Sometimes You Have To Laugh

Came across this on Timeframes

From 17 December 2010 with this explanation

Description: The cartoon shows a report on ‘Stadium Southland’ which lists five problems; sagging roof trusses, cracking in pillars, inadequate wall foundations, building code concerns and compliance delays and alarm bells that don’t work. Someone has scrawled across the report ‘Surely this list should have alarm bells ringing????’ A second version has the last problem reading ‘Alarm bells not switched on’. Context – The stadium collapsed in September 2010 under the weight of snow. Defects were appearing only two years after the building was completed in May 2000. The original engineer in charge of the project, Tony Major, said cost restraints were behind the “under-design” of some elements of the stadium, including the concrete foundations and the trusses.

Groundhog Day

Council must want a ‘do over’

May Have Been The Last Drinks

Remember this back in September.  The Southland Times claimed the Bayview Hotel had served it’s last drinks and the community board Chairperson claimed it would rise again.  The mighty Procter wrote in defence of the Chair and chastised the Times for not having the same blind faith in Mrs Mitchell’s opinion and not researching the story sufficiently.

So how confident are you feeling now in light of today’s front page article?  That review has had considerable media and extensive consultation…maybe the author of that letter forgot his own research?  How realistic is it now with a declining population and many established drinking venues?  Add to that…a pub with no pokies?

 

Protect The Little Sanity I Have Left

And fix these up otherwise they will keep jumping out at me

Deja Vu

Today’s letters to the editor are online but I thought they’d already printed the one about South Pacific Meats?  They must have been having a senior moment.

Meanwhile outside of my house is having part of the road pulled up and a power pole lifted so they can repair what is seemingly a large cavity beneath it (meaning it could topple any day) caused by years of water erosion.  Lab testing had said the water was not chlorinated therefore it was assumed it was a spring.  It seems it was actually a leaking stormwater pipe hence no chlorination.  It’s been flooding my front yard and gate for 15 years so this winter should be interesting.  I have never been able to mow the area (except at the height of summer) but here’s hoping!  I should now be able to concrete it too.  Two lengths of drainflo and a gravel ditch had done nothing.  We replaced the toby and all our incoming pipes in case they were the problem…maybe we now have a resolution!

Are We Going Backwards?

I see ICC’s files this year have all been PDF, they had been ASHX.  I don’t know what that’s about but does make linking to files on their website more difficult.  I generally link to my site anyway.

I am unsure of when the activity plans will go to council to be accepted but I hope they fix up the date before they do.