The winds reached up to 150km p/h and caused havoc, ripped roofs off houses, blew over trees and brought down powerlines. It was certainly an inside weekend....... if only!
Frances and little Chloe had to go back to Gisborne -ON AN AEROPLANE! We left Masterton with plenty of time to accomodate for the bad weather and got as far as Greytown before I got the text
Air New Zealand flight NZ2230 WGTN > GIS has been CANCELLED
Rung Air NZ and they were re-booked to the 5.35pm flight so not too bad. We decided to go straight to Steph and Sheps in Stokes Valley and hang out there until the flight time came. We went out for lunch at one of those asian chicken places which suprisingly wasnt that bad.
Then we cracked out the old Monopoly - but this was like no Monopoly I have ever played. We actually had to read the rules!! I KNOW!!
We had to buy 'districts', then build little cities - with schools, power stations and even bad stuff like prisons, dumps etc. Anyway....
This 'weather bomb' caused a hell of a lot of damage - into the millions they reckon. I was a bit worried to see the state of our place when we got home from Wellington but to be honest there was nothing out of the ordinary, a bit of flooding in the garage but nothing major. The horses covers got soaked but they will dry out.
The rest of the country however did not come off as light...
All in all the weekend was very much a "stay-inside" kind of weekend, although they are warning that there is more to come.
Cool.
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