Originally Posted by mamahippychicky

We have been staying with family in part of the city which looks 'normal', and spending the day shoveling liquefaction from our driveway.

The clean up for the whole city will be a big big job, and we are so thrilled with all the offers of help from unaffected locals and all people from all around the world. There are many thoughtful, generous people and it is very humbling.

It looks like it will be weeks before some of us will have power, water, sewerage and phone restored. Our view is we've done it once, we can do
it again!!! Us kiwis are tough folk lol