We have been having some pretty awful weather lately, yesterday was particularly bad, blowing a gale here in my city and raining,but the top of the north Island,( i live further down), is in a state of emergency, without power and flooding is bad, my son's girlfriends family all live there including her elderly nana, so please give a thought for them all.

Auckland city was also hit rather hard and they were talking of closing the harbour bridge, two motorcyclists were blown off the bridge, not sure what the outcome there was, but did not sound good.

It is a sign of our times it appears, global warming is causing havoc worldwide, I know we are not the only ones in dire straits.

The weather is somewhat better here today and is hopefully going to improve, but up north i am not so sure of, they received like a months rain in one day,can you imagine.,scarey.