On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Robert Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05/09/10 10:43, Tom Smith wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 10:05 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone need help?
> >>
> >>
> > All good here. Sorry for the people in the worst effected areas, but my
> > goodness if it had been centred in the CBD one hates to think.
> >
> I have spent half of today at the EOC (not sure but maybe it is
> "Emergency Operations Centre") in the Art Gallery Building.
> They needed faxes and printers. They had a Ricoh machine but could not
> get hold of anyone to supply toner for it. We (Xerox) have recently won
> the CCC contract so we were happy to help.
>  From what I saw in my drive to town, the damage to buildings is worst
> in town (old buildings)



And sydenham - actually anywhere with older brick style walls, including the
old firewalls you see on houses of a certain age...

Modern brick veneer over timber framing seems pretty sound, although it
depends a bit what it has been sitting on.


but the damage to roads and pipes looks far
> worse on our side of town.
> I suppose our sandy base does not help.
>
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