Yesterday, NZ experienced once of the freakiest weather all over the country. In Wellington, there was gale force wind and many trees were uprooted and house roof blown away by the extremely strong winds (up to 130km/h). There were also reports that State Highway 1 between Paraparaumu and Raukawa was closed because of oil spills on the road. Auckland suffered one of its biggest blackout in years due to the shutting down of one of its power stations. It was chaotic as there as there was no traffic lights and businesses were forced to close due to no electric power. Christchurch and its suburbs suffered the worst though. It had a heavy snowfall overnight and as many as 6,000 homes were left without electricity as power were again cut due to the unexpected snowfall. Even though it look very pretty on the TV that all is covered in white and the children had a day off from school playing in the snow, I must imagine how cold it would be for those living in Cantebury country without any electricity.
In Palmy, we were a little luckier. We only had rain throughout the day and the ranges were covered with fresh snowfall which make it a pretty sight.
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