Just when the diocese was ready to talk about "make safe" plans for the cathedral in Christchurch, 23 December happened. So it's back to the drawing board.
Here's an interview with current footage taken on 10 Feb from the relative safety of a crane lowered not into, but above the remains of the cathedral so you can see what damage has been done.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Deciding-the-fate-of-the-Christchurch-Cathedral/tabid/367/articleID/242844/Default.aspx
We are scratching our heads about the uninformed who persist in writing letters to the editor in the local newspaper saying it should be "repaired" ( I say, hand them a shovel and tell them to go at it and risk their own bloody necks to do so). The story about the organ repair team who were killed when inside the "safe" Durham St Methodist on 22 Feb last year seems to get conveniently forgotten. The other frustration for me is hearing a group of folks on one side say "repair it, patch it up, fix it" while on the other side there's a Royal Commission being held where people are hurting and angry that nobody told them the building a loved one was killed in was deemed safe yet still collapsed killing many inside. So the approach is to have the top structural engineers prepare a report, then have it peer reviewed by two more. This is in response to the hyper-critical who say they "know engineers" who say that it can be repaired and that the damage is being over-stated and apparently can say so without ever stepping near the actual building to take a close look.
Here's an interview with current footage taken on 10 Feb from the relative safety of a crane lowered not into, but above the remains of the cathedral so you can see what damage has been done.
http://www.3news.co.nz/
We are scratching our heads about the uninformed who persist in writing letters to the editor in the local newspaper saying it should be "repaired" ( I say, hand them a shovel and tell them to go at it and risk their own bloody necks to do so). The story about the organ repair team who were killed when inside the "safe" Durham St Methodist on 22 Feb last year seems to get conveniently forgotten. The other frustration for me is hearing a group of folks on one side say "repair it, patch it up, fix it" while on the other side there's a Royal Commission being held where people are hurting and angry that nobody told them the building a loved one was killed in was deemed safe yet still collapsed killing many inside. So the approach is to have the top structural engineers prepare a report, then have it peer reviewed by two more. This is in response to the hyper-critical who say they "know engineers" who say that it can be repaired and that the damage is being over-stated and apparently can say so without ever stepping near the actual building to take a close look.