Lusi is a storm [intermittently updated blogging] [quotage]

Cameron Slater has a Lusi watch post up, and Ele Ludemann has a comment up as well (which I added to yesterday’s post).

 

It is not by any stretch a hurricane. This is the current situation, (shot taken at 1458h — and the wind measurement is set over Auckland)

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We can joke about it in Auckland, but it has been pretty nasty in the poorer and more tropical parts of the South Pacific.

And, yes we have the rich and the stupid.

So far, it is just minor things.

Perhaps people are getting too casual. It’s still mainly to the North of NZ

It is now 5 PM and the eye of the storm is to the west of Cape Reinga. Here it remains quite calm, humid and warm, almost unseasonably so. (the pointer is sitting over Dunedin this time)
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Further… it is now 9 PM. We have had some rain locally, and the temperature is falling rapidly. There have been power cuts.

Let’s see what happens tomorrow.

SUNDAY.

On the ridge where we live it is windy, cool and raining. THe power is on… nothing is down. The Paper is calling it more of a windbag than a tropical storm.

We do get the occaisional tropical storm. We do get storm surges… generally not as far south as Dunedin, where the worst storms come in winter and straignt from that block of an ice below us, but this was not one of them.

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  2. Gosh, I hope you’ve been okay! (would’ve commented sooner but forgot my log-in info).

    The Hurricanes/Tropical Storms I’ve experienced here in the Northeast (aside from Sandy, that was a bit more intense) often knock down a few telephone/electrical poles, and decorative trees planted in the wrong hardiness zone. (My mother loves to garden – she despises tropical storms because they turn the yard to disarray)

    “We can joke about it in Auckland, but it has been pretty nasty in the poorer and more tropical parts of the South Pacific”

    I remember the casualties from Hurricane Sandy were mostly poorer families who lived in low-lying areas. (There was controversy because they claim the government did not reach out enough to the poor to warn them).

    I hope the Maori are okay (don’t mean to stereotype, its just, like the indigenous American tribes, Maori struggle with poverty and often lack access to electricity). & the farmers’ fields. & the cows *pictures cows blowing away, like in the movie Twister*

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