Many of you will have heard that there has been a major, 7.1 earthquake in my home city of Christchurch, with a civil defence emergency declared and major infrastructural damage, but no loss of life—so friends and family all well, which is simply the best news.<\/p>\n
In terms of my home, there has been some damage. The house is 90 years old and the brick chimney came down, doing some damage to the roof. But a friend and a neighbour, working with a local builder have secured it already. Otherwise the only damage internally appears to be from things fallen over and broken ornaments and some china—and again two friends went in today and tidied up the worst of that damage, which makes me feel both very humble and very grateful at the same time.<\/p>\n
I am sure that it is still going to be a lot to go home to, but there is little more that can be done at this stage until I do get home Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Overall, it could have been so much worse and again I am just grateful that there has been no loss of life and family, friends and neighbours are all safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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