Southerly gales and heavy rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Flooding is going to be an issue tomorrow morning me thinks! 8-o
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Can't say theres been any letup here at home. Wind has picked up to severe gale again
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Razor wrote:Can't say theres been any letup here at home. Wind has picked up to severe gale again
Agree, been no letup here since 1pm this afternoon!
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Head up... we (the Council) are opening welfare centres due to the flooding threat, see mainstream media for full details
The Council Civil Defence team has set-up a Welfare Centre that will be open from 8.30pm at Mairehau High School, 440 Hills Rd, Mairehau 8052. Residents will be provided with shelter and tea and coffee. Residents are advised to bring their own bedding.

Be aware a lot of roads are already closed by flooding and worse may still be to come.
Take care Christchurch, and surrounds, its appearing to be a rough night for many homes
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Howling gale, torrential rain, heaviest it has been all day, and more to come judging by the radar! Horrendous night ahead with flooding tomorrow morning! Stay safe people!
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Howling gale here now too,got really bad in the last half hour,not a lot of rain though,just steady rain.
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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I'm in Waltham / St Martins. Been raining all day but much heavier in the last hour or so.

WOW!

Just went for a quick drive as my elderly mother lives on riverlaw tce. From st martins rd it's up to houses front doorsteps and worse the lower down fifield and riverlaw you go. So the river is at least .5m to 1m over the bank. Basically from front of houses to front of houses right across. I've never seen it this high.

Drove around beckenham and woolston and it's bad everywhere. A lot of debris and branches down. The heathcote looks to have breached in most places. Driving is horrible, so many hidden pot holes and large streams across the rd.

Can only imagine how bad it is in aranui/bexley/new Brighton etc :-(
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Heavy rain continuing... surely not another 12 hours of this?!
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Was just going to say the wind had eased, then in came the biggest gust today. Wow.

Jeffs Hoon Hay site reporting his biggest wind run ever recorded, dating back to 2000.

41mm of rain so far and radar really looking to ramp it up soon
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Razor wrote:Was just going to say the wind had eased, then in came the biggest gust today. Wow.

Jeffs Hoon Hay site reporting his biggest wind run ever recorded, dating back to 2000.

41mm of rain so far and radar really looking to ramp it up soon
Razor.... what do you think? Rain until lunch time tomorrow? :eek:
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Just had the biggest gust of the day!
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CWUweather wrote:
Razor wrote:Was just going to say the wind had eased, then in came the biggest gust today. Wow.

Jeffs Hoon Hay site reporting his biggest wind run ever recorded, dating back to 2000.

41mm of rain so far and radar really looking to ramp it up soon
Razor.... what do you think? Rain until lunch time tomorrow? :eek:
Don't think I'm qualified to predict how long it will last, just hope we get enough lulls before 8:30am high tide :eek:
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Everybody is entitled to their opinion... I hope we do too... it is a waiting game!
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Video of Akaroa 'storm surge' from this evening

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some big rainfall numbers coming in (for Canterbury) , especially Akaroa, already 60mm plus heading for 100 I would say

http://ecan.govt.nz/services/online-ser ... rbury.aspx
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Wind and rain here today.
Noticed some pine needles blowing across like what Michael has in days of gale SW blowing and across his place in Auckland. :rolleyes: :crazy:
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gee that rain rate has really picked up, just thumping in now, west coast style
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Akaroa yesterday evening
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Razor wrote:gee that rain rate has really picked up, just thumping in now, west coast style
Not much behind it now though
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CWUweather wrote:
Razor wrote:gee that rain rate has really picked up, just thumping in now, west coast style
Not much behind it now though
Thank god, we urgently need a clearance asap. no more rain please.
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Footage I shot of the yachts that broke from there moorings in Akaroa
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Some impressive figures from MS's Ports Hills/Lyttelton site - 128 km/h gusts yesterday evening and 128mm from midday to 6am this morn…
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Very heavy rain here at the moment. 40mm since midnight, 46mm yesterday and 14 the day before so 100mm for the event so far!!!
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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This event has very been very much confined to the CHCH region,only had 15mm in total but still plenty of wind though,looks like another blob of rain coming in from the SE at the moment ,hope we get a bit more rain yet,15 is not enough to break the dry,
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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The rain band seems to be building again and pushing into North canterbury/ Rangiora area now, very heavy rain here now
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