The big snowfall has caused an extrordinary amount of damage to buildings in Invercargill, none more so than the stadium, with Wrens building coming in a close second with their collapsed roof. The museum, it turns out, has a roof designed perfectly for events like this, unlike the $100 000 glasshouse in Tweed Street that took a shattering from the weight of the fallen snow. Glass and snow are a bad combination when it comes to clean-up time, but the thought of that is not nearly so bad as that of the dairy farmers pumping the milk that couldn't be collected due to dangerous roads, into their effluent ponds!
Nasty combination!
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Every cloud has a silver lining, in this case a certain school being closed for the day!
Every snow cloud indeed!
What are you going to do with your bonus day Bio?
Those poor wee students of yours will be pining for you. Perhaps you could visit each home and engage them in some snowball therapy.
How has your place fared Robert? Hope that any damage is only cosmetic.
I've just come in from shovelling snow Invent, in the true American way!
I'm concerned that it's piling up so high around the base of my south wall that water will creep up the weather boards and through to the interior when the thaw begins. Snow is curiously heavy and a shovellin' man builds up a lot of heat under layers of wool!
There are dozens of shops and sheds affected by the snow, some terminally, some are merely wounded.
Our own shop escaped harm, though Hammer hardware next door had some seriously sagging ceiling panels to wrestle with! The thaw won't be fun for them!
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