# Chip in for Christchurch

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-in-for-christchurch/589053>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 14, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-in-for-christchurch/589053 "2011-07-14T20:28:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-in-for-christchurch/589053/1 "2011-07-14T20:28:20Z")

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It’s neither mundane nor pointless, but here it is.

Friday 15th is Chip in for Christchurch Day, not another donation fest, but just a time to let the residents know we are still thinking of them after their run of earthquakes.

I don’t have any friends or relatives down there, but there are at least a couple of Dopers who’ve been going through thousands of shakes, great and small since September.

And I do think about them often and hope they’re okay.

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**Author:** ![Kiwi\_Fruit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiwi_fruit/32/12_2.png) [@Kiwi\_Fruit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiwi_Fruit)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-in-for-christchurch/589053/2 "2011-07-15T02:31:02Z")

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Me too. My MIL has travelled down there to stay with friends for a few days. Hope she finds her friends have coped.

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-in-for-christchurch/589053/3 "2011-07-15T15:49:16Z")

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I called my friends in Christchurch (South New Brighton) just last week.  
Their nerves are on end - seems like endless after-shakes, still lots of damage, still businesses closed and some major inconveniences with just trying to drive from point A to point B. They told me they don’t have a single glass left in the house - all plastic cups now, as everything has broken.  
They had been thinking of subletting their home and moving to Germany for a year or so, but after the last spate of after-shakes, now their house has too many rips and tears to sublet. Plus, it will take months before anyone can come to fix them - their house is not on the list of “first to be fixed”, so they simply have to wait it out.  
They both have their jobs - and the kids and grandkids are OK, so they plod on. Still, I can tell they are weary of all this and the stress it taking a toll.