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Thread ID: 118833	2011-06-23 01:17:00	Japan Earthquake Cleanup Pics	pctek (84)	PC World Chat

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1211343	2011-06-23 01:17:00	www.boston.com In 3 months!!! Whats wrong with NZ? Perhaps we should be hiring them.......	pctek (84)
1211344	2011-06-23 01:24:00	They did a good job of cleaning up the bomb damage we did to them as well.	prefect (6291)
1211345	2011-06-23 01:46:00	Plus it was not just an eathquake, there were no bodies to recover	Gobe1 (6290)
1211346	2011-06-23 01:48:00	Pretty impressive, but I guess the decisions were a little more clear cut there than in Christchurch: "This house is 3km from where it was built and on its side; the owners are nowhere to be found. Cart it away." As opposed to "This house still on the property on which it was built; the owners are living in it" - despite the fact that there is no power, no water and a forlorn hope that it may be salvageable...	johcar (6283)
1211347	2011-06-23 02:16:00	Pretty impressive, but I guess the decisions were a little more clear cut there than in Christchurch: Exactly. And if they did just go through demolishing buildings then the owners would get pretty ratty because some of their belongings are probably still recoverable. I was down in Chch recently and my brother-in-law took me for a bit of a tour round the places we could get access to. In some areas it looks similar to those pictures from Japan, where entire buildings or series of buildings have been demolished and is now ready for re-building. Its obviously a little tricky when you have a street with only every 2nd or 10th building that needs demolishing, and the others need to be either cleared out or up to the owners to fix or not. We should also be careful who we gripe at. Got chatting to two contractors at a fish 'n' chip shop who said they had bee working 12+ hour days, 7 days a week for the past 6 weeks. They looked pretty knackered. They also said that the administration isn't to blame. Everytime there is an aftershock of significant size, all the buildings have to be re-inspected which is obviously time-consuming and tiring. Its a shitty mess, and incorrect news reports that make wild guesses and propositions don't really help. A bit more honesty from those in charge detailing the progress etc on the other hand would be appreciated...	Bozo (8540)
1211348	2011-06-23 02:42:00	Powerful images. Makes all the drama in Chch seem almost trivial by comparison. And I don't mean to dismiss all the damages, distress and despair in Chch.	Paul.Cov (425)
1211349	2011-06-23 04:16:00	www.boston.com In 3 months!!! Whats wrong with NZ? Perhaps we should be hiring them....... Here's part of the answer, PcTek (and thanks for posting those amazing images): "Each subsequent earthquake since 4 September has made an already large and complex challenge more difficult. "To put this in context, Treasury has estimated the combined cost of the first two Canterbury earthquakes to be equivalent to about 8 per cent of New Zealand’s GDP. "Damage from the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan was just over 2 per cent of Japan’s GDP, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 cost about 1 per cent of US GDP, and March’s Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster was an estimated 3-5 per cent of Japan’s GDP. (Excerpt from PM's press release.) :horrified	WalOne (4202)
1211350	2011-06-23 05:25:00	I heard the same thing Wal, was hard to believe. Guess when you think about how many tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people live in those places compared to 4mil in NZ, the GDP thing makes sense. And a lot of New Orleans is still a disaster area. The japs are damn industrious. There's a saying, goes no matter how good you think you are at something, there is always a Japanese person doing it better. Quite true for a lot of things.	wratterus (105)
1211351	2011-06-23 05:36:00	Meanwhile, in Wellington: www.stuff.co.nz Sigh...	John H (8)
1211352	2011-06-23 07:56:00	Powerful images. Makes all the drama in Chch seem almost trivial by comparison. And I don't mean to dismiss all the damages, distress and despair in Chch. Less than 3% of Japanese population in the disaster zones where there is 8% of kiwis in our disaster zone. I have a news flash for you, they have a MUCH smaller problem.	Battleneter2 (9361)
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