It's been a wild 24 hours in Christchurch. We only got the power back at 10pm last night so we have only had PDA and texting communication - luckily the mobile network stood up as did the land line.
Water stayed on for us but we're on a boil water order.
We're still getting aftershocks 3-5 per hour some just rumbles and some hard sharp shakes up to 5.8.
Quake has occurred on an unknown fault line not too far from us which is not good.
The house stood up amazingly we've got one cracked tile floor and one hairline crack in the drywall.
I always thought Kiwi homes were quite flimsy but I think flexible is the word we should use.
Lying in bed Friday night when it hit I was certain that roof joists would be coming through the ceiling but all the real damage was to possessions - lots of stuff fell off lots of things. Some bounced well - others not so well. Thankfully we don't have a brick chimney as they didn't survive anywhere. Not one of the pictures I'd hung fell off - pleased about that as one big one was right above our bed.
All in all this will be great for business for my company as we do infrastructure asset management and the infrastructure in Town is "munted" as they say down here - shagged might be a better term.
Christchurch is built on alluvial gravel which suffers from liquefaction when shaken. We could feel that as the house shook it felt like jelly beneath the floor and this has stuffed a lot of roads, sewers and watermains.
Anyway we're doing fine and my protection system for the Stag worked well
Nick
Water stayed on for us but we're on a boil water order.
We're still getting aftershocks 3-5 per hour some just rumbles and some hard sharp shakes up to 5.8.
Quake has occurred on an unknown fault line not too far from us which is not good.
The house stood up amazingly we've got one cracked tile floor and one hairline crack in the drywall.
I always thought Kiwi homes were quite flimsy but I think flexible is the word we should use.
Lying in bed Friday night when it hit I was certain that roof joists would be coming through the ceiling but all the real damage was to possessions - lots of stuff fell off lots of things. Some bounced well - others not so well. Thankfully we don't have a brick chimney as they didn't survive anywhere. Not one of the pictures I'd hung fell off - pleased about that as one big one was right above our bed.
All in all this will be great for business for my company as we do infrastructure asset management and the infrastructure in Town is "munted" as they say down here - shagged might be a better term.
Christchurch is built on alluvial gravel which suffers from liquefaction when shaken. We could feel that as the house shook it felt like jelly beneath the floor and this has stuffed a lot of roads, sewers and watermains.
Anyway we're doing fine and my protection system for the Stag worked well
Nick
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