Comments on: ‘Disco Quake’-Christopher, 8, Hoon Hay School

By: Robyn

Robyn — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:58:54 +0000

Hi Chris
What a nice surprise for me to read this!! Sounds as though you are having fun despite all that rattling an rolling! What is a beyblade? Perhaps I am too old! I have had an email from Mum who tells me you and Willi have been helping clean up the liquefaction. Isn’t it great that everyone is helping each other. Have you seen Pop and Nana recently. I’ll bet they got a big fright,too.
Brian says to say hello!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:00:54 +0000

Hi Paul. The cracks were just a few centimetres opening and closing. There were sand volcanoes and flooding after it. We had to drive down Fitzgerald Ave to get to my cousins school and get her school books. She might not come back to Chch,, she is very scared. Fitzgerald Ave was really bumpy and had enormous cracks in one part.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:56:24 +0000

Thanks Finn. Our house is OK, but the school needs some repairs. Dad’s workplace was affected so he will have to work from home. There is a really big hole at the entrance to his carpark where a waterpipe burst and made a mess and liquefaction in his building.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:53:35 +0000

Hi Sherwyn. Luckily a friend took my beyblade, it was close to going in the crack. It jumped off the wooden deck outside the classroom, where there is a concrete play area. It wasn’t a very nice day which is why we were playing on the deck. We were supposed to be doing a triathlon, I was looking forward to it.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:50:33 +0000

Thanks Jayden. Mum thought it would be a good idea. Did your class have to write to us? It’s really good to hear from you all.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:48:53 +0000

That’s funny. House if fine, lamps and bookshelf and stuff come down. Our cats disappeared for a day but they came back. They shoot out the door pretty quickly with aftershocks. We found our big fluffy boy cat Boo under our summerhouse hiding and too scared to come out. We’re still getting aftershocks. I’ve got 7 beyblades and my brother has 6.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:45:17 +0000

Hi Alex. I have Storm Pegasus but didn’t use him. I fled so I didn’t know exactly who won. I think it was me but I don’t know for sure. I was playing with Earth Wolf, Legend Night Virgo and Storm Capricorn. We weren’t playing for long, it was only half an hour into lunch time.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:42:06 +0000

Hi Hamish, we’re safe. We were only without electricity for 2 days. It feels more normal now without big military helicopters flying over town and hardly any sirens now.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:40:02 +0000

Hi Alex, it was really scary. I was outside room 15 on a wooden deck. The crack I saw didn’t let out water, but some other ones near it did. After the earthquake there were heaps of sand volcanoes on the grass and the concrete at school.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:37:17 +0000

Thanks Sydney. Yeah, I was pleased about my beyblade! Hopefully we don’t see cracks like that again. Shovelling up liquefaction was hard work. Where is St Bernards?