So...six weeks on. Winter is coming. Infrastructure is still what is commonly known as 'munted', but we got the house more-or-less watertight. (This is in the east. The west is still an entirely different city, weirdly clean and intact ( Read more... )

Google assures me that 'mensiversary' is a real word, so here we are, one month on from the Christchurch quake.

There's a lot of frustration in the city, and some murmurs from parliament that I hope are just cherry-picked/misleading reporting. So here are some things that make me smile, in a grim sort of way.

- The women behind Smash Palace are ( Read more... )

Well, I knew I'd been lying awake for awhile but I thought it would be something like 2am, not... seven. Sleep fail ( Read more... )

Saw a road cone in a subsidence hole in the road (as opposed to next to it, marking it), so that just the wee orange tip of the cone was poking out. It was strangely adorable.

Tomorrow is the public memorial service; bring on the obligatory Dave Dobbyn appearance.

Status continues to be quo. Or as people round here call it: 'the new normal'.

Tsunami not a concern to Chch. Maybe ten centimetres of water? The main force wasn't aimed at the South Pacific so NZ (primarily top half of North Island) and Pacific Islands got off blessedly lightly.

A couple people in Japan I haven't heard from yet [eta: safe], also some in other countries around the Pacific. But since they are still ( Read more... )

Still much the same. All kinds of thoughts whirling round in my head but not sure how to put any of them into some kind of meaningful form. They've released more names of the dead, and many more remain missing.

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Nothing really new to say. Barring any major developments, I'm dropping down the frequency of these updates.

We will rebuild.

In ten minutes it will be exactly a week since the earthquake. This is my current status ( Read more... )

I have mixed feelings about this post.

The Prime Minister, John Key, has called for two minutes of silence(1) at 12:51pm Tuesday 1st March, exactly one week after the quake that struck Christchurch and devastated my hometown.

On the one hand, I tend to consider those kinds of things a waste of time; give us money, give us port-a-loos(3), give us ( Read more... )