Australian and New Zealand Gardening: TEA ROOM # 89, 1 by dalfyre

dalfyre wrote:
I just watched a documentary on the ChCh Earthquake, it was quite sad to see the devastation - I still haven't been any where near the city.
the documentary is called 5 Days in the Red Zone & follows Police from the southern town of Alexandra.
They were called in to assist after the quake & at one stage they showed Papanui, right in front of where I work, a hair salon where I used to get my hair done, a Chinese restaurant where I have eaten...
the salon is now back in operation, the restaurant in the next building is still closed.
They also show the beginning of demolition work on an historic old building that I walk by on my way to work, it took a while but it is a pile of bricks & rubble now - still not completely cleared though.

http://tvnz.co.nz/five-days-in-the-red-zone/s2011-e1-video-4...

they show some of the Aussie USAR teams, what they had to deal with was pretty tough.

http://www.finda.co.nz/business/listing/rs4x/cleveland-resta...

map view of the area, if you look you can see a long building to the right of tennis courts - that is where I work.
scroll up a little, the big building on the corner of Harewood Rd is the one that is gone.
on the other side of the road opposite the Cleveland is a building with red roof - that was demolished after the September quake.
There is a strip of narrow shops across the car park from the RSA, the red roofed one is being demolished... they show it in the documentary but I don't think you can see the Memories Cafe signage, that ended up on the footpath - the building frontage completely fell down in the 5.1 aftershock last month.

photo of heritage building after September 7.1 quake...