FYI #Muriwai, #Helensville and #Wellsford - please conserve water

https://www.watercare.co.nz/About-us/News-media/Cyclone-Gabrielle-Water-and-wastewater-updates

KEY INFO

Please reduce your water use now

Continue to use water for drinking, hand washing and toilet flushing

Do not use your washing machine or dishwasher

Do not shower if possible. If it is necessary, please keep it short

Your local water treatment plants have been affected by power and/or comms outages. Roading issues are making it hard for them to get tankers through to top them up.

We had a great time visiting and gave him a wee rechargeable MP3 player with a built in speaker on it - pre-loaded with about 30 songs sung by his daughter (beautiful wifey) so he can listen anytime he wants.

I also took the sons (24 and 26) out to #Mangawhai - where I lived as a 14-16 year old. Showed them the beach, and the house we lived in. Gosh, it’s grown a lot out there - bigger than #Wellsford now. I was amazed to see houses all over the paddocks I used to mow on the tractor as a kid.