Christchurch is the town I grew up in. It had an earthquake 2 years ago and it's still fucked up. Like the CBD still has a logo zone and they are still pulling down buildings that it turns out are fucked because of liquidifaction in the foundations.
(liquidifcation is where a fine silt rises from beneath the ground and buries or unstablizies stuff. There is a entire suburb that can't be rebuilt because the ground is now complete shit for building on. So wa-hey a new park. Also one guys car went into a crack, silt poured in and suffocated him)
Anyone I believe Japan lost entire towns, like more than 1 , and has managed to rebuild them all.
Basically all the insurance companies are either going bankrupt or trying to not pay, or their underwriters are not paying. Also the EQC (which is like a national earthquake insurance for everyone in the country) only had so much money because various governments cutting funding to it because hey when's a earthquake gonna happen? We only have a massive fault line running along the length of the country and another one just off shore.
ANyway most of the Christchurch skyline has gaps in it like a methheads mouth. Heaps of the classic landmarks are gone and a good portion of the iconic buildings, and theres empty lots everywhere.
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Fuck my hometown.
(liquidifcation is where a fine silt rises from beneath the ground and buries or unstablizies stuff. There is a entire suburb that can't be rebuilt because the ground is now complete shit for building on. So wa-hey a new park. Also one guys car went into a crack, silt poured in and suffocated him)
Anyone I believe Japan lost entire towns, like more than 1 , and has managed to rebuild them all.
Basically all the insurance companies are either going bankrupt or trying to not pay, or their underwriters are not paying. Also the EQC (which is like a national earthquake insurance for everyone in the country) only had so much money because various governments cutting funding to it because hey when's a earthquake gonna happen? We only have a massive fault line running along the length of the country and another one just off shore.
ANyway most of the Christchurch skyline has gaps in it like a methheads mouth. Heaps of the classic landmarks are gone and a good portion of the iconic buildings, and theres empty lots everywhere.
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Fuck my hometown.