Lockdown Storm
Reflecting back over the week, it's certainly been a week of contrast. Early in the week we had the storm that hit my place in Huia with vigour. We had torrential rain for seven hours, resulting in flooding, not just in Huia, but all over West Auckland.
I woke to find thick debris piled up against my gate, with no access out of my property. Our road had been dug up ready for new seal the day before we went into to Level 4 Lockdown. As the rain poured down the road, the gravel was washed away and filled the driveways on its route down the hill. My dog couldn't figure out how to clamber over the debris at the gate to go for our usual morning walk.
The road was so badly damaged in two places. One site outside my place, made a two hundred metre long and one metre deep hole. Auckland Transport attended by 10am and worked for five hours repairing it.
The whole of the beach was covered with large trees and vegetation that had been washed down the rivers. The Kakamatura stream changed it's route and washed out all the carpark and part of the new walking track.
The huge bonus of all this was that the Huia and Nihotupu Dams are now full. There's always a positive at the end of the rainbow.
As the week went on, we had beautiful sunshine and Spring showed it's head.
Wow! What a great photo Wendy.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to hear there wasn't too much damage and there was a positive outcome.