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
Richmond focus. 13 June 2011 Quake, the day CERA began occupying Christchurch-CBD! On that muddy quake-day, Leah arrived home from Jean Seabrook Memorial School, London St, spooked by the quake. Staff & students dived under desks, like during the 22 February 2011 Quake, till the quake stopped shaking. It was the second time in four months since the 22 February 2011 Quake, M6.3, her school was liquefactioned & closed for safety-checking. As the CBD was red-zone-cordoned post 22 February 2011 Quake & as 1000s left Christchurch after that quake, there were no fatalities during the 13 June 2011 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 waited till kids left with parents, while mud-boils & mud-volcanoes oozed around her ground-floor classroom, in the playground & in the school carpark. Deja vu 22 February 2011 Quake!
Leah drove home to Burnside along liquefactioned, gridlocked roads. Deja vu 22 February 2011 Quake! Quakemire & flooding along Cranford St & Heaton St. While we avoided death & destruction from shaking & liquefaction, CERA regime would affect 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
Tuesday 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 the route I'd trekked during 22 February 2011 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 22 February 2011 Quake were liquefactioned in the 13 June 2011 Quake too: Wairakei Rd / Ilam Rd; (garden brick-wall collapsed, Glandovey Rd / Rossall St, fixed twice already, third wall-collapse in three 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 ruined shops which collapsed, Stanmore Rd / Worcester St. Other ruined shops were already demolished across the road, where two people died in Wicks Fish during 22 February 2011 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. I snapped mounds of grey quakemire in the carpark. Mud had oozed under the school's front glass-doors. Mud-boils were beside the carpark's two beige portaloos & the front-gate & back-gate. Concrete-paths beside & in front of Leah's ground-floor class in the two-storey school were covered in sticky quakemire. The playground before Leah's class was covered in mud-boils. The sandpit, about half a metre above ground-level, had a mud-boil next to it, through concrete. Front glass-door notice:
WE ARE CLOSED
FOR THE REST OF
THE DAY DUE TO
THE
EARTHQUAKE
I snapped disorder through locked glass-doors: toppled cupboard & toppled computer in Leah's classroom; papers scattered behind the director's-chair in the director's office; an overturned table in another office. A stale-muffin lay creamily smeared 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. A quakemired lot next-door, liquefactioned by the 22 February 2011 Quake, was more liquefactioned by the 13 June 2011 Quake. 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 was covered in CAUTION yellow-plastic-barrier- tape; fallen apples lay atop liquefaction-volcanoes in the playground. Quakemired-footpaths fronted Jean Seabrook Memorial School & the creche. A green-plastic-sewage-tank stood outside the creche since the 22 February 2011 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
Across London St: Richmond Working Mens Club brick-wall, damaged in the 22 February 2011 Quake, ruined in the 13 June 2011 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. 2021-2024. Jake would chef at Richmond Club before going on his OE to Australia.
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 frosty morning: New World open; Gas was being sold; a roadside Espresso van sold coffee; some shops were open, some ruins. Where prior quakes weakened buildings, the 13 June 2011 Quake ruined them. A liquefactioned-carpark near a block of flats. People shovelled & swept grey-mud off footpaths.
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: By a pile of bricks on a demolition-site where Wicks Fish ruin 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 signs honoured Wicks Fish owner who'd died in the 22 February 2011 Quake. Two people died in Wicks Fish in the 22 February 2011 Quake. Talon Arms gun-shop was the only neighbouring-shop which would survive the 13 June 2011 Quake.
Incompetent EQC: Regarding building-assessments, Call Centre staff passed the buck to Council. EQC's poorly-trained assessors who lost building- assessment files: In December 2011, the Royal Commission would reveal that pre 22 February 2011 Quake, a lost EQC file warned that damaged Wicks Fish's brick-walls were dangerous. (Wicks Fish shared a 4 September 2010 Quake damaged brick-wall with the next-door $2 shop, which collapsed into Wicks Fish in the 22 February 2011 Quake). EQC boss Simpson said such information wasn't revealed to neighbouring building-owners to protect property prices! Post 22 February 2011 Quake, due to Wicks Fish deaths, EQC policy would change regarding warnings about dangerous buildings. (The Press, 16.12.11).
Opposite Wicks Fish, a row of shops collapsed in the 13 June 2011 Quake: corrugated-iron-roof wonky, roof-space exposed, verandah-roof collapsed, walls peeled off, rooms exposed, rubble on footpath: 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 22 February 2011 Quake. While I snapped the collapsed-shops, two workmen wearing yellow & orange Hi-Vis vests reeled out DANGER KEEP OUT white-plastic-barrier-tape & checked the double steel-mesh-fence-cordon. Orange-plastic-road-cones & steel-fencing fronted the cordon-barricade.
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: Opposite the collapsed-shops, 22 February 2011 Quake damaged & 13 June 2011 Quake trashed Linwood Community Arts Centre ruin teetered behind a steel-mesh-fence-cordon: An unstable brick-chimney loomed above the ruin. The collapsed back brick-wall & red corrugated-iron-roof teetered. A dusty piano stood inside an exposed-room. Brick-rubble in the 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 a 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 nine months since the 4 September 2010 Quake, we'd witnessed Christchurch reverting to swampland, by tidal rivers, estuaries, Pacific. A kind of rewilding by natural forces. With rotten, old brick-buildings collapsing in the CBD red-zone in the 13 June 2011 Quake, there'd be lots more "Free Bricks Help Yourself."
Stanmore Rd / Worcester St: By the only intact shops, I chatted to two 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 South Africa." 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 13 June 2011 Quake. Inside the shop, bottles & packets were flung from shelves & scattered on the floor. By a table, scores of plates were scattered on the floor.
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: I snapped new cracks at span / abutment joins. On the other side of the bridge, a new crack was on Avonside Dr, where tarseal-patches covered previous patches. Two workmen wearing orange, Hi-Vis vests inspected cracks.
Stanmore Rd: Further down, I snapped 22 February 2011 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 polytech. Behind the ghost-flats & ghost-house teetered Holy Trinity Avonside ruin & Parish Hall ruin. 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 liquefactioned-footpaths, broken-flats, red-stickered ruined-shops: Piccolo Coffeebar; Sandwich Shop; Hairstylist; Pets; Computer Shop. The shops would be demolished & rebuilt as Stanmore Bazaar. A 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, footpath-portaloos & chemical-toilets being hand-emptied into waste-tanks, it was a wonder typhus hadn't infested Christchurch. Never mind sewaged-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 near Fitzgerald Ave corner. On Cranford St there was quakemire in gutters all the way to Westminster St.
Oxley Ave: Opposite where Jake "flatted" in a 22 February 2011 Quake broken-garage, I snapped driveways covered in grey-quakemire. Where a car was stuck in sinkhole-mud during the 22 February 2011 Quake, I snapped two new 13 June 2011 Quake sinkholes barricaded 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
Wednesday 15 June 2011. 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.
Friday 17 June 2011. After tidy-up, clean-up, liquefaction-digging & safety-checking, four days post 13 June 2011 Quake, 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-buildings, traumatised parents & tgraumatised 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 buildings, high rises, covered-carparks. Post-quakes, there were 100s of abandoned buildings in & 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 three quake-years I'd lost eight kilograms, while trekking Christchurch & snapping 20 600 blog pics. Thereafter my weight remained stable, eight kilograms less. Lucky me.
Stanmore Rd / Worcester St shops which collapsed in the 13 June 2011 Quake would be demolished & rebuilt as two-storey Linwood Village Corner. The corner shop, Asian Mart selling Indian spices survived the quakes & rebuild. Ten years post-quakes, opposite corner shops, including Wicks Fish, would still be dirty demolition-sites, no rebuild.
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
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