Disaster Zone City

WOW, still kinda shocked, we found out halfway through our flight ( LA stopover) that Chch had suffered another very large aftershock and half the central city had come down, arrived to find a national state of emergancy and our flight from auckland canceled and had to rebook as standby to Chch we managaed to get out of Auckland only 3 hours later than planned and get to Chch where we were told to use the toilets at the airport as there was no water or toilets working in the city and that over half the city was still without power, we decided to stay that night with Mikes brother in Kaiapoi which was good as they had shower and toilet facilitys and fuel still avalible, we have since then been staying in the City with my friend and her husband just literally a hundred meters or so from the police line that is blocking off the central city. anyway we are off to do something today to take our minds off all of it i'll take lots of pictures and report back