Rain 2

The weather was foul, but I decided to go to town for my groceries anyway. Any fresh food left after two weeks is no longer fresh, and there's a possibility of snow overnight. We'd had 110mm of rain over three days, which is a lot for here, but little more than half that in 24 hours that they got down south.

As I was preparing to leave the power went off, only a couple of minutes before the completion of downloading my camera's SD card, dammit. Then the fire brigade was called out and I wondered how anything could burn in this weather.

As soon as I left the shelter of the foothills I noticed a difference. There were sheets of water lying about. Then I was stopped near a bend by the fire brigade. There was a shallow stream of water crossing the road. It was invisible until you were on to it. Some poor blighter had come to grief and smashed sideways into a power pole with a transformer on it.

I was directed to take a detour around the problem. This sent me off onto rather dicey shingle roads. Four wheel drive vehicles have ruined our 2nd class roads. Once you could go anywhere in a small car, but now the wheel tracks are too wide for safety.

As I crossed the Canterbury Plains the closer to the coast I got the bigger the raindrops were. The raindrops at my place are usually very small. I had a lot of trouble capturing the raindrops yesterday because the fine drops look more like mist. I longed for some good honest rain. Well, I certainly got it.

On the way home I stopped to take some shots out of the car window of some surface flooding that wasn't all that exciting. Then I looked out the other way through the windscreen and decided that was more interesting. Behind is the poplar windbreak I blipped last winter.