My town has been destroyed - gaming cancelled

[Scott DeWar]

Speaking for those of us not in any quake area, We were worried about wheather you were affected by the tsanami. or something else.

Your Task of a labor system rebuilld, Sounds like you are pretty much starting from scratch.

As for gaming, I am sure no one expects you to be able to game right now.

 

[Rabbitbait]

Update: I won't be working this week. In Christchurch as well as widespread distruction, silt has seeped out of the ground all over the place. In many places it was over a foot thick through peoples yards. That was mixed with sewerage from all the broken sewer pipes. Now that it has dried out it blows around, and on a windy day it is hard to go outside as it is very unpleasant. The community has tried to dig up and remove as much as possible, but it is everywhere.

My wife got some silt in her eyes on the weekend and now both her eyes have become infected. They have swollen up so much that she cannot see and she feels very ill. So I will be home all week looking after her and the kids.

This and things like this the aftereffects of a disaster that you don't hear much about on the news, but that when you are there you have to be so careful about.

On the bright side - being home has meant I've been able to build a fort for my kids

 

[DumbPaladin]

I hope your wife is getting good medical treatment to handle that infection. I'm still thinking good thoughts and sending them your way.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Laughteer is the best meds! being there with you and your kids fort should bring much joy and laughter!! Hope she is getting antibiotics for her eyes though.

 

[Sutekh]

Not wanting to cast aside Christchurches problems for a second, the actions in the Sendai region of Japan are also worth considering. Do we have much of a Japanese rpg community in enworld? Ive never actually gamed with a Japanese Gamer.

Are any out there?

 

[jonesy]

Not wanting to cast aside Christchurches problems for a second, the actions in the Sendai region of Japan are also worth considering. Do we have much of a Japanese rpg community in enworld? Ive never actually gamed with a Japanese Gamer.

Are any out there?

There's a thread in General:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/302702-tsunami-gamers-support-thread.html

 

[Scott DeWar]

one membeer has posted he is getting the heck out of dodge witht he nuclear thread. He and his family have left and on their way here.

Rabbit bait, is your wife getting better by saying out of the silt dust? That is a terrible thing to happen.

 

[Rabbitbait]

one membeer has posted he is getting the heck out of dodge witht he nuclear thread. He and his family have left and on their way here.

Rabbit bait, is your wife getting better by saying out of the silt dust? That is a terrible thing to happen.

Yep - the antibiotics seem to be doing the trick.

The government has declared a memorial day today and a service is being held in the park in the middle of town (Christchurch's Central Park equivilent). Most locals aren't going though. It's too soon, the disaster is actually still unfolding, the roads are broken so its quite difficult to get anywhere, and the emotions are still a bit too raw.

Crikey, the whole central city is still cordoned off. They were thinnking of allowing people in to see the damage but decided that they simply cannot find any path into the city that is safe for the public.

Most of the city has power now, most people have water (but it still has to be boiled), and about half are able to use their toilets. That's after a huge amount of repair work.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Keep us posted!

 

[DumbPaladin]

Yes, please do keep us posted, because Christchurch does not even get mentioned in our news anymore. I am so tired of the 2-day-long attention span of the U.S. news media. Japan is already falling off some local newscasts that I've seen, and instead they're wasting time on Charlie Sheen (once again), March Madness, and other meaningless nonsense ...