Severe weather warning for Welly tonight

[nudemetalz]

Just got it through on the Council fax....going to head home shortly before me and my ZX-10 struggle to keep a lane on the motorway.

Take extra care everyone that is riding home tonight here in the Capital.

[Colapop]

The wind is howling right now. Take the back roads or shelter areas. Be careful people.

[Str8 Jacket]

Yep, great night to stay at home and drink me thinks!

[Hawkeye]

Got up this morning, opened the curtains and said 'bugger that for a lark'. It was blowing a hoolie at 7:30 and pissistantly raining. Heard the forcast for the afternoon and decided not to take the chance.
I sat on the train coming home looking at the white caps on the top of the 4-5 foot swell in the harbour and decided that I'd made the right decision.

[Colapop]

I went for a site visit out to the airport extension (south coast) and you wanna see THOSE whitecaps!!

[Charlie]

...and this is summer :blink:
Wait till the weather turns shit!

[Jamezo]

It was pretty gusty when I was coming back to Teh Hutt, 5:15-5:45, some serious drift happening.

[Skunk]

Lovely evening to sit in the garage and work on the bucket... :drinkup:

[Bandit Rider]

There are reasons for having a heavy bike in Wellington.

[marty]

i'm flying in at 10am saturday morning - does it look like it's going to clear?

[The Beast]

That's 12 hours from now, but I can confirm that it is still shithouse weather round my way.

[Skunk]

i'm flying in at 10am saturday morning...:killingme Yeeeeha!

[Str8 Jacket]

We are apparently getting waves 8-10 metres high and winds of up to 125 kmh.... all ferrys are cancelled and the next one is due to leave 8.30 am tomoro morning. So I dont know, looks iffy......

[Shadows]

i'm flying in at 10am saturday morning - does it look like it's going to clear?

LOL no. Be prepared for another sideways rollercoaster Wellington landing. I just love them, almost as much as listening to all the softcocks grunting gasping vomiting and hyperventilating throughout the cabin. I always get strange looks from fellow passengers once the plane has stopped and everybody's calmed down, I think its because I normally crack up laughing at some point in the proceedings at some nob end who's been going "EEEERGH GH GH GH HER HER HER MMMMM GH HER" for the last five minutes.

[marty]

just checked the airport sigmet. gusting 46kts with severe windshear. looks nasty.

SPECI NZWN 030900Z 20034G45KT 7000 -SHRA FEW028 SCT048 BKN085 12/07
Q1005 WS RWY16 TEMPO 2500 +SHRAGS SCT018CB RMK KAUKAU 19046KT =

[Shadows]

The wind is howling right now. Take the back roads or shelter areas. Be careful people.

Once I got clear of the homo cagers and was able to get some reasonable speed on I stopped getting blown all over the place. I actually like riding in inclement weather. That will probably all change when I get a shinier bike though.

[Timber020]

I had to remove some seriously wrecked limbs from a pohutakawa before the crashed down into powerlines....that wind is really picking up in places, not fun to climb in

[Uncle B]

Wild night, heavy rain but didn't seem too bad until I got up this morning and saw 2 branches snapped off our Elm tree :cry:
Listening to the news report on the radio they reported an 8 hour ferry crossing with one passenger sustaining broken ribs and and other with a broken arm. Must have been plenty of :puke: going on.

Been on one of those crossings where the bow was dissapearing under the water and the whole ship was shuddering cause the props were in the air driving nothing.

EDIT: Local fire station alarm has just gone off again.

[Skunk]

Not too bad our way... Thought you would miss the worst of a southerly there B.

[sAsLEX]

I sat on the train coming home looking at the white caps on the top of the 4-5 foot swell in the harbour and decided that I'd made the right decision.


haha K14was on the ferry yesterday! said it wasn't too much fun :crazy: :sick: :sick: :sick: