In which she mentions things she forgot to mention

[zeborah]

• Tents in people's front/back-yards. I think that most of these are less because of the house being unsafe and more because it's more peaceful to sleep on the ground than inside a house during aftershocks. Not sure about the caravans
• Mental health posters up everywhere encouraging people to keep active, connect with friends&co, etc. Reminds me of wartime propaganda except, y'know, friendlier
• Fruitcake for morning tea at church provided by a church in Wellington.

Also things I didn't forget to mention, they just happened:

• My gas fire is certified safe. Yay not freezing my toes off! (It's turned antarctic out there.)
• Do want: Christchurch company creates quake warning system. This should be publicly funded and installed on every computer everywhere. Don't care about liability (though I like to think they have the sense to build in a bunch of redundancy), I'll sign a waiver; something's better than nothing. Also I'm already thinking about software features, like you could opt in to random earthquake drills.

Comments

[rumpelsnorcack]

I saw that quake warning thing too, and my reaction was basically 'ARGH, just put it out already. I don't care about suing you if it all goes to custard, I just want some warning dammit!!!' Even enough warning to be under a table rather than by a heavy bookcase, for example. I thought it was quite cool how it could say how many seconds you had before it was going to shake.

The tent thing - I know people who were in them because they felt safer there than inside a house with the big aftershocks. I suspect a lot of backyard tent dwellers were the same. I might have done it myself, but I was too apathetic to struggle with our tent's long put-up timeframe and the house sounded warmer.