CLOUDBURST HAVOC.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 266, 10 November 1938, Page 27

CLOUDBURST HAVOC.

GULLY FILLED WITH ROCK. <»11 (' 11 A 1! I)ls |s' HK.WV I,IN\ illy Trl'-ifPi I'll Own Correspondent.) Ml \ Kill N . this clay. ! '' *■ ~t particulars (it the Cenli.il i I<111111111 r«t i'»ll w that irreparable I" - has I -*ii-t 1111• •11 liy orcliardi"ts ni i In- l.'n\liiul'li ("til ( reek district, tMP •• fertile orchard* and Hat land nilj.ii-iTit. In I h<> rnadwny at the base "t i in' nill-i an- ru>w u «I • • ->«> 1n t e waste el' li.itilili'i « and some of tlir* land run '"'"•r b'' brought. Imck into produeI i \ i l y. Water poured down the hill in a vi'iitalilc \\iill. «weepin# everything I" •l"n > il. Workmen oil some of the pi "|.ci I irs wcii* nearly in their huts ii ml had tin l flood waters ri ■-! 111 - Mr.' 11 .->in thr cloudburst. swept. flown in l '' tin' t alley at, a Inter hour of thr iii-hl serious I<> - h of lift; mijrht have resulted. \s ii. is, an viderl_v wiiiian sulT'Ti'd a broken wrist, following tlie sin.wiling of tin' front door of her homo and tin* ingress of water. Nothing so «le vastat in? hits hitherto I'li'ii «'\| h■r ii ■ in-<-d in the memory of I lio-n in : In l district. Kye-w it nessen s' ■ i I'd that tl.e crerk adjacent to the I .i 11 \ ii • w property roared down the \a I • ley like the Mol\neau\ liiver itself, and water and spray troni it, as it, foamed H'io-s the in *uird«, riiso to .'lO feet. I lie flood waters caused a complete 10-s of the -1 ra wherry farms of Messrs. .M.iiinel and McAnley, while Mr. Hen - m l I*' orchard slittered severely, some In .o res of Dno trw* lining either swept ii way or ruined and another 10 acres of 'jrmrl lnnd hninjr ruined. Boulders anil debris came down the jjully adjacent to the house and filled it in a very short time. What was once the frnlly is now h w-all nf rork, sonifl 30 feet higher '' ii tli" surrounding country. Some indication of the. force of the water can he jjauired from the fact that the men's w li.rro was picked up bodily and »>wept a Ion;; some -JUO yards over the 1"|"* of trees and then deposited in a broken, t wi-sted mass. l-.'ye-wit nesses slate that, the damage created in a (short, "pace of time is almost unbelievable.