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All NZ Roads Closed
The 10 hour trip home from Tauranga this weekend (using a multitude of backroads, about turns and 4 wheel driving along the ice) gave me time to ponder our roading system.
It, at one stage appeared that EVERY road in the country was closed. Which, if you are in a developed country, seems just a little ummm, un-developed.
First I was wondering if maybe Mother Nature decided that after all the grumbling from Truck Drivers about increased road charges, she would show us that she controls the roads anyhow, and too much grumbling and she’ll snow them over until no one gets to use them.
That only took about 5 minutes.
The other 9 hours and 55 minutes was spent wondering how, in this day and age, an entire country’s roads can possibly ALL be closed. AND that no one in the country seems to have any knowledge of when and how they will open.
That, to me, seems a little scary.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
It snows in vancouver occassionally. It takes them days to clear the snow off (so i was told) because they have very few snowplows. Hah. In germany the autobahn close in the snow sometimes (or due to crashes) and they ADAC (car rescue people) have to send out lots of food and blankets to get the bmw drivers through the night. :)