Extreme Weather
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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
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@voodoo said in Extreme Weather:
@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
Being grid connected isn't really a lot of help, that's the point.
I just spent 15k getting a powerless cable to the destroyed house.
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we had 3 power outages last year, pretty tame weather events.
We had our power restored yesterday, have just bought an 8kw generator, to hopefully never need to use, manily for the septic and tanks water, but with that power will be enough to charge shit up and even add a luxury or 2 like Wifi/TV...
Damage reports still trickling in, but I know so many are still without power, and some have been told they may have upto a week more.
I gotta give kudos to Northpower, the amount of replacement poles, line, transformers etc they must have to have on hand must be massive, update today that something like 365 dairy farms of 500 known are back with power and 65 due to come back today too, cos not milking cows brings other issues!
NZ sadly though, has a lack of foresight when it comes to infrastructure, cost cutting or band aids seems to be the way.
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@Snowy make a list, take some pics of the damaged stuff before disposal and where possible get pricing for replacement, even if just what your local supermarket is selling it for.
Thing is with an event like this, your insurer will be going to thier re-insurers so they have to quantify losses to them, although a smaller claim like yours should be easy enough although low priority.
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Yikes.
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The family of a truck driver stranded on a destroyed section of State Highway 2 in northern Hawke’s Bay has spoken out after a startling Defence Force photograph showed his vehicle stranded amongst utter devastation on a corner known as the ‘Devil’s Elbow’.
The photograph was taken by the NZDF as they surveyed the key route, showing the damage wrought by surging waters and the forestry slash they carried.
The driver was travelling back to Hastings on Monday when he went missing, his family confirmed to the Herald.
He endured a harrowing wait until 10pm on Tuesday before he was airlifted to safety.
He is now resting and recovering at home, said his family, who were eager to let people know he was safe.
“The main thing we’d like people who see that terrible picture to know is that he is safe,” a family spokesperson said. “He is currently in quite a bit of shock and not in a position to comment, (he) just needs to get his mindset back.”
From this article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/cyclone-gabrielle-truck-driver-rescued-from-devils-elbow-on-state-highway-2/AHODL5YDDFFZZK3PNWM4FLS4CE/ -
@Stargazer fuck i bet old mate needed new shorts after that!
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@Mackerzzzz said in Extreme Weather:
NapierFloods are such an insidious adverse weather event. Long after the waters recede you end up finding the extent of the damage. For homes, this means practically everything. While you can stack items above the waterline, the realisation as you clean up that the plaster requires removal etc. Repeat the process and people eventually give up hope.
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@antipodean and thats the next part to events such as this, the mental toll it takes on everyone, I know people that get anxious everytime it rains now after having an event such as this when water is knee/waist high in your home.
I mean we got off pretty lightly up here compared to other parts, but I had 2 sleepless nights over the weekend, now spending my days talking to people that have thier livelihoods in the balance, its just heartbreaking.
The emergency services (many of them volunteers), those essential services (linesmen, truckies etc) all these people that at a time when you want to be with family, are out working and helping communities to keep the world ticking over, and then there will be the ones dealing with the grief of finding people losing thier lives, just a brutal situation
After Covid and everything else in the past few years, this could well be the breaking point for many.
So, so many people impacted.
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@Stargazer I was wondering if that guy made it out. Bugger that.
It’s a hell of a road at the best of times.
My Uncle, Aunty and cousins are still on the family farm up in Putorino north of there. Cut off both ways. A neighbour has starlink (I might buy some shares) and managed to say they were okay. They may just have to kill a few sheep and go on the Rogan diet for a couple of weeks.
They said it’s way worse than Bola. My mates family in Te Pohue (anecdotally and maybe recency bias) say it’s about 10 x as bad on the land but they also measured 700 mLs in 30 hours so I believe them.In better news, my mate and family are safe from the Esk flooding. They got rescued when the water was half way up the house.
I managed to talk with a lot of people today and they are all in fairly good spirits, so far. Lots of talk about forestry, slash and accountability though.
