Soaked through to the bones down here in Christchurch and has definitely put an end to any mid week plans. How's everyone else getting on?
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Soaked through to the bones down here in Christchurch and has definitely put an end to any mid week plans. How's everyone else getting on?
mud, mud and more mud, with some new streams in between.
Torrential rain in the north for what seems like forever. Break today though, but still quite windy, so no fishing :oh noes:
Been on Banks Peninsula for 30 years
It's been a lot wetter than this at times
But the whole month of July has been wet and three storms thrown in
So it's 100% saturated and now causing real issues
Highest rainfall for July in recorded history
It's a good thing I have plenty of fun gun projects in the workshop
We've been smashed here on the Coromandel. Lots of slips and a bit of flooding. Powers been off at my place for two days.
Our chooks are developing webbed feet and I’m thinking of planting rice on the what used to be the lawn.
Ankle deep in water for a few days down the back of my place. Well over the rain now
all those "quality" cold asphalt patches used around christchurch have floated off, its like driving thru craters now..................just hope those bloody cycle lanes got the same treatment
We've had over 300mls this month - not good for the septic tank or animals
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this is our Granny flat where the worker lives - his car nearly got swamped so he learnt very quickly to move it to higher ground.
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For a second or two I thought this rain thing was focused on the Coast and I was gunna say harden the f*** up...is the world about to end? is the sky falling?
Only light rain here but like everywhere else ground is soaked to the core
Has been raining quietly, steadily in Chch for 24 hours now - wet as hell. No snow in the city yet this year, but it is certainly a very wet winter.
We had plans for winter shooting in Tekapo/McKenzie area, and poss north Canterbury, but heavy snow and continuing rain have stopped everything. Alot of Cantab land waterlogged now and will not drain and be driveable until mid spring.
Best way to catch a bunny right now would be with fishing rod and spoon with bit of lettuce on it...
two days of it here, after the wind and rain last week.
Had quite enough for the moment thank you, but some one needs to tell Zeus.
It seems to have been 80-100mls every Tuesday for the last three weeks for us !!!
Cant go anywhere in the paddocks without a bloody mess !!
Hoping the winds stay down or trees will be falling all over the place. Soil is saturated !!
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The animals, wild or farmed, would be feeling pretty miserable right now I imagine, even though they probably are used to getting rained on regularly.
It's meant to be cold and wet at this time of the year, if it wasn't then the climate would be changing.
drove all over midcanterbury and north south canterbury today....water everywhere,must have hit flood water over the road 15-20 times today up to 4" deep in places
lots of mud,lots of surface water,lots of full streams,gutters... the ducks looked happy. on plus side the cow turds were sliding off wals of truck so it will be easy to wash out.... but then we have to find somewhere to put the water...and it sure isnt needed on paddocks right now.
Our bridges have been suffering.
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First beefie calf born a fortnight early to a heifer with no milk (yet). Absolutely tipping down and blowing a gale all night. Had put waterproof and insulated rug on the calf and tubed. Its bouncing around the paddock at first light, full of the joys of the world:) The wonders of a coat and a full belly:thumbsup:
Must be getting tricky on alot of farms right now. Mid winter, bugger all grass, and feeding out necessary around the farm. But ground so waterlogged the 4wd utes won't go far at all, and the big tractors will trench the hell out of soft paddocks getting feed out to animals. Not fun..and still raining steadily in Chch! 30 hours non-stop.
Rivers still rising in Cantab - little Selwyn not far from my place is dry riverbed most of year but is currently at 122 cumecs = 122 tonnes per second - and rising rapidly. Be a few stories tomorrow...and a few wet cockies! Wish one could help them..
Bugger, it's been raining here heavily for a few hours, cant bee good if your in a flood prone area.
It's just getting light here and I'm off to survey the damage
It's still raining lightly
But the raging torrent creek between house and workshop has dropped so it doesn't sound like living by a busy train track anymore
523mm so far for July, help the water tables after the summer dry.
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.
I usually go hard out for 3 weeks with no breaks so I can take 7-10 days off in a block to get work done on the property and to go hunting. I can't alter the dates (magazine deadlines) and pretty much every time I'm writing the weather is beaut, no guesses how the days off have been recently..... Rain, rain and more rain.... :oh noes:
Heaviest July rainfall on record for Canterbury - 1/3rd of annual rainfall (30-35") in less than a month. Will pop out in truck this afternoon to see little local Selwyn river. Currently at almost 150 cumecs/tonnes per second - huge!
Don't think I'll go for drive up the riverbed today. Would have to take passport in the truck - likely end up in Argentina...
Here in Taranaki the closed one lane of the road between Inglewood and Tariki for a few months during summer. All of the traffic had to go round the back of Inglewood to Midhirst. So it was a major rebuild. That "brand new" road is chocka with major tyre/wheel busting potholes already! How the hell does that happen?
Having begun my working life on a MOW roading gang, I despair at what I see passing for pothole repairs all over NZ. My supervisors would be turning in their graves. I yarned with an older dude breast feeding his shovel on the side of one set of road repairs on Poihipi road, and he commiserated. He said all the old guys who knew what they were doing have retired long ago, and its just the flash harry road construction bosses fixated on minimal costs and maximum profit that rule the roost now. A month ago a Taupo Facebook page warned people heading North to look out for potholes: there was a line of 8 cars, all pulled over changing tyres over a 2km stretch. Low profile tyres make this a very common occurence nowadays
hoskyns rd onto SH1 about 10am this morning, one car buggered tyre/rim. one with 2, one who had way bigger issues, i think the suspension was ripped out. later in the day..........yep.................quicky patch up job.
drove past it 3.30 and its undulating and falling apart already.
drove home zig zagging like i was drunk but just avoiding bloody deep holes, i wont drive thru the flooded bits as i dont know how big the holes are underneath but when you see an 18 wheeler lurch you know its bad.
never mind cycle ways, rainbows and unicorns are way more important than roads
Effects of the rain.. Wandered out to look at Selwyn river near Coe's Ford just south of christchurch this afternoon. A wee river usually dry for most of the year - but not today. Running at 156 cumecs/tonnes per second flow rate. Photo is of the roadway straight across to other side - decided not to bother crossing!. 110m wide here and 200m+ a little further up: Now this is a tiny southern river. The Waimakariri, Hurunui, Waiau etc can reach 10-15x this flow, and the Rakaia a few years was up over 4000 cumecs or 27x this volume..
Note - a 4wd driver was chopper rescued from his truck in the north Canterbury Okuku river a week or so ago after trying to cross it at about same volume... Crazy!
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Now thats a fair bit of water
Taupo East Arterial road. Opened in 2010. 12 years old. Designed and built on greenfields by flash Harry whipper snappers from the sub base up. Falling to pieces as we speak. Began falling to pieces 4 years ago, so was 8 years old when it began failing. 55T heavy goods vehicles have been a thing on Kiwi roads for just under 20 years I believe, so they have no excuse now a days for brand new roads failing due to excessive axle loadings. But many roads in NZ were designed from the bottom up to take only 44 tonne vehicles. So spreading a new pavement all over the top of these roads, without redesigning the base course and top course to bear additional loadings, is just a recipie for continuous pavement failings.
Grumpy old road builder retires to his beer:beer:
The new council built wharf at the Paeroa Maritime Museum.
Hope its still there tomorrow….
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Had a gutsfull of it all ready. You can mark it on a calender, the day the first cow drops a calf it will rain 40 bastards for the next six weeks. Been down here four years now and the locals still try telling me "it's not like this every year"
Yea yea, I've been hearing that old chestnut for four years now....