A year after New Zealand's worst earthquake in eighty years the city of Christchurch is just starting to rebuild it's high rise buildings. There was over 5700 aftershocks from the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that hampered cleanup and reconstruction. The rebuilding of the cities is going to cause higher interest rates in New Zealand. In the earthquake the 130 year old stone cathedral was destroyed along with 200 other heritage buildings that were either destroyed or damaged. Despite the large project of rebuilding the city, the government is trying to complete the NZ3 billon dollar project by 2014.
I think that it is great that they are rebuilding the city and trying to restore natural life. On the other hand, i think that it is just awful places like this have to go through such a terrible storm, where irreplacable historical buildings are destroyed. I can't even imagine what it might be like to experience such loss and damage. It must be not only financially draining, but emotionally as well. It really sucks that these natural disasters can't be prevented. The only thing we can do is pray.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to watch the historical and heritage buildings of your home be destroyed, but on top of that rates go up and there is nothing anyone can do. That's the problem with these disasters: you don't know when they're coming and sometimes it's hard to prepare for. It's a great loss for everyone and we need to keep up hope that they'll rise above it.
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