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Flooding, slips cut link between Wellington and Kapiti Coast | Stuff.co.nz

landslips, road and school closures, accidents and more rain to come.

so our poor New Caledonia student will not get her promised visit to Te Papa this afternoon

an not sure I will get MrF back from the CBD any time soon

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Crikey ! Our Rocks Road gets like that after heavy rains.

It's black out there right now.

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so they have closed Wellington station plus the state highways out, so anyone in Wellington won't be going anywhere in a hurry

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Evacuations after heavy rain, floods and slips in Wellington region: Live blog | Stuff.co.nz

and there is more to come along with high winds

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Just popped on here to wish you all well from dahn sahf :( stay well and look after each other.

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Hello Mrs Fychan - I've been thinking of you as I was hearing the news bulletins about the landslip and the flooding on the Kapiti Coast today.

Hope you are all ok and your husband is ok too. Even though he has an enforced night in a hotel in the capital tonight. I understand nearly all the hotel rooms are booked tonight because of the flooding. There's no trains or rail replacement buses either. Just as well as SH 1 is closed or down to single lane.

Is there any flooding where you live ?

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thanks SnapShot, MrF has been in the CBD since Tuesday night was due home today so feeling a bit lost without him to nag.

We personally are ok in the house, friend down the road has a stepped garden and her lower section is now a swimming pool. another friend in Param also has a small pond forming and creeping towards her back door but hopefully it won't get in, unlike some very unlucky souls who woke up to flooding in their homes.

Its a shame this week has been so bad, college has had a student exchange, students from New Caledonia, and they have had a really awful week, we had planned to take our student into Welly today, do Te Papa and the waterfront but obviously that was not possible so poor girl hasn't seen anything of the Wellington region.

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Tried to drive in this morning from Para but got turned back in Paekak
Usually take the train - been home all day now

Doubt i'll make it in tomorrow as trains out till 12noon minimum and roads will be a mess

Still chucking it down now - house is ok for now. Garden is a soggy mess. Road is ok too but some round the corner have a lot of surface flooding.

I got lucky by being turned back, would hate to be stuck in Welly. I know no one to stay with!

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It has been a bit wild! Glad we're near the top of a hill. Storm drains were overloaded, 40cm or so of water in central Tawa.
Hope everyone's safe.

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Hope all you guys are doing ok; three of us at work in Queensland's emergency services just reading all the details here, including a tornado in Mount Maunganui, and reports of one man drowned :(
Looks pretty bad, we hope you all stay safe.

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I can't believe the capital city on NZ is cut off from the rest of the country - what an appalling situation..

If this is what happens with some bad storms, does make me wonder what would happen in an earthquake? I assume anyone living in the Wellywood region has watched "Aftershock" - a film on that subject.

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I was thinking the same about an earthquake. utter chaos and the new roadway they are building I am sure would of been blocked as well so if you are in Wellington if anything happens you are more than likely be completely cut off. I asked MrF what he would do and he said the would change into some walking gear and walk home. the fact thats its nearly 60km didn't phase him.

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I know. Mr BEVS and I chatted about this very same thing last evening.

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Been thinking about you guys up the coast. I couldn't get back easily last night, so stayed with friends in Wellington. I was worried about our house, we live next to the Hutt river stopbank, but the river didn't breach thankfully. I keep an emergency backpack under my desk, so took that with me.

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It'd still be a good days walk!

I probably have enough at work to keep going for a couple of days but after that would need to find a decent offy :unsure:.

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Friday was ok.I drove in and there was no traffic. Parked at stadium too.

Trains back up and running for now

They need Transmission Gully asap. And a whole bunch of other roads! Carve up the farms and build the highways!

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not so much as wain but wind.
haven't slept for the last two nights, howling winds and whistling.cracking windows does not make things pleasant

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Got about 40mm of rain in a hour or so on Tues night, truly monsoonal. It moved the 2 cu m of gravel I put on the drive on Monday to the bottom of the hill, now moving it back :-)

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glad I didn't put the washing out, as that downpour would of hurt getting it back in again. seriously need to get our fingers out and sort out where we are going to be putting the panel heaters in the kids rooms and source one for ours as autumn is truly making itself known.

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Our one big failure in Chch is lack of rain. Being so dry can present it's own problems. Grass seed down a few clouds get the hose pipe out again ;)

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So some of the Northern regions of Wellington has had really bad flooding with a number of roads closed. Please take care out there

Live: Flooding hits parts of Wellington, Porirua | Stuff.co.nz

this happened all in a few hours

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Oh dear .... flashback to just a few weeks ago

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At long last Chch gets some.....:thumbup:

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last weekend, this was after about 1/2 hr downfall. more came

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/320890/MOV_0340.mp4

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Anyone else fed up of all the Wain? I know I am :nod: and I was away all of June. There's moss growing everywhere in the garden, never had it all down the drive as well. Yes we've had some sunny spells but it's mostly all about wain this winter :thumbdown:

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Yea. Its been wet alright and windy too. Looks like it will be the same story for the rest of this week. Keep reading the 10 day forecast cause we are looking for a fine spell to take a trip down to Hawkes Bay and beyond for a few days.

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we were up at Ohakune this weekend just gone but luckily we had a warning about the weather change and got off the mountain on Saturday and because there was a weather warning for Taihape we headed off early on Sunday so luckily didn't venture up on Sunday.

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temps set to drop in lower areas of the South Island, -9 in some areas. :thumbdown

and wain for the rest of the week all over.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8271...nt-from-tasman

going to be hard to get the washing dry :unsure:

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Just hung the washing out..:fingerscrossed: we get some soon trying to dig post holes is no fun without a little help from the heavens..:(

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I've got quite a few plants I need to get dug in but it's no fun digging into heavy clay soil whilst it's raining. Can't even go on the lawn it's that squelchy.

Forecast doesn't look good. Even our local ducks look miserable :lol:

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My ducks are tending to stay on our higher ground. :eek:

Everywhere is completely sodden and a lovely norfolk pine tree that has been part of our view for the past 10 years couldn't take anymore and is now a pile of logs. :(

So much rain that there has been sewage leaking into the sea again & many slips on the roads.

Mind you The Ranges are now looking suitably snowy when the clouds clear .

Still, the weather forecast is more for this week &that includes Canterbury. :sneaky:=

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Fingers crossed...having to use a pry bar to make holes..resident female blackbird not amused as there are no juicy worms for her...washing's dry though...;)

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I have a back passage and am able to dry my clothes there :p

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Are you sure you don't want to edit that post quickly before anyone reads it....:lol:

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Nah. If they want to see it I'm happy to show them around :eek::rofl:

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Yes, especially as it's supposed to be summer over here:(
UK weather continues to stay wet after half a month’s rainfall comes down in 1 night | Daily Mail Online

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1580mm (63in) of rain since 1 Jan - just as well we are 128m above sea level - for some reason my wife wants a tumble dryer?. At least we are warm up in the Far North - no heating on yet :)

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I'd still rather be there than here :nod:

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And still it keeps on raining. Our lawn is so saturated that you can actually hear the water in it :nod::eek:.
I can't get near our raised beds and fruit trees as the area around them is just a muddy bog. Not happy.

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It's one big sog isn't it.