Auckland weather
July 27th 2008 07:39
Well, we've been in Auckland for its worst weekend in quite some time, though we've been fortunate not to have been where things were worst. We didn't have any power outages, flooding, and weren't in any obvious danger, even when driving on the roads. The only damage we saw, in fact, was on the approach to the Harbour Bridge, where a boat had been blown into the side of the road and badly damaged.
It's amazing that none of the other thousands of boats in the harbours weren't equally badly damaged. Auckland has so many boats that you wonder when people ever get the time to sail them all. There were a few sailing on the harbour when we came over in the West Harbour ferry on Friday afternoon, but at that point there was no sign of the storm.
Apparently one canoeist has been lost in the storm, and so have a couple of boaties. Why do people go out in such weather, particularly when the storm warnings were for weather far more severe than normal. There's a certain kind of craziness in some people, it seems, that makes them think they're invincible. I remember the bloke who put our treadmill together several years ago telling me that many young people thought they were 'bulletproof'. It's an interesting word to use, but very apt.
We fly back to Dunedin tomorrow after a half-hour trip across the harbour again. I don't think it'll be too rough, although the rain is falling heavily again. Presumably, if the harbour is too rough, we won't be going that way. We'll have to see. I think we have some travel insurance in regard to the flight, but I hope we won't need it! I'd like to get back to Dunedin without any great hitches.
It's amazing that none of the other thousands of boats in the harbours weren't equally badly damaged. Auckland has so many boats that you wonder when people ever get the time to sail them all. There were a few sailing on the harbour when we came over in the West Harbour ferry on Friday afternoon, but at that point there was no sign of the storm.
Apparently one canoeist has been lost in the storm, and so have a couple of boaties. Why do people go out in such weather, particularly when the storm warnings were for weather far more severe than normal. There's a certain kind of craziness in some people, it seems, that makes them think they're invincible. I remember the bloke who put our treadmill together several years ago telling me that many young people thought they were 'bulletproof'. It's an interesting word to use, but very apt.
We fly back to Dunedin tomorrow after a half-hour trip across the harbour again. I don't think it'll be too rough, although the rain is falling heavily again. Presumably, if the harbour is too rough, we won't be going that way. We'll have to see. I think we have some travel insurance in regard to the flight, but I hope we won't need it! I'd like to get back to Dunedin without any great hitches.
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