Posts by Hilary Stace
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Thanks Emma, I will keep a look out. And any others if you care to add photos (and a coin or something to show size).
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AC Young, I have done the first aid thing in the past (earthquake specific in Wgtn high rise buildings) and even though I was hopeless at it, I hope it would still give me something to follow in my head if the time came, rather than just pure panic (even if just treating shock). They won't need actors for the training videos now.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Russell Brown,
+1 Hope the wonderful sound archive is safe, and aren't the RNZ people doing a great job).
And thanks for the link to Philip's story.
The face of education in Christchurch is going to change, at least in the short term. -
Emma, trivial in the scheme of things, but I wondered whether you could give some detail of your broken heirloom china and those of us who are sometime china collectors could keep a look out for pieces. It wouldn't be the same as inheriting it from your mother of course, but a gesture.
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Ken Ring has a very confusing website, so I'm not sure what he predicted or is predicting. Someone said the 20th March which is the next full moon (sunspots and whale strandings are apparently significant too.) More than happy to forget about it.
But just off to tie up the bookcases and bungy cords around the TV.
I hope all you Christchurch people have a more peaceful night tonight.
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dose of Wellingtonian survivor’s guilt – we all know it was meant to be our city that was trashed
Thanks B, that is what it must be. And I wouldn't usually believe Ken Ring but before Xmas I had several people tell me there was going to be another big Christchurch earthquake late Feb/early March because he had predicted it. And there was (9 on the mercalli scale someone said - that is a very high up on the jumping scale in Te Papa's Awesome Forces exhibit).
Gerry Brownlee claims that this is going to be the biggest insurance event of 2011. How does he know what the next 10 months holds? -
I am not personally affected by the earthquake so this is a bit self-indulgent but I wonder if anyone else is
having trouble concentrating on your work, reading, sleeping, normal stuff;
having obsessional thoughts about mothers separated from children, dead babies, amputations or being crushed;
trying to keep family and friends near;
noticing every creak or shudder in your house or workplace and looking anxiously at the high rise building next door built on reclaimed land;
finally developing a proper earthquake kit;
worrying about Ken Ring’s accurate predictions of this earthquake and his prediction for one further north in a month’s time;
wishing you could turn back time to before 12.50 last Tuesday and change the future to avoid that devastating shake – one that was felt strongly enough in Wellington to take evasive action.
I wonder how the country is going to get over the collective post traumatic stress disorder? Those of us not in Christchurch didn’t experience it but we saw and heard it.
But today’s news stories are all about resilience, so maybe that is how the country will get through it.
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The census has now been cancelled. It could easily have been postponed for a few months.But gathering the nationwide data is really important and there were some new questions this year on subjects like disability. I don't think the government actually wants to know what is happening for people out there.
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Yes Megan, that looks right (haven't seen it for a few months and it was upright then) just a different angle looking towards one of the park entrances.
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Update on the statue of William Rolleston.