{"id":2523,"date":"2011-03-12T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T09:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2011-03-12T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T09:12:06","slug":"earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2523","title":{"rendered":"Earthquakes!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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St Luke's Church, Christchurch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The last month has had many of us in the UK very glad we do not live in an area of the world prone to huge earthquakes. First Christchurch and now Japan. The Christchurch earthquake particularly scared me as in 1997 Cath and I lived and worked there for 6 months following leaving university.<\/p>\n

I am still trying to find out if our old house is in one piece, it is located in the ‘red zone’ on the corner of Manchester and Peterborough Streets, in the cordoned off CBD in the centre of the city which currently still has no public access. The Church of St Luke’s next door\u00a0is more or less completely destroyed from what I can see of photographs published on the web and the Collapsed Pyne Gould Building just round the corner was on my morning walk to work !<\/p>\n

Both of us had permanent job offers in the city and so easily could have emigrated. We also know quite a few people who have moved to South Island, New Zealand, it being such a wonderful country, just scary…<\/p>\n

So my thoughts go out to all those families who have lost so much both in the South and North Pacific in the past month, I just cant imagine what it must be like to go through something like that………<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last month has had many of us in the UK very glad we do not live in an area of the world prone to huge earthquakes. First Christchurch and now Japan. The Christchurch earthquake particularly scared me as in 1997 Cath and I lived and worked there for 6 months following leaving university. I … <\/p>\n

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