A crafty caretaker is being praised after he constructed a makeshift dam out of school bleachers and paving stones to stave off a torrent of floodwater headed for a school hall.
In the driving rain Glen Eden Intermediate school property manager Andrew Howel threw every available solid piece of equipment
he could lay his hands on to divert water flowing straight for the auditorium in Sunday's deluge.
Howel happened to be at the school with one of the deputy principals scattering bins throughout the leaky staffroom when he noticed ankle-deep water gushing outside the buildings, said Principal Maree Stavert.
"They looked outside and saw water running across the school and pooling in front of the auditorium at a lower area of the school," said Stavert.
"The biggest thing there is it has a beautiful wooden floor that would have been ruined if the water got in."
