Selwyn Times: September 15, 2021
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<strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Wednesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>15</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
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NEWS<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
The big blow: Residents talk<br />
• By Susan Sandys<br />
HORORATA residents woke<br />
to the sound of “horrendous”<br />
and “fierce” winds flattening<br />
trees, power poles and ripping<br />
iron off roofs early Friday<br />
morning.<br />
The storm was followed by<br />
another one overnight Sunday,<br />
which wreaked additional<br />
damage.<br />
Residents were forced to<br />
listen to the roaring sound in<br />
the darkness as the power went<br />
out and was not restored to<br />
the village centre until about<br />
10.30am Friday.<br />
Trees in a plantation near<br />
the town sawmill were toppled,<br />
while others alongside roads<br />
came down on power lines.<br />
Sam Adkins who lives on<br />
Hawkins Rd ran outside to<br />
secure his home’s roof when he<br />
heard it flapping up and down at<br />
about 5am.<br />
“It was a really fierce wind.<br />
You could hear heaps of stuff<br />
falling over crashing, stuff being<br />
blown over,” he said.<br />
He could see the iron lifting<br />
from a front corner. A verandah<br />
post underneath had fallen and<br />
the nearby security camera had<br />
fallen and smashed onto the<br />
ground.<br />
Going to his nearby garage to<br />
get a ratchet strap so he could<br />
NIGHTMARE: Sam Adkins was awoken in the early hours<br />
by his roof starting to come off in strong winds.<br />
PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
secure the roof, Adkins found<br />
the wind had broken the garage<br />
door locks and blown the doors<br />
inwards. They were up against<br />
cars inside, so he could not open<br />
them.<br />
He instead jumped through a<br />
nearby open space at the side of<br />
the garage to get the strap.<br />
Adkins said his partner<br />
Heaven Davison held the ladder<br />
as he climbed up and secured the<br />
iron. He reinstalled the verandah<br />
post.<br />
He described the event as “a<br />
bit of a nightmare,” made worse<br />
by the noise of the wind in the<br />
darkness as it was hard to see<br />
what was happening.<br />
Once it was daylight he was<br />
in clean-up mode, picking<br />
up corrugated roofing which<br />
had blown into his yard from<br />
another property. At the same<br />
time, he heard stories from<br />
neighbours about their fences<br />
being blown over.<br />
Fellow Hawkins Rd resident<br />
John Clapham also had<br />
corrugated roofing material in<br />
his yard which had blown in<br />
from somewhere as well.<br />
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