Posts by Hebe
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Up Front: Floodland, in reply to Rob Stowell,
I blame the Governors Bay Community Assoc for scheduling the community fete on Sunday 16th.
Next time please let me know as soon as the date is set.
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Up Front: Floodland, in reply to Russell Brown,
Serious. The CCC and CDEM have met this morning. Here's the link; make of it what you will:
http://ccc.govt.nz/thecouncil/newsmedia/mediareleases/2014/201403131.aspxRight on cue an epic Ecan fail. During this morning's meeting -- trying to avert a replay of last week's flooding during the forecast torrential rain and gales for this weekend -- Ecan warns it will be checking your chimney. With technology. Fuck is not sweary enough.
http://www.rebuildchristchurch.co.nz/blog/2014/3/focus-on-older-wood-burners-this-winter
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Sacha,
One would love to have been a fly on the wall as Cunliffe’s new chief of staff Matt McCarten discussed this matter with Jones.
Four letters: STFU
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Russell Brown,
What was Amy Adams' role in the governmental and Cabinet decisions re CPWL? Did she stand aside? That's the test.
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It's me, Jeremiah, again: CDEM and the CCC are meeting this afternoon about this weekend's forecast storm for Chchch.
Met Service: "...Given the saturated soil [in Canterbury], residents will want to keep an eye on this storm as it draws closer because periods of heavy, persistent rain could certainly bring the risk for local flooding." -
Three things this morning that will resonate for the election:
1. No oil off Otago; probably none off Canterbury That helps shred National's long-term economic plans for NZ.
2. Steven Joyce will be happy. Hurling a very unpopular and now overcooked Minister overboard must be on the menu for the PM: win-win for Joyce.
3. Sixty to 90mm of rain forecast for 36 hours in Christchurch Sunday-Monday. The Heathcote is still high (in every sense). Empathy levels will rise.Prediction: this will be one of the twistiest and turniest campaigns I have ever seen.
Six months is a long time; and no-one is pretending that the campaign won't start until winter.Personally, I'm buying earplugs because my teenagers won't stop: they're tracking iPredict, watching Parliament TV and endlessly quizzing beloved and I about NZ political history. Not to mention old-fashioned sit-down protesting.
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[The fax of course is not internet; but to a non-techie type like myself, it was almost as glamorous and came in that same bracket as email: instant access to overseas.]
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Up Front: Floodland, in reply to Rob Stowell,
(Any books you especially miss? I can keep an eye open - will be going through a lot in the next few weeks.)
Not really heartbreaking Rob: it would be if I thought about it so I'm not.
Thank you indeed for the kind offer. I haven't really taken note of any yet (maybe it's the no-thinks or maybe I'm over them). -
Hard News: The Web, in reply to izogi,
I love Firefox: it's straightforward; and I don't see an advantage in being over-Googled. google search is great and the maps.
My first intersection with the internet was in 1995 or 1996 at an INL newspaper. I was specifically instructed that editorial staff access was locked down so journalists couldn't waste their time on it (ie reading foreign newspapers). Access was given on a strictly rationed case-by-case basis -- a bit like the best pens being kept in a locked cupboard in the assistant editor's office. Email addresses were verboten.
A couple of years later beloved had a fax machine at home that our neighbours used to come and worship and send glamorous notes to their friends and family who lived over the waters.
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Reading Ian's and Stephen's offers of help has put me in mind of "what the vicar told me" yesterday. The Woolston-Opawa-St Martins river loop properties have have been hit hard. Because the properties are more spread out and individually affected than the wholesale inundation of the Flockton Basin, the free skips are few and the clean-up volunteers many fewer.
Households in Woolston have lost everything. The vicar reports people piling up the debris and setting huge bonfires to get rid of it all. No contents insurance means huge dump fees -- and that's if a car and a trailer or a skip are obtainable.
People are getting on with it; quietly despairing, knowing Civil Defence is at the end of its tether as everyone else.Support from the authorities is minimal, but mostly not present.
While I'm at it, the council's claims of the flooding being to fast to call are crap: I walked to the river on Tuesday night at 9.30pm at high tide -- and it had well broken its banks. The rain had only been going a few hours. Sandbagging could and should have started early afternoon on Tuesday. The weather forecast and rain radars were clear and unambiguous. The appalling disconnect between the council apparatchiks and systems is still very evident.