This morning we still did not have power at home, but we have got our routine down pat. We get up, boil up some of our bottled water on the gas cooker, make a pot of tea and have our cereal with our Ultra Heat Treated Milk. We then headed over to Halswell – a [...]
Today we focused on more of our own clean up (it seems to never end), and we then ventured out to visit friends nearby and collect water from an artesian well that was near their place (it’s on Opawa road near the shops). I’m not entirely sure if the well just came up, but the [...]
As a nation, as a city, we will never forget the terrible events of this week and the people who have lost their lives, their homes, their jobs and their businesses, their sense of security and safety, their sense of normality. This photo for today was one I took just one month ago during a [...]
Tonight we are fortunate to have the loan of a generator so we can use it off and on. We’re in a hill suburb and may not get power back for days or maybe up to a week, we are just not sure. We went for a walk up the hill today and were amazed [...]
I am writing this from my car, using a power inverter that is plugged into the cigarette lightener with a mobile internet connection. We don’t have power or water or sewerage, and the house looked like someone had ransacked it from one end to the other. It has taken us 8 hours to get the [...]