Flooding - Nelson

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Any chance you could whip down to Paretai and get a couple of pics? We have the before pics

[MyGSXF:Me]

To give you an idea of the amount of water there is... this is a stopbank 1 street away from our place.. it's been designed as a catchment for the creek.. for days such as this so you can see the height of the bank! there's a massive lake on the left side of it now, which is usually a huge area that people exercise their dogs on. Ma says this catchment & the one further down the creek (where the duck pond is.. that is now the other lake) is designed to hold water until the tide goes out.. but with the amount of rain we're having.. it's overflowing. Parrantly the last time this happened was bout 25 years ago

The water then goes over another of those waterfalls (designed to reduce the force, I think) & down the creek (now river) to the gardens.. & flows into the duck pond.. so I'd estimate that the water at the pond is now a good 4 metres deeper than normal The volume of water is incredible!

[Woodman]

Bloody hell, I walked down there a couple of hours ago and the lake wasn't that high. Its only about 50 metres from my place.

Gonna be an interesting night

[Edbear]

To give you an idea of the amount of water there is... this is a stopbank 1 street away from our place.. it's been designed as a catchment for the creek.. for days such as this so you can see the height of the bank! there's a massive lake on the left side of it now, which is usually a huge area that people exercise their dogs on. Ma says this catchment & the one further down the creek (where the duck pond is.. that is now the other lake) is designed to hold water until the tide goes out.. but with the amount of rain we're having.. it's overflowing. Parrantly the last time this happened was bout 25 years ago

The water then goes over another of those waterfalls (designed to reduce the force, I think) & down the creek (now river) to the gardens.. & flows into the duck pond.. so I'd estimate that the water at the pond is now a good 4 metres deeper than normal The volume of water is incredible!

Hiya sweety! Still dry? Been watching the news and it is real impressive in your area! It's steady rain up here, but man, we got nuthin on you guys! Got a snorkel on yer bike?

[Indiana_Jones]

lol guess who's flying down to Nelson next Friday for Christmas

Hopefully the water might of gone down a bit by then, or I'll have to get picked up by boat.

-Indy

[MyGSXF:Me]

Good pic on Stuff today...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/6...-sweeps-Nelson

[Maha]

Those Willow Trees have alot to answer for. I know they love water but thats rediculous.

[MyGSXF:Me]

Those Willow Trees have alot to answer for. I know they love water but thats rediculous.

lols.. yep!

How bout these ones...

This is the same reserve as shown in post 17.. as it is today. (taken from the other side of the reserve.. you can see the stopbank that I was standing on, on the far side) Last night the whole grass area was under water!!

[MyGSXF:Me]

No shit Sherlock...

[Mom]

No shit Sherlock...

Takes all kinds love, perhaps someone would not have noticed

We have blue skies up here, rained hard out, stready as until about half an hour ago. Hope you did not get water in your house, that truely sucks

[ajturbo]

lols... it is!! Washbourne Gardens.. a historic house/gardens in Richmond



The rain isn't supposed to stop for another couple of days yet either.... tis gunna get ugly...

shirt.. i used to live around there ..!