I had to go into the centre of Christchurch on Monday. I was expecting mess and chaos but there was none.
I saw some gaps where buildings used to be, I had to make a couple of detours round streets blocked by cranes and diggers, but apart from that it was very much business as usual.
Not PC has a letter from Christchurch and photos which back up my impressions of a city largely doing what it normally does .
It won’t be like that for the people whose homes and business places have been wrecked. But miraculously, they are the minority and everyone is doing what they can to help them clean up and rebuild as quickly as possible.
I talked about this with the friend I met for lunch.
She said, “The aftershocks are getting to us. But we’re okay and when the shaking stops we’ll be fine.”
