ChCh Quake Again! (Full/Completed)

[Wiggy]

You're a trooper Suzy - You'll come through!!   

Keeping busy is a good way of staying sane isn't it!! 

Bet your neighbours are glad to have a practical person like you for a neighbour - bet you are all helping each other  with contact,  sharing of stories and activity.

Wiggy

[GailS]

Suzy, glad to hear you and your family are all ok. Also all the other RC members who are in ChCh.

The news just seems to go from bad to worse, 98 dead and 226 reported missing, with serious concerns for their saftey.

I just feel so sad and overwhelmed, I don't think I can really comprehend the devastation and destruction, the things those wonderful rescuers are seeing must just be terrible.

My thoughts and prayers go out to all those in Canterbury..

[Canterburynorth]

Suzy how lucky you are your suburb seems unaffected, strange how earthquakes affect certain areas and not others. My BIL's Mother is in the eastern suburbs, she is 80 but by no means an 'old lady' everything that could break in her house did and the house is filled with liqufaction, half a metre in parts, she has no water, sewage, phone or power - her house will be demolished, and to top it off her son took  generators to her street so the neighbours could charge their cell phones and boil water, they were all stolen last night.

[Janette]

Oh,Leandra,that is the absolute pits,what low lifes

[Canterburynorth]

Low lifes is not the word for them. BIL's sisters house has also collapsed, but they are the lucky ones - they are alive and safe.

[Tephra]

Those people should be shot on sight..... I have no sympathy at all for them.

While everyone else is doing their utmost  to help in whatever way they can, there's the dregs of society who will take advantage.   It sickens me.

[aniph]

My 2 cousins went into town laden with water, food and shovels, shovelled silt all day. I can't shovel as back is shot but I stayed here and cooked. We will made up little parcels of cooked lamb, tomatoes and bread so some can have a tasty sandwich for lunch:)

Annie

[Wiggy]

Good to see you back on the board, Annie!

[Suzy W]

Good to hear from Leandra and Annie.  Both safe and well I hope?

Just watching channel 3.  What horrific stories.  A 5 week old baby missing and her mother.

Not sure if any other mother out there with under 15 years of age children, but mine have lost a few of their noddles.  Maybe their way of dealing with the whole thing, but drives me crazy with silly behavior, even had children from all over the neighbour hood show up at my place today.  Guess I should turn on that death ear and take no notice.

Will sign of today, need to have some time for myself.

Suzy W