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[saffronlie]

I hope I can be forgiven for the narcissism inherent in this post. This is silly and melodramatic, but I feel like disaster has followed me lately

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[phfa]

I love you too, my Live journal and Real Life (not that LJ is not real espcailly in times of crisis when it came be like a lifeline or sanity line) friend

[saffronlie]

That's terrible for your mum's friend. I guess there are parts of the city that might not be salvageable? That would be a really hard thing to deal with.

I thought about you on the bus, before I knew you were safe. You're not being paranoid to worry. I was thinking, what if you were working at 1pm again and on a late bus into the city at 12.51?! The thing is that nowhere is truly safe if it happens again, and I wouldn't blame you for wanting to walk for a while. Hopefully you'd feel better about taking the bus in the future, but... yeah. The stories about the buses were horrible to hear. It seems like pure chance: a bus on the road during the quake, passing a building that fell... it's not fair, really.

[phfa]

I think there are going to be parts that need to be completely demolished and rebuilt from scratch. There were streets on the drive to her house, some of which had been fenced off and others just had spraypaint over the entrance saying DANGER, NO ENTRY, 23/2/11. The house was right up on the hill, gorgeous view of everything, but the hill had started to collapse. The suburb on the hill over, where a couple of friends of ours live, had been totally evacuated in case the whole hill came down. I don't know if people are going to be able to live there again, I think it's way too early to tell

[saffronlie]

It's going to take so long, isn't it? But it's absolutely worth doing. The beautiful city needs rebuilding.

Aww, poor Jen! At least she has the shower, though. I hope you get a shower soon.

[zhonghua2000]

How true. How true. I love you too. ♥

[saffronlie]

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[mumsisdaughter]

Come here for a hug :) Life is fragile but it is also very tenacious. It seems as though they have not found any survivors under the rubble in Christchurch but when folk are pulled out alive after this type of disaster I can't help punching the air and crying, "Yesss!" for the strength and courage of the survivors and the dogged etermination of the searchers.

I love you too :)

[saffronlie]

*hug* Thanks, mum. :p They haven't found any survivors since Wednesday afternoon, which is really sad, but they're still looking and no one's giving up.

[ukashi_goshi]

"Life changes fast. Life changes in an instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." (Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking)

Yes, yes, yes, it is always frightening, and human connection is a wonderful thing to be grateful for. Hugs to you.

[templa_otmena]

I love you too, my lovely- here and in the many, many moments when I neglect to pop in.

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