Infrastructure

I'd have to say, yesterday I spent the day coming to grips with what we had to deal with. Today was making it happen.

I recovered my car, I went to the office, Mike and I moved servers to our hosting company Digiweb (Thanks Mike, you rock!), meaning that staff can now work remotely via a VPN connection. We're back in business, notwithstanding the personal challenges that many staff have as a result of the earthquake.

So on that ... I biked to work, hard to believe the devastation of houses that I see every day. So awful for those people, one of our close friends included. Only several KM away from our house.

The flip side. So many images, which ones to post? The dairy selling fresh bread off the footpath? The family that had set up a table on the footpath with a table and a sign saying "Charge cell phones here" (power is still a problem)? The effects of liquefaction - huge. Getting our servers running at our hosting company - very important for us. Or the man giving away water at Opawa. This is the story, but I am sure I'll blip it again. He ( I don't know his name) has constructed a pipe from an artesian well in his backyard to the road. It delivers 106 000 litres per day from a depth of 286 feet, pure as.

But as important as what water is, we got our work infrastructure back. I have noted some criticism of friends of focusing on resurrecting their business when there is a disaster around us. Yes, we need to look after friends and family first, but if we have no business we have no jobs, and that will destroy our city faster than any earthquake. So yep, family first, but very close behind, work and business, and work for our 20 staff.

As to the tilte? Infrastructure today meant ... datacentres and artesian wells. How ironic is that?

View in big to see the water man (i am sure you'll see him again tho)