Extreme Weather
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There are some absolute scum about.
At the weekend a gang targeted the stickered houses at the tip of Northcote Point.
What with Waka Kotahi purchasing all bar two of them and then the cliff slipping into the sea all bar a couple were vacant.
They broke into my brother's garage and house and left every door and window open, but he didn't have anything of value. They certainly made sure of it though all his storage cartons were ripped open. Didn't even take any booze. At least they didn't trash the place.
The scum comment relates to the Neighbour's who are still living there. They held a knife to an old guy's throat and got his missus to hand over cash, credit cards, electronics and jewelry.
If only they'd walked on to my brother's deck. Could have done him and society a favour if they'd caused it to crash into the sea.
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@dogmeat apparently it is just tropical depression 14U at this time, expected to become a Tropical Cyclone later today...
Be fucking great if it just fucking died.
From what I have read/watched, the big fuck off systems that sit over Australia are often the reason shite like this will veer away from Aus toward NZ, so we can actually blame Aus!
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for the weather nerds amongst us (not sure if someone else posted this already - if so, thanks)
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Guy from Met Service on National Radio was reasonably concerning this morning.
Obviously, it's too far out to be certain, but gist of it was that we could have a month's rain in 24 hours which with already saturated grounds would mean significant flooding. Said "getting in sandbags would be a good idea if you got flooded last week".
Auckland might get some shelter from Coromandel Peninsula but could also get a direct hit. Let's hope the more optimistic tracks that put the path well off East Cape are the accurate ones.
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@dogmeat yeah it aint looking good on one of the models I have seen....will be pretty intense amount of rainfall from monday AM, no doubt accompanied by alot of wind unlike the last one.
The time you want them to get it very wrong...
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@MajorRage Sorry I didn't make it clear.
My brother's neighbour was the old guy who had the knife at his throat. Presumably by the same gang who turned over all the other (vacant) properties.
I have heard reports of the same thing happening in other parts of Auckland.
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@dogmeat yep, shitbags are out in force the past year or 2....our community page is always mentioning suspicious vehicles, people coming onto properties at night, most opportunistic, but doesnt take much for it to escalate either...
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I don't like the look of Gabrielle here
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@Stargazer said in Extreme Weather:
I don't like the look of Gabrielle here
That model seems to show it very slow over NZ ... which is sub-optimal.
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@booboo yea it moves pretty fast down from Aus then slows down over NZ...
The current modelling, which I hope is wrong, does not look good at all.
Is a bit of a worry, especially professionally...we recently had a webinar with a major insurer going through some of the claims in Auckland, some big numbers gonna come out of it and this is gonna make things worse.
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@taniwharugby weather related insurance costs look like they're on an exponential curve. It's damn scary... Climate change is a real trend with time
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@nzzp yeah the Auckland event alone is looking like being NZs highest weather event, and only behind the 2 EQs for any events in NZ
Add in the inflationary pressures already out there in construction, shortage of tradies, and then throw a fucking Cyclone into the mix...already high property insurance costs in NZ are gonna go up, more, again...
I expect at some point, the off-shore re-insurers will limit some of the coverage they offer in NZ (similar to parts of Aus where there is no cover for some flood events)
Makes me wonder how people get on living in the US Mid-West / Tornado alley!
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don't take this the wrong way but
it's been raining here since before christmas. we've now had 2 sunny days in a row. Cheers Gab
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Stunning day here today, brilliant blue sky at moment.
Nek minut, this cyclone sounds worse by the day...some predictions the worst storm to hit us this century.
Need this high sitting over NZ now to man up and stay put forcing Gabrielle out into the pacific!
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@taniwharugby said in Extreme Weather:
some predictions the worst storm to hit us this century.
The tracking seems to be most likely to be heading east of the coutnry - but slow moving. May still be a nightmare, but it isn't a direct hit thankfully. Media going nuts - but the reality is we still don't know.
Crossed fingers it isn't bad ... but we're preparing anyway.
named it yet.
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