Update
So as well as the first 5.8 yesterday we later had a 6.0 (which was also closer and shallower), as well as 53 other quakes in the last day. Some parts of the city lost power, but the water is mostly fine, sewerage ditto, and there haven't been any deaths or serious injuries, only a couple dozen minorer ones. At least two buildings collapsed, but they were already vacant because they'd been deemed unsafe. All the malls closed yesterday but all but one were reopen today (and packed), and the airport was closed and evacuated for a few hours as well. There's liquefaction and sand volcanoes throughout the east, but not as bad as earlier in the year. There's also no postal service today, which is a pain because I'm waiting for crochet hooks to arrive - it would have been a good activity to keep myself busy.
Jasper was quite scared of the shaking and I wrapped him in a towel and gave him cuddles for like three hours while I followed the news. He's feeling lots better today. I'm mostly just frustrated, and pissed off at the inevitable people from outside the city who think they should be able to tell us how to feel, though during the constant aftershocks yesterday I did briefly look at the rental market in Palmerston North (which is where the university I'm enrolled in for extramural courses next year is) to confirm that there's no fucking way in hell I could move if I wanted to. Other people are a lot worse off. While we knew it was possible there'd be another big one, everyone was hoping that it was going away. We'd barely felt anything in a couple of weeks, just a few little wobbles. I think there was a lot of looking forward to next year and getting much more into the rebuild phase rather than weathering the shocks, and that's just been dashed again. This is probably the third time that's happened from last September on - February itself, then June 13, then yesterday. Each time people were starting to think that it was quieting down.
The even more frustrating thing is that re-insurers had been looking at re-entering the market here if there was no M6 by the end of the year. Now, we don't know what will happen. It's almost impossible to get a new insurance policy on a house and premiums on existing policies are getting much higher, but no one wants to risk being without so they just have to suck it up and deal. Just another stress on top of everything else.
This entry was originally posted at http://keieeeye.dreamwidth.org/199617.html. Feel free to comment there instead because LJ is a poo.
Jasper was quite scared of the shaking and I wrapped him in a towel and gave him cuddles for like three hours while I followed the news. He's feeling lots better today. I'm mostly just frustrated, and pissed off at the inevitable people from outside the city who think they should be able to tell us how to feel, though during the constant aftershocks yesterday I did briefly look at the rental market in Palmerston North (which is where the university I'm enrolled in for extramural courses next year is) to confirm that there's no fucking way in hell I could move if I wanted to. Other people are a lot worse off. While we knew it was possible there'd be another big one, everyone was hoping that it was going away. We'd barely felt anything in a couple of weeks, just a few little wobbles. I think there was a lot of looking forward to next year and getting much more into the rebuild phase rather than weathering the shocks, and that's just been dashed again. This is probably the third time that's happened from last September on - February itself, then June 13, then yesterday. Each time people were starting to think that it was quieting down.
The even more frustrating thing is that re-insurers had been looking at re-entering the market here if there was no M6 by the end of the year. Now, we don't know what will happen. It's almost impossible to get a new insurance policy on a house and premiums on existing policies are getting much higher, but no one wants to risk being without so they just have to suck it up and deal. Just another stress on top of everything else.
This entry was originally posted at http://keieeeye.dreamwidth.org/199617.html. Feel free to comment there instead because LJ is a poo.