Good to hear your okay, Dave. Sorry you and the rest of Christchurch have to deal with this again. Such a shame that these events are causing so much devastation on your beautiful island. Paul On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:36 AM, David Mann wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > >> News here is that Christchurch was hit by another earthquake (6.3) a >> couple of hours ago with lots of new damage. >> >> Dave - let us know how you're getting on when you get the chance. > > Whew. Dodged a bullet. > > As Ann said, I work in town. I was on my lunch break at the time, returning > to work along Manchester St. I think I was near the corner of Cashel St at > the time. I can't begin to relate the shock of watching a building collapse > just a block ahead, on the corner of Lichfield St. It made me keep a damn > good eye on the buildings around me (I was in the middle of the road by > then). After a moment I remembered that the collapsed building was > unoccupied due to previous damage but if anyone was walking past they'd have > been pretty messed up. I would have been there two minutes later. > > I got back to work and saw my colleagues who had evacuated. The building was > still in fairly good shape. We quickly grabbed what we needed and went home. > Glad I was on a bike as the roads were clogged and the traffic lights were > out. Just heard on the radio, so far 65 confirmed dead. > > We just got into Janet's work where they have power and internet. Power went > out for about 80% of the city. Our neighbourhood is a bit messy due to > liquefaction, silt and water everywhere and it's caused a fair bit of damage > to the roads. Much worse than the original quake. This one was closer and > shallower so despite the smaller magnitude it has caused more damage. The > roads are still usable but you need to be careful. > > It was a huge shake and we're getting regular tremors. The photos I've seen > are actually fairly accurate: > http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4688231/Deaths-destruction-in-Christchurch-quake > > Looks like some historic buildings have been completely destroyed. The > cathedral lost its spire and looks pretty bad. > > My house is OK, there's a little extra damage but it's quite messy inside > with things that have fallen over. Our neighbour's chimney fell down, broke > off at the bottom and came down in one piece. Our remaining chimney is still > looking good, I don't know how as it's quite tall. > > I might post photos that I took from our neighbourhood some time later. I > left the camera at home. My cellphone camera is broken so I wasn't able to > get any pics from town, but really it doesn't matter. I don't think I need > the graphic reminder right now. > > Cheers, > Dave > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
