Line workers erect an overhead powerline for the eastern suburbs after the quake destroyed underground cables.
Dion Curline and Bindy Eglund shift wheelbarrows of sand as the clean-up continues.
Dion Curline (right) helps Wildfred Metzger clear his Burwood driveway.
Heart-shaped cards with inspirational messages have popped up on fences around rubble sites in the city. These ones are at Quinns in Merivale.
Heart-shaped cards with inspirational messages have popped up on fences around rubble sites in the city. These ones are at Quinns in Merivale.
A sign offers free water and telephone.
Julie Batchelor, of Cust, waits for the next person to collect a bottle of water.
Methven men Terry Hanson (left) and Dave Scammell cook up a feast for local volunteers (on bikes, from left) Storm Dawson, Luke Koia and Aaron Stevenson.
Some cope with humour.
More wheelbarrows arrive in Dallington.
A helicopter of the 'Rangiora Express' welfare airlift drops off hot food to New Brighton.
The so-called selfish generation makes a new name for itself: thousands of students who spent the morning clearing mud from around Dallington.
Members of the the Student Volunteer Army in Christchurch, Dunedin students (from left) Toby Holoborow, Hannah Craig, Nic Blumsky-Gibbs and David Owen get back to work after a lunch break in Dallington yesterday.
Christchurch's city spirit remains unbroken as people draw together amid scenes of chaos.
Otago Daily Times photos by Craig Baxter.