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#3041406 24-Feb-2023 15:10

MadEngineer: The repeat weather disasters are triggering my empathy more than expected.

It’d be bad enough to be flooded out the once but to have it occur again and again you’d just have nothing left in the tank.

Except water!

But seriously, I get that. Some of the anguish I've seen really struck a chord with me. Covid had pretty much put paid to most peoples reserves of resilience, then you get a few things like this, and it could take a long time to get back to 'OK' again.

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#3041427 24-Feb-2023 15:41

I admire any fortitude they have left. Hard enough for older people but those with families to care for and not knowing where their next dinner or bed will be and then still having the pressure of rates and mortgage payments while surviving and putting on a brave front for the kids...is simply unbearable.

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#3041429 24-Feb-2023 15:45

Eva888: I admire any fortitude they have left. Hard enough for older people but those with families to care for and not knowing where their next dinner or bed will be and then still having the pressure of rates and mortgage payments while surviving and putting on a brave front for the kids...is simply unbearable.

Uncertainty is one of the biggest drains on peoples mental health. It eats away at your well-being. Financial stress is another big one.

I think the thing about this, is the scale of it. Some of the damage defies belief.

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#3041541 24-Feb-2023 18:56

MadEngineer: The repeat weather disasters are triggering my empathy more than expected.

It’d be bad enough to be flooded out the once but to have it occur again and again you’d just have nothing left in the tank.

100%, I actually felt today that passing on my thoughts does become "just words" But its unreal for the HB/Napier people. Ive had to manage multiple CHC EQ issues, but thats no comparison to HB/Napier. You can fix stuff, but if the property is under 2 metres, or one metre or 200mm of water thats very very difficult to put it mildly.

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#3043193 28-Feb-2023 12:47

Almost 2 years after the event, I'm still really irritated by AirNZ cancelling our flight from Houston to Auckland and paying only one night's accommodation (they rebooked us onto a flight 2 days later) or meals. What brought this up was a Fair Go segment last night about ferries and their liability under the Consumer Guarantees Act for consequential losses when sailings are cancelled, followed by misleading their customers. What the segment describes is very similar to what AirNZ did to us. Does NZ law apply if tickets are bought in NZ for international travel, especially the return leg to NZ?

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#3043215 28-Feb-2023 13:22

I have also been screwed by Air NZ in a different way. It was one of the better airlines when it still had its parochial Kiwi identity. Then it became just another international money-grubber.

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#3051079 17-Mar-2023 08:39

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-crime-hammer-wielding-primary-school-aged-youths-raid-howick-liquor-store/YOQMLVVZEBEITEVGRJKANBF3TE/

This is wrong on so many levels and disturbing to the extreme on all of them.

Primary School Aged kids!

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#3051081 17-Mar-2023 08:48

Rikkitic:

I have also been screwed by Air NZ in a different way. It was one of the better airlines when it still had its parochial Kiwi identity. Then it became just another international money-grubber.

Hell, I'm a shareholder and I want to see them fail after the BS they pulled during COVID.

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#3051093 17-Mar-2023 09:00

networkn:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-crime-hammer-wielding-primary-school-aged-youths-raid-howick-liquor-store/YOQMLVVZEBEITEVGRJKANBF3TE/

This is wrong on so many levels and disturbing to the extreme on all of them.

Primary School Aged kids!

Think of the school teachers of such kids. No amount of pay would compensate for having to deal with kids that have no fear of anything because they are guaranteed no repercussions and the teachers hands are tied by ever growing regulations. I suspect there is also no parenting at home. Look ahead 10 years at what our society will look like when these kids are adults. It’s a frightening thought.

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#3051179 17-Mar-2023 12:46

networkn: Primary School Aged kids!

Not all. One, or some in that group, only just, yes:

Article: A police spokesperson told the Herald the six involved, some of which are aged between 10 and 15,

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#3051183 17-Mar-2023 13:01

Eva888: Think of the school teachers of such kids. No amount of pay would compensate for having to deal with kids that have no fear of anything because they are guaranteed no repercussions and the teachers hands are tied by ever growing regulations. I suspect there is also no parenting at home. Look ahead 10 years at what our society will look like when these kids are adults. It’s a frightening thought.

People naturally do make a lot of assumptions about kids involved in these incidents and come up with explanations. It is just assumptions.

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#3077663 18-May-2023 21:47

I am glad they seemed to have found someone responsible for the lodge fire in Wellington. I can't comprehend why or how someone could set fire to a tenanted building. So much grief for some people probably made worse for the fact it was intentional.

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#3077674 18-May-2023 23:02

Mental illness issues no doubt. It happens in all those lodge type places and there are plenty of stories that go with them around the constant triggering of smoke/fire alarms.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3077676 18-May-2023 23:15

networkn: I am glad they seemed to have found someone responsible for the lodge fire in Wellington. I can't comprehend why or how someone could set fire to a tenanted building. So much grief for some people probably made worse for the fact it was intentional.

Wondering if the arrested person was the same lodger that was interviewed on the AM show on Three and who admitted to being an arsonist.

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#3078917 23-May-2023 11:41

I know we have an active conversation elsewhere about smash & grabs and violent retail crime but I'm posting this here because I know these people and it really hurts that they are closing their shop as a result of crime.

Titirangi Post Shop

I've lived in Titirangi for 6 years now and in that time I've gotten to know the family that run the post shop pretty well. They are a lovely family that have been a part of the Titirangi and West Auckland community for over 20yrs. When the shop was hit in April this year there were dozens of people in there helping them to clean up.

If I've bought something from someone on Geekzone, then I've most likely collected it from this post shop. If you've bought something from me on Geekzone then it 100% was sent from this post shop. But no more.

Aboli and Shrikant, here's wishing you a nice peaceful sleep when you do close those doors.

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