Stay indoors if in Taranaki! Weather warning (5 July)

**soundbeltfarm** · 5th July 2007, 19:39

tornados everywhere.
car caught in powerlines by our house.
few guys coming to rugby practice got caught in tonado out of hawera.
were pretty white when i saw them.
power lines down all through hawera.
lepper rd hit too.

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 5th July 2007, 19:41

Cause the north island is fall of ... oh never mind...

**Big Dan** · 5th July 2007, 19:50

shes pretty crazy out there in the last 24hours i haven't heard in my life of NZ have 4 in 24 hours let a lone 3 in 1 area guess we can call the naki

TORNADO ALLY NAKI

**sunhuntin** · 5th July 2007, 19:55

almost 8pm, and the weathers been shit here in wanganui for a couple of hours now. thunder and lightening right before i left work at 7, and what sounded like hail as soon as i got settled down with tea. windy as fuck too.

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 5th July 2007, 19:56

Originally Posted by Big Dan

shes pretty crazy out there in the last 24hours i haven't heard in my life of NZ have 4 in 24 hours let a lone 3 in 1 area guess we can call the naki

TORNADO ALLY NAKI

Got to admit it has been a bit of a crazy winter all over...

**Big Dan** · 5th July 2007, 19:59

Originally Posted by NighthawkNZ

Got to admit it has been a bit of a crazy winter all over...

I was accross town at the airport when the tornado hit botany and it looked dark as

**dhunt** · 5th July 2007, 20:18

Certainly not supper pleasant weather that's for sure. I didn't have any problems getting home earlier but it got a whole lot worse just after I got home.

**soundbeltfarm** · 5th July 2007, 20:27

just went out to check on the wife of one of my mates who's in the fire brigade,
and 2 tornados went through about 3 km below our house and power poles just all pushed over down the rd and it just missed our run off out of kaponga but hit our friends who are winter milking and most of their power poles knocked over lost a big pine plantation and general stuff everywhere.
not sure if their cow shed ok but he wont be milking in his shed in the morning.

**ynot slow** · 5th July 2007, 21:20

Just got power back on in parts of Sth Naki,Normanby had no power since 6.00pm or so,and still off at 9.00pm.Had neighbours' fence hit by a tree on roadside,getting council to clean up.

**Maha** · 5th July 2007, 21:22

Originally Posted by soundbeltfarm

were pretty white when i saw them.

Sooooooo?.... were they a different colour beforehand?

**Grahameeboy** · 5th July 2007, 21:33

Originally Posted by maha man

Sooooooo?.... were they a different colour beforehand?

There are many shades of white Ned old boy..................

**chanceyy** · 5th July 2007, 22:39

just seen on late news .. that a state of emergency has been declared in the naki region due to the number of tornado's that have hit late this aft .. 8 areas affected

bugger .. stay safe out there everyone

**janno** · 5th July 2007, 22:42

Bloody hell - so this is what I'll be coming back to mid August after 15 years away.

Who's been mucking around with the weather then . . .? Used to be wet and windy in winter, not apocalyptic.

**Patrick** · 6th July 2007, 12:03

Plenty of the feckers from late arvo through the night, hitting Waitara, Inglewood, Stratford, Normanby, Hawera, Rahotu and Opunake. Oakura is the worst, hit by 3 with about 50 houses damaged..

Still cloudy and darkening as we speak... another day of who knows what?