Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad News For You
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
BSA win!
But Tower were of the understanding that they'd been issued with a genuine nudge & wink-level loophole. While it didn't actually bear the Government imprimatur there was no way it'd intervene, no matter how loudly those who'd paid their premiums in good faith complained about effectively being told to go jump.
Damn that pesky BSA. Someone better talk to Gerry.
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Hebe,
Scandalous.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/6053877/PGC-buildings-safe-tag-questioned
I draw your attention to this bit:
[CCC's Steve] McCarthy said there was debate within the council about the wording of the green placard, which was dictated by the Department of Building and Housing.
The green placard was only based on an external inspection. Building owners were responsible for a more detailed engineering assessment.
"We clearly didn't want to say this building was safe to occupy," McCarthy said.
He accepted some people may have placed undue weight on the green placards.
Some people may have placed undue weight on the green placards! Heads must roll. Lots of them.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Perhaps it's telling that the Press appear to have decided against opening online comments on that particular piece.
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Hebe, in reply to
Yes. My understanding is that one could be arrested if found in a red-placard building, but green doesn't mean it's safe. Huh?
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The emotions are simmering as people start lying about not knowing of the Earth Quake risk added to the PGC Building LIM in 2006.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/6053877/Agents-happy-with-work-on-PGC -
Islander, in reply to
I think a lot of this old-boy-network crap is just starting to be dragged out into the public gaze (and stare of horror.)
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
. . . this old-boy-network crap . . .
Whatever it is, it’s characterised by a lame-arsed ineptitude at dealing with human issues, and a self-serving culture of legally-informed risk aversion with a demonstrably lethal track record. And as the attitudes on display at the current R. commission show, an absolute blinkered inability to even begin to comprehend the concept of personal responsibility.
This is how the CTV building site looked yesterday. All traces removed, we’ve had a memorial service, that’s all folks, nothing to see move along. And this is what people continue to do, because as anyone with a grain of humanity knows, it’s what we humans need to do. Do the custodians of the public good provide some kind of temporary facility or shrine as even a courtesy to people’s grief? Oh please, the very suggestion gives them the vapours. The message is that if they can’t corporatise it, they just wish to hell it would go away.
Perhaps we should be grateful that they appear to retain enough humanity to be disturbed by such reminders of their own lethal ineptitude.
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There is a very wellknown whakatauki-
"E ki ana koe ki a ahau- he aha te mea nui?
E ki ana ahau ki a koe- he takata, he takata, he takata!"But -that's just for humans...
And I truly think there are people in the power structure of ANZ who have removed thinking - let alone talking- about other ANZers from their minds...I dont think of these people as real humans any more-*
*mind you, sure as shit, I dont think of them as lizards either!
I just think they have insulated themselves against all forms of human grief & misery by the
money/power they have & are no longer concerned about any kind of social contract, any kind of looking after 'one's neighbour.'Bad cess to them.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
There is a very wellknown whakatauki-
"E ki ana koe ki a ahau- he aha te mea nui?
E ki ana ahau ki a koe- he takata, he takata, he takata!"Thanks for the reminder. Presumably it's sill inscribed, with slightly different spelling but I trust essentially the same meaning, on what's left of the cathedral.
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Islander, in reply to
Yes Joe – I use southern Kai Tahu dialect, but it is there-
I am just - so sad about everything - and cant think of anything more I can do.
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Sacha, in reply to
it's sill inscribed
below the window
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Hebe, in reply to
I just think they have insulated themselves against all forms of human grief & misery by the
money/power they have & are no longer concerned about any kind of social contract, any kind of looking after 'one's neighbour.'Box-tickers, who can be identified by urging their colleagues to "think outside the square".
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Islander, in reply to
Yes. Sadly.
And, appreciate the word play(of all.) -
Kumara Republic, in reply to
I just think they have insulated themselves against all forms of human grief & misery by the
money/power they have & are no longer concerned about any kind of social contract, any kind of looking after ‘one’s neighbour.’Bad cess to them.
What insulation do they use? I'm guessing barbed wire and concrete.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
My understanding is that one could be arrested if found in a red-placard building . . .
Seems that the curtain-twitching custodians of the public good now have their own little ratepayer-funded stasi to gather evidence for precisely that kind of prosecution.
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Being of two minds on these issues as I head back to my office given the exact same assurances. I'm saying the rosary in one mind and the serenity pray in the other.
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merc,
Finally the bare truth of it,
ECan said identifying land as liquefaction-prone "only serves to add potential for angst and cost in ... development". The report characterised this as a "dubious approach".
Auckland Council denote your at risk buildings now. -
Kumara Republic, in reply to
ECan said identifying land as liquefaction-prone “only serves to add potential for angst and cost in … development”. The report characterised this as a “dubious approach”.
Is that the post-sacking ECan? Sounds like it's all about the McMansions.
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merc,
Just who does ECan really serve?
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They shouldn't give up now, if Gerry is refusing to meet them. Why don't they just occupy him instead?
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And the Sunday Star Times got the date wrong for the eruption of Mount Pelée – by 85 - yes, eighty-five - years out.
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Islander, in reply to
So, real proof editors are an officially dead species?
Shame.
They were some of the most learned people I ever met during my (limited) career as a card-carrying journalist. And they were also couth – where as subbies went for
your jugular (and their personal glory), proofreaders strolled around to your cubicle and-suggested the correction.It is one of my ridiculously proud moments that I once got the word* “circumperambulation” printed on the front page of the “Greymouth Evening Star”
simply because nobody could prove it didnt exist.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
fear facts…
…the Sunday Star Times got the date wrong for the eruption of Mount Pelée – by 85 – yes, eighty-five – years out.
They say:
…for example, in the 1987 eruption of Mt Pelee on the Carribean island of Martinique, 26,000 people caught in the base surge perished and only two survived.
Hmmm, I think they are also about 2 – 4,000 out
on the death toll and you let them away with
their misspelling of Caribbean!According to Wikipedia:
The stratovolcano is famous for its eruption in 1902 and the destruction that resulted, dubbed the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century. The eruption killed about 30,000 people. Most deaths were caused by pyroclastic flows and occurred in the city of Saint-Pierre, which was, at that time, the largest city on the island.
Figures vary from 28,000 to 40,000 (including not just Saint-Pierre but other nearby villages)
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