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<DIV>Greetings, all.</DIV>
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<DIV>Below is an update from the gentleman, “M,” who lives in the Christchurch,
New Zealand, area. The message has been slightly edited due to space
limitations. His personal report was sent several months ago through this
Central US List-Server. </DIV>
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<DIV>Winter has set in now, and the melancholy feel of M’s report is very
clear....</DIV>
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Insight LLC<BR>Phyllis J. Steckel, RG<BR>PO Box 2002<BR>Washington, MO
63090<BR>636-239-4013<BR><A
href="mailto:psteckel@charter.net">psteckel@charter.net</A> <BR><BR>"Minimizing
earthquake risk is a funny business. The payoff may not come for a long time --
and then it will be in terms of what did not happen."</DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px" class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>Dear
Mac,</EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px" class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>More than 7,350 aftershocks so far,
many of them – particularly the recent one on 13 June – quite destructive. My
family is still ok, thank God, but the community feels besieged. Certainly
migration to Australia has increased. The scientists say our zone is going to be
seismically active for up to a year so it is not a bad idea to put your trip
off. I do look forward to seeing you when can finally
come.</EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>***</EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>The human cost is very heavy:
disturbing images will horrify the children for a long time, something grand in
the aspect of a city that was familiar and comfortable is gone, homes gone, work
disappearing, businesses and institutions crumbling before our eyes, and the
very earth not to be trusted. I am thinking of a friend: a good, kindly,
talented, light-hearted, friend buried in the rubble of one of our fine old
churches. This is essentially a small town and I know that my sad feeling is
going click, click, click through a line of thousands of hearts tipping like
dominoes. </EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px" class=ecxMsoNormal><EM><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">What
happened when the quakes struck?</FONT></FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px" class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>Balance was gone. Even the idea of
balance was gone. The sound was awful. The world moved, but for a snapshot in
time, the mind and heart stopped absolutely. We ended up tossed wherever, and
then struggled out of it. The wreckage was stupefying. It was mildly surprising
to be alive. </EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>Several Subud families send
children to the local school in Heathcote Valley. The school is just along the
road from our hall. On 22<SUP>nd, </SUP>February as the mothers felt the
strength of the quake and ran towards the school, they could hear a terrified,
mass scream from the children. They were safe, thank God. This was an
extraordinary event. </EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px" class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
face=Arial><EM><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Quoting from the 29 March Press,
<FONT color=#0070c0>“<SPAN>Heathcote residents experienced the world’s strongest
recorded up-and-down shaking during last month’s earthquake. Equipment in a
Heathcote Valley School building measured peak ground accelerations of more than
2.2 times that of gravity only three seconds into the magnitude 6.3
quake....”</SPAN></FONT></FONT></EM></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>Over time, months not days, the
tally of destruction is growing. In a city this size it seems that everyone
knows someone who has died. It could be a really close friend or merely a
friendly face from town, but their absence creates its’ own weight on our
hearts. And the other heart, the heart of our beautiful city, is gone. We can
only realise this piece by piece. Nobody can take it in all at once. We get
confused driving on familiar streets because they are unrecognisable. There are
facades and interiors of cherished buildings we will never see again, and only
disorienting gaps in the air where they used to be. Historic Oaks in the park
are gone, and our companionable Redwood tree next to the Subud Hall has been
taken down. Trees were forced upward and their roots torn leaving them tipped
and dangerous. 900 buildings in the central business district and more than
10,000 homes will be demolished. Extensive suburban areas have sunk 400 to 600
mm, and the land may never be usable again. The Port Hills between Lyttleton and
Heathcote rose almost half a metre. With homes lost, jobs gone, schools gone,
businesses disappeared along with the wreckage of markets, libraries,
restaurants, theatres, roads and bridges, 70,000 people initially left. No one
knows how many will return. The collapse of huge bits of the physical order
continually reverberates in the social order.</EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>How is it for us now eight months
out from the September Quake?</EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>Since September we have had almost
7,000 aftershocks. Some have been huge, but even the small ones are a steady
hammering on our nerves and our structures. When the ground shakes it
might be time to try to get out, or curl up in a ball near something big and
sturdy. The brain kicks in and says, ‘Hey, don’t panic, it’s only a small one.’
The body, however, drops into fight or flight mode with all the typical
physiological and neurological response. At night, it is a nasty way to wake up.
The stress shows in the statistics. Heart attacks are way up from the average,
as are: domestic violence figures, increased tranquillizer use; drug abuse,
cigarette, and booze consumption, are all increasing alarmingly. The mentally
ill are very vulnerable as are the elderly and disabled.
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>We do not like to complain because
so many other people in the world are so much worse off. We are very conscious
that if one has to get through a disaster, New Zealand is a great place to do
it. But to be blunt, it’s hard. Four families have already left our group for
more settled environments. The unpredictable but constantly expected aftershocks
are hard to live with. The sight of such enormous destruction is depressing. The
pervasive uncertainty about jobs, schools, mortgages, reconstruction and
insurance is debilitating. </EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px" class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>How much can a house take? Pick it
up and shake it, and then over 8 months, thump it with a big fist 7,000 times.
Places that are now habitable are slowly becoming
uninhabitable.</EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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