Stroll Seen while strolling...walking and wandering outside

The Logness Monster ...

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Couple of fruit at home .....

Need to get the netting on before the birds start gobbling them, or worse, just pecking randomly.

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The citrus have loved all the rain - looks to be a bumper crop.
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Apple sculpture at Flaxmere Park.

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Fountain at Flaxmere park
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Apple on tree stump. Possibly someone feeling cynical, as many orchardists have lost not only their homes, but also their livelihood, in the recent cyclone Gabrielle.

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Walked at the Dog Park which was severely flooded in Gabrielle last week. Most of the water has drained away, but lots of damage, and silt everywhere. As I've probably already said, this is minor compared to the devastation just a few metres away, and throughout Hawkes Bay, Tairawhiti, Auckland and Northland. Some of the patients in the ward where I work are broken, because their adult children have lost homes and livelihood, and had to be rescued from their roofs. It is heart breaking to see ....

My dog ran into the silty mud so I washed his legs when we got home. Here is the bath afterwards!

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silt up to where I am standing, and the orange line shows the height of the flood!
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Walked at the Dog Park which was severely flooded in Gabrielle last week. Most of the water has drained away, but lots of damage, and silt everywhere. As I've probably already said, this is minor compared to the devastation just a few metres away, and throughout Hawkes Bay, Tairawhiti, Auckland and Northland. Some of the patients in the ward where I work are broken, because their adult children have lost homes and livelihood, and had to be rescued from their roofs. It is heart breaking to see ....

My dog ran into the silty mud so I washed his legs when we got home. Here is the bath afterwards!

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I can't begin to say how sad all this makes me. If you have Facebook, and are interested, search Shellie Evans, as she has gathered together many many photos to share. But be prepared to be shocked. Link here - please delete if not appropriate: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=shellie evans photography
 
Weird as I can still see it, but no matter. Here maybe?

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You can see why we are so upset, even those who are not directly affected. And why my patients feel so useless that their adult children have lost their homes and livelihood.
 
Weird as I can still see it, but no matter. Here maybe?

And here: Shellie Evans Photography


You can see why we are so upset, even those who are not directly affected. And why my patients feel so useless that their adult children have lost their homes and livelihood.
That's awful, Rose.

The awesome power of Mother Nature.

A cyclone is capable of picking up 1,000,000 tons of water per second (Stephens "Age of Power").

I've sat through more than one when I lived in SE Queensland in my youth. Steady winds of 130 mph, gusts estimated to be over 170 mph. Pretty terrifying!

Heather and I are thinking of you all. Hope that most of those who are missing are OK. Sorry that some of them won't be ... :( .
 
That's awful, Rose.

The awesome power of Mother Nature.

A cyclone is capable of picking up 1,000,000 tons of water per second (Stephens "Age of Power").

I've sat through more than one when I lived in SE Queensland in my youth. Steady winds of 130 mph, gusts estimated to be over 170 mph. Pretty terrifying!

Heather and I are thinking of you all. Hope that most of those who are missing are OK. Sorry that some of them won't be ... :( .

Thanks John - I am one of the lucky ones who was not directly affected, or if so, in a very minor way.

It has been horrible being at work and hearing the harrowing stories of my colleagues, having to be evacuated,, or in some instances, rescued from roofs. In other cases, not able to get home from work for days ..... very humbling. And to see vulnerable patients so upset .....

Unfortunately the general opinion is, that while this was a fierce cyclone, the damage has been greatly exacerbated by Forestry in many areas, planting pine trees which poison the land, and unsustainable practices, resulting in all this slash and silt, which damages infrastructure.s. There has been previous calls for this to be looked at ....... It adds to the bitter taste that this is food producing land in many cases, sold to overseas companies for carbon credits. I think local councils also have played a part when clearing willow on river banks, and leaving it piled as high as a house, so when a big flood occurs, it gets torn down and redeposited randomly at bridges etc.
 
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