Tuesday, July 15, 2014

More Water

When my friend, Elaine, was visiting from Queensland at the end of March we visited the Wairua Falls and it looked like this:



We visited it again today and it now looks like this:



It drains an area known as the Hikurangi Swamp which always floods in wet weather.  (It is now 4 days since the rain stopped).

The main highway north is closed due to a slip and the road that goes past this falls is now the only route north.  Although I have heard that trucks are now able to deliver supplies to the north the sign at the beginning of this road said "No trucks" so I am not quite sure what the story is.

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  1. It seems that this is a very wet year in many parts of the world.

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    1. so much damage done by this storm and more rain forecast for the weekend. Hopefully this will not last as long but it will cause problems in already waterlogged areas.

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  2. Gosh what a difference in the force of the water.

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    1. When we went there the first time we were told what it was like after a storm but found it hard to believe. It will be like this for a while yet as there is still heaps of water in the Hikurangi Swamp area and more forecast for the weekend.

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  3. Goodness you must have had a helluva lot of rain - that's amazing.

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