JWR:

MikeB4: My wife had to go into the city to pick up passports, she took the SUV and needed it, she said there was a torrent running across the Motorway at Horokiwi. The Hutt River is very high. We have flooding at home for the first time ever. I may need
different tyres on my wheelchair

That looks like really bad drainage. The seaside has very little water.

Stay safe Wellington.

timmmay: Think before you commute tomorrow - NZTA advice here.

MikeB4:

Geektastic:

JWR:

MikeB4: My wife had to go into the city to pick up passports, she took the SUV and needed it, she said there was a torrent running across the Motorway at Horokiwi. The Hutt River is very high. We have flooding at home for the first time ever. I may need
different tyres on my wheelchair

That looks like really bad drainage. The seaside has very little water.

Stay safe Wellington.

Surely you didn't think we paid rates and taxes for competent civil engineering?!

Adverse weather bombs like today throw the engineering text books out of the window. This would occur anywhere in the world.

Geektastic:
And yet so many other places seem to manage to do better. All this says to me is that if The Big One ever hits Wellington, we are truly stuffed.

This did not really seem to be hyped, either. Not so long ago, some typhoon was headed our way and was on the news every 3 minutes. It did nothing much. This turns up more or less unheralded and causes complete chaos.

DarthKermit: People can do their bit in their own neighbourhoods by regularly clearing leaves off of storm water drain covers. I've had to clear the one outside our house in the road almost daily recently.

MikeB4:

Geektastic:
And yet so many other places seem to manage to do better. All this says to me is that if The Big One ever hits Wellington, we are truly stuffed.

This did not really seem to be hyped, either. Not so long ago, some typhoon was headed our way and was on the news every 3 minutes. It did nothing much. This turns up more or less unheralded and causes complete chaos.

interesting, yet we see reports of this type incident on a regular basis from Europe and the UK

Geektastic: Can you believe that as at 0841 the NZTA is still running yesterday's advise on their website with no update until 9am? That seems a bit slack in the modern information age.

Geektastic: Can you believe that as at 0841 the NZTA is still running yesterday's advise on their website with no update until 9am? That seems a bit slack in the modern information age.

Geektastic:

MikeB4:

Geektastic:
And yet so many other places seem to manage to do better. All this says to me is that if The Big One ever hits Wellington, we are truly stuffed.

This did not really seem to be hyped, either. Not so long ago, some typhoon was headed our way and was on the news every 3 minutes. It did nothing much. This turns up more or less unheralded and causes complete chaos.

interesting, yet we see reports of this type incident on a regular basis from Europe and the UK

From time to time, usually resulting from weather that was advised about. This weather seemed to simply arrive unannounced (at least compared to the more or less non-event Typhoon I mentioned) and yet we grind to a halt. Sweden does not, for example, generally cease to function when they get some snow.

For a civil engineering infrastructure to be this overwhelmed points to defects in design or maintenance or both. No doubt they've been trying to run it on the equivalent of a gold coin donation for 20 years or something.

Possibly some whacky RMA nonsense that says that they can't put water into the harbour even in a dire emergency or something as well.

I'm still trying to work out how to get the missus back from Wellington.

Geektastic:
I'm still trying to work out how to get the missus back from Wellington.