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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rabbitbait" data-source="post: 5560501" data-attributes="member: 60100">I drove around the cordon today - the central city is still cordoned off and the cordons are manned by the army. Many business owners and residents have still not been allowed in to get their stuff. It's the first time I'd been that close and all the highrise building are now on a visible lean. Apparently the ground is still settling. It's still moving as well - we had another biggish one a couple of days ago, and we are now up to 5000 aftershocks that could be felt.A news article today said that the number of buildings in the central city that will definitely be demolished has now reached 1000 and that it will probably be a year or so before the public are allowed in - except for the shopping mall part which they hope to have open by November.<a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/rebuilding-christchurch/5001222/Christchurch-earthquake-1000-buildings-to-go" target="_blank">Christchurch earthquake: 1000 buildings to go | Stuff.co.nz</a>That said, there is a huge amount of optimism about how we are going to rebuild the city and heaps of ideas of how we should go about it. I'm hoping to get a new job in the government department charged with leading the rebuild as I want to make sure the community sector is well looked after.Funny old world innit?</blockquote>