Christchurch Treehouse of Awesome-Where everyone knows your name

[Pyromanik]

Big protest outside council this evening.
Repeating "Broken homes means sick kids" over and over isn't really doing anything constructive you derp lady.

Also, not sure that a 'broken home' is what you think it is.


Ps. After no response from the first 5 minutes, adopting an angrier tone of voice isn't likely to help much.
How about telling us what you actually expect the council to DO about it!?
Are you sure you're even complaining to the right people?

[Tandoori]

Nights like this make me wish I had a tin roof, rain is the best ambient noise for work.

[Obble]

You have to relax Pyrom8, getting mad over the internet is not healthy.

[Codex]

Who knows a good powder coater that can match pantones + use heat resistant stuffs

[Growler]

yeah.... rain not so good.... leaks in the roof, gaps in the floor, making for a pretty cold and damp hose even with our fire going 24/7.

But that's ok, at least we will have a 35,000 seat covered stadium before my house gets looked at.

[Codex]

The wants of the many > the needs of the few, it seems.

[Growler]

If only it was the needs of a few. I don't know of anyone in the east side that has any resolution yet apart from red zoners. I have been waiting for an inspection since July 2011. Not for repairs, just an inspection so they can cost my repairs. I can't opt out, I can't deal with insurance. I can't do a fucking thing. But that's ok. At least EQC and CERA keep painting a rosy picture about how 'EVERYONE' has been assessed and that they are motoring through repairs!

I am so pleased holiday homes in Akaroa are being fully repaired, gibbed and painted.

EQC and CERA are useless, beyond fucking useless, they are looking after the easy fixes and totally ignoring the difficult fixes, I imagine a fair whack of people have given up and just wait, but I can tell you, the second they do my assessment and put me over cap, I will be straight to the court seeking complete financial recovery for the time wasted by their complete incompetence.

As it stands now, had they done things in a timely manner and completed the inspection they started. I would of been paid out in July last year when they did the initial costings. That alone would of saved me close to $11,000 in mortgage payments.

[Codex]

yeah 2 people in my team have had their places compeltely done by eqc o-o well ones mostly done, i'm surprised they haven't touched you yet D:

[Tandoori]

The need for attracting global capital > the needs of the low socio-economic residents on the East side.

Sorry, but government does not care about you - you will be here regardless, the investment might not be.

[Growler]

You do realise there is more than just linwood and aranui on the east side of the city right, hahahahah.

I know the whole CBD is a independant action to the EQC and the residential rebuild. But it still amazes me how much quicker that shit is getting fixed on that side of the fence.

EQC as a agency has failed horribly for the Chch residential consumer. Their problems are only just begining, the lawsuits will be next. I will be going them for $$$ when I finally get resolution.

[Bounty Hunter]

When my family moved to chch there were places we didn't want to live cause the ground was deemed unstable in an earthquake, that was 6 years ago, the information was there, you chose not to heed it, tough luck.

Oh but there'll never be an earthquake in chch they said.

[Growler]

What's that got to do with EQC acting in a professional manner?

where do your parents live BH?

[Tandoori]

You do realise there is more than just linwood and aranui on the east side of the city right, hahahahah.

I know the whole CBD is a independant action to the EQC and the residential rebuild. But it still amazes me how much quicker that shit is getting fixed on that side of the fence.

EQC as a agency has failed horribly for the Chch residential consumer. Their problems are only just begining, the lawsuits will be next. I will be going them for $$$ when I finally get resolution.

Absolutely, I was espousing a cynical view in jest (I thought it was well established that I'm a relatively empathetic chap).

RE: EQC's continual failures - yes I totally support your sentiment, and despite as BH mentioned; the mitigating factors of damage, these should not affect how EQC operates.

But I think a touch of realism needs to be applied here though, it's simply beyond reasonable expectation that any organisation could handle an event of this magnitude (excuse this punnily apt word), in a manner we don't even expect from our bigger/busier bureaucracies (IRD etc).

Shit happens, and New Zealand simply isn't equipped to deal with things like this (even if we should be, the resources simply do not exist)  - add to this the general cronyism that infects all Christhchurch affairs and you have a recipe for the shit sandwich we're all biting.

[Growler]

I'm going to hunt out my LIM tonight and see what it has, I remember when I purchased my house 12 odd years ago looking at it and thinking 'I paid $200 to be told the house I was looking at at the time was built some time 'before 1900' (they don't know) and that a garage was built in 1976.....' what a monumental fucking waste of money that was.

For the record, I have had 0 sand eruptions on my property, my damage was due to hori & vert displacement. I am pretty sure the LIM of now days doesn't have references to that?

RE the EQC, why on earth Fletchers are doing repairs and not doing assessments is beyond me, yes some repairs can be done and should be under way, but any major repairs that is employing builders/major structural changes & fixings should all be after every assessment has been done... I wouldn't of thought it was rocket science.

[Tandoori]

I have nothing to with the displacement of any of your property.

Can't speak for Virt.

[Growler]

Don't lie, I seen you pushing my house you cunt!

[Tandoori]

According to Swindle, I'm more interested in claiming the land and water it's resting on.

[Growler]

wanna go fushing?

[Tandoori]

Better than sitting in an Info-systems lecture learning about the magic of NETWORKS. Wow.

[Retardobot]

Better than sitting in an Info-systems lecture learning about the magic of NETWORKS. Wow.

Wanna go phishing?

[Retardobot]

Wanna go phishing?

Wait wait wait.

Wanna go phishing on the c++ bed?

I leave the rest up to you.

[Growler]

no, no please please please stop.

[Emrico1]

Wanna go fishing... In your lounge room?

[Bounty Hunter]

Absolutely, I was espousing a cynical view in jest (I thought it was well established that I'm a relatively empathetic chap).

RE: EQC's continual failures - yes I totally support your sentiment, and despite as BH mentioned; the mitigating factors of damage, these should not affect how EQC operates.

But I think a touch of realism needs to be applied here though, it's simply beyond reasonable expectation that any organisation could handle an event of this magnitude (excuse this punnily apt word), in a manner we don't even expect from our bigger/busier bureaucracies (IRD etc).

Shit happens, and New Zealand simply isn't equipped to deal with things like this (even if we should be, the resources simply do not exist)  - add to this the general cronyism that infects all Christhchurch affairs and you have a recipe for the shit sandwich we're all biting.

^that.

folks are in hoon hay right by the hill.

I think EQC have done really well considering they were a tiny outfit before chch.

[Dr Woomanchu]

I think EQC have done really well considering they were a tiny outfit before chch.

We've been paying them billions of dollars over the decades precisely because they were supoosed to be the organisation that planned for this sort of thing. Their sole reason for existence  was to provide cover for major disasters and they didn't even have a functional plan in place, for a major urban earthquake with widespread destruction. Maybe they weren't expecting Christchurch, but they must surely have been expecting to have to respond to Wellington being hit?

EQC haven't done really well at all. They've barely coped. The internal communications and systems and procedures have been poor. I have family who worked there for a while and while the initial emergency response swung into action, they've been making up huge chunks of the rest as they go along.

They were all too fucking busy making cute adverts about being prepared for an emergency and going to conferences.