Cyclone Gabrielle

[Lilith7]

"This one in a hundred years storm." - Soon to be every year storms.

Felt that huge earthquake by Kapiti Island near Wellington down here in Chch, a strong slow motion rolling back and forwards, almost felt as if it wasn't happening but the movement in each direction continued for some distance, maybe the longest in terms of distance I have felt.  The whole country must have moved back and forward in slow motion.

Sadly they are already playing the blame game and playing the climate change "card" again...
Someone has to be responsible, so they are blaming us. Its an act of nature, time to move on and get over it.
I feel sorry for those affected, but its not like we have these every year. Its a fact of life that everyone has to plan ahead for these sorts of events, especially if your industry is affected, you have to accept you will have a loss every now and again.
We cant control the weather. Thankfully we cant be held responsible for earthquakes.

Everyone quickly forgets bola. That was devastating and the best part of 4 decades ago.
This was only a category 2 storm I believe. We have had way worse.
These millennials indoctrinated in school know no better. They were never around to witness past cyclones NZ faced.
Cyclone Dinah back in 1967 was way worse than this.
1981 we had the Ohinemuri river flood that wiped out all of the settlement of Waikino, leaving behind only the hotel. Paeroa was also flooded.
This gorge always floods and causes road closures every couple of years or so, its extremely common.
Even with all that rain, and the river didnt flood, it only briefly did during the cyclone which was expected.
It takes a huge amount of rain to give us a 1981 scenario and we still haven't got to those levels again.
Then we see Hipkins blame climate change on the Auckland floods!
Is he dreaming? Show me the scientific proof the storm was caused by "climate change"?

My father grew up in Auckland and said that floods were a peridioc thing, they happened all the time.

Only its a big deal these days because the place is over populated and people build on the edge of cliffs (or below cliffs) with poor stormwater management and drainage.
It could have been largely avoided with better planning.

Who here can remember the Otorohanga floods in 1957? I doubt many at all. And we hear these people interviewed on the TV saying how they have never seen it flood "like this" in Te Kuiti before, well sorry mate, you are just too young.
Dont want to ruin it for you, but I had family survive that flood and it was a big disaster at the time.
Just a quick google will show you the photos of the floods in Te Kuiti and Otorohanga.

Nuff said, if climate change was causing this rain, then it was doing it the best part of 100 years ago too.
Cyclones are always a thing and TBH i think we were well overdue anyway, The pacific always gets them each summer, but most avoid our mainland or just brush past at best. Climate change does not affect the direction a cyclone is going to track, its pure luck.

"Sadly they are already playing the blame game and playing the climate change "card" again..."  



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9t_KDGqOmE