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| Thread ID: 129429 | 2013-02-22 05:18:00 | 2 years today - Christchurch's deadly earthquake | Gobe1 (6290) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1329451 | 2013-02-22 05:18:00 | Pretty disappointed this isnt headline news to be honest | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1329452 | 2013-02-22 05:38:00 | Anybody remember exactly where they were at the time? Did you feel it? Moi, I was in the McDonalds aeroplane in Taupo with friends, we all felt a jolt and a slight rolling and I thought oh oh, an earthquake. Either that, or this plane is going to take off! Got a txt from someone and we rushed home and turned tv news on. So very sad and tragic. LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1329453 | 2013-02-22 05:50:00 | I was at work in Christchurch. Thought the whole building was going to come down. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1329454 | 2013-02-22 05:59:00 | Yeah i was at work and was surfing stuff and did a refresh and whammo like WTF!!! from new plymouth of course | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1329455 | 2013-02-22 06:02:00 | Pretty disappointed this isnt headline news to be honest More people are killed on our roads every year than in this earthquake. I guess it will become NZs 9/11 If anything people should be questioning the appalling way that the home owners in CH have been treated by their insurance companies. I hear tonite that 70% of claims have not been settled |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1329456 | 2013-02-22 06:52:00 | I Don't know PaulW, if 185 people were killed in 1 day on NZ roads would it be different? I wasn't there and never felt it at the time but do feel sad for NZ and people who were lost that day EDIT: Just saying. |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1329457 | 2013-02-22 07:03:00 | I was working in a tilt slab building and shat at least half a brick - it still amazes me how flexible concrete can be! But as for the service, it will be smaller again next year. Napier was worse, and we don't have memorial days for that anymore. Also "just sayin'". |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1329458 | 2013-02-22 07:14:00 | I was driving along Brougham Street just about to turn into Ensors road (possibly less than a km from gound zero) and watched as the road opened up in front of me. Managed to get home while everyone else was still in shock, in time to watch an 8-10 foot hole open up in the road and spew water and silt and fill the street in about 30 seconds, spent the rest of the day directing traffic after a ute fell in the hole. GF was working in the city, what is normally a 7 minute trip took 6 hours to get home. Out east, roads are still the same, some residents still have porta-loos and are living in garages. Streets still have the remains of silt in places. I have had to replace 3 tyres from nails and material on the roads, I have also bad to have my front suspension and struts replaced which cost close to $800 and will be going in for a wheel alignment next week. The aftermath has cost me a fortune, not to mention the customers I have lost. Business have either foldered and left the city, several clients have left to australia, several closed for good, one went into liquidation. |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1329459 | 2013-02-22 07:53:00 | Was in Nelson and never felt a thing. Although now live in Christchurch not far from where Iantech was driving at the time, but back in Nelson today until Monday so still missing it all | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1329460 | 2013-02-22 08:59:00 | I was at the hospital as our second son had just been born. Got home to find the in-laws watching tv, glanced at it and thought there'd been another terrorist attack somewhere. About half an hour later I realised what was actually going on, I'd been up all night so was pretty shattered. :) Got through to my brother, who lives in Christchurch, and he was ok thankfully. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
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