Canterbury storm

[SMOKEU]

Apparently it's the worst in 50 years or some shit, according to stuff.co.nz. Have any of you got bad flooding? My yard is all flooded over at the moment, probably around 20-50mm of standing water. I've got a small inflatable boat, so I'm tempted to take it down the flooded Heathcote River from Cashmere to the estuary for lulz. If any one wants to join in, send me a PM. Can't promise you won't die though.

[imdying]

Can't promise you won't die though.That's the spirit :laugh:

You don't need to try anything that dodgy though, lots of pseudo streams all over the place :eek:

[willytheekid]

I swam the VFR to work this morning :laugh:

One thing that bugged me no end tho

...with the current "war on road safety" going on, I was amazed at the fact that with all this flooding, traffic lights out, debrie an shit all over the roads and morning traffic fighting to reach there destination....I didn't see a single cop out working to ensure "road safety" and helping with directing traffic through the MANY broken lights at busy intersections.(and clearing the multitude of bloody road cones that have been blown all over the roads...saw two cars hit some)

...is it just to much to ask for some road safety measures to be put in place <_<
(or is it to hard to write tickets in this weather?)

Road safety campaign has just been proven to be an absolute joke!....the biggest storm in 50yrs, and the police have made piss all effort to ensure ACTUAL road safety for the public.

swim/ride safely ChCh KBers...cos apparently...your on your own!

[mashman]

Is the Canterbury Storm a new netball team?

[blue rider]

I swam the VFR to work this morning :laugh:

One thing that bugged me no end tho

...with the current "war on road safety" going on, I was amazed at the fact that with all this flooding, traffic lights out, debrie an shit all over the roads and morning traffic fighting to reach there destination....I didn't see a single cop out working to ensure "road safety" and helping with directing traffic through the MANY broken lights at busy intersections.(and clearing the multitude of bloody road cones that have been blown all over the roads...saw two cars hit some)

...is it just to much to ask for some road safety measures to be put in place <_<
(or is it to hard to write tickets in this weather?)

Road safety campaign has just been proven to be an absolute joke!....the biggest storm in 50yrs, and the police have made piss all effort to ensure ACTUAL road safety for the public.

swim/ride safely ChCh KBers...cos apparently...your on your own!



cops working to ensure road safety and directing traffic? Nah, really that would be work, like real work. Not like writing tickets for being 2.5 kms over the speed limit.
You must try harder at getting your "war on roadsafety" right, it is actually more a "war on non violent, non criminal citizens to extract payments to the government" ....really i thought you knew that. :oi-grr:

[Swoop]

...is it just to much to ask for some road safety measures to be put in place <_<
(or is it to hard to write tickets in this weather?)
Just make sure you don't exceed the speed limit by more than 10 knots.

Also, keep your speed less than 5 knots when close to shore and swimmers.
Happy fishing!

[SMOKEU]

Just make sure you don't exceed the speed limit by more than 10 knots.

Also, keep your speed less than 5 knots when close to shore and swimmers.
Happy fishing!

But do those laws apply to unpowered craft as well?

[neels]

But do those laws apply to unpowered craft as well?
Not sure, but I'd guess if you put a sail up you'd have no problems getting over 5 knots today.

Vid please if you happen to make it back alive.

[SMOKEU]

Not sure, but I'd guess if you put a sail up you'd have no problems getting over 5 knots today.

Vid please if you happen to make it back alive.

I wish I had a waterproof camera, but unfortunately I don't. I'll see what I can do though.

[Gremlin]

Can't promise you won't die though.
So... eliminating your double negative, you're promising people will die? :eek:

[SMOKEU]

So... eliminating your double negative, you're promising people will die? :eek:

It's every man for himself!

[mulletman]

I didn't see a single cop out working to ensure "road safety" !

Hmm shoulda been down Johns Rd bout 05.30...dealing with pile ups, cant imagine what rush hour was like (prolly not so much 'rush')

[Tazz]

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[Oakie]

Lucky enough to stay unflooded over in Parklands. Not so lucky taking daughter to the airport this morning though. QEII drive gridlocked from Marshlands all the way to SH1 intersection. Allowed double the normal timfor the trip and she was still 5 minutes past the check in time. Got her and grandaughter on the flight but not her luggage.

Took my bike into Roger the mechanic over here in New Brighton last night for some loving today. Drove past his place this morning though and no sign of life so I hope the water that was entering his workshop last night hasn't washed all the bikes out into the estuary.

[AllanB]

Stranded until 10.00 am this morning - late start to school for the kids and work for me while we waiting for the stream to go down. House is dry. 2 at work are under water :-(

[DMNTD]

Was a tad moist, yerp

[ellipsis]

...well, out on the peninsula we got fucking hammered...the only reason my roof stayed on was a direct correlation between the pressure developed between the squeezing of my sphincter and the vacuum it created between there and my wide open mouth. which was stuck in an open position, silently screaming, 'please dont go'...I have seen water tables in our valleys that are normally 150 to 200 mm in depth scoured out a meter deep and perfectly square, macros nearly a meter across snapped off at ground level, water a meter deep in your favourite coffee stop at little river and rapids at the end of my street where it crosses SH75, and flowing over a meter high...yeah it's been fucking big...we only lost a big tree that thankfully didn't smash the house up and only lost the end to my shed and a dozen sheets of iron from the roof...we could have a cold shower this morning while having a dump whether you liked it or not and the power just came back on after leaving town yesterday morning...we got away with it fucking easy compared to many out here...good weather tomorrow yeehaa...big clean up and tons and tons of firewood...(silver linings)...the heroes of the piece out here are the linesmen and electrical boys who went out all night to fix every break and fault and are still going like fuck to restore or refix stuff they only fixed yesterday in 160+ k winds...I salute them...

[SMOKEU]

So I started my voyage on Sloan Terrace, Cashmere and finished up at the end of the Heathcote River by the Ferry Rd bridge.

Should have an album here.


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http://s305.photobucket.com/user/SR20NP/slideshow/Floods

[Berries]

Apparently it's the worst in 50 years or some shit, according to stuff.co.nz. Have any of you got bad flooding?
My five year old lad has just pissed all over the bathroom floor if that counts?








Ah fuck, it was me again.

[ellipsis]

...cheers Tazz, being an ex local you would know how rugged and unforgiving the peninsula is...right now it is as as calm as a sleeping baby and my sphincter is about the same...

[Banditbandit]

Do you think that someone's god is trying to tell Christchurch something ??

Destructive earthquakes, destructive wind, destructive flood ...

Someone's got it in for the place .. (fire, pestilence, frogs, mad cow disease and blood may well be next)

[Taxythingy]

fire, pestilence, frogs, mad cow disease and blood may well be next

Na, it's worse. We'll get a bunch of wanky-arse politicians.

[Akzle]

Do you think that someone's god is trying to tell Christchurch something ??

Destructive earthquakes, destructive wind, destructive flood ...

Someone's got it in for the place .. (fire, pestilence, frogs, mad cow disease and blood may well be next)

nigga wut? We all know its haarp and theres a jewspiracy from murica...

[SMOKEU]

Got a couple of shitty videos.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmzvv5aA4jw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfGUg4ebt2I

[Swoop]

Do you think that someone's god is trying to tell Christchurch something ??

Destructive earthquakes, destructive wind, destructive flood ...

I think Ripley has the right idea!
Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Hudson: Fuckin' A!

[awa355]

Do you think that someone's god is trying to tell Christchurch something ??

Destructive earthquakes, destructive wind, destructive flood ...

Someone's got it in for the place .. (fire, pestilence, frogs, mad cow disease and blood may well be next)


To add further to their misery, Michael Laws is thinking of moving down that way. :weep::weep:

Well, Timaru actually but he wont be able to keep his nose out of Chch politics.

[awa355]

So I started my voyage on Sloan Terrace, Cashmere and finished up at the end of the Heathcote River by the Ferry Rd bridge.


You weren't using that boat on a public road were you???

On a serious note, I hope the water clears for everyone. Poor buggars have had a fair hammering lately.

[SMOKEU]

You weren't using that boat on a public road were you???

On a serious note, I hope the water clears for everyone. Poor buggars have had a fair hammering lately.

I sure was! But it's not a motor vehicle, and I was wearing a life jacket in accordance to Maritime NZ legislation, so there's fuck all anyone can do.

[Berries]

..right now it is as as calm as a sleeping baby and my sphincter is about the same...
Got a dummy in it eh?








Christchurch.

[Banditbandit]

I sure was! But it's not a motor vehicle, and I was wearing a life jacket in accordance to Maritime NZ legislation, so there's fuck all anyone can do.

What ??? No high Viz ???

[SMOKEU]

What ??? No high Viz ???

It slipped my mind. Lucky no one died.

[Oakie]

I sure was! But it's not a motor vehicle, and I was wearing a life jacket in accordance to Maritime NZ legislation, so there's fuck all anyone can do.

I'll bet you waved though.

(Motion thru water ... made a wave ... ohh forget it!)

[Stylo]

It slipped my mind. Lucky no one died.

Was that the Beckenham loop or somewhere else in the clips, hard to tell, whatever floats your boat has taken a new meaning. The river areas have been asking for the river level to be dropped for decades. Avon and the Heathcote

Worst we got was a flooded room and a 10m tree blown over at the low point of our property on the hill in Huntsbury and landed on the neighbours roof below us, it's a steep decline. AMI tells me it's an act of god and they won't cover it, not interested and it's the neighbours problem and their insurance will sort it out.

So, talked to the neighbour and told him the bad news, guess what, they're not insured at all ( ? ) and the big tree still sitting on their roof.

Shit happens.

[SMOKEU]

Was that the Beckenham loop or somewhere else in the clips, hard to tell, whatever floats your boat has taken a new meaning. The river areas have been asking for the river level to be dropped for decades. Avon and the Heathcote

Worst we got was a flooded room and a 10m tree blown over at the low point of our property on the hill in Huntsbury and landed on the neighbours roof below us, it's a steep decline. AMI tells me it's an act of god and they won't cover it, not interested and it's the neighbours problem and their insurance will sort it out.

So, talked to the neighbour and told him the bad news, guess what, they're not insured at all ( ? ) and the big tree still sitting on their roof.

Shit happens.

One of the videos was at Radley Park, as you can see the flood gates.

The other one was somewhere in Opawa. It sucks the insurance won't cover the damages.

[Stylo]

One of the videos was at Radley Park, as you can see the flood gates.

The other one was somewhere in Opawa. It sucks the insurance won't cover the damages.

As before, act of god means it's the neighbours problem now.

Still don't think that's fair somehow. Neither is the fact that 3 years on we're facing winter # 3 and still waiting for any decision on fixing/ rebuilding our house. Broken record I know.

Just checked the big tree on the neighbours roof, looks like it's gonna be there for the night, haven't heard from him.

Might take a pic tomorrow and flick it through.

[Grumph]

Was that the Beckenham loop or somewhere else in the clips, hard to tell, whatever floats your boat has taken a new meaning. The river areas have been asking for the river level to be dropped for decades. Avon and the Heathcote

Worst we got was a flooded room and a 10m tree blown over at the low point of our property on the hill in Huntsbury and landed on the neighbours roof below us, it's a steep decline. AMI tells me it's an act of god and they won't cover it, not interested and it's the neighbours problem and their insurance will sort it out.

So, talked to the neighbour and told him the bad news, guess what, they're not insured at all ( ? ) and the big tree still sitting on their roof.

Shit happens.

Doesn't surprise me they're not insured. we used to live on huntsbury - moved years before the quakes but still have friends there. Post quake the lower slopes were pretty bad - some of it still is. At least one of our ex neighbours hasn't been able to get insurance...

[ellipsis]

...this is the third time in three years that we have had this shit...100 years my arse...cant do fuck all about the weather, and there is not going to be insurance for a lot of this damage either...the lake should have been opened earlier, but it seems real clever cunts behind a desk somewhere dry, dont think the locals here know what we are talking about...arseholes...my son got a vid of the water as it was rising, it got higher than this a little while later...

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[awa355]

Amazing how God doesn't exist as far as the PC mob go, but when God can be responsible for avoiding a payout, the buggar is alive and well.

As for the '1 in a 100 year' disaster? , another cop out.