Just how much MORE expensive would it be to relocate and rebuild, not to?

They have? (your link seems to go to a map only)

If you click on the dot, the info box that comes up says 6.3. Their main page either hasn't been updated or is cached for speed.

I'm afraid that I'll leave in a fit of exasperation and fetch up in another town or city, find myself without all my local family and friends and routines (such as they still are), and think...why did I do that?

If you click?

I feel bad for being excited that I actually felt this one down near Dunedin, when the February quake passed me by.

Stuff?

I have discovered (again) that 'cope' buttons only work if there is a decent interval between each use. I wish life would stop happening so that I could catch up.

I cannot imagine what?

One has to accept that NZ is?

Are either swearing or cheering as their exam schedules/assessment hand in dates go up in smoke, depending on how hard they've?

One quote suggested the James Hight library has suffered yet another mass de-shelving, after fully opening last week. For the second?

I wish we could be upgraded to first class, with the champagne and little snacks.

fuck leaving, I say? they won?t get me out of here except in handcuffs.

Thank you David! True grit. :-D

Russell, you briefly mentioned a Great Blend plan that was fostering before yesterday. Is there some opportunity for us to contribute and make it bigger or brighter?

We can't walk in your shoes, but perhaps in a?

Stay tuned. At the least, a koha at the door.

And every time I hear that from people, my opinion is that until we?

Hah. I was congratulating myself on having moved to somewhere immune from really dangerous natural?

Cool. It was either that or send Emma a slush fund for folks down there.

Heh, this morning I had texts asking for drinkies and gaming at our house tonight. That seems to be the stress response in our social group.

So yes, it'd be a "slush fund" alright.

Maybe the sign near us in St Martins is more apposite: " Stay calm and Carry on" poster?

It don't look good for the insurance / EQC either with the article about "when-am-I-covered-after- a-quake-but-you-have-not-paid-out." Don't cha just love the "small print".

I hope that when the?

Wait-what? He didn't?

Quite heartbreaking, that poll.

Since people are posting stuff like this:

Knowing you care means a lot.

And talking about social death and stuff, this misanthrope will break the habit of a lifetime and chip in with his?

The perverse part of me want's to come up with a phrase that starts "you should just ..." but ends up saying you have all my sympathy.

I can't really appreciate what the stress must be like for you all and I know it's different for each?

I bet Emma has a pair

Must ... fight ... urge ... to ... comment ...

a balloon animal

Am I that predictable? Yes, yes I am. Also, if anyone has seen the key lately?

If you say dependable then it becomes a good thing!

I'd be heartbroken if I had?

It's probably slipped into a crack?

It's telling that even Kiwiblog commentators have only sympathy to give. Granny, you?

That was awesome! Although my kids thought it was made of sausages.

The terrifying thing about this scenario is its plausibility.

I believe she has handcuffs too.

Imagine the menacing squeaks it would make when moving. :-)

The famous trick for remembering where lost things are is to try to remember the last time you used it, in graphic detail, bringing to mind every tiny aspect. Standing in the place and walking through steps helps. Mostly this fails?

Ohhh...extinction! :-(

Better to go with a bang than a whimper, I guess. :-)

God's trousers...

Mind you, you still comment on Kiwibog, let alone read it.

Hardly ever either, these days.

Key said the Government had a "clear picture" of what land would have to be abandoned but refused to name these areas or put a timeline on when the information would be available to the public.

more "10 000 homes will have to go, a number?

So if there is huge fear/panic/outcry about Key suggesting thousands of homes will be abandoned then they won't, but if he gets away with?

Next time, smack in the face with nearest piece of cast iron kitchenware. Hurts less. Faster healing. Better odds of avoiding permanent brain damage and existential despair.

And if course, I had to go back and read it again. The hot, burning stupid-- it flows freely.

I'm thinking Doug. I'm thinking Dinsdale. I'm thinking John Cleese as a 6ft 4 transvestite with an improbably high-pitched, middle-class accent and a deep, dark five o'clock shadow ?

Let us hope the Leader of the Opposition has actually learned that and isn't just fortuitously out of reach of a microphone...

I am thinking of my dear friend who I went down to Chch to see recently

Thanks Jackie, you just reminded me. I have been watching TV1 news and I see the signer is active again at the news conferences. But I suspect TVNZ may be getting angry emails from?

The Baptist Church in Auckland is accepting new or serviced old gas heaters to donate to people in quake-damaged Christchurch?

I'm just not sure this is a great idea. Unflued gas heaters create emmissions including carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide, which can have serious health effects. They also create?

Yeah, sounds good, but I have similar reservations to Matthew I'm afraid. Will see if there are other ways to contribute along similar lines.

Keep the ideas coming though. The slush fund is on hold.

I don't think we can?

Oh, that would be a slosh fund then ;-)

Around here, we're not worried, we know Dinsdale's on the other side of the river from us :-)

I sound like a girl.

I sound like a girl

The cig tar had not yet hardened the vocal cords Russ.

Edit: Beard is still there and the rising eyebrows.

Classic. And Chris seems much the same..

bravo

Isn't that what's happening right now?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/rebuilding-christchurch/5141355/Questions-over-quake-insurance-cover

Not that I'm defending those in charge lacking the basic nous and decency to avoid blurting until they have something to say. Or any delays at all in?

I'd just like to say that I don't feel stoic, nor resilient, nor heroic nor any of those other words that are being thrown about, mostly by people who don't live here but want to emote about the tremendous heart of?

I wasn?t seriously proposing a Tsunami wall (at this stage) ? just pointing out that it would be a much much cheaper option than mass abandonment!?

You'd still need viable area resources like roading and drainage though, regardless of whether individual properties are OK. Could always ask devoted libertarians to live?

This is true-ish to a certain extent. But it has to be said that most old houses round here already have?

Oh, fuck off. Could he have done or said anything that would have satisfied you? Perhaps he should have just refused to answer a pretty direct question at all, but let?s?

http://sciblogs.co.nz/hot-topic/2011/06/15/rebuilding-on-a-rising-tide/

Instead of leaping to the defense of your glorious leader every time perhaps you'd like to follow your own advice.

Key's comments?

Same here.

The thing that?s really starting to piss me off is the?

Bart: The only response that deserves is all the way off-list.

ETA: Nah, don't bother. That allegation is so self-evidently absurd it's no more worth rebutting privately than de-railing this?

The fact it is an election year may well work in favour of the *topups* required ?

There aren?t as many staff processing claims as you think there are, they aren?t paid as much as you think they are, they all have broken homes and earthquake-stress here in Christchurch of their?

daddy state

I do respect the government's commitment to preserving private equity in this instance.

Hey, just reporting what some of the feistier neighbours are saying. I can see where they?re coming from, actually ? it?s a horrible step from the cosy inner-city riverside to the battery-hen like new suburbs in the hinterland.

More on?

I summarise thus:
There aren't as many staff processing?

Key's comments had no specific detail, they were not backed up with fact or evidence AND they caused considerable stress to many who heard them.

In short Key was playing to the next news cycle.?

Hey, just reporting what some of the feistier neighbours are saying.

And I must say they seem like fine neighbours to have.

See now, that just makes me think of the Fire Swamp. I'm not saying I'd build a summer home there, but the trees are actually quite lovely.

I'm sick as a dog tonight (week 2 of a terrible cold) but this comment cheered me up no end.

I shall have?

Now that's not a nice thing to call the Minister Responsible for Earthquake Recovery!

I think there is a maximum number of time you can hear any song. There are songs I loved from my youth that I'm just tired of now. Sadly Loyal was on such high rotation with all media that it's hit that maximum quite?

Which is not a particularly accurate account.

The police action started around a very small incident where a couple of morons on the roof of the walkway by the post office building, some way away from the?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvAfImm0sFY&feature=youtu.be

...meanwhile in Athens and Vancouver
they were also out, out, out in the street...

as Tom Waits would say:
"I'm gonna make like?

I've heard 'Loyal' several thousand?

Sure, there will be earthquakes for some time, *but* (and a seismologist can correct me here) I know of nowhere on earth that has experienced continuous significant earthquakes on an indefinite basis. So the earth will calm down in a while and we?

It would?

People would need to be prepared to create their own services though, septic tanks, generators and water storage / collection. No different to living in the bush, though.

Insurance Council chief executive Chris Ryan said that technically insurers could not pay for the replacement of repairable homes, but they were trying to be as flexible as possible.

The decision ultimately rested with global re-insurers, which were?

Communicate details. For example, don?t tell us ?100 buildings are scheduled for urgent demolition? instead, give us a list of those 100 buildings. Don?t tell us it?s a complicated issue. Explain the?

If the global insurance market walks away from New Zealand, then the Government will be forced to step in as our national insurer – well beyond what EQC currently does. At this?

Last night's CTV news. It's pretty depressing.

And then some. But another win for Apple by the sound of things. Reid Stiven said the EQC have 400 people in the field and 200 in the building –

"today is the last day for the roll out of iPads so all?

Mr Brownlee confirmed to RadioLIVE this morning that around 12,000 Christchurch homes will never be lived in again.

...

Mr Brownlee, who has been criticised in the past week for what some see as the slow rate?

I look back to the first news coverage where Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker and Christchurch Cathedral Dean Peter Beck were saying the bricks and mortar can be replaced,?

Heh.

"I'm still expecting a bit of earthquake risk around, or on, Monday to come from that in the Christchurch to Wellington region, plus or minus a day or so."

Roughly.

I see from the Herald he has a rival kook, the "Barcaroller".

Maybe the delay was for Crosby Textor to run those focus groups and come up with the most acceptable term to replace "abandoned".

A tactical retreat is a perfectly legitimate method of "GET THE F*&K OUTTA HERE!!"

Heh. Similar language reminds me. I heard a Lyttelton Tunnel story the other day. (Would love to get confirmation it happened BTW). A bloke was driving very sedately at the speed limit through the?

*Or, "hah-ed"

Ho hum, ho hah, ho whatever-

Intersting. I've only ever heard people using "hoha" exactly as it is. "Half-pai" on the other hand does tend to get wirtten as "half-pie" by those who don't know its derivation.

Official Landcheck site (knocked up in a few days by Trademe apparently).

Alternative map in case that one's still down.

CERA FAQ:
Many of the schools which draw students from these areas already face real problems and are operating at alternative sites because of the damage to their facilities. This is another challenge that we will have to work through with?

one under considerable pressure from greedy property developers, I imagine