kiwi abroad

All my relliess are OK, bit shaken though, if you'll excuse the pun.
Not in NZ, If I was, woulda been in CHCH...
Thanks everyone for your heartfelt messages, gives one great hope for us humans seeing/feeling all the beautiful people out there

Love you all.

reply to post by Mythkiller


No one killed but afew slightly injured. Approx $2Billion in damage but I expect that bill to increase after the aftershocks. Alot of damage. Videos coming out now in the NZ Herald.

CHCH is home to my Crusaders

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[edit on 4-9-2010 by Sherlock Holmes]

Thankfully, the facilities and infrastructure are top notch in NZ, which partly contributed to the fact that the death toll is negligible, as opposed to a country like Haiti, that suffered badly due to very poor infrastructure.

I still think that Christchurch was extremely lucky to suffer apparently such low casualties in the quake, and I offer my best wishes to those that have relatives in that area of the South Island !



[edit on 4-9-2010 by Sherlock Holmes]

reply to post by Sherlock Holmes


The damage bill has now reached approx $4 billion (still counting) and over 100,000 homes are damaged, many to be demolished. Many pet animals are still missing and domestic violence has sky rocketed in CHCH by 52% since the quake.