Earth quake hits Christchurch again

morello

I'm just watching a police spokesman on the evening news at the moment as well & 98 bodies definitely confirmed, still being identified.

doompony

they've only named a few people. gutted for my friend whose friend is named on the herald site.

threefish10

this is all so sad. so many lives. i thought the floods here were devastating, but this is terrible.

my wife's aunty lives in Littleton, which is where the epicentre was and was pretty badly hit. luckly she was not home and is fine, but her house was damaged, but i don't think she was been able to get there to see how badly.

doompony

there were no deaths in lyttleton surprisingly, but yeah, totally cut off. i think the army is on to it though.

Given to...

my thoughts are with you all again this morning...

hang in there

morello

103 dead, 228 missing news reports are saying this morning. 5 new bodies overnight, no rescues. 75% of city now has power, 50% has water running again. Lots of army folk down there helping out overnight. Cliffs in seaside suburbs collapsing. Amazing rescues being shown on tv right now & aftershocks are decreasing.

There's rain forecast for today but at least people can possibly collect the water.

morello

113 dead, 22/8 missing in the broadcasts now.

morello

145 bodies now. 200ish still missing.

doompony

so many people out on the streets of wellington dressed in red and black yesterday. so nice to see.

morello

147 bodies now & no-one rescued alive since Wednesday. It's still horrendous down there although there's the stories of people who were rescued now. Lots of people still without power &/or water, schools & university still closed.

threefish10

Wednesday. fuck, that's bad. the odds of someone surviving 5 days without food or water are very slim. it will be a miracle if anyone is pulled out alive now. so sad for those still missing family members.

morello

threefish10 wrote:

Wednesday. fuck, that's bad. the odds of someone surviving 5 days without food or water are very slim. it will be a miracle if anyone is pulled out alive now. so sad for those still missing family members.

Unfortunately you're probably right although I really hope many more people are pulled out alive!

threefish10

oh yeah, don't get me wrong, i'd love to see a miracle and have more survivors, but yeah, i think it's unlikely. but you hear stories of miracles from these sorts of things all the time so i hope it happens.

i saw on the news the other night some people where upset that their houses would have to be demolished, and they were really crying and shit. and not to sound like i dick, but i was like, "come on, it's a fucking house, at least you all got out, there are people dead and missing, that shit can't be rebuilt."

doompony

yeah shit can be rebuilt but that costs money. and even if the cost is covered, perhaps only partially, by the govt or the eqc, those people have nowhere to go. don't forget, they may have already been through more horror than you or i could imagine in september. they probably know people who have died.

threefish10

doompony wrote:

yeah shit can be rebuilt but that costs money. and even if the cost is covered, perhaps only partially, by the govt or the eqc, those people have nowhere to go. don't forget, they may have already been through more horror than you or i could imagine in september. they probably know people who have died.

yeah true. guess i'd probably be upset in the same situation. like i said, i don't mean to sound like a dick, but i probably am.

i did also see a guy on the news, from a small town here that got hit by the floods, he owned his own petrol station, the only one in the town, and he wasn't able to re-open yet and it's been over 7 weeks, and all he has got from the government flood relief fund was $400 so far. doesn't really help feed the family over the last 7 weeks. but he has also been volunteering all his time to the relief effort as well, and distributing actual physical donations of furniture and that sort of stuff around his local area. it's gotta be tough. like i guess it's gonna be over there for a while, and people were only just recovering from the quake 6 months ago.

just hope people can get what they need to rebuild and move on quickly, as it seems over here only about 10% of the flood relief money raised has actually been passed on to those effected.

tinkerbell

My husbands Aunt, cousin and Nana have decided to come up here next week to get away so we will have a full house. I'm glad I can help in some way. My daughters school held a mufti day on Friday and all the kids wore red & black (Canterbury colours) and collected money for the Red Cross.

doompony

wonder how many 10Cers have donated money... *hint hint*

morello

doompony wrote:

wonder how many 10Cers have donated money... *hint hint*

I sure have. Least we can do eh & we've(especially kiwis) just got to do it I think.

doompony

well just incase you want to and don't know how..

http://www.redcross.org.nz/cms_display.php




also, nz will be observing 2 minutes silence tomorrow (1 week on) at 12.51pm NZT. it'd be nice if you guys overseas could do the same.

E.K

doompony wrote:

well just incase you want to and don't know how..

http://www.redcross.org.nz/cms_display.php



also, nz will be observing 2 minutes silence tomorrow (1 week on) at 12.51pm NZT. it'd be nice if you guys overseas could do the same.

Will do.

That will be 10.51 am where I am.