Dave, Glad to hear you're OK. Pictures of downtown Christchurch look bad. Stay safe. Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:51 PM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > OK I'm checking in again. > > We still don't have power (using the laptop and 3G modem again). We > went to my partner's work this morning to check for damage as they > have a lot of hazardous chemicals. It was all fine but her office had > power so I was able to recharge my cellphone. The roads were fine but > quite a few intersections are out. > > I'm pleased to report there are no reported fatalities (yet) which is > pretty impressive considering the size. Its been "downgraded" to 7.1 > now but I'm surprised the damage wasn't a lot worse considering how > close it was. Only a couple of reported injuries so far, caused by > falling bricks. I've heard one close escape so far (who happens to be > one of our customers at work). Family are all OK which is good. > > I've been up and taken the damaged chimney down to the roof line. I > replaced the broken tiles while I was up there. I took photos for > evidence so when we file our insurance claim we should get the final > repairs covered... eventually. > > We're being encouraged to not get out and travel so I don't have > photos, I might post a couple of our chimney later. > > http://www.stuff.co.nz/4095395/7-1-earthquake-photos > > These photos make it look a lot worse than it is. The central city is > pretty much closed down due to the danger of falling masonry as there > are a lot of old buildings. The building codes are pretty good here > and the only damage we've seen is chimneys. It's lucky the quake > struck outside of business hours. > > I work in the central city so I'll see if I can take some photos > during lunchtime on Monday. Assuming our building hasn't fallen to > bits, in which case I'll take photos of that. > > We're still getting occasional aftershocks, mostly small tremors. You > tend to hear them coming so it's not so bad... but it wasn't too much > fun on the roof :) > > On 04/09/2010, CheekyGeek <[email protected]> wrote: >> With power out, I'm trying to figure out how he posted to the list. >> >> Darren Addy >> Kearney, NE >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
