My town has been destroyed - gaming cancelled

[Rabbitbait]

Me and mine are doing OK. The entire east side of the city is still without power, water or sewers. They are doing it hard. People are bringing water and food over to them and are helping with the cleanup however we can. There is now an army of thousands of student volunteers helping out.

Basically the east side of the city is still in survival mode. The entire central city remain cordoned off and the word is it will remain cordoned off for at least 6 months. At least half the buildings will need to be demolished and it is just too dangerous for civilians to enter.

I'm hearing such horrible stories at my work - several of my workmates had to climb over bodies to get out of their buildings after the quake hit.

Serious stuff, but the support shown from the rest of the country and the world has really helped.

Thanks for your kind thoughts.

 

[Rabbitbait]

About 1/5 of the entire population of the city has now fled, and there are lots that don't have houses any more - but almost all those whithout houses have been taken in by someone else now.

 

[GandalfMithrandir]

That sucks, hope everything continues to be OK for you all

 

[Thunderfoot]

I'm glad to hear you and yours are doing better than can be expected. Wow, all I can say is wow... just devastating. Christchurch may never be the same after this.

 

[Rabbitbait]

Crikey, that was another big one.

One of the things that is really setting people on edge is that since the first one in September we have been having constant aftershocks. After the BIG aftershock that caused all the destruction there is generally at least one a day that sends people scrambling under desks and doorways.

We can no longer trust the ground we walk on.

Announced today - 1000 heritage buildings will be demolished (if they haven't already fallen down).

 

[jonesy]

There is right now a Tsunami Alert for New Zealand, Hawaii, the Philippines, Indonesia, and anything in between. It's going to hit in a few hours. It is because of the earthquake in Japan.

 

[Scott DeWar]

i hear the west coast of north america is also on alert.

 

[DumbPaladin]

[MENTION=60100]Rabbitbait[/MENTION]: How are you doing?

 

[Rabbitbait]

I'm fine thanks. We have a working house so we are OK. Work is extremely hard - I work for the government and have been tasked with trying to rebuild some kind of working labour market recruitment system. i have a team of 30, but we don't have an office or computers so are having to invent a paper based system to do it and have found a sports club we can work in for the short term.

The guys that are still in town are keen to game, but the roads are still too dangerous at night, partners are too jittery to leave on their own, and I just don't have the brain space at the moment to play.

But as bad as it is, we got off so lightly compared to Japan. I can understand what they are going through and it is utterly horrific. It's just too big for a brain to encompass it.

 

[Rabbitbait]

There haven't been any big aftershocks for a couple of days here. That's good.