From drought to downpour
The golden summer has gone and the drought if not over, at least temporarily quenched with the predicted heavy rain reaching Otago last night, unleashing mayhem in Dunedin, and just a bit in west Otago, with the Pomahaka bursting its banks, which lead to road closures around the Kelso area north of Tapanui. Clutha District Council is reviewing the situation 9am Friday.
Hard to believe that it was 33 degrees in Balclutha yesterday, and probably in the low digits today. But we live in an extreme part of the world here in the south; though Buller/Nelson copping it too. Batten down the hatches I say. Read more about what we've been up to in South Otago in this week's Clutha Leader.
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