"THIS is the greatest disaster New Zealand has ever seen," Agriculture Minister David Carter told The Australian yesterday. Many historical buildings have been destroyed including the historic country homestead of the Deans family, relatives of Wallabies rugby coach Robbie Deans.
For two terrifying minutes at 4.35am (NZ time) on Saturday, New Zealand's second-largest city was tossed around like a rag doll by the most fearsome earthquake to hit the country since 1931.
Friends of mine live in the city and I was very pleased to contact them to find out that they had largely been unaffected. Mother nature is so powerful and we never know when it is going to surprise us.
One of the things we can do though is to document our family history and photograph and protect the key items that connect us. Obviously you can not wrap a huge house up in cotton wool and put it in "safe storage" but perhaps we can make sure that we photograph and then protect those photographs by storing copies in different places.
There are many different on-line options for storing valuable documents and photos for the future these days and perhaps you should look at them for your own family history?
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