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.