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#323077 23-Oct-2025 08:11

With the numerous strong wind warnings, cancellations of flights, trains, and someone unfortunately dying yesterday...

Please take extra care and stay inside if you can. Get all of your loose items secured now. Ensure phones, battery banks and god knows what else is fully charged today.

It's gonna be a bloody rough one.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/576693/weather-live-destructive-gales-arrive-as-rare-red-level-wind-warnings-in-place

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#3427362 23-Oct-2025 08:29

Our HR dept sent out a strong recommendation to WFH today. Good day for places to test their BCP too

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#3427371 23-Oct-2025 08:59

For those in Wellington and are interested

The Mt Kaukau Wind gauge operated by Kordia is on Harvest, so far as @9am the strongest was 99km/h

https://live.harvest.com/?cmd=home&sid=7090&loc=1-1-22-308

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#3427374 23-Oct-2025 09:12

It’s slowly strengthening in Te Awakairangi.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3427375 23-Oct-2025 09:15

A 142k gust just recorded at Kaukau. So Thor is getting busy.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3427384 23-Oct-2025 09:38

Wind has picked up a little on exposed Wellington hill but nothing as bad as the other night when you couldn’t hear the TV. Maybe it will blow past Welly.

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#3427423 23-Oct-2025 11:51

11.45 it’s finally picked up, very strong gusts. Was down in the village and can’t understand why they allow double decker busses to run in this. They look ready to tip over.

Friend who works at DOC says they have now lost connectivity and power with 19 regional offices.

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#3427446 23-Oct-2025 12:41

I think I'm going to have an insurance claim once the storm has passed, front fence is moving 20-25 degrees in both directions with each wind gust

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#3427449 23-Oct-2025 12:58

Nowhere near as bad here (North Otago) as it was earlier in the week, so far.

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#3427450 23-Oct-2025 13:05

Minor casualty at our place, or the neighbours' really. Managed to clear it all up already.

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#3427457 23-Oct-2025 14:11

Majority of the upper South Island lost power in the morning. Gore this afternoon

OneNZ have activated satellite coverage via spacex, Palmerston North south.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3427472 23-Oct-2025 15:02

Things have calmed considerably in Te Awakairangi

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3427483 23-Oct-2025 15:34

I've been getting updates from my elderly mother in Mosgiel.
They lost power an hour or so ago and aren't hopeful of it coming back on any time soon.

Whilst she's hunkered down at home, dad is off with a bunch of other elderly types at some group or other than he belongs to (more than likely a Parkinson's group or a Blind Old Git's group).
I've heard all about rooves being blown off, trampolines flying through the air and trees down all over the place.
Madness that they are taking old folk on excursions on a day like today, but I guess they have their schedules.

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