Silkannthreades 14/11/2012: Garden, may I be your house?
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
An entry from Gallivanta's blog for 14 November 2012 entitled, "Garden, may I be your house?".
An entry from Gallivanta's blog for 14 November 2012 entitled, "Garden, may I be your house?".
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 13 October 2010, posted to Dreamwidth. The entry is titled, "In which her house is shaking again".The entry was downloaded on 17 April 2015.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 13 October 2010, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which her house is shaking again".The entry was downloaded on 14 April 2015.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 14 September 2010, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which the cat is scared of the house".The entry was downloaded on 14 April 2015.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 14 September 2010, posted to Dreamwidth. The entry is titled, "In which the cat is scared of the house".The entry was downloaded on 17 April 2015.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 13 June 2013, posted to Dreamwidth. The entry is titled, "In which the house next door is gone, and other stories".The entry was downloaded on 16 April 2015.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 13 June 2013, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which the house next door is gone, and other stories".The entry was downloaded on 13 April 2015.
A pdf copy of a post from the One Voice Te Reo Kotahi blog. The post is titled, "Te Whakaruruhau ki Ōtautahi Christchurch Community House".
A photograph captioned, "We get the young fellas to come in and do the upkeep on the government houses that have been sold. They cut down all the long grass and just tidy up all the fire risk sections. This one's easier cos the house is gone. If you keep it tidy it looks tidy from the road. There's people living here, and there's nothing worse than looking over your house and seeing grass this high".
Photograph captioned, "I'll have mixed feelings when I leave. I'll be sad to go - and sad to see my house go. But I hope it'll be a good feeling once it's over. I'll be pleased to get to that stage and feel like I'm finally moving on".
A photograph captioned, "The government's not stupid, they'll put three houses on each of these sections".
A photograph captioned, "It's weird, it's very random. There were some beautiful houses here and now they are gone".
Caption reads: "At night we light up the house like a Christmas tree so that people know we’re here."
A digital photograph in PDF form with caption. Taken from Kingsford St, looking East at 'the Gingerbread house' in Horseshoe Lake.
Caption reads: "You can’t do a thing about it but I can’t be bothered going house hunting. I’ll just live each day as best I can. I keep thinking it could change again. The dust here doesn’t bother me, the noise doesn’t bother me. When they start pulling down houses the vibrations don’t bother me. Nothing bothers me. We’re all like that. That’s how you have to be when you can’t do a thing about it."
A photograph captioned, "They're fixing other places first. People over the other side of town are getting their houses fixed. We wonder why".
A digital photograph in PDF format with caption. Image showing an empty lot. The house stood right alongside the Horseshoe Lake reserve.
A news item titled, "Godley House Farewell", published on the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre's website on Thursday, 29 September 2011.
Caption reads: "People brought food to the area and we were grateful. It was a disaster but we were coping. Our house was broken but that didn’t mean we had to be."
A photograph captioned, "My daughter grew up in this house. She's 10 now. She is going to miss it - and Dallington. It's where she's grown up, what she knows. She'll miss it alright. Me too".
A photograph captioned, "I miss living here, right by the river. I'd been there for quite a long time, 12 years or so. I realize now I took it for granted a bit. I used to get a bit bored with having a big old house that was cold, difficult to clean, and perhaps hard to keep warm. But now, when I go back there, I miss living in a big house by the river with an open fire and a big lounge and everything. I had the park there on the other side of the river. And there was a little bridge down there where you could walk over to it. There was actually a circuit you could do, up to the New Brighton Bridge and back. Yeah, it was beautiful".
An entry from Maxine Bennett's blog, "Blackbird Has Spoken: Having a go at this blogging lark" (http://www.blackbirdhasspoken.com). The entry for 12 February 2013 is titled "Of sorrow and salvage. Op-Shop Show-Off Feb 12th 2013". Maxine writes, "I’m Max, an English girl in, and in love with New Zealand, and the New Zealander husband. In an almost forgotten previous life I worked as a psychotherapist and psychiatric nurse; now I’m the contented stay at home mother of Claudine who's almost 3, and the baby-boy-currently-gestating. We live a quiet life in a small rural town in our arts and crafts house, but dream of moving out to some land one day, to build our own home and enjoy a long view. I like to laugh, be outside, craft, grow, op-shop, read and cook. My little Kiwi family, learning new things, quiet, beauty and reading blogs make me the happiest of all. My blog is a record of my enthusiasms, fleeting and enduring, and a means of communication with you kindred spirits near and far." Note that the blog post has been converted to PDF format for archiving, which may have resulted in changes to the formatting and layout of the page.
The previously unknown Greendale Fault ruptured to the ground surface, causing up to 5 metres horizontal and 1 metre vertical permanent offset of the ground, during the September 2010 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake. Environment Canterbury commissioned GNS Science, with help from the University of Canterbury, to define a fault avoidance zone and to estimate the fault recurrence interval. There is little evidence for past movement on the fault in the past 16,000 years. However, because of the uncertainties involved, a conservative approach was taken and the fault has been categorised as a Recurrence Interval Class IV fault (a recurrence interval of between 5,000 and 10,000 years). A PhD study by a University of Canterbury student will work towards refining the Recurrence Interval Class over the next three years. Taking a risk-based approach, the Ministry for the Environment Active Fault Guidelines recommend that normal residential development be allowed within the fault avoidance zone for faults of this Recurrence Interval Class, but recommends restrictions for larger community buildings or facilities with post-disaster functions. The report is assisting Selwyn District Council in granting consents for rebuilding houses on or near the Greendale Fault that were damaged by permanent distortion of the ground due to the fault rupture in the September 2010 earthquake. The report provides specific recommendations for building on or close to the Greendale Fault, which are being implemented by Selwyn District Council. See Object Overview for background and usage information.