, Worcester St, Cranford St. 204 snaps.

Fri 17.06.11. After tidy up, clean up, liquefaction digging & safety checking, 4 days post Mon, M6.3 quake, Jean Seabrook Memorial School & Seabrook McKenzie Centre reopened for teaching & business.

There were no counselling services for teachers, who endured repeated traumas of shaken, liquefactioned bldgs, traumatised parents & kids. Teachers just coped.

Coda:

During the 2010-2011 quake year, Leah lost weight, getting her youthful figure back. She said it was her careful eating. I thought it was quake stress. Post quakes, she had quake flashbacks.

2012-2013. Leah would still have quake anxiety. Me too. We were both wary of old bldgs, high rises, covered carparks. Post quakes, there were 100s of abandoned bldgs around Christchurch, some steel mesh fence cordoned, some not. We avoided them.

2014. We would relocate to Lake Tekapo then Fairlie, while Leah taught at Lake Tekapo School. Leah regained her normal weight. Over the last 3 quake years I'd lost 8kg, while trekking quaked Christchurch & snapping 20 600 blog pics. Thereafter my weight remained stable, 8kg less. Lucky me.

Stanmore Rd / Worcester St shops which collapsed in the June 13 Quake would be demolished, rebuilt as 2 storey, Linwood Village Corner. The cnr shop, Asian Mart selling Indian spices survived the quakes & rebuild. Ten years post quakes, opp cnr shops, incl Wicks Fish, would still be dirty demolition sites, no rebuild.

Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.