19-02-2023, 11:58 AM
My neighbours a couple of doors down lost their daughter - her husband dug for six hours trying to get her out of the mud slide that engulfed her house - they have just brought her home prior to the funeral - makes you count your blessings
My 93 year old Aunt was rescued from her orchard in the bucket of a tractor - she looked out the window and saw the lawn looked to be glistening then realised it was water - by the time she woke her son it was ankle deep jumped in his 4 wheel drive which got swamped and luckily a farmer came along and lifted her into the bucket of his tractor
There is a really good article on Stuff about 3 maori boys in a boat who rescued numerous people in the Esk Valley -the photos are amazing - as is their story - they are three young blokes grew up with my kids who were always the life and soul of the party very talented rugby players but never took life very seriously and work was not very high up on their list of priorities- but never ever did anybody any harm - certainly stepped up
A lot of State houses have been lost - 82 out at Waihiki alone really sad it was a joint iwi govt initiative and had they were all big family houses -the subdivision my relative said should never have been built on was evacuated- 600 families but only 25 have been red stickered - 250 yellow stickered - interesting the red stickered ones are on the highest priced sections
The slash problem is very difficult - most of the forestry is overseas owned and they have been given many privileges to encourage them to keep buying land - three years ago new legislation came in they don’t have to put fire breaks in and Eugene Sage introduced legislation regarding clearance of slash - when they complete logging a skid they are bound to leave some covering to encourage rejuvenation and stop erosion - people come up from the Regional Council before you build another skid to ensure you haven’t left any bare ground behind you - so they really have an out - in saying that it’s obvious too much slash is being left and herein lies the problem - people used to be able to go in on the weekends when the loggers weren’t working and take the slash for firewood but health and safety stopped that - my husband was a manager at Pan PAC and they had never had one single incident but it was stopped .Pan PAC have a pulp mill and chip small logs but they are at full capacity and were stopped building more plant because they take water out of the Esk river use no chemicals but use the water in the chipping process and pump it out to sea where it was going anyway - but they haven’t been able to expand their operation for environmental reasons maybe they will be able to do so now - something has to be done - my brother is a forestry contractor and my son a sawmiller so they both have skin in the game and both say common sense needs to come back into the equation -
Beautiful sunny day here today
My 93 year old Aunt was rescued from her orchard in the bucket of a tractor - she looked out the window and saw the lawn looked to be glistening then realised it was water - by the time she woke her son it was ankle deep jumped in his 4 wheel drive which got swamped and luckily a farmer came along and lifted her into the bucket of his tractor
There is a really good article on Stuff about 3 maori boys in a boat who rescued numerous people in the Esk Valley -the photos are amazing - as is their story - they are three young blokes grew up with my kids who were always the life and soul of the party very talented rugby players but never took life very seriously and work was not very high up on their list of priorities- but never ever did anybody any harm - certainly stepped up
A lot of State houses have been lost - 82 out at Waihiki alone really sad it was a joint iwi govt initiative and had they were all big family houses -the subdivision my relative said should never have been built on was evacuated- 600 families but only 25 have been red stickered - 250 yellow stickered - interesting the red stickered ones are on the highest priced sections
The slash problem is very difficult - most of the forestry is overseas owned and they have been given many privileges to encourage them to keep buying land - three years ago new legislation came in they don’t have to put fire breaks in and Eugene Sage introduced legislation regarding clearance of slash - when they complete logging a skid they are bound to leave some covering to encourage rejuvenation and stop erosion - people come up from the Regional Council before you build another skid to ensure you haven’t left any bare ground behind you - so they really have an out - in saying that it’s obvious too much slash is being left and herein lies the problem - people used to be able to go in on the weekends when the loggers weren’t working and take the slash for firewood but health and safety stopped that - my husband was a manager at Pan PAC and they had never had one single incident but it was stopped .Pan PAC have a pulp mill and chip small logs but they are at full capacity and were stopped building more plant because they take water out of the Esk river use no chemicals but use the water in the chipping process and pump it out to sea where it was going anyway - but they haven’t been able to expand their operation for environmental reasons maybe they will be able to do so now - something has to be done - my brother is a forestry contractor and my son a sawmiller so they both have skin in the game and both say common sense needs to come back into the equation -
Beautiful sunny day here today