This is what my lunch looked like after spending a month in my office, post-quake. The banana had liquefied in its skin but there wasn't any mould or anything else. The banana absolutely reeked, though; I ended up tossing everything that had been in the lunch box.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking from Lichfield Street across cleared land to the Twisted Hop. The statue of the banana palm can be seen".
A hand-made sign painted on the base of a banana box sits on the fence of a house on Kerrs Road. The sign reads, "Silt removal - help please".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Lake Terrace Road. The whole house has shifted on its foundations and each side has slumped so the house is bent like a banana".