Extreme Weather
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@Higgins well, some valuations supplied by registered valuers are not that great either, many of those supplying them do so alongside a market valuation so thier qualifications to provide a rebuild one are a bit limited.
I believe there is a select committee looking at that issue presently....Quantity Surveyors are supposedly best qualified to provide the most accurate ones.
Evidence suggests 85% of NZers are underinsured, and some supposedly >50%.
As to your 10%, sadly that is about normal for many areas, but by the same token, down on the past few years increases most saw.
While less impact to residential consumers, some huge changes to Fire Service Levies in 2026 that will see large increases to the levy charged for those owning commercial property, down to how these are.charged as opposed to a rate increase.
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@taniwharugby In our case the rateable values are considerably in excess of the registered valuer's ones which is grating (we are in what is best described as a rural area, albeit on the very near boundary of what could be described as the "city limit" so it is only a smaller percentage of the valuation that belongs to "improvements"). We are fortunate in that my brother is a retired builder that is now a project manager so he was the one that has come up with the rebuuild value we have used for insurance purposes and we have full confidence in the figures he has provided.
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@Chris-B said in Extreme Weather:
@taniwharugby It has really been the cumulative at my place. We've had 500+mm in the past two months.
I still thought the river would have to come up another metre to get my house (and if it managed to do that there would be large parts of Richmond washing up in Wellington).
But, unfortunately, it broke its banks a km upstream - flowed across the plain until it reached the elevated SH6, which it couldn't cross - so it just took the path of least resistance down the side of the road and took out the houses in its path. Looked quite a lot like the footage of the Asian tsunami as it came across the paddock - and a very nasty WTF is that and where's it come from moment.
Any idea on the stopbank construction? I've a feeling it's a bit shit in NZ in general, it's the reason parts of HB got hammered in Gabriel.
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@delicatessen Yeah - it went over the top of the stopbank.
To be fair - the river was running at record levels - somewhere around 80-times its normal winter flow.
My house got built in 1860 and to the best of my knowledge the first time it's been flooded - then twice in a fortnight!
The bottom graph is the second major rain event - I think it went over the stopbank at about 350m3/sec.
Most recent rain event was starting to accelerate - another 50mms of rain would have sent it close to that level, because everything was running off.
https://www.tasman.govt.nz/my-region/environment/environmental-data/river-flow/waiiti-livingston
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Snowing in QLD. Has happened before but infrequently.
149K views · 2K reactions | MORE SEQLD SNOW!! Some big flakes are...
MORE SEQLD SNOW!! Some big flakes are coming down around Amiens (near to the North West of Stanthorpe) and Cottonvale (North of Stanthorpe). Videos sent into HSC by Tori and Jordan.
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Falls further south in NSW are heavier than I can remember seeing - 27cm is more than you'd expect as usually it just melts away before settling.
Higgins Storm Chasing
Snow has reached 27cm and is still accumulating at Mount Monopoly, near Uralla NSW. These images, taken at 8am and 3pm today, show just how much has fallen. Report and photos sent in by Debbie....
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@NTA said in Extreme Weather:
Snowing in QLD. Has happened before but infrequently.
Falls further south in NSW are heavier than I can remember seeing.
MORE SEQLD SNOW!! Some big flakes are coming down around Amiens (near to the North West of Stanthorpe) and Cottonvale (North of Stanthorpe). Videos sent into HSC by Tori and Jordan.
Are the snowflakes coming down with venomous teeth/tips?
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This is a good page for weather mainly around the QLD area of things. Some cool stuff there.
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@NTA said in Extreme Weather:
Snowing in QLD. Has happened before but infrequently.
149K views · 2K reactions | MORE SEQLD SNOW!! Some big flakes are...
MORE SEQLD SNOW!! Some big flakes are coming down around Amiens (near to the North West of Stanthorpe) and Cottonvale (North of Stanthorpe). Videos sent into HSC by Tori and Jordan.
Been a fantastic day here, but all of a sudden v cold (for QLD) while out on the deck BBQing. Still not a cloud in the sky.
