Thread: Bugger the rain

try it in truck loaded with pregnant moomoos with 2" of water flooding across road in half dozen or more places,NO WAY to see potholes.... in last ten years its been redone at least 4 times.none done properly...sooner or later the ywill just reduce it to a 60kmph zone and forget about potholes.

Could you tow those heifers behind a push bike?I,m sure that's the intent.Where in hell,s name does our diesel tax go?

Around here they've started fixing the worst "blow outs" and continuous potholing by digging out and hot mix the area, the bitching must have fell on someone with "vision".

Mate and me squeezed a 1750 maxi motor in

Good news !
The drought has broken

It stopped raining at 3pm yesterday
still haven't seen the sun
Now its raining again
Typical BP we catch the tail of all the storms with sticking out from the coast

The rain can really bugger off now, had just been to town and stopped to check a water take we have up against the hills, usually it’s a quiet little creek but it’s a raging torrent at the moment and there was heaps of crap all built up around the intake so was fluffing around trying to clear that and ended up in the drink, pushed a wee way down stream and under some willows that had collapsed into the creek shit myself as I saw what was about to happen and really thought this is it I’m gonna get pinned down under these. After the shock of nearly drowning myself wore off discovered I also had my phone, wallet, and calving notebook in various pockets, all gone. Damn the rain!

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

The rain can really bugger off now, had just been to town and stopped to check a water take we have up against the hills, usually it’s a quiet little creek but it’s a raging torrent at the moment and there was heaps of crap all built up around the intake so was fluffing around trying to clear that and ended up in the drink, pushed a wee way down stream and under some willows that had collapsed into the creek shit myself as I saw what was about to happen and really thought this is it I’m gonna get pinned down under these. After the shock of nearly drowning myself wore off discovered I also had my phone, wallet, and calving notebook in various pockets, all gone. Damn the rain!

Lucky it was just the phone etc.
Mate. Take care out there.

Sounds like you are one lucky duck Ryan. sometimes when you see carnage everywhere it's best to go home and have a coffee and leave it for another day.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

The rain can really bugger off now, had just been to town and stopped to check a water take we have up against the hills, usually it’s a quiet little creek but it’s a raging torrent at the moment and there was heaps of crap all built up around the intake so was fluffing around trying to clear that and ended up in the drink, pushed a wee way down stream and under some willows that had collapsed into the creek shit myself as I saw what was about to happen and really thought this is it I’m gonna get pinned down under these. After the shock of nearly drowning myself wore off discovered I also had my phone, wallet, and calving notebook in various pockets, all gone. Damn the rain!

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

The rain can really bugger off now, had just been to town and stopped to check a water take we have up against the hills, usually it’s a quiet little creek but it’s a raging torrent at the moment and there was heaps of crap all built up around the intake so was fluffing around trying to clear that and ended up in the drink, pushed a wee way down stream and under some willows that had collapsed into the creek shit myself as I saw what was about to happen and really thought this is it I’m gonna get pinned down under these. After the shock of nearly drowning myself wore off discovered I also had my phone, wallet, and calving notebook in various pockets, all gone. Damn the rain!

Glad to hear the damage was limited to things. I nearly drowned in the Waipakahi 40 years ago and it still scares the bejebus out of me thinking about it.

I guess we can safely say the drought is broken. Into lots of very wet pieces.

That's 'in the blink of an eye' stuff.
Be careful out there

Lucky man

Drowning in a river - known throughout the "empire" as "the New Zealand death". You were very fortunate not to have a worse outcome! Unless its a life or death situation don't ever go into brown water - as a teenager I survived a Nth Island river in a minor flood through what seemed like divine intervention!

Right it can stop now
Last day of July and it has poured all night and still heaving down

July has broken rainfall records several days ago and looks like it's going for a number that will be ( hopefully ) hard to beat

I have a friend locally that has been keeping weather data records in a proper amateur weather station for 33 years so will rely on him for the final word

But we will be talking about that wet July in 22 until it happens again

On a positive note. I borrowed a digger during one of our lockdowns and built a retaining wall to extend the lawn a bit.
Ran a few lengths of drainage coil in gravel across the lawn and linked it up with the one at the bottom of the lawn.
Very happy with the result.
Every other year the lawns been a sodden mud pit. This year even with all the rain, no mud, nice firm top.

Sorry to rain on your parade.

208 mils January to June inclusive at our place, 297mils for July!! Charteris Bay, Banks Peninsula. Nice to see some sun today.