Posts by Mellopuffy
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Hard News: Little pieces of a big picture,
Bugger. The winds have arrived in Chch just as they drop in Dunedin :(
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Hard News: Little pieces of a big picture,
@giovanni - no doubt you've seen this already?
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Hard News: Little pieces of a big picture,
@Izogi reports back from family and friends, plus lots of photos on FB has it that there are definitely areas of the city that have been badly hit eg a new subdivision in Bexley, but even in the badly hit areas, there can be houses that are virtually destroyed whilst their neighbours are totally ok. There are a lot of brick buildings/homes that have fared badly. City wide, it's not known what damage has been done to water mains/sewage pipes, so everyone is being asked to boil water and conserve it where possible, even if they are otherwise ok. My dad said tonight that more and more sad stories just keep rolling in. (on a good note, he works at Bunnings, and can report that Bob the Baby et al are all well :) ). I don't think the disaster will reach the levels of what happened in Chile, but it will undoubtedly have a huge impact economically on NZ. Maybe they'll cancel those tax cuts now...?
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Hard News: Little pieces of a big picture,
ps posted that before both your and Ross's latest comments came up...
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Hard News: Little pieces of a big picture,
@Sofie bit confused by your comments, guess I'm just disappointed by the tendency of the papers to go for the screaming headlines (though as Ross pointed out, SST did otherwise go pretty much down the line) and of all the photos they could have chosen to run with, it was kinda bizarre, and not particularly inspired to see a photo that so obviously referenced the type of pics that tipify disasterpron...
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Hard News: Little pieces of a big picture,
@izogi plenty of places not damaged. my folks home is unscathed. Friends that lived out at Darfield - no structural damage at all , one glass in the cupboard broken that's all - 2 houses across, their neighbour's home been written off from structural damage (both houses built within last 5 years)....
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Hard News: Little pieces of a big picture,
Russell, not so much that that she wasn't white, just the combo of her skin colour, squatting pose, lei around her neck - it just reminded me immediately of photos i've seen before in coverage of international disasters...so perhaps we could accuse the SST of resorting to disastercliche?
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Hard News: Little pieces of a big picture,
@Sofie a particularly interesting choice of photo considering the great number I've seen of kids playing in the cracks and holes - it was very evocative of an impoverished child squatting at the site of a third world disaster. only difference i guess was that she was happily grinning from memory... twas on the cover of the SST as well, hence my earlier comment...
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Hard News: Little pieces of a big picture,
Hmm interesting that you though the SST did it right Russell, the opinions round the lunch table down here was it was a bit 'third world disaster' images, kinda like the picture of the chap walking past some ruined shops wearing a facemask. I was onto RNZ online within minutes of the quake, but for a long time the live stream just seemed to be playing some recording of Jim Mora, maybe i'm doing it wrong?
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Flights out of Chch airport cancelled for rest of day...