Di Wundrin wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 11:16 am
Right about the News value dropping here when it turned it's eye elsewhere so to speak.
You'd better hope that it won't follow the law of averages and take one of those less likely tracks matey.
The latest tracks all show it hitting us dead square.
While it will lose a little strength, it's not going to lose much steam over a very warm Tasman Sea, and it's sucking enormous amounts of hot, wet air down with it.
I'm expecting some serious shit to happen, and with a storm surge coming into the Hauraki Gulf, which is perfectly designed to amplify the surge, we're going to have flooding across Auckland and the Hauraki Plains. It could be up to 2 metres, and there's a shitload of land less than a metre above the high tide mark.
I'll be laying in a stock of groceries today - I expect power cuts at the very least. Where we live will be no problem, but fuck me, some people have no idea what's about to happen.
Di Wundrin wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 11:16 am
I've still got a soft spot for Syria, only because we were generations long family friends with a Syrian family and I still associate them with it though none of them lived there since about 1920. Bit silly really but they were good people.
The speed of switch between dropping bombs to dropping 'aid' shouldn't be a surprise to a bloke your age with the hours clocked up watching how politics works. I'm waiting for Vlad to send a little something with love from the Kremlin.
Bit of a conundrum for Vlad - he's the one who's been bombing the fuck out of the Aleppo region, where the damage is. Poor bastards are copping it both ways.