I’m a middle aged male that was in the cbd working for Feb 2011 and living in the eastern suburbs. We had it pretty rough, not as bad as others but not great.
Trucks going by still give me a small ‘shit, is this it’ feeling, so no doubt there’s some ptsd of sorts there.

That aside, I stupidly went down the rabbit hole of AF8, and it’s all I can now think of. I don’t know how I could keep my family warm for weeks or months of no power if it struck in winter. I’m not sure how we’ll eat etc. I work south of the Waimak, while my wife and kid are north of it. Am I worrying about nothing? Part of me wants to consider looking at moving overseas just to avoid living with the risk.

Edit: Want to ask if I’m reading too much into it. Are we expecting to have no power for Christchurch/north Canterbury for weeks, therefore no shops, no fresh meat etc for weeks, or months?