The disruption and the destruction and the distress that was caused on both of those occasions has been long felt and continues to affect the Canterbury region in particular to this day. What the earthquakes, I think, highlighted in part was firstly the ability of New Zealanders, and Cantabrians especially, to pull together but it also brought to the surface a number of shortcomings in the way that the Earthquake Commission (EQC) was able to respond to major events like those quakes.