LIVING WITH EARTHQUAKES
Today I filmed what is a pretty straight forward procedure, installing the latest MACH SR7 front aero suspension. During this we had a 4.1 magnitude shake; well it was more like the ground deep down beneath you simply breaking apart. I had stopped filming moments before, and immediately looked at Mark and Robert for a sign to dash outside. They calmly stopped, then said “it’s alright, these ones come and go quickly”. On went the installation.
LIVING WITH EARTHQUAKES
It is not until you actually are in Christchurch that you begin to bridge the gap from media coverage and reality of daily living in an earth quake zone. In three days I tasted a few aftershocks and simply shook my head and how the people of Christchurch have survived the 7,400 ground shaking moments.
For McGregor Motorsports it has become a way of life, managing perhaps three productive work days a week, a factory that is badly beaten, suppliers who cannot supply, new factories empty due to no way to insure the buildings and amidst all of this they still continue.
The February shake all but stopped the business; it destroyed buildings, took lives and altered a community forever. The below photo’s taken on that day shows a factory almost crippled.