How does the surf do damage like this?

Snow in Tekapo

Almost half the students at the schools that did stay open didn't get to school so a bit of a holiday atmosphere! I am back at home because my office is in a school that is closed (along with about 40 others)

Middleton Rd is now clear and while Marie and others (25 000 others) lost power we (Liliy, Ket and I) were fine. All public transport was cancelled at one point and the Civil Defence people think the last similar storm was the Wahine storm.