RoadRaven how are you?

[kiwi girl]

Rave

how's things? hope you haven't got the worst of the floods. take care

[margo49]

Yeah, I read about that on Stuff.co.nz
Sounds rough.

[RoadRaven]

My son's school was evacuated Tuesday morning by UNIMOG (It led TV3 news after the Shotover story!) so he had a great day.
Rain was so heavy I wasn't sure we would get home - our road was closed just after we got into town. The water levels dropped a tad, so I negotiated with my class to finish and hour early and got the boys out of school and headed home.

We stayed home yesterday, slips on the road and loads of surface flooding including a small river appearing in the front paddock.

Off to work and school today - boys are disappointed that they don't get another day to sleep in!

Thanks for asking :)

[margo49]

My son's school was evacuated Tuesday morning by UNIMOG ()

Yeah, I read about that.
Phoned Mum who lives in a Low-lying part of Taradale that got flooded once before and she was ok

[RoadRaven]

I thought about your Mum, Margo, but Taradale was pretty much ok. Lots of rain but have not heard of housing damage like a couple of years ago.

Hastings and Flaxmere had a lot of surface flooding - one of our secretaries couldn't come to work on Tuesday as her streets in Flaxmere were not drivable - but houses were ok.

Puketapu School (behind the Taradale hill) and Maraekakaho School (south of Hastings) were evacuated by Unimogs.

The rain was not consistent over the region and seemed to consist of heavy but isolated dumpings that acted almost like mini-flash floods.

[RoadRaven]

Oh... and we have heavy rain forcast for tomorrow...

Rainfall in millimetres so far?

:eek: 126mm!!! :eek:

[RoadRaven]

Well... still raining steadily though not heavily - yet - heavy rain is forecast for this afternoon / evening ... and apparently more of the same over the weekend.

Taking the boys to school today, and two slips were halfway across the road. Guess there will be more of the same on the way home in an hour or two... surface flooding has subsided now, but everything is saturated...

I have an idea the fire ban we have had since January might have been lifted :p

[kiwi girl]

I see MetService is predicting 'becoming fine' and north westerlies for you for Saturday - hope you get a chance to dry out

[RoadRaven]

Well, you and Metservice were right, Kiwi...
Local radio and racing companion were wrong!

Rain stopped here yesterday afternoon and the sky is blue and looks great for racing this afternoon!

Cue song from "Cannibal: The Musical"

The sky is blue, and all the leaves are green
My heart's as full as a baked potato...
I think you know exactly what I mean
When i say its a shpadoinkal day!