Auckland Weather 27/01/23 and Cyclone Gabrielle

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#3036979 15-Feb-2023 12:06

A body has been found in the area where rescuers were searching for a missing firefighter in Muriwai after a landslide brought down houses, trapping two people.

Was hoping they'd find him stuck in some small pocket of space....

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#3036981 15-Feb-2023 12:07

Handsomedan:

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Oh, and for those interested in what happened with our in ground vinyl pool, finally got someone out to assess it and he said its stuffed. Will need complete rebuild and new vinyl.

He said technically we could clean it out and use it, but wont look fantastic and probably get a lot worse.

Have you decided on a plan? I assume it'll be covered by insurance?

Yeah insurance are coming to the party at this stage, until they give their final word, no real plan.

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#3037012 15-Feb-2023 13:06

Some wild weather through the Central Plateau,
One of my brothers had to travel up yesterday afternoon.
Most Cell sites out of action.

And some well established Pine plantations had acres and acres 'snapped off' (not uprooted - simply snapped off a few metres up)

If this pic uploads, he said they seemed flattened right through to the hills you see in the distance.

(no way you gonna mulch all that.... 🤣)

He said it reminded him of what you see in movies after volcanic eruption or huge bomb blast

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#3037032 15-Feb-2023 13:29

I tend to agree with you @Wombat1 as I’ve seen the same happen in Europe where they build over old streams and riverbeds and when the weather deluge comes they naturally get flooded.

You can see on those slips where the dirt is very loose and slides with the water weight. Pretty much like how an avalanche happens. Houses are often built too close to the batter face. We are on a hill that was a Council subdivision and I remember when we built there were strict rules as to how close to the batter face we were allowed to build. Not saying I feel entirely safe as it’s not rock, but been Ok so far and the hope is that they did some decent engineering and geological reports back then being a public works project.

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#3037040 15-Feb-2023 14:03

concordnz:

Here's a wider shot of damage in that part of the world courtesy of the NZ herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/power-could-be-off-for-weeks-in-southern-lake-taupo-communities/V6UZZCTAYJFBBHSWDU53YG4AM4/

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#3037042 15-Feb-2023 14:12

billgates: We were returning home from Honolulu to Auckland last night and were about 10 minutes from landing at Auckland and pilot was advised that the airport is not shut due to no gates available and we were then diverted to Sydney. When we arrived in Sydney, we told to find a hotel for ourselves as management has not been able to find any due to number of diverted flights to Sydney prior in the day so all hotels were heavily booked. Luckily my cousin lives in Sydney and came and picked us up at 11pm. They also did not unload our luggage from aircraft for security reasons as same aircraft will be used to fly us back.

It took us an hour of hunting Sydney at 1AM to find a petrol station that sells nappies for toddler and baby as we had run our of nappies in our carry on luggage during the extended flight time and all spare nappies were in checked in baggage. Flight is rebooted again for 2.30pm Sydney time today but Auckland airport shows HA445 landing 16th Feb 12.30am tomorrow early morning so time difference does not make any sense. Hawaiian airlines website still shows that HA445 landed in Auckland at scheduled time of 9.15pm.

Probably lucky that the original destination for that flight was New Zealand so would have been mostly people who didn't need a pre-approved visa to enter Australia. Would have been pretty rough if diverted to an airport in a country where you couldn't leave the airport without applying for entry well in advance.

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#3037162 15-Feb-2023 17:28

Guess that is the problem when they prune trees like that and all the foliage is at the top.

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#3037163 15-Feb-2023 17:29

ezbee:

With much of the thinking the storm might maul North, Auckland, Corromandel and then spin off to sea ?

The widespread depth of disaster across rest of coastal North Island seems to have been unexpected.
With storm hanging around.

early forecast was for small hit on the east cape, but later forecasts showed eastern side getting a sizable hit. catch is getting reliable long range forecasts with these types of events is extremely difficult. for eg auckland got a little lucky as a big part of the rain got pushed out west and over the sea.

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#3037165 15-Feb-2023 17:36

Wombat1:

Homes on slips seems to be a very common occurrence in NZ, one wonders if it has more to do with the geology of the hills or ground they built on. For instance here in Aus the hills are mostly rock, whereas in NZ its sand which just turns to mud in the rain. We hardly get any slips here, let alone houses going down hills. Perhaps instead of blaming this on climate change it may be better to blame put the blame on councils for allowing houses to be built in such bad places, and on mud.

I get it that a cyclone is a different event, but when I lived in Wellington slips were always a common occurrence after the rain. Mostly unheard of here.

with the push on housing in recent years/decade theres a lot of houses being squeezed into marginal places. there is one i pass on the way to work. they built a concrete base house thats right next to the creek that drains the head of the valley. it flooded within a year or so of being built.

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#3037166 15-Feb-2023 17:40

MikeB4:

Looking at the damage in Eastern regions I feel we need to urgently change the way forestry is carried out in Aotearoa. There is huge volumes of slash being carried off from clear felling into the waterways creating dams and when this stuff gets into flooded rivers its like a tsunami

of mud, water and wood which is destroys everything in its path. We need to ban clear felling and require the forestry companies to take away the slash and deal with it properly.

one of the floods here some years back was caused by slash forming a dam on the local river. the interesting part is the forestry company was under contract to keep it all away from water ways to stop that happening. no doubt they agreed to conditions then promptly ignored them.

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#3037172 15-Feb-2023 18:08

surprised no houses were damaged in those photos with the trees levelled

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#3037174 15-Feb-2023 18:13

Yay. Power and Internet back after days in the stone age. Driveway has also been cleared. I can breathe again.

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#3037186 15-Feb-2023 18:41

Rikkitic:

Yay. Power and Internet back after days in the stone age. Driveway has also been cleared. I can breathe again.

MAGIC!!

I was going to PM you, but was aware of power and comms there, and dont waste battery nattering to me. But you will know that we all were thinking of you and other affected Zoners.

Water ok?

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#3037187 15-Feb-2023 18:46

Rikkitic:
Yay. Power and Internet back after days in the stone age. Driveway has also been cleared. I can breathe again.

Good to hear. Was thinking about you and hoping all was well. All the best.

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#3037190 15-Feb-2023 18:54

panther2:

surprised no houses were damaged in those photos with the trees levelled

part of that is the way the trees are grown. plus a bit luck as well. we get it with hedge rows, shelter belts, etc a fair bit. once the first tree goes it makes the rest more exposed and they tend to follow suit.

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