Waimakariri

[dianavilliers]

A flying visit to Christchurch today for an emissions workshop. I got noticed as the ministry's fleet model expert, which wasn't as uncomfortable as I would have expected. Hmmm. I may have a bit of imposter syndrome going on here.
I managed to miss today's southerly front by flying over it.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

So, that strip running all down the middle? That's a mountain range with snow on it, right? But why the ruler straight edge along the bottom third or so of the range?

[dianavilliers.livejournal.com]

No, its a braided river - the
Waimakariri (http://maps.google.co.nz/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=117178759239787517624.00045822ab3fa81f19210&ll=-43.470113,172.448616&spn=0.212285,0.383835&t=h&z=12). The straight edge is a stopbank, which is intended to prevent Christchurch being flooded more than once every hundred years or so, IIRC.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

OK. Thanks. I'm waiting for Google to load the page you linked to. Presumably it'll load eventually.

[dianavilliers.livejournal.com]

Running slow for you too? Problem must be at their end.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I got it to load by changing from google.co.nz to google.com.

[dianavilliers.livejournal.com]

That makes sense... I used to go 4WDriving on this bit of river. I wouldn't now - between the price of petrol and my environmental concience.