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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 12207" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>My mate and I took my ute and a load of sugar up to feed his hives as the road was finally somewhat passable at least for four-wheel drives. It was a beautiful day and the bees were actually getting a little bit of fresh honey which is the only reason some of them were still alive. It is the first time I have driven far from home since the storm and the devastation in some places is catastrophic. I have lived through some pretty bad storms including the Easter storm at Paeroa over 40 years ago but even that one wasn't as bad or widespread as this one.We saw one house where the silt was up to the roof. The only reason we could get where we were going was because local farmers have cleared the innumerable slips on the road but they are now been told they are naughty boys and don't have resource consents to do this work. I also hear on the grapevine that civil aviation are considering prosecuting a helicopter pilot who rescued nearly 200 people. </p><p>There have been some truly horrific hive losses. Some of them are not surprising as keeping bees on the wrong side of the stop bank is always going to end wrong but most of them could not I believe have been predicted.</p><p>A local beekeeper has offered a burning site for flood contaminated beekeeping equipment and while I appreciate the sentiment I strongly doubt the legality of burning plastic frames unless they are a clear AFB risk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 12207, member: 207"] My mate and I took my ute and a load of sugar up to feed his hives as the road was finally somewhat passable at least for four-wheel drives. It was a beautiful day and the bees were actually getting a little bit of fresh honey which is the only reason some of them were still alive. It is the first time I have driven far from home since the storm and the devastation in some places is catastrophic. I have lived through some pretty bad storms including the Easter storm at Paeroa over 40 years ago but even that one wasn't as bad or widespread as this one.We saw one house where the silt was up to the roof. The only reason we could get where we were going was because local farmers have cleared the innumerable slips on the road but they are now been told they are naughty boys and don't have resource consents to do this work. I also hear on the grapevine that civil aviation are considering prosecuting a helicopter pilot who rescued nearly 200 people. There have been some truly horrific hive losses. Some of them are not surprising as keeping bees on the wrong side of the stop bank is always going to end wrong but most of them could not I believe have been predicted. A local beekeeper has offered a burning site for flood contaminated beekeeping equipment and while I appreciate the sentiment I strongly doubt the legality of burning plastic frames unless they are a clear AFB risk. [/QUOTE]
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