Extreme Weather
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@taniwharugby said in Extreme Weather:
man the devastation Gabrielle has wreaked (is that a word) on the North Island is so hard to comprehend!
Whole communities are cut off, we havent heard from some in our napier office, I hear there are 1400 people still not been in contact with family/friends in affected regions, 4 people have died so far, this is surreal.
Still hard to get on do normal work at moment, and the work from Gabrielle is only trickling in at moment, I expect this is largely due to lack of power and comms for many.
This is just unprecedented in NZ, going to have a similar impact on the NZ insurance industry as the earthquakes did, change is coming.
Satellite footage of Gabrielle from Aus to NZ...
Watch: Jaw-dropping video from space reveals Gabrielle's deadly track to NZ
Incredible footage from space shows how Cyclone Gabrielle grew and turned into NZ's path.
Geo restricted unfortunately
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@Stargazer horrible story
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Couple of things.
I'm now actively involved in rectification works from the event that sparked this thread.
Which kinda leads to a slightly lighter note ... being that I have officially been to Whoop Whoop.
Ex-TC Seth dropped an imperial (not the relatively sized metric) fuck ton (no "ne") of rain back in January last year. (Like 1m+)
Did really bad things to creek crossings in the west of the region.
One of the sites I'm working on is Whoop Whoop Road. It's a real place.
The other thing, and my personal jury is out on 'Chippy', but his comment post Gabby and EQ that he's looking out the window for the plague of locusts made me smile.
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@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
Couple of things.
I'm now actively involved in rectification works from the event that sparked this thread.
Which kinda leads to a slightly lighter note ... being that I have officially been to Whoop Whoop.
Ex-TC Seth dropped an imperial (not the relatively sized metric) fuck ton (no "ne") of rain back in January last year. (Like 1m+)
Did really bad things to creek crossings in the west of the region.
One of the sites I'm working on is Whoop Whoop Road. It's a real place.
The other thing, and my personal jury is out on 'Chippy', but his comment post Gabby and EQ that he's looking out the window for the plague of locusts made me smile.
That's the most dumb fuck Australian name I have ever seen
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@Mackerzzzz said in Extreme Weather:
@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
Couple of things.
I'm now actively involved in rectification works from the event that sparked this thread.
Which kinda leads to a slightly lighter note ... being that I have officially been to Whoop Whoop.
Ex-TC Seth dropped an imperial (not the relatively sized metric) fuck ton (no "ne") of rain back in January last year. (Like 1m+)
Did really bad things to creek crossings in the west of the region.
One of the sites I'm working on is Whoop Whoop Road. It's a real place.
The other thing, and my personal jury is out on 'Chippy', but his comment post Gabby and EQ that he's looking out the window for the plague of locusts made me smile.
That's the most dumb fuck Australian name I have ever seen
Booboo, Whoop Whoop or Seth?
Just to elucidate for you, Whoop Whoop is a mythical Australian place that exists somewhere beyond the Outback. The Black Stump is positively suburban in comparison.
So to find out it actually exists, and then visit was a little amusing.
Only an hour west of Maryborough, but by fuck it was Whoop Whoop.
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@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
@Mackerzzzz said in Extreme Weather:
@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
Couple of things.
I'm now actively involved in rectification works from the event that sparked this thread.
Which kinda leads to a slightly lighter note ... being that I have officially been to Whoop Whoop.
Ex-TC Seth dropped an imperial (not the relatively sized metric) fuck ton (no "ne") of rain back in January last year. (Like 1m+)
Did really bad things to creek crossings in the west of the region.
One of the sites I'm working on is Whoop Whoop Road. It's a real place.
The other thing, and my personal jury is out on 'Chippy', but his comment post Gabby and EQ that he's looking out the window for the plague of locusts made me smile.
That's the most dumb fuck Australian name I have ever seen
Booboo, Whoop Whoop or Seth?
Just to elucidate for you, Whoop Whoop is a mythical Australian place that exists somewhere beyond the Outback. The Black Stump is positively suburban in comparison.
So to find out it actually exists, and then visit was a little amusing.
Only an hour west of Maryborough, but by fuck it was Whoop Whoop.
Whoop Whoop I was meaning
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After reading some of the above having a house fall down and still being without power isn't that bad.
Anyone else still "powerless"? It's actually been 6 days now. They had a scheduled outage on Saturday for "maintenance" (hahahaha) and then it went out on Sunday never to come back...
@booboo The cellar is flooded. I'll leave what that means to your imagination.
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that's a long time without power!
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@mariner4life said in Extreme Weather:
that's a long time without power!
The freezer full of now rotting "stuff" agrees.
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@Snowy said in Extreme Weather:
@mariner4life said in Extreme Weather:
that's a long time without power!
The freezer full of now rotting "stuff" agrees.
gross
Ergon are a shit company in many ways, but their ability to get the power grid back up and running quickly after a cyclone is pretty impressive
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@mariner4life Yeah. Vector are so shit at it that most of my neighbours gave up and have generators. A gentle zephyr and the power is off. Or even a sprinkling of rain. I have paid for a shit load of solar and a powerwall (of course), but that will last a day at most.
I also don't have a roof to put the panels on. Or walls to put the roof on either now.
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@voodoo said in Extreme Weather:
I honestly cannot remember the last time the power went out here - even for an hour. I have no idea if we even have a candle anywhere.
Shit, the stuff you take for granted
i was just thinking that the other day. i remember powercuts being a regular thing as a kid (remember, treat all lines as live) but now it next to never goes out.
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@Snowy said in Extreme Weather:
We had 3 or 4 typhoons a year in Hong Kong and very rarely lost power (even then only for minutes) but now I live in a third world country again. A very nice one admittedly but infrastructure isn't really a forte.
To be fair, you keep trying to abnormal shit like transport entire houses and build solar & battery-powered bunkers for your "assets". If you'd just be a regular kiwi and get a grid-connected 1/4 acre block, you'd probably be sweet
