Thread: Bugger the rain

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.

Originally Posted by JessicaChen

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.

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

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....

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

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...

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

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....

can you not write up when its wet and save what you have written until some fine weather....then send it in and enjoy the sunshine???

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?