Dang, one of our heat pump outside units now has surface water at the base of it, hope the wiring isn't low down

Eva888: We have a similar situation when it rains too much and it’s always a worry. Heater guy just shrugged when I asked about it. Maybe you can lever it up and put four bricks or 4x2 underneath to raise it just enough.

Its bolted to the concrete foundation. But I laid a drainpipe due to it flooding the shed (which I since raised) that was blocked with leaves, so Ive cleared that its driving well now. While that wont instantly fix the issue, Ive got runoff now on that side of the house so thats a plus. Ill check later. The forecast shows the rain is backing off a lot, so cross fingers. If it drained off 1 cm that would be just clear of the base.

At 7pm we are at 95mm for the day here so far! (Plus the 40mm yesterday)

Raining at the rate of 6mm/hr here at present.

msukiwi:

 

At 7pm we are at 95mm for the day here so far! (Plus the 40mm yesterday)

 

Raining at the rate of 6mm/hr here at present.

 

Sposed to back off about now for a good while. My heat pump issue has improved, the water was about 1cm above the base now its level, the drainpipe still draining, so thats good. We always get surface flooding with decent rain, but not as bad as this. The forecast rainfall is light from now on, bit more at breccky time tomorrow, so roll on overall drainage.

JaseNZ:

@neb you can feed directly into it. I use Cumulus MX as my software which has a section for it.

Over 24 hours since water was first over the Street (And still is!), a road signage contractor has just been in their big (You can see the flashing lights from the moon if it was clear?) signage truck, and placed a Flooding sign each side of it!

The confidence in flat roads and areas is so high, Some streets had 'flooding' signs put out on Friday before it started raining...

100mm yesterday here. 27mm so far today, with 25mm of that since 0700hrs!

Multiple times people in hi-vis and trucks have come and gone...and the water is back right across the Street since 0800hrs this morning!

msukiwi:

 

100mm yesterday here. 27mm so far today, with 25mm of that since 0700hrs!

 

Multiple times people in hi-vis and trucks have come and gone...and the water is back right across the Street since 0800hrs this morning!

 

Id like to check the swales where Aidanfield Drive meets Halswell Rd. They cant be far from overflow

Whats with Metservice rain data? OFTEN they say its rain maybe heavy yet the hourly forecast rainfall is almost always 0.0. Today its rain and at times heavy yet every hour is less then one mm. When the hour has passed we see a true figure of 3.0 to 5.0 mm.

It's only a computer prediction and the computer is not looking out the window.

I assume you are joking

They actually say somewhere on their web site that the predicted rainfall is a computer prediction. I'm not sure whether or not the computer looks out the window.

This is from the metservice website

larknz:

 

They actually say somewhere on their web site that the predicted rainfall is a computer prediction. I'm not sure whether or not the computer looks out the window.

 

Rain today, possibly heavy, doesn't mean 0.0 all day which is typically what they show , nor for today mean 0.4 every hour which is very light rain at best, when it rain and heavy at times all day. it showed well under 1 early this morning. better off to remove the fake rain calc if they cannot manage it. Forecast doesn't mean looking out the window, by definition.

I don't disagree with you. You just need to know that the predictions should be taken with a grain of salt.

What they are doing is not a great deal different from other websites that give a percentage chance of rainfall. It's just displayed in a different format.