Thread: Bugger the rain

Yup, everything below ground is sure getting a good top up.

I’ve got the NIWA weather station database here, and our local records are being smashed.

For the first time in living memory the river at the end of our road has broken its banks at the campsite three times in one month.

Considering it would normally do it once every five or six years that’s quite an achievement.

What is interesting though is that despite the frequency of these flooding rains there is not yet been quite enough to do real damage. We keep waiting for the flood that destroys SH2 in the Karangahake Gorge, like 1981. The river has ripped the bitumen off the one corner a couple of times in the last 15-20 years, but one day it’s going to take that corner out altogether. And then will be pretty well buggered for a good while.