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spent 6 hrs... towed out 5 swamped vehicles .... blocked a flooded road to stop vehicles from pushing more water into houses that were already either flooded or abt to flood .... heavy rain again today and high tides on the way in ... as well as river realy high .... not looking to good 2 present most of westport and surrounding area as far as karamea ... and south to grey slips and washouts so if traveling b paitant and take care thanx nuts

karamea bluffs closed due to bad slip .... causion thru rorth hecter ... glasseye hill bad slip..... the road thru to charleston has slips.... extreme causion thru the buller gorge ......and coast roads .... if u r in westport please take it slow thru any areas that possibly will flood again today as thee bwere some idiots out yesteday a house just in the nxt block had over 12inches of water flowing thu it yesterday thanx again

saw some of the footage on the news last night, hope its not as bad for you guys again today

thnx ... think the worst of the weather has passed ...no flooding again today.... got a box of chocolates from some of the neighours 4 saving their cars ... nice to get some thanks onc in a while

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Did my old place at 103a Peel Street flood?? Aparrent on the LIM report it and about 30% of the houses in Westport are flood prone................

hi just checked out the 3 new clip of the flooding is your hilux white and parked across the road if so its a tv star

doing my bit
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dunno 4 certain deisel as most streets were flooded in lower areas ... we were lucky to get away with not flooding @ our place .... hope we dont have rain easter as most of the tracks we r looking @ doing r weather dependant

Is this normal for Westport or just freak weather ? Am shifting to Westport in a couple of weeks What have I let myself in for ?

They had a tornado in the city not so long ago....or was that greymouth?

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Must have been a huge amount of rain

not seen that amount of water lying for 50 yrs
but we do get enuf rain regulary but that makes for more mud he he he

You guys had it real bad.

Had a drive over there today, and the carnage on the Buller Gorge is still obvious.

There is a HUGE 'Go-away' rock looking like ready to let go, just on the Berlins side of Hawks Crag. Similar to some of the 'smaller' rocks that blocked off Fern Arch last Queens Birthday weekend.

We got away lightly over here.

Had a few mates over there sand-bagging most of Saturday, and stories of the f-wits racing through the flooded streets in their cars to see where they could push the "bow-wave" But there's a dick-head in every bunch - just a shame that bad situations like this bring them all out like flies to a freshly laid poo

Mortisha wrote:Is this normal for Westport or just freak weather ? Am shifting to Westport in a couple of weeks What have I let myself in for ?

Rain + water = MUD (oh - did I mention mould, mildew & rust?)
Sandflies
Mosquitos
No Jaffa's
Relatively low serious crime rate
Stringent road-rule enforcement with little tolerance for anything, but overall: -
Great lifestyle
& heaps of 4WD'ing opportunites

Mortisha wrote:Is this normal for Westport or just freak weather ? Am shifting to Westport in a couple of weeks What have I let myself in for ?

Rain + water = MUD (oh - did I mention mould, mildew & rust?)
Sandflies
Mosquitos
No Jaffa's
Relatively low serious crime rate
Stringent road-rule enforcement with little tolerance for anything, but overall: -
Great lifestyle
& heaps of 4WD'ing opportunites[/quote]

Sounds pretty good. Even mould and mildew must mean that it's warmish, right ?
Just the sandflies that I'm a little nervous about ...................

Any help in finding out about some of those 4WD opportunities ?

Just donate a few units of blood now and ask for them to be sent to the west coast.

You can always ask them to put them back in Eat Marmite or any vitimin B tablets they bite less, all good over there you will have to plan a trip for us east coast guy's on Local tracks once you get settled.

what sandflies ... oh u mean the big mozzies they b huge man eaters
nah they aint to bad just in some areas away from town