The Star: November 17, 2016

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Relief in sight for build
• By Bridget Rutherford
HOPE: Work on Bill McDaniel’s New Brighton home has stalled.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
THERE MAY be relief in sight
for an elderly man who has been
waiting more than a year for
progress on his earthquakedamaged
home.
Bill McDaniel, 83, has been
living at his daughter’s New
Brighton house while he waits for
his earthquake-damaged Sinclair
St home to be rebuilt.
The Star reported last week that
Platinum Homes Christchurch
and Mass Construction began
rebuilding his home in August
last year. However, work had since
stalled.
Mr McDaniel was originally
getting his accommodation and
storage costs covered by insurance,
however, that ceased in
June.
Mass Construction managing
director Jason Strange told The
Star last week it was looking at
handing the home over this week.
However, that has not happened.
But since his story was published,
the companies involved
have organised meetings with the
family to discuss what happened.
A meeting was held on Tuesday
with representatives from the
insurance companies and builders
involved, and Mr Strange
planned to travel to Christchurch
personally to meet with the Mr
McDaniel tomorrow.
The community has also rallied
in support.
Nine people have offered to take
an elderly man to visit his wife
each day to save him from paying
taxi fares.
He spends $40 most days taxiing
to visit his wife Paula, who
has motor neuron disease, in her
Harewood rest home.
South New Brighton resident
Michele McCormack saw Mr
McDaniel’s story on Star Media’s
Facebook page, Rise Up Christchurch,
last week and shared it to
another page.
From that, a group of about
nine people had responded saying
they were keen to set up a roster
to take him across town each day.
The McDaniel family was considering
whether to take up their
offer.
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Residents angry over
tsunami evacuation
•From page 1
“It needs to be investigated
and streamlined. If sirens are
going to be sounded, they need
to be sounded quicker, because
there was so much confusion,”
he said.
Fellow Rocking Horse Rd
resident Juliet Dickson said she
and her family had gone back to
sleep after the earthquakes, and
were woken by the sirens.
She said they were forced to
travel north up Marine Parade
and New Brighton Rd along
the estuary edge because the
bridges were so banked up with
traffic, and they were terrified
that a tsunami could arrive at
any minute.
“I kept thinking how ridiculous
is it that we are waiting in a
queue for a tidal wave to come.
It’s nuts, and really scary as
well,” she said.
It had made her seriously
reconsider living in Southshore,
she said.
Many residents left their
homes soon after the quake
struck just after midnight on
Sunday, fearing a tsunami.
Although some evacuated immediately
after the quake, many
had gone back to sleep and their
first warning of the tsunami
risk was the sirens activated at
about 2am, two hours after the
earthquake.
The tsunami sirens are
designed to warn of a tsunami
generated by earthquakes a long
way away, not from a local one.
The official advice from the
city council and civil defence
is to evacuate immediately and
not to wait for the sirens if there
is risk from a local earthquake.
A tsunami generated off the
coast of New Zealand could
arrive about 15min after an
earthquake, according to
NIWA, so it warns if people feel
a long earthquake of more than
a minute or one strong enough
to make it hard to stand, they
should evacuate without waiting
for a warning.
It has records of tsunami
waves more than 10m high
generated by earthquakes in
Gisborne in 1947 and in Wairarapa
in 1855, and historical
and geological evidence of very
big tsunamis hitting across
Canterbury.
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