After the meteorological highlights of my July post, this post also features a precipitous weather event, although the precipitation in question is of the wet rather than frozen kind.
On July 17th 2020, Northland experienced a ‘one-in-five-hundred-year’ rainstorm. I have no idea how the meteorologists can determine the veracity of such claims, but there was no question an enormous amount of water fell out of the sky overnight. Winter flooding in Northland is not uncommon, and while there have been several floods in the eight years we’ve lived in our current location, this one was the most impressive and widespread by far. Roads became rivers; valleys became lakes, and for 36 hours afterwards we were stuck at home because the roads in every direction were impassable.
The floor of our garage/shed-where-we-store-all-our-junk was flooded and the garden was a lot soggier than usual but other than that we came through it unscathed.
I suspect that with climate change progressing at current rates over the next couple of decades, ‘once-in-five-hundred-years’ is going to start looking like awfully wishful thinking.
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