Remembering Three Years on....

It's three years tomorrow that were hit by the Earthquake that destroyed most of the city....I can still see the young Chinese girl waving to me from the upstairs flat where my son lived. She sticks in my mind..

Long before the earthquake I'd gone to check on my son's flat while he was away in Japan, and it was semi-dark and there was this face upstairs at the window watching me, she just kept staring at me. So I waved, and we waved, and waved at each other and then I left to go home...Later on I heard that she lost her life in the CTV building. She had come to Christchurch to study English...so sad. Even though there were others in the building that I knew of who lost their lives, it is her face that I remember the most...

My brother was working in the city this week so I've put some pics up of the Christchurch City three years on....

Hereford-High-Colombo St car park...

Lots of cranes about...

Left over very heavy iron work that held 91 Hereford Street up..

Looks a bit like  the 911 monument near the Fire Station

The Christchurch Cathedral still in ruins...

Telecom House – old 91 Hereford St building is gone and

 they are building the new engine alternator room on the side

No stairs.....

A pretty spot amongst chaos...