Auckland Weather 27/01/23 and Cyclone Gabrielle

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#3042963 28-Feb-2023 07:35

Hawkes Bay beaches buried in tons of slash. People are going to try and burn this and we will end up with a Dioxin health problem. This cannot be allowed to continue and companies involved must be held to account.

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#3043164 28-Feb-2023 11:32

I just saw this image posted in a Teams Chat, SH5 Napier-Taupo highway, don't think this will be a quick fix..

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#3043171 28-Feb-2023 11:46

I wonder if they'll re-route roads like that? (Same question applies to SH25A in Coromandel).

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#3043177 28-Feb-2023 12:00

DjShadow:

I just saw this image posted in a Teams Chat, SH5 Napier-Taupo highway, don't think this will be a quick fix..

Bugger, was meant to go to Napier for a conference at Easter, was hoping to drive, but without that road would have to go via Palmerston North.

Might have to fly.

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#3043270 28-Feb-2023 13:58

blackjack17:
Bugger, was meant to go to Napier for a conference at Easter, was hoping to drive, but without that road would have to go via Palmerston North.

Might have to fly.

You could probably still make it work, you could improvise something like horse blinders from a cardboard box, put them on just before you get to Palmerston North, and then look straight ahead at the road in front of you until you see the peaks of Mt.Cleese on the other side, then take them off again. With a bit of luck you'll barely notice you've been through Palmerston North.

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#3043278 28-Feb-2023 14:16

FYI, a texting code has been setup to donate to the rebuilding appeal (I just made a donation or two this way).

From: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/cyclone-gabrielle-appeal-fund-launched

Donations can be made at:

Appeal website: www.cycloneappeal.govt.nz
TXT GIVE to 2454 to donate $3 to the Cyclone Appeal
Internet banking: Cyclone Gabrielle Appeal Fund, 03 0251 0040146 00
Over the counter at all trading banks.

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#3043351 28-Feb-2023 16:56

DjShadow:

I just saw this image posted in a Teams Chat, SH5 Napier-Taupo highway, don't think this will be a quick fix..

This right here is exactly why even if you "know" the road surface is only a few centimetres below the water level, if you cannot physically see road then stay off it! This happens way more often than you think!

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#3043359 28-Feb-2023 17:23

Kyanar:

This right here is exactly why even if you "know" the road surface is only a few centimetres below the water level, if you cannot physically see road then stay off it! This happens way more often than you think!

I'd argue this is why you walk any such piece of road to prove it first, not a blanket stay off.

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#3043360 28-Feb-2023 17:25

Ge0rge:

I'd argue this is why you walk any such piece of road to prove it first, not a blanket stay off.

Nope, blanket stay off. You step into the current moving through where that road was, you're getting swept away.

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#3043371 28-Feb-2023 17:46

Kyanar:
Ge0rge:

I'd argue this is why you walk any such piece of road to prove it first, not a blanket stay off.

Nope, blanket stay off. You step into the current moving through where that road was, you're getting swept away.

Also a sub-100kg person moving carefully across it is very different from more than a ton of metal rolling across it.

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#3043378 28-Feb-2023 17:53

Even if you carefully step in to a hole that you can't see under the flowing water, the current isn't going to be that careful back to you. Still an unreasonably high chance of losing balance and being swept away. Fast flowing water 15cm deep can knock you over. Step in to a washout that's deeper than that when you can't see it and things may go badly.

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#3043386 28-Feb-2023 18:22

I don't know how other people step into spaces they can't see, but I would gingerly stick my toes out and swish them around seeking contact before I put my weight on the foot.

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#3043411 28-Feb-2023 20:29

The comment was removed. Still, don't be a dick, folks.

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#3043696 1-Mar-2023 16:47

And Brian Tamaki is at it again... sigh.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/03/01/brian-tamaki-links-cyclone-gabrielle-devastation-with-porn-use/

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#3043702 1-Mar-2023 17:06

Gurezaemon:
And Brian Tamaki is at it again... sigh.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/03/01/brian-tamaki-links-cyclone-gabrielle-devastation-with-porn-use/

Oh, what a plonker! 😀

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