At the National Memorial Service in Christchurch ,New Zealand,a couple of days ago, a video was played.
It was video footage of the central business distract basically reduced to rubble. Most of the footage noone had seen before since the part of the city has been a no go area since the quake struck almost a month ago.
When the footage was screened, almost noone had really realised how bad it was there... as it was played over 100,000 people sat there in total silence. I think for many, the realisation of how bad it was finally sunk it.
I know it did for me,
I only am watching it for the first time now as I am typing this, Could not watch it the day of the memorial. I have walked those streets many times. I last went there with my son Carlos five years ago. I took him down all those streets. It is very sad.
The worst part of the video is seeing the two buses crushed.
Without further words from me here is the video that was shown that day: