What a tragedy. As I said in the post about Vietnam we were in Hanoi and watched it with horror as we got the TV1 news. The good news is that all our friends in Christshuch are safe.
Literally hundreds of photos up on the Net and in the Newspapers but here are just some.
I wonder if all is going as well as they say.
I see today that the first lot were allowed back into the CBD. But they had to ID themselves as entitled to enter as they queued at the cordon. And that caused delays as they had to check the ID and some, entitled to enter, had weak ID due to the quake destroying their documentation. So those with strong ID waited. Why didn't they get people to go to their local Police station in the week prior and carry our the ID function there and get an Entry Form from the Police so they arrived and went straight through.
I hope there is a good review of the Civil Defence reaction in due course.
Rugby: Great win (and much easier than I thought) to the Crusaders over the Waratahs and as for the Highlanders undefeated and beating the Bulls - incredible!!
Mad: I read an article on the plane that the 1940's Walt Disney Fantasia has been remade as Fantasia 2000. Tellingly the original had a whole segment about evolution while the 'modern' version has deleted that and replaced it with a piece on Noah's Ark.
We are not much better - we have all sorts of nutters who say they predicted the quake.
