Hard News: When the Weather is the News
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tomorrow am taking the ubiquitous “socks over shoes” advice.
Could be time to invest in crampons.
That hailstorm last night was the worst I've ever seen in Wellington (there was a major one in Wellington '79). And that was after more snow and sleet. I was cycling home at the time. It reminded me of stone throwing wars at age eight, except I was getting hit by about 100 pebbles per second. The hail on the road was an inch thick. Then going past the Kilbirnie rec centre there was a burst of thunder and lightening directly overhead. Do MTB tyres insulate? My workmates in the other K suburbs have been going home early to be sure of making it (our narrow streets and steep driveways are not made for this). My sister is snowed in on the Akatarawa Road (two feet deep so far).
Maybe a heatwave this summer?
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Sacha, in reply to
locusts
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Lilith __, in reply to
locusts
I'm putting my money on rains of frogs.
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BenWilson, in reply to
and, they need electricity to run. we pretty much discounted them immediately once we saw that.
You can still save electricity using things that require electricity to run. Unless your complaint is that it won't work when the power is out?
Not that I'd get one. To me a major point of a fireplace is to be able to burn things you want to get rid of. I'd save a lot of money and time and get land back if I could burn off a proportion of the organic waste that grows here. I had to fill an entire skip with it not so long ago. And I like tending fires.
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Lilith __, in reply to
To me a major point of a fireplace is to be able to burn things you want to get rid of.
Shredding is probably more secure. ;-)
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Heard a story today that two guys got around (possibly bribed) the cordon on SH3 at the bottom of the Rimutukas last night, trekked to the summit, and boarded down the road to the bottom. Would be a magic run.
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Sacha, in reply to
To me a major point of a fireplace is to be able to burn things you want to get rid of.
Fan heaters suck for that
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David Haywood, in reply to
anyone advised dr haywood to shrink-wrap his windows yet? cheap “double-glazing”.
Dr Haywood's Ph.D is in energy engineering/thermodynamics.
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Islander, in reply to
Not in snowstorms...bad bad idea-
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Lilith __, in reply to
To me a major point of a fireplace is to be able to burn things you want to get rid of.
Fan heaters suck for that
Roflnui :-)
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BenWilson, in reply to
Shredding is probably more secure. ;-)
There are some things you can't make more secure by shredding them. Burning them down to nothing at all, however, is pretty hard to glean much from. You can't know how much stuff there was there in the first place.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
cheap "double-glazing".
Sounds like the effect induced by the non-dynamic duo of Roger "charisma king" Sutton and the Pie Guy, with their soporific CERA media briefings. They build to a comfy drone, you can sort of nod along.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
I think Craig was talking about Auckland. Wellington is plainly messed up.
Yes, and if I was still living in Karori (run Allington Road through Google Maps) I'd be feeling a little more anxious.
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I’ve been enjoying the snow SO much!
I’m with the puppyish Greg Wood – I went all 6-year-old when we got the first snow on Sunday evening here in Welli – and I’ve been like it ever since. There’s just something so magical about snow. It transforms the landscape so beautifully that you can’t help but love it – to some extent at least.
My house is pretty high up in the Wellington hills (top end of Kelburn) so we had a veritable winter wonderland by yesterday evening and I couldn’t get enough of it! I had to keep on going outside just to gaze in awe at the white roads, snow-covered trees and dusted pathways and verges. Fantastic.
I’ve been dancing around in the snow every time we get a flurry – even if it means rushing out of my grown-up contractor role at work and heading downstairs to my 6-year-old self. It brings out the inner child in all of us, doesn’t it?
I think that’s why Ro Tierney’s Snow on Cuba Mall in central Wellington is so bloody marvellous – because it demonstrates so beautifully our inner child and our innocent childlike wonder and delight at snow – simply because it’s such a rare occurrence in this part of the country.
Ro’s video reached 100,000 views this evening and is on the front page of both Stuff and the Herald website, which is pretty cool. It’s also listed as a Vimeo Staff Pick so it’s on the front page of the Vimeo website as well. Go Ro!
ETA:
I particularly liked the tweets from @stephenfry about us all yesterday – first there was this one:
Wellington is beside itself with delight. Snow falling in the nation’s capital for the first time for 35 years they tell me.
…followed a while later by this one:
NZ has, bless it, gone officially mad. First snow in Auckland since the 30s. Children running along with open mouths to taste the flakes :)
Bless!
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Lucy Stewart, in reply to
Wellington is beside itself with delight. Snow falling in the nation’s capital for the first time for 35 years they tell me.
Who told him that? It might be the first *serious* snowfall for 35 years, or the first to reach sea-level, but I remember perfectly well the first time I saw snow - most likely the early-90s fall someone mentioned in one of these threads. Bit less than three decades there.
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anyone advised dr haywood to shrink-wrap his windows yet?
I doubt there's a sq metre of plastic shrink wrap left anywhere in the world at the moment, Auckland seems to have cornered the world market for all the (temporary?) RWC structures going up around the place.
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Che Tibby, in reply to
I’d save a lot of money and time and get land back if I could burn off a proportion of the organic waste that grows here.
i'm drying off a bunch of wood from around the yard as we speak. even collecting it from other people.
and pellet fires, yup. power cuts are the problem. we're up pretty high, so power cuts in winter storms are not infrequent.
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Che Tibby, in reply to
yup. read your sterling work.
but have you bubble-wrapped your walls and shrink-wrapped your windows yet?
you can pretend you're john travolta.
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Sacha, in reply to
Who told him that?
he's hanging out with dramatic types
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
even collecting it from other people.
So you're the person who's been stealing our firewood.
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Che Tibby, in reply to
think of it as "redistribution".
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
think of it as “redistribution”
And you think of it as "I'm getting a bigger dog".
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Che Tibby, in reply to
don't be like that gio, i'm just getting with the spirit of the current govt. you know if you get too cold you can come round to ours.
best bring your dish-washing gloves
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Dr Haywood’s Ph.D is in energy engineering/thermodynamics.
And, no doubt, familiar with the work of Ed Mazara . Who's Early Work has been well thumbed in my endeavours and who's Later Works should be studied by anyone involved in the building industry.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
think of it as “redistribution”
And you think of it as “I’m getting a bigger dog”.
A big dog owner is just a Marxist who's been mugged for firewood.
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