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It’s all been said these past few days as the country comes to terms with New Zealand’s largest natural disaster ever. More properties damaged, more workplaces debilitated, more roads and overall infrastructure destroyed in the area than in any single event in our history. Over 450,000 people are directly impacted by the event. To complete the rebuild will take years.

What do the happenings around 4.33am Saturday 4th September tell us? Messages out of the Garden City suggest that even the best prepared, floundered. The water containers they had set aside for a disaster were stale, or empty. The batteries in the torches were flat and replacements flew off somewhere else in the event.
Candles were dangerous as fears of gas leaks prevailed. Food set aside for such eventualities had been consumed as extras arrived at the households over the months.

Above all, the impact of the first quake threw even the best plans into the rubble and challenged those less prepared. In the days since though, those who were in the heaviest hit areas but best prepared are those finding their feet fastest. Others are queuing for water, food, household stores and implements.

So what do we do? Our advice… get the telephone book out, find the pages on Civil Defence advice and get prepared. If it’s not a quake, as people in the Wairarapa found out in the days after the quake, it could be flooding or wind damage that limits life as we know it in any part of the country. Be Prepared!

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