The Flooding in June 2015

It would seem that every winter has an interesting weather event.  

This winter it was a month worth of rain in a 48 hour period, and living on the Manawatu floodplains can only mean one thing - flooding.

Thankfully we were spared any damage or threat to life and property.  My thoughts go out to my friends in Wanganui who have suffered much worse.

I have read and heard numerous stories of fellow Manawatu residents driving their vehicles through deep water, flooded farms, close calls with water levels not quite reaching dwellings.  This is our little photographic collection of water on our road.

 It does boggle the mind, the amount of water around.  Eagle commented, "Just think, all that water was a cloud above us not long ago!"  

In the picture below to the left is the Linton Drain, designed to channel excess surface water south to join the Manawatu River near Foxton.  It is very full here with less than a meter, I estimate, from the top of the stop bank.  The water to the right is covering farm paddocks.  

Standing on the little bridge looking north up the Linton Drain.

These are the paddocks near the Linton Drain about 500 meters from our house.

Looking down the road from the little bridge.  Flooding on both sides of the road.

Trees along a boundary fence.

Water for miles.

The view from my kitchen window.  Flooded paddocks seen in the background.

Our back yard was about 20cm deep in water.

Flooding a part of the workshop shed.  

 Now that the rain has stopped, there is the wait while the water level recedes.  We have decided we quite like our new "lake" views, especially at sunset when the light reflections are very pretty!

~Lorna