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<\/a>The authorities were requesting for out of towners to stay away from Christchurch and not to assist with the quake cleanup, so the only destruction we got to see were some wonky road signs and a couple of area of liquifaction such as this before heading out of town.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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