NEWTOWN DROUGHT DECLARED OVER AFTER DRIZZLE SPOTTED ON RENAULT WINDSCREEN
Three weeks of dire warnings undone by what one witness called 'barely a spit, honestly'.
Wellington's twenty-one-day dry spell came to an abrupt and underwhelming end on Tuesday morning when a Newtown resident noticed approximately fourteen drops of water on her windscreen outside the Riddiford Street New World.
Declan Soper, 34, was loading two bags of groceries into the boot of his partner's Renault Clio when he clocked the moisture. "I thought a seagull had got me at first," he told The Daily Yarn. "Then I looked up and felt one on my forehead. Bloody emotional, actually. Texted me mum."
The drought had been the subject of three council updates, a Stuff explainer, and a sternly worded email from Wellington Water asking residents to consider whether their shower was strictly necessary. A spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that restrictions remained in place, as the drizzle had "not yet been measured in any meaningful way".
Neighbour Yvette Brell, who watched the whole thing from her front step with a flat white from Pickle & Pie, said the rain lasted "maybe forty seconds, tops". "Declan was carrying on like it was the bloody monsoon. I told him to settle down, it hadn't even wet the footpath."
MetService has forecast a 30 percent chance of further drizzle by Thursday, which locals are treating as a definite maybe. The Renault, last seen heading up Constable Street, remains the only confirmed recipient.
Declan Soper, 34, was loading two bags of groceries into the boot of his partner's Renault Clio when he clocked the moisture. "I thought a seagull had got me at first," he told The Daily Yarn. "Then I looked up and felt one on my forehead. Bloody emotional, actually. Texted me mum."
The drought had been the subject of three council updates, a Stuff explainer, and a sternly worded email from Wellington Water asking residents to consider whether their shower was strictly necessary. A spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that restrictions remained in place, as the drizzle had "not yet been measured in any meaningful way".
Neighbour Yvette Brell, who watched the whole thing from her front step with a flat white from Pickle & Pie, said the rain lasted "maybe forty seconds, tops". "Declan was carrying on like it was the bloody monsoon. I told him to settle down, it hadn't even wet the footpath."
MetService has forecast a 30 percent chance of further drizzle by Thursday, which locals are treating as a definite maybe. The Renault, last seen heading up Constable Street, remains the only confirmed recipient.