There has been a huge earthquake in Christchurch this weekend. It rated 7.1 on the richter scale,even right now there are still heaps of after shocks happening and they expect that to last weeks. Thankfully at the time it hit 4.37am on Sunday so there wasn't any loss of life.

On the news tonight over 100,000 homes have been damaged, power, water and sewerage & roading are the major concerns. It's just utter devastation we are seeing on tv and newspapers. Can you image your home being written off in one foul swoop.

Found this article today about how pets have been effected by this disaster, it's bad enough losing your pet in normal circumstance, but to have it happen now must be so heart wrenching.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10671385

Here's another couple of links if anyone is interested:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
http://tvnz.co.nz/

Gosh Cynthia, we read about that earthquake, shocking to hear.

Thanks for the articles, and I do hope you and Monty
and Tess stay out of harms way.

Mary

Wow I haven't had the tv or radio on so I hadn't heard, how sad. I hope you are all safe

I am so glad you are safe, keep Monty and Tess close.. this is so scary...

I've been watching this on the news Cynthia.. A catasprophe for damage and destruction for this city..but a miracle that there was no loss of life.
I'm so glad that you and your family and dear Monty and Tess are all safe and sound.