Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Ross Mason,
the other clanger in Emmas bit about KR
light relief is valuable at times like this
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to webweaver,
I can’t concentrate on anything
Not alone. Had an AGM to prepare and chair this week and had just got off the phone from a colleague in Chch when the quake hit (she's OK). Saw it all unfold within minutes on Twitter and then TV, horrified. Suffering all around, so faithfully broadcast you could see the implications right from the outset. Landmarks I know from living there for a couple of years, gone.
Feel vaguely disloyal doing anything other than paying attention to what's going on there, and forwarding info where I can. Haven't had the uninterrupted availability or probably the right skills to contribute to the wonderful team pulling eq.org.nz together. Know I wouldn't be much help on the ground despite urge to jump on a plane.
All too well aware that I'm feeling nothing remotely like any of the powerful experiences of those in that place and so lucky to not have lost anyone dear. So lucky. And that's all it is.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Emma Hart,
if it's Acts of God then fuck does he hate churches.
great quote
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Vaughn even had a goat called Korma..
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Andre Alessi,
Still shows the graphic content warning and a "click here to view image" link for me
But clicking does nothing and the caption as noted had changed since the link was posted here.
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Brief iPhone video walking Cashel Mall towards Bridge of Rememberance immediately afterwards.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
I wondered what overseas audiences would make of her seamlessly saying "whanau" and "tupapaku"
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
the dead don’t stop being human – and entitled to dignity and consideration and personhood – when their hearts do.
I was impressed with the Coroner last night reasuring people that their deceased loved ones would have someone with them at all times in the makeshift mortuary.
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Another eloquent first-hand account from writer/journo Zara Potts.
Without warning, the ground jolts again. It comes with a rumble and breaks up the road in front of us, spewing asphalt into a hard, broken ridge.
The river is rising. The city is falling.
I am now horribly aware that I am not safe. I am not safe anywhere. Amongst hundreds of equally terrified people, I am alone. I know at this moment, I have to get out of the city.
I take off my boots and start to walk.
I look at my socks and am absurdly glad that they match. They are my favourite socks, black cotton with love hearts.
As I walk, I see remnants of buildings I have known since I was a child. They are crumpled. Shattered. Collapsed. Glass carpets the streets.
There are bloodied bodies lying on the riverbank. I barely glance at them. I am resolute in my walking. I head for the park, trying to find a safe place. The park is full of people, looking at the broken skyline as the earth beneath their feet turns to liquid mud.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Andre Alessi,
Elijah Wood tweeted a link a US-based website with 35 photos. I've seen most of them before on other sites, but they look to be much higher quality here.
Those deserve a warning for blubbering potential. Especially number 3.
The pictures of the icebergs in particular emphasise the scale of what happened here
Quite. Think of a kilogram, then 30,000,000,000 of them falling into the glacier's lake.