Earthquaking

Good to hear from you dude!

My thoughts with the mainlanders.
Me and the missus gonna sort our own plan tonight, cos this is a wakeup call alright

I've managed to contact most of my family. 2 we can't make contact with. Am scared as sh*t for them.

Mr_Incredible2011-02-22 17:34:11

Devastating.

Have managed to contact one of the two people. Even that is such a relief.

Fingers crossed for you. One of my other friends has someone missing - received a text from a person who found their phone on the street. Pretty worrying stuff.

Google has come out with an app for information on missing persons down there: http://christchurch-2011.person-finder.appspot.com/

How old do you have to be to be able to donate blood?

16 I think, Might go do that tomorrow actually.

Awesome thanks, will see if I can too.

My thoughts and prays go out to all you people in Christchurch

I hope all the Christchurch Feverites are ok...

F&ck! 65 announced dead.

Starting to hit home.

^Very much so.

65 dead -so hard to put into words how i feel

It sucks after people would have just been rebuilding. Hope that the death toll doesn't rise too much more.

Just got back from Greymouth. We're all fine and very little damage out in Rolleston. Seems the central city, eastern suburbs and Lyttelton bore the brunt of it. Finding it very hard to contact friends in town including serveral yf, but family are all ok. Thanks for all your thoughts/prayers guys.

If you are looking for someone in Christchurch, or are in Christchurch and are alright - google has set up this people-finder: http://christchurch-2011.person-finder.appspot.com/

I hope everyone is alright. Today is truly one of the worst days we may know.
Footpaul2011-02-22 19:59:17

Also - Wellington Airport is appealing to Wellingtonians to take in people from Christchurch stranded in the capital because of the quake. Please show them the hospitality many of you have shown me in your city!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/WellingtonAirport

Hope everyone is dealing with this ok - looks horrible, thoughts are with you all

Amazing number of people offering rooms. Makes you feel so good to be a New Zealander in this sad day.

All the info you need is here regarding eligibility to give blood
http://www.nzblood.co.nz/

My parents are travelling round the south island at the moment with some friends from Wales.  They arrived in Christchurch just as the quake started, but thankfully are ok and holed up in a place with water, electricity, etc.  Very horrible situation.

Must be a huge relief to you Frankie. Have you seen any footage of the city?

Hopefully they can continue with their trip - won't be anything to see/do in ChCh for a while to come.

I looked into the blood donating and a friend who works at the hospital said they don't need blood down there at the moment but the situation may change. I guess it's better to donate anyway as it will benefit someone at some stage.

Ditto.  A Canadian friend who has just moved here travelled from the west coast to Chch this morning.  Was meant to fly out to Auckland at 3pm this arvo for a job interview.  She is currently sleeping in the lobby of a hotel.

Obviously thought go out to those effected.

Getting unofficial estimation reports that maybe over 200 to 400 people are dead. As heard before 65 bodies are officially accounted for. there are estimates of about 200 people trapped.

This is all conjecture at the moment. All the people I know are accounted for, there were a family in Sumner that I wasn't sure about until 11:30 pm and they are fine.AllWhitebelievr2011-02-23 01:54:26

fking terrible  thoughts and love are with everyone down there and everyone who has friends and family down there

Day two and the footage shows the true devastation of the event. Fantastic that the Australians have arrived to help out too. I hope that is not forgotten in time. Bob Parker has said that the object today is to continue to concentrate of freeing survivors from the rubble not doing a body recovery although that will happen as they sweep through the buildings.

We're all shocked and stunned oer here, people. Just terrible.

Jag2011-02-23 10:34:18

Can't think of any words to say at the moment. Just thoughts and prayers for everyone down there.

I'm in Dunedin currently. My family is ok in CHCH. I've been advised not to try and come back as it's safer to stay away.

Jag2011-02-23 11:08:36

Good to hear you're ok ,Scottishbhoy.All the best to you and the other YF in Christchurch and their families.

Just found this: Recommendation from Airport staff - she recommended that people with personal offers of accommodation call 0800 AIRPORT from wherever they are in the country and offer accommodation to their airport staff, apparently there ar a lot of cantabrians clogging chch airport wanting to get out and go anywhere.

Daughter works on the ferries and she said last nites crossing was terrible.With a number of families just leaving Christchurch with all they had on some had no money so the staff just gave the families what they needed.She said trip down was just as bad one woman had a husband who had been trapped in rubble and they had to amputate to get him out.

Getting worried still unable to contact my friends.