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[honeyspider]

The Grand Chancellor hotel is one of the tallest buildings in the city and in each aftershock it is now rocking. It's move about a metre horizontally and is now on a lean to the east. I think Alison said they've evacuated everyone from all the blocks around which is good since when it comes crashing down like they're waiting for it's going to make an awfully big bang.

This is my favourite photo of the earthquake damage because instead of horrifying me it makes me giggle. (The giggling could be panic, so don't rely on that.)

The park across the road from us is being turned into a refuge center. I wish we didn't have to worry about how water and food or I'd cook up a shitload of comfort food for those people. Alison and I are considering going over with the massive collection of children's books we've got but we might just end up getting in the way so we'll probably just hand them over and leave.

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[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

I'm sure anything you do will be much appreciated by the refugees. The water and food situation does sound especially worrying -- is there any information about how long before they can get the water running again?

[treacleangel.livejournal.com]

It depends on where you are in the city as to whether or not you have running water. Apparently pumping stations have been destroyed so if you are close to a working pumping station that also has power then you may have running water but even if it is currently on they say it is not guaranteed to stay on. The water is not guranteed to be clean as the sewerage system has been trashed and sewerage is being discharged into the ground or the river. They can't just patch up the systems like they did last time. At this stage they can't give a timeframe on repair.
The council has set up water tankers at local schools for people to get water from and the supermarkets are scrambling to get cleaned up and open so people can get food. Food has been donated to the welfare centres.

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

Righto. How are you guys coping?? Doing okay?