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Hi All
I had a wierd experience today, Friday, that I thought I would share with you. Our daughter is visiting from Brisbane so I took her to see the effects of the earthquakes. It was my first time into the city since September. I was not prepared for an eery experience.
The real centre of the city is still blocked off so we pulled up as close as we could, just after noon. The park over the road was dishevelled with rubbish and a few vehicles parked on it. Normally it would be full of city workers having lunch.
The city was silent, deathly silent. I have never experienced such silence. There were no cars rushing up the street, no people moving all over the place. The city was still, deathly still. I have never experienced such stillness. An eery feeling.
With one exception. Across the corner a large, three storey concrete building was being demolished. The silence was broken by the sound of tortured concrete and metal reinforcing being torn apart. No people to be seen, only two machines, one with long pincers and one with a bucket tearing and pulling. Creepy.
Two young women were sitting in a car watching quietly. One said “That was our building”
A tear was quietly wiped away from my unshaven face.
Dave
I ‘m just pleased we don’t have tornados but we can empathise with the devastation they are causing. It is not nice.
Dave
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Your desciption of Christchurch is eerie!
I know all of you have seen the vast swath of destruction, chiefly in Alabama..a tornado doing much the same as Keith’s wildfires.
Watching it, beyond hurting for the people, I keep wondering:
eventually they will have to clean it up….what WILL they do with all the stuff—bricks and mortar and wood and metal and wrecked cars and business machines? Not just how, but to what destination?
with Katrina and the Gulf Coast, I think vaguely that some of it was put on barges and taken ‘way out into the Gulf, miles, and just dumped. Can’t be sure, but I think that was true. And the time comes, with piles of debris, that you just have to strike a match.
Keith, if wildfires can be said to have any advantage, they take care of the debris they leave behind.
There are no easy, accessible, “green” answers. We can’t hunker down forever surrounded by mountains of debris.
Loyce McKenzie