Oh the weather outside is frightful!

[Zukin]

I cracked up on at the news last night (TV One at 10pm)

They said that due to the ferries to Waiheke Island being cancelled, that many passengers have to sleep on the boats!!

What a croc of %$#@

Dont these Aucklanders have things called friends
Have they not yet discovered those big buildings called hotels

Drama Queens, while Northland is completely cut off

[Unit:Me]

I bet there is, no doubt a fair bit of cleaning up to do today. Im off to see Harry Potter with my boy first, and dont intend to leave Whangarei till 1pm, just in time to miss the worsed of the Auckland motorway traffic. When I road up last Wednesday, the traffic on the motorway was down to 40km. most the way where there was no back up of traffic

[MadDuck]

Only 125km gusts? HTFU, Auckland.

Gusts here were 160-170kms. Easterlies right off the sea and it was pretty messy.

Theres a huge clean up going on and half the peninsula was without power through the night. I evacuated the workplace as I thought someone might get hit with flying debri. Have to say I was feeling a little uncomfortable with the windows bowing in.

We have staff now who cant get to work because of the trees blow over...hmmm think of that fire wood ... anyone got a trailer and a chainsaw

[Stirts]

I have a big fuck off tramopline in my front yard now....SCORE! Bring on the storm I say....wonder what else might fly my way?

[more_fasterer]

LOL yay for trampoleeen! Apparently wheelie bins can get some impressive speed up while barrel-rolling down the road - I was nearly passed by one last night while I drove along at 60

[Stirts]

.....wheelie bins can get some impressive speed up while barrel-rolling down the road - I was nearly passed by one last night while I drove along at 60

....hey....new form of transport...go the wheelie bins!

[Xile]

So scary yesterday...
The lighting fell just close to the house, policemen cars just close by because of a tree falling on a powerline and no power...so no lights, no heaters, just fire in the chemney to keep warm, all the flatmates in front of it lol!
Funny evening, reading on the floor and eating some take aways...but scary too ey!
Read that 2 bikers fell off their bike on the Harbour Bridge...Hope they're ok...

[slinky]

LOL yay for trampoleeen! Apparently wheelie bins can get some impressive speed up while barrel-rolling down the road - I was nearly passed by one last night while I drove along at 60

Don't forget supermarket trollies!!

friend at work here has a tree fallen on her house and her carport fell onto her car.
crazy shit!

[Big Dave]

The Auckland rain radar is off line. I think that may be ironic?

[The Pastor]

old man saw some bikers stopped on the harbour bridge huggin the rail,

Said he saw busses getting blowen into other lanes.


Constant stong wind is ok, but those guts are a killer!

[MadDuck]

The Auckland rain radar is off line. I think that may be ironic?

....lmfao. Yes I can see the irony in that

There was a garden shed being blown across the driveway at work and every way I decided to step (aka RUN) to avoid it the damn thing tried to chase me down....revenge of the killer shed

[swbarnett]

Only 125km gusts? HTFU, Auckland.

175km/h (97knots) winds were recorded in Mairangi Bay.

[Curious_AJ]

gez, yeah, lots of stuff came off our house, a couple of our trees bend and buckled and fell down and stuff...

dude... damage city this morning! we still havnt done anything about it though LOL!

[kevfromcoro]

Not a good day to do the coro loop.there are trees and rocks all over the road..the local store has had the roof blown off and there is shit all over the road.havent had any power for over 24 hrs,been camped up in the dark in a sleeping bag and a swani.thank god paknsave was open to-day..got there own generators.. was able to get a couple of boxes and some cigs...Power we have power again......just got to clean up the mess