Storm

Yesterday, we had very strong gusts and a number of tree fell, including this one, which apparently fell right behind a moving car. The story of this tree made national news. It was something of a landmark at the corner of Collingwood and Hardy Street.

There were several power surges in the afternoon. The pipeline below the Tantragee water treatment plant was lost and we need to conserve water by 70%. Meg reckons we'd better boil our water before we drink it, too.

Nothing dramatic happened at our house, though at around 4PM Meg rang me at work because she'd never felt the whole house shake because of wind. Elsewhere on the North Island and in Marlborough, there have been more serious flooding and landslides.

This morning, it's eerily still. Reminded us of typhoons back home, but at least in Nelson, it was a short storm.

EDIT: Sorry for the confusion. I found a clip on TV Three News site that didn't work for me. Now I found it on YouTube, so here it is. Notice when the car stops!

Wood Burner

Because of this regulation change in our residence area, we have to replace our wood burner to a more ECO friendly one - by the next season - more likely by end of the year.
This shot was taken couple of weeks ago when I was playing with 300mm lens with very high ISO setting (ISO3200) on my D200. Not too bad.

Ministry of Education, Marlborough, Nelson, West Coast

Headquarters, or similar, I assume. It's new, and it is next to The Nelson Contact Bridge Club Inc.

It used to be the gang headquarters, and no, I don't have a picture of it back then; The Bridge Club has always been there. Must have been an interesting neighborhood; it's almost part of the Central Business District nowadays.

Shed Anyone?

We went to the mega hardware store yesterday to get a few bits. Across the parking lot, they had a garden shed on display. Anyone in need of one? It even has a few chimneys.

This used to be a Honda assembly plant until about a decade ago.

Theatre Royal, Nelson

It still have a "Help!" sign up on the front but the renovation founding is here and I think the work is going on inside.
Here is a few link for story about the Theatre Royal.
At the Venue Web for some inside photo of what I remember.
At the city council for funding news ( bit old, but UI did not realised since few weeks ago I hard something going on about it on the radio.).

Under The Tree

Have a little brake?

Sunset

Last night.

Art Work Of The New Bridge

There is a sign post telling you about the story of the bridge and the eels. It says at the eels section, "If EELS are ALIVE so if the WATER, so is the LAND and so are the PEOPLE".

Improvement

Now, it has a proper two lanes for car as well as bicycle and pedestrian. What a improvement!

Normanby Bridge Completed

Since the theme day we featured the construction site of this bridge, we have posted few to show its progress. It is now completed and opened (I haven't realised it was opened until couple of days ago).

Here is the links of the past post.
1, 2, 3, 4

and you can see old bridge in this post.

Atawhai

One from my recent archive.

Rain/Tide

Yesterday around 3pm. The pic is Ben's.

Ben says it's just high tide, but we'd been having sporadic, heavy showers, and I thought it was flooding. I had Ben put on his new 300mm lens to have a look. I'm talking about the walkway near the runway of our airport. This is a different part of the walkway, but you see what I mean.

Today is the last day of the winter school holidays. Air Nelson (a subsidiary of Air New Zealand) pilots have been on strike these last few days so there were markedly fewer flights flown by non-union pilots. Our pilots want more than one every seven weekends off; I can sympathize with that!

PS. This photo was taken with my 70-210mm about 125mm of focal length. The 300mm was a little too long to cover the area she wanted to show. - Ben

Face Lift

I've been holed up in my basement working, and went into town for the first time yesterday in a couple of weeks, to find State Cinema having a face lift! I would have thought that powdery peach suited the style of the building, but can't wait to see what color it's going to be. I also noticed the worlds "State Chambers" for the first time; now I'm not sure what the building was originally.

Alan, this is Post 700!

Hi!

And I guess we were in the local paper earlier in the week. Here, the 10th paragraph. Meg gave Alan lots more info about the DP world, but alas, editing, you know. I hope a few Nelsonians discover the rest of your DPs.

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