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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rabbitbait" data-source="post: 5495103" data-attributes="member: 60100">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 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>