HIT THE ROAD JACK

 

We've had a couple of cyclones up north (that have gone on to munt the East Coast even worse) that have destroyed infrastructure like bridges and roads, isolating communities and waking everyone up to how fragile our existence really is compared to natural forces ... or have they?

The various contractors commissioned by the roading authorities and councils got straight on to fixing problems and, I have to say have done a great job in doing (temporary) fixes to get people moving again. Good on them. I complimented them in a Facebook Neighbourly post today only to get a whole lot of mean and useless cun.. sods responding how useless the fixes were.

OK, I know that temporary fixes are - just that ... temporary, and most of the problems with our roading both major and minor come from 'under' flooding rather than surface flooding. This is a major engineering problem that doesn't get fixed in a day. When engineers try to fix the 'root' problems like the Brynderwyn slips and close down roads for weeks or months, the bleating idiots complain like hell and demand that they can drive over the roads as soon as possible. Look, that's not going to happen in New Zealand unless we all commit to whatever government spending a trillion dollars to fix, rebuild and create new infra-structure. The limited budgeting approach by councils and central government is just going to do quick fix jobs that will be temporary until the next rainstorms or cyclones. We all have to wake up to this. We live in a long and skinny country that is geologically unstable and very vulnerable to adverse weather events. Crossing fingers and harking back to the past and its practices isn't going to solve this.

I hit the road Jack and don't wanna come back no more, no more, no more, no more, no more.

I hit the road Jack and don't wanna come back no more.

 What you say? 

I hit the road Jack and don't wanna come back no more, no more, no more, no more, no more.

I hit the road Jack and don't wanna come back no more.