Wet Week for the South Island

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Re: Wet Week for the South Island

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Far out I am staggered how high the Avon is in the Central City today. Its damn near breaching into the streets two blocks from the town hall, I have never seen it so high. Shows how much water has fallen in the past few weeks here that 30mm in the CBD has had that sort of impact. I suspect also the head of the Avon being gorundwater fed is cranking up through the Waimakariri District rainfall

And it looks like further rain is imminient :eek:
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MarkThomas wrote:where is the rain for chch. 21mm thats it?!?!!? its stopped already
Calm down and get your facts straight Mark. Parts of ChCh have had 50mm overnight. Jeffs station has 21mm since midnight on top of 13 before that last night for a total of 34mm.

Any more significant rain in ChCh today is going to cause major issues
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Re: Wet Week for the South Island

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Beat me to it Razor, was gonna say add the pre today rainfall. Its weird how this part of Christchurch seems to have a little less tho. Wonder how the heathcote is flowing?
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yes i know, but the rain is mainly hitting everyone else around us hard except us. Looking at radar its raining everywhere but here, argh! another 40-60mm forecast for plains today from 8am -midnight
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Just heard on NewsTalk ZB that Avon has breached its banks, SH1 is closed from Woodend to Blenheim, due to the state of the rivers and surface flooding, and schools throughout Nth Canty including Oxford and Rangiora are closed. o_O
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Re: Wet Week for the South Island

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I also heard on the radio (RadioLive) that parts of Amberley and Leithfield were being evacuated? You alright up there, Tony?

EDIT: For those interested, here are the river flows for Canty:

http://www.ecan.govt.nz/Our+Environment ... iverFlows/

(Hurunui at SH1 marker showing aroun 1750 cumecs....meep....would be great to see pics of that!)
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Re: Wet Week for the South Island

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I'm still here (!)

We live on the terrace so flooding around our house is not an issue, but there have been some slips on the terrace down to the road, and our neighbour's driveway is cut off by a 2m deep and 2m wide chasm carved by the floodwaters. Down on the low lying coastal part it looks 90% underwater, and I would guess that most of the evacuations are happening there.

I'll try to get to some pictures later on.
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Re: Wet Week for the South Island

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Looking at the ECan site in conjuction with forecasts of more rain to come, I fear there is a very nasty situation unfolding today for a great deal of folk. Stay safe out there everyone.

Steady Rain is back in ChCh now too
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I don't believe the idiocy of SICON - the roads are swamped in water, the paddocks are covered, water flowing across our roads, and they have decided to grade our shingle road - right now!!! :banghead: :banghead: Have they nothing better to do?
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28mm recorded on my station in the last two days... It's kicking back in now by the sounds of it.
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Also, checking the Ecan wave buoy off Banks Peninsula, I see swells 6-8m peaking 10-12!
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This is strongly reminiscent of some of the big easterly rains of the "past", which were comparatively uncommon in the Nino-favouring period of 1977-1997 or so.
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Re: Wet Week for the South Island

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Looks very wet Tony.

Light rain falling in Bishopdale
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Re: Wet Week for the South Island

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Updated heavy rain warnings just issued. Metservice site working better today...one assumes its not stormy in Auckland then... :-w

Looks to still be enough rain to come for us mainlanders to cause some dramas today. Light to moderate at the moment here in ChCh City

New warnings issued for Taranaki/ Central NI...

11.30am update: Rain has intensified again
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Re: Wet Week for the South Island

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one assumes its not stormy in Auckland then...
Breezy, dry 16C here. :D

Perhaps a High moving onto NZ later next week
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I see high tide will be around 3pm for North Christchurch coast today.
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Re: Wet Week for the South Island

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Hi, am new to the forum but have browsed for a while now. Just thought I would share that I just went out to Rangiora and back from Christchurch, (was a bit worried I would get trapped out there) and the Waimak is looking pretty full along with the smaller river that runs beside Rangiora (the Ashley I think?), the paddocks look like one big lake and when I left was still very heavily raining!
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Re: Wet Week for the South Island

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Got sent a txt at 12:45 saying the Te Moana river by Geraldine has burst it's banks, this river also feeds into the Temuka river. Can't confirm this txt though
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The road from Rangiora to the motorway with all the paddocks:
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Re: Wet Week for the South Island

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Holy head-over-heels potential problem, Batman! Stuff is reporting they may evacuate Kaiapoi???
AGGGH!! :eek: :eek: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4637457a11.html

Anyone here have Jasestrm's cell number...I know he is on a course in downtown CHCH and may/may not have access to internet? I know he lives in Kaiapoi...
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Re: Wet Week for the South Island

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Yes i was very concerned when i drove past it at half 12 its bank to bank at the very top and high tide is at 3pm, its going to flood better get home me thinks.
Waimakariri isnt too bad although it is dirty and high that should be ok though.
If the river bursts it will be the first time i have seen it happen in kaiapoi.
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