If you have been following our homepage you will
notice that I omitted 1 point from yesterday’s blog – we have water! The
first drips appeared Thursday night only to dry up again Friday morning.
By Friday afternoon ½ the rooms had water and by late last night all had at
least a trickle. An important step.
We now need the gas so we can have hot water but this
may take some time due to our proximity to the centre of town. The plan
is to have hot water flowing on Monday.
Hopefully it’ll work!
I also omitted mentioning yesterday that we were
visited by the Fire Department. They were going door to door making sure
everyone was ok. On top of that, this morning we were visited by the City
Council for our building inspection. 2 council employees and 2 structural
engineers spent about 10 minutes here checking the building for safety.
We were awarded (??) a green “safe to use” certificate. Stuck to the
window with colour coordinated red tape, we are prevented by law from removing
it. So there it will stay. So the good news is that our building is
safe!
We were talking about it tonight but these 2 visits
show how well organised the disaster response is. By dividing the city
into manageable areas, the council is able to quickly work out just what is
happening.
In a matter of days, our motel has morphed from a
popular tourist base close to Christchurch's
heart to an emergency/recovery support centre. This has changed the flow
of what we have been doing completely.
Many people have been contacting us asking what they
should be doing with their booking. It’s a really tough call because the
situation is so fluid. It may change, it may not. All we can
recommend is that you wait a few days and see what is happening before you make
your decision. Being inside the cordon we are not the best place to be as
you options will be severely limited
I’d like to write more but exhaustion has got me
nodding off as I write this. Must be away and get some sleep…more
tomorrow.
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