I am alive!!
Yeah it is pretty devastating down here
Spent 5 hours helping sandbag in town to prevent the CBD from flooding, thankfully that was successful.
The weirdest thing about that was, after parking the car (which got semi drowned by the way!) and walking to where they were sandbagging, was looking over and UP and seeing the Tour Boats floating damn near at the top of the stopbanks, wish I had my cmaera with me.
I have some photos I took from a lookout above town on monday that I will post on my website, got nothing else to do, as I have no work for atleast the rest of the week. We are on septic tanks at work, while we didn't get any flood waters through, the area out the back where the septic tanks are is still under about a foot of water apparently.
As for the earthquakes, thats all we needed! People were starting to panic that the Matahina Dam had suffered damage, but that was not the case.
Also if you hear stories of looting, ignore them, the police have said that there has been no increase in crime in town, and who would want to pinch sodden stuff anyway?
I'll post here again when I have the pics up
Oh and it is raining again, and more earthquakes!