Ruapehu road closure warning. Sept 25 2007

[sunhuntin]

Mount ruapehu has erupted tonight The local council is unclear how large the eruption is so far however a lahar plan (emergency action) has been actioned Police are evacuating the area and have closed off all road into the area http://www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/volcams/ruapehu/

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.aspx?id=20483371&threadid=20483371

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.aspx?id=20483347&threadid=20483347

[Clivoris]

Whaark.:shit:

[98tls]

:shit:is this a wind up or what.........nothing on tele-text etc

[sunhuntin]

not a wind up... check the geo sites, and theres also links in the trademe threads to news reports. wouldnt have posted if it was a wind up.

[Zukin]

Its real
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1320238/1379358

I am not sure if its an eruption or a lahar breach, we will find out soon I guess :pinch:

[98tls]

not a wind up... check the geo sites, and theres also links in the trademe threads to news reports. wouldnt have posted if it was a wind up. Cheers......heard nothing of it down under.

[peasea]

Yup, it's true, I just turned on my lava lamp and it's all go.

[Big Dan]

she better make it a goody the last one was pitaful

but i will wait for more difinative confirmation first

[sunhuntin]

jeeez... if these threads were on here, the repost crew would be worn out!

this makes 3 on trademe:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.aspx?id=20484062&threadid=20484062

[98tls]

Yup, it's true, I just turned on my lava lamp and it's all go. I had one of them but my border collie used to stand staring at it for hours....no shit he just went into the zone over it,replaced it with a touch lamp..basterd worked out he could turn it on with his nose so that had to go as well:crazy:Dont know how many times i got disturbed doing the deed by the light coming on.,used to freak the shitt outta the chick

[peasea]

tvnz site confirms it

[sunhuntin]

heres the police comms
Incident Type: Eruption/Lahar - Mt Ruapehu At approximately 8.30 pm tonight activity in the crater lake was noticed by staff working at the time. This incident has now been upgraded to a full eruption. Lahars have begun spilling down two sides of the mountain. As a result of this all Roads on each side of the mountain are closed to all traffic until further notice. All emergency and related services have been activated and are operating under the Lahar plan created for the previous incident of this nature. The extent of the eruption and lahars has not been fully established. Details of this will be released as soon as they are known

source: trademe.

[jafar]

This will keep all the cops on the desert road busy :2thumbsup

[peasea]

I had one of them but my border collie used to stand staring at it for hours....no shit he just went into the zone over it,replaced it with a touvh lamp..basterd worked out he could turn it on with his nose so that had to go as well:crazy:

Ya should'a put a heat lamp in it, that would'a sorted the mutt!

[Big Dan]

lucky my Girlfriend is a Geologist but the damn girl is asleep so i can't access the better sites

oh well all i say to mother nature is bring it on

[peasea]

This will keep all the cops on the desert road busy :2thumbsup


111kph all the way from Turangi to Waiouru.
Then a new air filter probably.

[dino3310]

i was working in the forestry down near it last time it blew
fuck it looked amazing,i saw the first puff in the early morning but when the big ash cloud came overhead i started shitting bricks,packed up my gear and got the fuck out of there,it looked awesome but freaky at the same time.

[Big Dan]

111kph all the way from Turangi to Waiouru.
Then a new air filter probably.

thats if the bike doesn't suffakate before hand

[peasea]

thats if the bike doesn't suffakate before hand


and/or the rider.........

[Big Dan]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4214666a10.html

[Big Dan]

and/or the rider.........

thats true and whos to say you could see well enough to go 111

[peasea]

"The eruption occured about 8.15pm.

The Desert Road and National Park road have both been closed.

GNS Science Duty volcanologist Craig Miller told Radio NZ the eruption was unexpected, a "blue sky eruption".

He said there was no warning before the eruption and the crater lake was cold. "

Which just goes to show; you can't predict what Mother N has up her sleeve.

[peasea]

thats true and whos to say you could see well enough to go 111

Do you need to?

[Big Dan]

Do you need to?

one would hope so

[peasea]

Gawd, another eruption-bashing thread.

Still, you have to go with the flow don't you?
Good for a laharf tho.
They're a lava minute.
Sit and watch the action, down a crate'r two.
Gott do summit I suppose.

[sunhuntin]

Gawd, another eruption-bashing thread.

Still, you have to go with the flow don't you?
Good for a laharf tho.
They're a lava minute.
Sit and watch the action, down a crate'r two.
Gott do summit I suppose.

must spread rep yada yada yada.

[Jantar]

must spread rep yada yada yada.
+1 ........

[Big Dave]

Any Toe Paw KBers report - what's happening?

Sorry - din't see other thread - bye bye,

[babyB]

cant see alot. dont know alot
http://www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/alert-bulletins/alert-bulletin-sept-25-2007-8-23-pm-ruapehu-volcano.html

[babyB]

roads are now open

TV1 will do an update at 6.30am

[Finn]

The Herald jumped on this one pretty quickly. Something differant from all the doom and gloom stories that's going on like another one of Sue Bradford's kids getting murdered.

In typical Herald style, they started off implying that half of the North Island had perished but was then downgraded to a ski lift operator who broke a fingernail but thourough investigation found that this incident was unrealted. Its now changed to "Skiers flee". I didn't know that people skied at 8:30 in the evening.

Edit: Oops, got that one wrong. A rock fell on someone while they were sleeping. Broke his legs.

[u4ea]

Edit: Oops, got that one wrong. A rock fell on someone while they were sleeping. Broke his legs.

yer bugger that! sleeping on the top of the world and woooooops ..get woken by a flying boulder spewed from the mothers stomach..nice wake up call..could think of nicer ways to wake up than in excruciating pain and hypothermia!

[RC1]

sonds like ruapehu just had a small dose of hiccups :(

[vifferman]

must spread rep yada yada yada.
Huh.
I got that too.
Summat must've changed - I used to be able to throw green spot-things with heterosexual abandon (was going to say "gay", but that's just gay.)

[vifferman]

In typical Herald style, they started off implying that half of the North Island had perished ....
Stop doing that, Finn. Apparently I'm not allowed to give you bling.
Try to be less funny for the next few days.:oi-grr:

[Hitcher]

I hope that that fucken mountain gets all of this out of its system well before the Grand Challenge.