On wednesday there is a movie about the earthquake in Christchurch on TV. Part of me wants to move on and part of me wants to look at the movie and cry.
A container coffee shop
A look in an abandoned street of the red zone area in the city. The building with the white, grey facade without a roof used to be my kids school. It was a place like in the movie Fame where kids hang around, playing gitar, others designing in a corner. It had huge open places and atmosphere.
In blue and green
Adds and birds on the containers
A grocer with food from all over the globe
On Wednesday, we remember the horrible day.Who could have believed that there will be an earthquake 2 years ago? Not my husband the engineer.
ReplyDeleteKia Ora Marja,
ReplyDeleteYou are in my thoughts along with all those remembering and rebuilding. Kia kaha e hoa.
Aroha,
Robb
I find the container stores quite creative. I'd love to see them one day.
ReplyDeleteThe buildings are creative restored with the containers. But it is a huge effort to get all things right I suppose.
ReplyDelete"Johnson's grocer"?
ReplyDeleteThat's my last name.
Is that a chain store or is it one of a kind? If it is an independent I wonder if we are very distantly related?
The container shops have a lot of character. I like them.
ReplyDeleteHi Marja, its good to know that things are getting more or less back to normal.. I can only imagine what going through an Earthquake is feels like.. And we here in the UK experienced a small tremor several years back the centre being near Yorkshire.. of 5.2 and it shook the house, wardrobes and windows and knocked a few chimney stacks down nearer the centre of the quake.. My Sons home developed a crack along one wall.. But it must have been quite scary to say the least with what you experienced..
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't have to go through anymore..
The good outcomes of such events are the people.. They come together helping each other out and the community spirit is strengthened.. Its a shame that it takes something like this to bring people together more..
Many thanks for adding your kind and thoughtful comments to my posts too Marja... I hope that you and yours are well, take care..
Love ~Sue Dreamwalker xxx
As cool and wonderful and colourful the container shops may look, I bet you'd all much rather see the town as it was before the earthquake(s). It must be so sad to see your kid's school like that.
ReplyDeleteOnwards and upwards though (easy for me to say) ;-)
It shows the strength and ingenuity of the people to keep on going and making shops out of containers, I hope all goes well in the future and those poor people with housing problems will okay soon. It sure takes a long time to rebuild a whole city. The demolished history is sad.
ReplyDeleteYou have all been in my thoughts today. I put up a commemorative post this morning. Love and blessings, and may many good new things keep happening.
ReplyDeleteHi Marja. It's good to know that things are moving forward. I'm very sad, though, that so many are still encountering insurance company problems. They got away with a lot of the same in New Orleans with Katrina. Bloodsucking necessary evils. Oops, sorry, my opinion is hanging out. ** sigh **
ReplyDeleteHi Marja .. it was a dreadful experience .. and seems so challenging that things take so long to sort out .. in times of strife when everyone is at their lowest ebb.
ReplyDeleteWith positive thoughts - Hilary
the container shops are colorful and interesting looking
ReplyDeleteI still pray for NZ daily.
Very interesting to see the container shops.Very creative idea.My daughter works for a company(ship container) in the port of Hamburg.I think this idea would be very interesting to see for her.
ReplyDeleteI think often to the earthquakes in NZ since I know you.I hope the next years will be quiet for you without terrible earthquakes,Marja!
Amazing resilience. Wonderful to see rebuilding and continuity. Having been through an earthquake in San Francisco (1989), I know a str0jg sense of community is vital in moving forward.
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