The morning after
There was another big after-shock early this morning following yesterday’s 7.1 quake near Christchurch. One of the kids was so too freaked out to sleep on her own, so I made a makeshift bed in the dining room and we slept there.
The day after something like this you start to think more about the long-term impact on the many businesses without functioning premises and what that means for the owners, their employees etc. Insurance won’t cover everything.
Many houses are also uninhabitable which will be causing enormous stress to those affected.
We’re lucky to have not had property damage but friends of ours have had a chimney collapse in through their roof and say that’s now a pretty common sight in Christchurch.
I don’t think the full cost will begin to be appreciated until the coming week when people start to ‘pick up the pieces’, return to work (if they can) etc.
