Salam (Hello),
This week in hurumanu 2 with Miss Alpers we have been researching about the Canterbury that has been happening this week. We read a article about the floods and had to write a detailed blog post about it. Below this small blurb a shortened story about the floods.
Met-service got a code-red warning in Canterbury which was expected to bring up to 400mm high by Monday. Springfield, the upper and lower part of Sewlyn Huts and peel forest, locals had to evacuate because of the massive floods. Kris Faafoi travelled throughout Canterbury to see the impact of the rain and found out that about 3,000 houses were at risk of flooding. Burnham camp, three trucks and a ambulance got deployed to help with evacuations. Ashburton called the civil defence centre and locals got asked to boil their water. 30 houses in Selwyn district and spring field had been evacuated and safe.
Later in the day the Selwyn district council called a emergency civil defence team to help with this situation. People living in Selwyn huts had been evacuated and sent to darfield recreation centre. The water supplier got shut down due to the amount of flooding spread throughout Canterbury. Farmers begun struggling, most farmers found struggling got evacuated by a helicopter and moved to dry land. A river in Christchurch got hit and got closed due to major flooding. Around 8pm a big tide of fresh new flooding went towards town.
Timaru also got declared of a state emergency, heavy rain showers came and concerned fellow locals. Two new people joined the civil defence team for Timaru to help people to evacuate. There were multiple road closers due to flooding and caused more people to evacuate. Fifty two schools and 24 early learning centres had been confirmed that it would be closed the next day. Many more problems had happened due to the flooding throughout Canterbury this included : trees falling, power cut outs, road closers etc.
I hope this blog post was interesting and taught you something about the big showers in Canterbury. Feel free to comment. What do you know about the Canterbury floods, were you involved in evacuating?
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| Image of a flood |
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| Ashburton river flood |
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