On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:56 PM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > Nothing as striking as what you're seeing in the media, but this is what our > local neighbourhood looks like along with a few pics of my house. > > http://www.multi.net.nz/feb-22-aftershock/ > > Just heard on the radio now that the Hotel Grand Chancellor, our tallest > hotel, is at risk of collapse. Apparently it's leaning and that lean may be > worsening. That's quite a big building and if it goes it's going to cause > absolute carnage in the surrounding area. I don' t know which way it's > leaning... it it goes the "right" way it'll fall into a fairly open space > with much less collateral damage. They're urgently evacuating a two block > radius. There are only search & rescue teams in that area so it's not as big > a job as it sounds. But another small aftershock could be all it takes to > set it off. >
Your photos very effectively show the damage to your house and neighbourhood. Thank goodness you all escaped without injury. That must have been one scary moment (or moments). cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
