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Oh my goodness, it's hard to imagine what your going through. I really hope you are all ok.
Hang in there ...easy to say, but I do mean it.

Thanks for your thoughts Marty, that was a big one, have not experienced its like.
Better than 240mm in one dump.
There's a few macho Range Rover and other owners wishing they had listened to the warnings, down our road: they are still on the rocks in the creek this morning.
There's lots of big tree damage, road washouts, and plenty of soggy basements to be seen today.
Stock losses too, sadly.

As they say here, 'If it's flooded forget it'. But there are so many idiots who know better. A couple of years back, there was a young hoon who moved the 'Road Closed' closed barriers so that he could drive through the creek, got stuck, called the police to rescue him and then complained that they had not recovered his car.

AKL and area members.
Oh my goodness, it's hard to imagine what your going through. I really hope you are all ok
Hang in there ...easy to say, but I do mean it.

Thanks for your thoughts Marty

Feel what we're experiencing here in AKL is somewhat akin to what we've all (most northerners at least) seen happen to CHC and the South (meteorologically) over several decades past .... and not to ignore the impact those significant, and prolonged, earthquakes had upon CHC several years back too and which is something else yet again.

One of the beauties of this country/NZ though is most of us team up and pool resources in order to assist our pairs in need and as a result we all generally recover from/triumph over any crisis quite rapidly .... because we mostly look after and look out for each other.

It's something common to the "ANZAC SPIRIT" .... and that classic but simple old "KIWI CAN DO" mentality

Mark C
AKL/NZ