Sinking caravans and cars are just one of the problems facing residents of a Kairaki Beach camping ground, north of Christchurch, following Saturday's quake.
More than 80 residents living at the Kairaki Beach Motor Camp permanently have suffered damage to their caravans and fear worse is to come if forecast rain comes.
"We won't know just how bad it is until it rains," Maurice Weir, a three-year resident of the ground, said.
"Lots of the caravans have already started sinking into the ground and they're covered in sand."
Maxine Braithwaite, who has lived at the motorcamp for a year, was today trying to figure out how she would eventually move her car, which was trapped in the sludge.
Camp owner Bronwyn Waters said everyone was pulling together and all at least had a roof over their head.
"They're all doing well. On Saturday night they had a barbeque all together, and everyone's been helping where they can."
Ms Waters said the landline telephone was not working yet and they still had no running water.
Down the road at Pines Beach, another settlement at the Waimakariri River's mouth, one builder's renovation job appeared to have become a reconstruction one after the quake pushed the house he had been working on off its foundation.
Les Wilson was today observing the damage to the Dunns Ave house he had been renovating for the past two weeks.
"It's been condemned," he said.
"It's just come up and slid right off. The structural damage is huge."
Mr Wilson said a number of other house on the street had also been condemned, including one which the owner had moved into just last week.
