Thread: Bugger the rain

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

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

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.

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?

Originally Posted by Mrs Beeman

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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Nice duck pond and mai mai you have there

Originally Posted by Mrs Beeman

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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Is that a small school of fish there? low in the centre of the pic

Originally Posted by gonetropo

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

Second this. Rds gone to shit after what feels like years of mucking around putting cycle lanes in. Worse than it was before they started

Originally Posted by Dingo

Second this. Rds gone to shit after what feels like years of mucking around putting cycle lanes in. Worse than it was before they started

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?

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

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?

Majority of funding goes towards traffic management and consultancy fees, minority goes into actual roading materials.