A photograph of the driveway of the property at 99A Bexley Road, Bexley.
An aerial photograph of a residential area in Bexley.
A cleared property on Seabreeze Close, Bexley.
An over-grown hedge along an abandoned property on Waireka Lane, Bexley.
An aerial photograph of a residential area in Bexley. In the distance, Bottle Lake Forrest can be seen.
Mounds of liquefaction at an abandoned property on Waireka Lane, Bexley.
Over-grown weeds at an abandoned section on Waireka Lane, Bexley.
Liquefaction covers the driveway of these residential properties on Seabreeze Close, Bexley.
Liquefaction is still evident at this abandoned residential section on Seabreeze Close, Bexley.
Weeds are growing through cracks in the pavement outside abandoned properties on Seabreeze Close, Bexley.
Moving from the Bexley "Red Zone" to?
A post on the NZ Raw blog written by Mark Lincoln on 26 January 2013. Mark says, "A drive around Bexley just a few months ago. Nothing really changed here since the first quakes".
An aerial photograph of a residential area in Bexley. In the distance, the New Brighton pier can be seen as well as the Rawhiti Domain and Bottle Lake Forrest.
An aerial photograph of a residential area in Bexley.
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The seismic survey truck T-Rex (from University of Texas) was in Bexley and Pacific Park a few days ago and may have left this calling card on the front lawn of my old "red zone" house. Obviously the geotechs will know what it means.
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A red-zone house just a few down the road from where we used to live in Velsheda Street, with bricks (brick veneer?) off and lifted prior to transporting away.
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Trees cut down so a house being removed from behind could get out above the fence on one of those elevating house removal trailers. I don't know the story about the yellow (recycling) wheelie bin - the wheels have been removed.
The two nice trees in the front of my old property (now owned by the government) have been cut down so the main section of the house behind could be trucked down the drive. The truck must have been up against the fence to get the height above the house to the left (15 Velsheda Street). Down this drive were numbers 17, 19 and 21 (still occupied b...
19 Velsheda Street, Pacific Park, Bexley is about to be trucked out.
Sitting on the concrete in front of what was my model railway room - a single car garage at the rear of our house in Pacific Park. Reason it is here - one of the houses behind my old house is going to be trucked out. See previous photo.
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Being prepared for removal. Is in red zone so has to go.d The house had minimal damage, but the land it was on was deemed to be no good - red zoned.
While the whole of the North Island is under drought conditions and parts of the South Island likely to follow suit, I doubt it will happen in Christchurch. With hundreds of earthquake road, water and sewer repairs underway many are spilling hundreds of litres of water per minute, like this one outside my house. It has been running like this fo...