You can put a line under that (23 October 2025)

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from Newstalks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Welcome to the storm before the calm. Wow, And boy,
have I got a lot to say today actually, And
I'm sitting in that position and it's a bit I
don't off and sit in. I'm sitting in that position
of having gone through something today, experienced something a courtesy
of the weather which was just extraordinary. And I'm sitting

(00:33):
here people think, oh well, and it's that thing that
I think people that weren't involved in that storm today
would have no idea what it was like. So I'll
tell you a little bit about my day, because yeah,
it was remarkable. Morning. It was hot, and it was
fine and slightly breezy till about midday. There's a casually

(00:54):
looking at windy dot com and it looked like the
wind was and the wind arrived like a freight train.
We had some visit. We had some visits cover around
for five us to drop something off, and they came
in during the sun and as they left, they went
across the road and I saw them struggling to open

(01:15):
their car door. That went from every mile day to
winds as strong as I've ever seen. It was just phenomenal.
But boy, oh boy, was there a lot of damage
in Bluffing and the cargol So I got in the
car and then a rock at the windscreen. That wasn't good.
There were bits of tin flying around, there was power
lines were down, there was furniture everywhere. The service center

(01:38):
which is the Bluff Post Office, all the windows up
top of that got blown out onto the streets. So
the road was closed off of the fire and were
quite quickly stopping people past there because of the flying glass.
Then I went to check on the stock at the farm,
which is about two k's out of town. I went
to get out of town. I went to Ocean Beach,
the three freezing works. Well all the tin, sorry, not

(02:00):
all the tin, A lot of the tin off the
freezing works had blown onto the power lines. So there
were giant sheets of longton hang over the power lines. Yeah. Wow,
And that was just the start of it. It was chaos.
Fences were down and there aren't many trees and bluff
so they went down. But yeah, it was one of
those days. Then in fact, I went back home and

(02:23):
then about about two o'clock I could get through to
go to the farm to check on things. Fortunately, and
boy oh boy, that was a disaster as well. Massive
trees had come down. They'd taken out the deer fence.
I've got to sort that out, like really big trees.
But I think in some ways I was lucky that
I was not able to walk around the primity of
the farm during the storm, because I could have been

(02:45):
hit by one of those trees. I kind of take
those warnings slightly more seriously. Yes, so Bluff was absolutely
hit bang on. They're saying the power is not going
to be on till midday tomorrow, so yeah, extraordinary. And
then tonight I've come into town. We went out to
dinner because we had no power, and in the cargo's

(03:07):
just a bomb site in Viccago. If you know in
Vcago there's great trees. Here's always to Greenbelt, this Queen's Park,
in this area around Ella's Road and there's Splash Palace.
There's just massive trees fallen everywhere, and they've kind of
fallen a strange way. They've fallen in the whole bits
of sort of grass around the stumps, like estro turf
has kind of been flipped up with them. It doesn't

(03:29):
look real first and foremost of my thoughts is it's
an absolute miracle that no one was killed and we're
out for it. And all sorts of people we knew
coming in forid dinner because they had no power or
no water because of course the water is collected to
their power. So the lot of people still without powered

(03:51):
and Vicago or tarted out everywhere. Myros boish, there's no power,
it's not happening. So I don't know if in vcago
was expected or bluffing and Vicago were expected to be
hat but boy or boy, it was almost a direct hit.
And that was between about twelve and four raining heavily
now but not blowing. But there is damage. This will
be an expensive storm. There's all sorts of buildings with

(04:15):
roofs of there's driving to town. There were sirens and
police turning around and driving everywhere. So there's a huge
amount of damage. So yeah, it was go and I
said last night, boy, I don't know what's gonna I said,
I come on here tomorrow it TI they're going to
be they made two big a thing about it, or
it's going to be aver serious thing. I think it
was a very serious event. Isn't as big as the

(04:37):
big blow of seventy five. I don't know. I think
we're still getting information about this. I think down here
we're so immersed in it. We haven't got that distance.
And of course there's not the reporters down here they
once was, So I think it's going to be a
day or two before the stories come out. I know
from the council point of view. They were supposed to
fly flags at half masts for Jim Bulger's funeral. The

(04:59):
wood went out that that wasn't to happen. There was
a message went out that the rubbish collection wasn't going
to happen today. But even so a lot of people
have put rubbish bins out. There were rubbish bins all
in the harbor and bluff. It's got blown across the road,
blowing totally. So it's been an extremely eventful day. You
will have your own stories, you will have your own

(05:22):
tails and your own questions.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
So let it know.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Let me know what it was like where you are,
and let me know what the situation is like where
you are also, And we'll do that because it will
be interesting and also because we might have information to
help other people. I would think there's a large number
of people still without power, So I'll try to help
you with that and get you information. I will be
getting information to be a lot of road closures. But

(05:46):
it seems as though Hammah was absolutely smashed. It seems
though Culvidin there's an amazing photo. You might have seen
the Herald of Culverdin and that whole line of trees
that's just tipped over. But now they're talking about the
stopbanks about to overflow. And one of the places you're

(06:07):
talking about is Kaidarky, which I know about because we
camped there last year. So they're facing flood threats. So yeah,
the wy market Eer River is rising rapidly and the
Kidaarky stop bank may be topped at about eleven PM. Now,

(06:28):
I think that's where the campground is.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
You go to.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Kayapoion down to the mouth of the river. There's a
lot of kind of permanent people living there, right on
the edge of the river. It's quite an interesting, quite
a weird kind of a place, quite desolate the vibe there.
But we camped there. It was quite good. No one
else camping there, but the water looks like it the
next you know, exactly where the stop banks were I'm
looking at it on Google Maps.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Now.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Oh yes, it might be down that river the Kardarky Creek,
but that looks like that's going to be suspect now
with the Ymac coming up. Anyway, if you've got stories
about this rething to tell, let us know what's happening
for you. Also, because we on a hell of a
day of weather, certainly in the South Island, I think
the North Island's probably still about to experience it. If
you want to talk about that, you've got some information,
do come through. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and

(07:13):
nine two nine two to text. But yees, she was
full on, absolutely unbelievable. I've got a lot of text,
but I look forward to your your calls as well. Marcus,
looks like Wamadhu has no incident. Would that be wind related?
I wonder try living in culvid and Carnage, any helpers,

(07:35):
most welcome. Wow, So Calvidant's calling out for people. So
do come through if you want to talk. Marcus christ
escaped the big blow of today. That's from Ben. Thanks Ben. Anyway,
do come through if you've got any information, Oh, eight
hundred eighty ten eighty about your experience of the storms

(07:56):
or some of the challenges you're fronting at the moment,
because yes, she is full on unbelievable. I don't There
are people on bluff that have been there sixty years
said they've never seen winds like it. It was chaos.
I felt for the fieries, actually the volleys, because they
had a busy day and they've all got jobs as well,

(08:18):
so I don't know how they're coping. But yeah, I'll
bring all the news tonight. Also to that tappening throughout
the course of the night. So if you've got updates
where you are, let me know what's happening where you are.
But yeah, I'll bring you all the information I have got.
There is still a state of emergency remains for Canterbury,

(08:40):
but now it's the river flooding with a way Mekay
River up. Take a while for it to fly down,
but by eleven PM, I guess it's when they're tied.
There's roofs off in Dunedin. There's some pretty amazing photographs
as well. Araw Energy says Somedneeden homes impected by the
extreme weather will remain without power overnight. Yep A Feaerson

(09:05):
family had luckily at escape after the large picture when
I flex cracked and caved in, so Featherston at the
base of their Attuckers were pummeled today also jeepers. But
the thunderstorms are moving across the Western North Islands this
evening could be gusty or bring intense rain. Containers were

(09:29):
tapped toppled at Port Otago. I did look at the
wharf at Bluff, but I think that had them only
three high, so that seemed to be a better thing anyway. Yeah, man,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
Hey Marcus, would I'd lead the charge. Luckily I didn't
have to go to work today. We got stood down
from truck driving, which was good. There was one truck
and trailer rolled over and kippity on in the fifty
k zoneps. So yeah, and there was another one down
south I saw as well. And and a few other pages.

(10:08):
I saw a truck drivers having hairy moments on two
wheels and you know, on the side and stuff like that.
But at home, here are two big macro carpers on
the neighbor's farm blew over within my sight, and you know,
the big roots up in the air sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
That's exactly my scenarios. It's the neighbor's farm, you know,
and it's you wonder because the roots aren't that deep.
I suppose they aren't when they're tip, but you've got
the great disk of roots and the tree falling right
onto my fence. It's terrible.

Speaker 7 (10:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:38):
I wonder if the sodden ground is added.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
To the wonder. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Yeah, but otherwise we're still here and it's still raining
up here in Woodville.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Terror met where you're in Woodville. I didn't really So
when did it start blowing in the.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
North About ten thirty this morning it really kicked in.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
I feel it was even a bit later than that
down south.

Speaker 6 (11:04):
Yeah, I'd just looking at those so far as it
was sort of clearing all around the place. But yeah, anyway,
well that's my report.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
So appreciate me. Good on you, Elis. It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 8 (11:17):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 9 (11:18):
I just want to say it's been hell he is
to day in Wellington. But at the moment it's very
still and it's warm, so it's been amazing. Well, we
have had a terrible, terrible day.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, it's yeah.

Speaker 10 (11:37):
It closed off.

Speaker 9 (11:38):
It closed off at about half past three, to be honest,
so yeah, we're all safe at the moment.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
It's weird because it seemed to it seemed to it
seemed to shut down right around the country about three
or four o'clock, didn't it.

Speaker 9 (11:54):
Yeah, it does, it does.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Have you been online with all of your seeing any
of those images?

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Elis?

Speaker 9 (12:00):
Yeah, I have. I have. I've watched the news tonight
and everything else.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
And there's a shot of there's a shot of Colvid.
There's a shot of Colvid and where there's a whole
line of trees it's just tipped overlooks unbelievable. Have you
seen that image?

Speaker 9 (12:14):
Yes, I have, And I had an email from my
cousin of mine down Dineden and her childs had just
ripped off the roof.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Okay, I'll get ten to put it on Facebook. Thanks, Ellis.
Twenty two past date night at s Marcus Good.

Speaker 11 (12:32):
Evening, Gon'll take over the hill. It's wynd and it's
been a bit of a hic this day up and
around here as well. It's pretty nuts.

Speaker 7 (12:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (12:45):
Well, why a hill was closed from about eleven thirty
this morning to about four o'clock this afternoon. So luckily
I don't have to wait in any traffic but yeah,
just seeing the photos of what's been hitting down south too,
and I think the south definitely got harder than what
Wellington did. It's just yeah, send where my sister, she
lives in Green Hills, up too far from where you are.

(13:06):
In her place absolutely smashally lost the overhead lines to
their house and they will be without powerful from me
the day or.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
To at least.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Almost seems as though that power system for bluffs not
for purpose. It always seems to just every time it blows,
but this is particularly bad. But yeah, it seems that
it's incredibly.

Speaker 11 (13:23):
Vulnerable, very vulnerable.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, Nate, did you say that the hill road to
one Uamata has been closed for four and a half hours.

Speaker 11 (13:32):
Yeah, it was closed earlier today, so it was just
a bit of an advisory. So this morning when I
drove up the hill, they had to speed down from
eighty k to about fifty just to you know, obviously
when people get to the ridge that they're not getting
caught by the wind doing a higher speed. But about
eleven thirty this morning they close it down to about
just around four this afternoon. I believe it was a

(13:52):
quite a bit of a backlog of trafficking around the heart,
so luckily they had to experience that coming back in
just now but in the.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
City today was just just a follow up question. They
closed that road so cars don't get blown away. Is
that right?

Speaker 11 (14:08):
Pretty much? And it's the only way to get in
and out of the boy Iuiamala Yeah, okay, flip yeah,
And the photos I've seen of the trees down and
around the icrgo and like you were saying before that
the sheet iron or the overhead lions, and even i
used to work at the smelter and I've seen the
photos and bits and bobs of damage on the smelter too.
It's actually incredible. There wasn't worse than what they could

(14:30):
have been. You know, their place is quite vulnerable to
the high ones as well.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
I think the road is still close to the smelter.
I'm not quite sure what's happened there. It must be
trees down, but yeah, yeah, I don't know if that.
But last time there's strong winds too that ships had
got blind off the off it's you know, off the
mooring at the at t one blind of the habit
I didn't see any of that. All the ships seemed
to be safe, but there's Look, there must be thousands

(14:55):
of there must be thousands of trees down.

Speaker 11 (15:00):
There would be a lot for sure, Like I know
my sister's properly. They definitely had a quite a few
trees down around there and fences damage them what not.
So there's going to be days worth of work to
fix all that up. And like you're saying, the deep
things is this that's going to be an easy task.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
People looking forward to that. And both the boys' schools
are closed to the one on Bluff and the one
in town just because there's trees. And I think one
of the boys is actually schools as schools open, but
we Vanessa works as closed and the Bluff Primary school's closed.
So it's yeah, boy, okay, Nate, good report. Thank you.
We're talking about the weather. If you've got the information,
let us know what you've experienced today. It Colvid and

(15:35):
that seems to be ground zero. Hamner Colvern's just near Hammah.
She's pretty windy on the Harbrabage, but tape is off
and around Silverdale's hitting north. My wife is using my
phone as whose needs charging. We have no power since

(15:55):
midday won't be on till tomorrow. In the cargo's hit
like a bomb for three hours. Wife has never seen
anything like it. Cold now, so wrapped up some big
ass tree. He's felt very lucky. No one got killed. Yeah,
there was a tree down opposite Miter ten or Splash Palace.
If you know, there's a mess of one. And I

(16:15):
don't know about this, but you know, you wonder with
these increasing winds we're getting, you wonder about the viability
of these big trees. Now, Marcus, could you tell us
when the power will be on in Kennington? Been off
since twelve? You got intel about that, Dan, that's a suburb.

(16:37):
I say, if it's off now, it's going to stay
off overnight because the lines hes won't be doing that.
Cromwell dodged a bullet. Yeah, I see, what's the names
the old I saw who's the guy that's got the
food truck at Cromwell. I see he's at Beck open
and they wants his name. Buffaloes. We kind of know them,

(17:02):
always followed them on the web. He said he's going
to open to spite the weather. Do come through if
you want to talk about the weather. There's a lot happening.
Any updates on the fire and hamder I think it's
under control. I'll get reef reconfirmation about that's still no
power in Moscule. Power in parts of Moscule out since

(17:24):
one thirty, Marcus, I missed the news tonight. I'm not
taking away the seriousness of the weather we had today,
but I was wondering if there's any more news on
the bus driver in the crash and auckrom last night.
He's deceased. That's the story there. There was the fatality
and that was the bus driver. So yes, that has
been in the news today. That was announced late last

(17:46):
night doing his job. And what is interesting too is
that it wasn't the batteries that caused that fire. And
it seemed like I can't I mean, there was a fireball,
you will saw it. It must have come from the car,
but it was a the car had gone and it
was the front of the car that was I can't
work out what the few what was all that the

(18:06):
fuel tank exploded and how did the fuel tank caught
fire because he had last I didn't look like a battery,
It didn't look like a battery fire. But it's the fuel.
It's the fuel from the car. Marcus. It was invigorating
until an hour today stopping my corrigate iron fence from disintegrating.
Never felt so alive at North Otago re lucky. Nothing

(18:31):
that heard of usually get it this strong wind, but
I reckon was worse two saturdays ago. Un as it's
coming our way. Oh we got the alert too, by
the way, about one o'clock the alert came through. Where
do I see that alert? I can see they can
never find it again. Dan, Well there it is good
on you, Dan, Yeah, one o two pm. We expect

(18:53):
severe gusts up to one fifty kilometers per hour. This
means it was danger to life from flying debris and
falling trees where you could put a line under that
stay indoors. I wish I had afoid or travel wish
I did. But there was things we looked at friends'
houses that will had windows blowing out. There was outdoor
furniture blowing all over the show. People were quite badly prepared.

(19:13):
I thought, it's the disintegration of the media. No one
knows what's going on. But yeah, she was serious. Do
you know if the Spark mobile data network is down
into Carble no internet on my phone tonight? I don't
know where you'd find out about that is there. We'll
have a look on their website. So someone said more

(19:37):
wind on Saturday to come. But jes today was enough
felt like a year's supply of it. But jeeves the
tin and the stuff just flying around. And also I
reckon too. Looking up at the neighbors farm where I
was today trying to get rid of this tree, was
a big pine came down. It was a big straight pine.

(19:58):
I mean it felt like about fifteen meters tall. But
now all the other trees around it looked weakened because
that was sort of the main one that's gone. Looks
like the whole area is vulnerable now. And it was
quite wet and not many routes just all lifted. I
don't know what to say about that. But yeah, it

(20:19):
was a in the bottom padic and other guys found
there was two. There was two. I had to fix
two fence to stop the stock wandering onto the road.
In fact, there was a kettle. There was a sheep.
A sheep shelter had just rolled end over end and
slashed through a wooden fence. Pretty catastrophic. Now we'll never

(20:40):
know what Michael had to say, will we. But that's
what happens you know you read the room. You cut
to the chase, Marcus jessper here. I was wanting to
talk to you about the weather. It hasn't been so
bad in the hot of Fenneway. We have had to
cross the stream to get in out of our property,
so we worry when it rains heaps. I feel for
the people with no power, but we had no power

(21:02):
for six and fifty one days. It's Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 12 (21:09):
Thank you Marcus for listening to me. I just wanted
to say how disappointed I am. My husband and I
are sitting here at Mosview with two candles going no power,
and we have not heard one thing about what's going
on anywhere around in Eden because we don't have a

(21:29):
radio station that deals with us. We've heard more from
you since eight o'clock than we've heard all day, and
it's really quite disappointing.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Are you concerned there's no radio mos Gill?

Speaker 5 (21:46):
Yes, Yeah, I am too.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
They'd be a good station. It's a good town.

Speaker 12 (21:50):
Look, I mean we used to have you know, four
XO and radio stations like that and keep them right
up to date with what was going on with you know,
buses and school closures and things like that. But we've
got nothing.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Now.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well, I think you have got stuff. I think Marie,
all that stuff is now on the inset and on
places like Facebook, and you need to go looking for it.

Speaker 12 (22:17):
Yes, but you can't get Facebook because we can't get
Internet when the powers.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Of good point.

Speaker 12 (22:24):
Like, we've sat here all day since months time, waiting,
you know, we've been on our Prentiss to radio on
waiting to hear something, and happened to hear the word.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Have you got much charge on your Have you got
cell phones?

Speaker 13 (22:39):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (22:39):
We have, that's full wing you on.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Have you got charge? Have you had to go to
the car to charge them?

Speaker 12 (22:44):
No? I had it well charged up.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, that's because I think a lot of people, when
it gets the powers off, they getting their car to
go charge their phone and end up driving around and
causing more trouble.

Speaker 12 (22:53):
Oh you can't do that too. But since I've been
talking to you, I thought the power might have come on.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Well, what a miracle that is.

Speaker 12 (23:01):
Oh, Marcus, you're a miracle.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
And the other thing too, is because what happens when
our power went off and everything, all the appliances were
still on. We've left the home of course the power
goes on, they're all still going to go kick it,
aren't they. And then you've got a fire risk and
all sorts of stuff.

Speaker 12 (23:16):
Well that's right. I mean, you've got your freezer. You
know that's been not what ours has been off all afternoon,
and you know you've just got to be so careful.
But it would be nice to be able to get
some information.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
I think I just than you did your husband just
say something.

Speaker 12 (23:33):
Oh yeese, it's always got something.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
That's husbands for you. Seventeen to nine. Do you think
they didn't seen an emergency text this time because they
cried wolf too many times? Well we got sent one.
We got sent one just after one, but it should
have come up at twelve, because clearly that's when the
wind kicked in and the temperature dropped from twenty degrees
to nine degrees and boomfer and it came a wind

(23:58):
like you've never seen before, a wind so strong they
gave it no name mark Sumer delivery driver and christ Itch.
Wind gust was scary at times in the van roads
like a ghost town. Reminded me of the lockdown, the
Covist lockdown. So people were listening to the warnings and
still windy, but very lucky compared to a lot of places.

(24:19):
Now they've said and still windy. What do you think
that's meant to say? And still windy? Poor an? If
Sparks network is down, what good would putting it on
their website do? Well? Because I can contact that, I

(24:45):
can broadcast where the outages are. Yeah, I guess that's
the answer that And people go to mate napes or
neighbors or I don't know. I don't know. I mean
you can text without the Internet. I don't know. Don't
ask me these questions. Sixteen to nine. Do you a

(25:08):
lot of emails? I forgot about the emails? Marcus Johnny here,
big hard day and Invers today. Brother, we live in Clifton.
Power is out for at least two days. The boss
hooked us up with a generator, big feed on the barbecue,
and neighbors have joined us. It's a real community spirit

(25:30):
going on. We lost the garden shed Invers. Look after yourselves, brother, Johnny.
Nice stuff, Johnny, thanks for that. He sent me an
email of him when it start starting the old something pro.
He's got the guest bottle there. It's a good video.
I appreciate that. Thank you for that. Now, the strongest

(25:50):
winds the mid Dome in south and up by Garston
between Garston ethel one hundred and ninety one K's Boom,
Raratoka Island, which I think is Center Island, and I'm
not meaning to sort of rename it, but lot of
you will know of Center Yland because the lighthouse was there.

(26:13):
That's off Riverton one hundred and seventy eight. K's southwest Cape,
which is Stuart Island one nine seven, Peusaga one six
one it em attack a summit one five to five,
but mid Dome but five. Oh straight man, I'll just
confirm that. Raratoka, I'm pretty sure it's Center Island. Normally

(26:34):
no one is that, but obviously that's not. It's yeah,
Center Island.

Speaker 5 (26:41):
Chee.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Oh by the way too, cheers at the Argyll Hotel.
Thanks for the heads up there. I'll see you sometime.
Oh by the way too. I've had a text from
TAPS Tapanui. They've got no one one one emergency service there,
which is a worry so situation there is limited texts.
It's been like this since maybe one one one. No
cell phone coverage sorry, no cell phone coverage it's been

(27:03):
like this since five point thirty been legally if someone
needs to ring one one one. Marcus felt so sorry.
Just this is the woman from Moscow about the radio
here and Ashburt We have the local Hockney radio station.
We had our local fire, our knew Mere talking this morning,

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and the radio keeping us up to date with everything.
Our station is a wonderful asset to the community and
surrounding country areas. Although I don't think that I don't
want to be a chair gym and I don't think
the Hockney Radio station broadcast from Eshburton. Does it might
be only because we own that one. I think it's
one of ours. I think it comes in well, I
don't know the answer to that actually, but I'd be surprised.

(27:44):
It might just got a lot of little markets, but
come out of Invercargo, does it.

Speaker 14 (27:49):
Do?

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Get in touch with your on a talket til twelve.
But there's a lot of weather. Go to the Facebook
page and look at that.

Speaker 15 (27:54):
Thing, boy with that picture of that.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
That of trees that's just down. It's unbelievable. So you've
got questions also about power cuts and stuff like that.
Do let us they will do our dards to answer them.
Now there are still red alerts or red wind warnings.

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But yeah, fancy mid Dome one hundred ninety one k's
the Gray District. Their power, their water supply has been
struck by lightning. It's of course issues at the water
treatment plant. Yeah, Peter, this is Marcus. Welcome Greed.

Speaker 7 (28:47):
Marcus the hockey radio, isn't it out of Gore? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
I don't know where the breakfast comes from. I can
text my boss and ask him, but he's probably doing
family duty. But yeah, I don't know where they broadcast
down are now.

Speaker 7 (29:02):
Yeah, oh okay, that's move. Oh okay. Because I understood
it was was score and the weather. He and christ
Is we got off a little bit lighter than we expected,
you know. I left do a bit of fruit and
beach shopping and went to Harvey Norman and it was
still airs. And I said to Willie, your mate, and

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I said, chairs come before the store. He said bring
it on, and I said you hang on, you bring
it on. I said your house might get effected, so
I will forget that. Whens. We're up to about sixty
eight K. Because I've used the iPhone for the measurement
of the wind and it's calmed down a bit now.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
But can you measure the wind speed from your phone?

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (29:52):
Well what I do? I just asked, I asked for it. Okay,
well what's the wind speed in christ Church? And it
comes back at me in sixty eight sixty eight, k
I reckon Tuesday was worse than today here in christ
Dur but we we did get off light and those

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are surrounding areas like Darkmanship, Springfield. Yeah, I feel for
those people because a lot of people in Springfield out
that way lost their roofs.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
You're certainly bluffing in the cargo today got absolutely hip, plumb, barbine.

Speaker 7 (30:27):
Yes, that wasn't even predicted. Well according to TV three News,
they said it was going to be a little bit windy,
but they said no wind warnings were given to the
South of Otago last they were.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
I was looking at windy dot com in the hours beforehand,
and there was intensity because the more intense the color,
the stronger the wind. And for a while they're around
twelve o'clock that it was the most intense. It was
more intense than the than the Upper South Island. So yeah,
it was there. I think if you look for it.

Speaker 7 (30:57):
I think, well, I was only I'm only going on
what I've heard on the media on last night Wednesday.
You know Canterbury well into and up through Covid and
through there, all through Nelson and Otigo, SA weren't even mentioned.
But it's sad thing for you guys, I believe it.
But it damage down your way.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
There's a lot there's a lot of trees. If you
go to Queen's Park in the parks, there's so many
trees and there are big trees, the trees that look
like they've been around for about one hundred and twenty
or thirty years. So why would they suddenly fall?

Speaker 7 (31:30):
That would must have been strong, like I was up.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah, I think that must be a record wind strength,
because big trees just don't go. And now what do
you do with parks? You can't chop down all the
trees otherwise there's no point having parks five away from nine.
If you want to talk about the weather that's run
about tonight, because I'll tell you what that's been a
it's been a there's been strong winds.

Speaker 16 (31:56):
Now.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Why ow that's borne the brunt of it? Why ours
in North Canterbury thirty five minutes from Henless Springs. There's
fair story there about people saying that's been tough. A
lot of those pivot irrigators that have all kind of
been tipped over too. I would think Colvidan's cut off

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without power ofvery little cell phone coverage. Town littered with
fallen trees and a tank is seen rolling down the
road at the peak of the gales. There's a flipped
cambervan on the side of the road. That was a
good thing too. When we drive around during the storm,
there are about four or five camber vans just parked
on the main street. They clearly had the wheweth all
to realize it wasn't worth driving on because the black

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they would it wouldn't have caped on the bluff road.
The bluff roads were exposed. But I'll keep the updated people,
Marcus till twelve, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. You've
got any other information in us know what's going on.

Speaker 17 (33:01):
Now.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
The Hamna Springs pools will open from ten o'clock tomorrow
morning five bucks so folks can shower, use the facilities
to change their phones and relax after the Cadoc day
and go down the conical spill or whatever it's called.
But you go five bucks around Hamnah, charge your phone,
heavy shower, have a dip, have a pizza, have a

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dipped up good on your hand. I think there's only
by the count. You never realize it was run by
the council. I think it's a very well run operation.
Then it's been a lot of my life at the
pools at Hannah very good. I say it's in you
coverage to give you.

Speaker 15 (33:41):
People always take a while to.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Build up those rolling news stories, don't they. Yeah, Mainly
the big story is Kadarky and Pine's Beach and can
to be get ready to evacuate the ymax coming up.
Tens of thousand probablys are without power lines. Companies are
warning how souls without power will luck maybe without overnight.

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The rare red warnings have been lifted by the way.
I quite like getting my alert. We're playing Settlers of Katan.
Of course we were kids home strike, kids home tomorrow
because of old damage to the schools. But it was
good Settlers of Katan. Actually I got the right properties

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didn't win only because there was a It's a long story.
Roads expect to remain closed overnight seventy three between Springfield
and o Terra seven between Waipra and Springs, Junction seven
A from Hamna Springs turn Off sixteen Heart and Marca
and State Away six, freen Merch and Waititi all those

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are closed and several roads closed down south also. So yes,
Tuesday was bad, Wednesday was fine, Thursday day was bad again.
Looking forward to the long weekend. Text if you can,
or call if you've got breakout or if you want
information too. Apparently Carpety got besh also Lawana here the

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company Coast got batter day. Large truck trailer overturned, breaking
windows and damaging miny trees. There's a lot of cleanups
to do, to clean up to do tomorrow. Got amazing
shots from Marian and me Toda the America carp is
she's had one hundred and thirty five years old gone today.
Looks like that's about four of them just knocked over.
Bumfa wow. Likely to take your hends shed there by.

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Lots of things get in touch with our talking by
the way, a lot of people I think ihearts you
might be having trouble getting your radio down south too,
because the set's out. And also I don't think the
cell phone networks are working, Vanessa, She say it's free,
hard to get through to people, and the app's not working. Oh,
of course I'll be home without power. Those that would
have been trying to listen to the show on the phone,

(36:03):
that's what that would have been. William, it's Marcus.

Speaker 5 (36:05):
Good evening, Yeah, good evening, Marketers.

Speaker 6 (36:08):
How you going good?

Speaker 3 (36:09):
Thanks, William.

Speaker 18 (36:10):
Look, I'm in the mosboy here and I've been in
contact with a lot of people contacted down to power
and they seen everybody's information on how the power cut
was going.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
Can you till your radio fifty William?

Speaker 7 (36:26):
Yeah, oh, I just the market.

Speaker 18 (36:29):
I thought it was a bit of a feedback. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (36:36):
Can you hear me now yet?

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Loud and clear?

Speaker 5 (36:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (36:39):
I thought there would have been a feedback on the
radio because I've had disapperience the radio before.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yeah, William, just to clarify, right, it's not feedback. We
operate on a seven second delay for legal purposes, so
you'll hear yourself seven seconds. That's why you got to
turn off. But anyway you're off your go.

Speaker 18 (36:58):
Well, we got a good gush to win, which I
probably would have thought it was around about one hundred
and fifty k's maybe round about to pass one. But
now since I've just talked to you now, the pair
has just come on. And they told me affected most
of half of Mosgirl and all the way out to

(37:19):
the airport and affected. But no, the pair has just
since I've just talked talked to you now, the pair
has just come on.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
That's amazing. So more people should bring us. That seems
to happen. You can talk back and the power comes
back on. Thank you, william In. It's Marcus.

Speaker 19 (37:33):
Hello, Hi Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Thank you in?

Speaker 4 (37:38):
Yeah, Marcus.

Speaker 20 (37:39):
I drive a big refrigerated Simmy from Crushes down to
Duneda at night.

Speaker 21 (37:46):
And then back back in the morning and.

Speaker 20 (37:49):
Well what the day we've had? And okay, then on
the way back this morning, I was I was surprised
how still it was, you know, coming up through Moranki
and that thinking this is going to hit us somewhere.

Speaker 21 (38:03):
And it did, you know, it hit us, you know,
from uh just just north of to marou Tumuka really
started to hit.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
In and the old truck was starting to dance across.

Speaker 21 (38:19):
The road and then through I'm just heading back down
now and back to Dunedin now and I'm.

Speaker 20 (38:27):
Noticing the Rakaia River as well.

Speaker 14 (38:29):
Up.

Speaker 20 (38:31):
I'm just about to get the pines.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
At the moment.

Speaker 20 (38:34):
But we've got areas of still and then areas of
still getting a reasonable gust, you know, enough to move
the track around of it. So just just telling people
just be careful, just take it easy.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Is it much damage on that section of road between
Christichenderneda or is that? Did that not fear that badly.

Speaker 21 (38:53):
On what I saw?

Speaker 7 (38:53):
No, not really.

Speaker 20 (38:54):
I mean, you know you're you're seeing you know, padacts
that have been cultivated up by Ashburton there.

Speaker 22 (39:01):
The whole paddock was just sort of blowing across the road,
but nothing. I haven't seen any trees over the road
or anything like that. I understand it was, but I
was back in the morning by nine am.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
Yeah, okay, oh, that's a good update and I appreciate that.
Thanks for that. Ellen, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
Yeah, good ay, Marcus. The lady that couldn't hear radio
stations or information in Moscow. I just did a quick
check with a good friend of mine and definitely in
Moscow seven twenty am one oh one point two FM

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and plus the concert program on ninety nine point four
all accessible in Moscow.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
I think the point she was making alan as they're
not local stations define logo. I guess that's I guess
it's I guess it's a Moscule based radio station that you.

Speaker 5 (40:10):
Would know whether they want one of the low power
SEM stations. Yeah, that's probably where we're they're eating. But
the local station on lb FM, they wouldn't have the
same up to date information that was covered adequately on
news talk.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
ZB No, I know, but yeah, take your put on.
Thank you, Janet's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 23 (40:37):
Hi they are Marcus. I wonder if hi. I wonder
if people which direction is the wind coming from or
is it all over?

Speaker 3 (40:50):
I think yeah, it's hard to tell.

Speaker 23 (40:51):
I think yeah, suddenly or easterly.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
Well, I think it vary. Does the front pass through? Ah,
the look on the map and tell you where it
seems like at the moment it's coming from the south west, southwest,
oh west, on the north in the North Island it's
almost pure westly at some spots and northwesterly.

Speaker 23 (41:21):
Ah. Well, we haven't really had it here in Long Nui,
but we had about an hour ago we had some thunder.
Must have been a bit more than an hour. So
that's all just sprinkling at rain. So we're doing quite
well here. But I wonder if people realize that you

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find out which direction the wind is coming from a
severe wind, and you open the window on the opposite
side of your house and so it stops the roof
from blowing off.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yeah, I didn't know something about pressure differ eachland something
like that.

Speaker 23 (42:01):
Yes, you've got to do it otherwise that the pressure
builds up and so I don't it that's the roof off.
So it's still not too late. It's still happening. So
and it's not too cold. They can open a window.
You don't need a wide open, just enough for the

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air pressure to drop.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Okay, good advice, Jen, Thanks for that fourteen past nine
text your questions through too. Mike's you used on how
Stuart Island feed and all of this. I think Stuart
Island's pretty sheltered in that bay, and I think we're
out Mason's Bay. It would be fairly full on and
enjoy listening to you. Do you know when power to
or TATA that might be withstored? What do we what
dare you got the information on that? I don't know

(42:45):
who the power provider is, but certainly Bluff and Clifton
aren't restored to one o'clock tomorrow. Um oh there is
if I go to Ai. There's a story about a
duck flying into the power lines in April seven. But

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puddon if powers off now, it won't be back tonight.
I'm looking on a map. Now I've got the map.
I'm zooming in. Zoom zoom. Oh man, I'll tell you
what if you look at if you look at south,
the south from to a Tarpli right across to Wyhola,
it is just a sea of outages now looking looking looking,

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it's actually not up on their false map at the moment,
like but obviously it's out. If it's out, there is
people on Otatara Road, New River Ferry that seems to
be out, and I don't know when that's going to
be restored. So yeah, good luck with all of that.
But I'll give you any more information if I've got at people,
let us know what's going on for you. Also, eight

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hundred and eighty ten eighty nineteen into the text, Jan
must have been sleeping. We had thunder, heavy sweeping rain
and wind from about seven pm. It's clam down now
and a power outage at night. Indoor outdoor portable solilight
can be bought indoors and provide excellent light if they

(44:25):
have been fully charged during the day. Very good. Marcus.
Who's Dan. Dan's the producer. He's to go to answers
the course and does all the research sets up the show. Anyway,
glenn Us, it's Marcus. Welcome him, Marcus.

Speaker 23 (44:47):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Glenus?

Speaker 14 (44:49):
God, I just want to talk about the AMP show
here and hawks they hate things. It's been canceled.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Because it's a big deal, isn't it.

Speaker 13 (44:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (45:00):
Absolutely, they must be losing a lot of money with that.
I was surprised because the one has not been met
big But I guess it's all about the safety.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
I think.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
I think there and that's one of the biggest day
and shows in the country, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (45:20):
Yes, Yes, that's.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
How and that goes all three days for Labor weekend?

Speaker 5 (45:24):
Is that right?

Speaker 24 (45:26):
I think too?

Speaker 14 (45:27):
Okay, I think it's only two Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Have they got a rain day?

Speaker 8 (45:33):
No?

Speaker 3 (45:34):
So it's just canceled.

Speaker 14 (45:36):
Yeah, it was canceled today and I think, to mya's
the last day. But you know, the big set off
of it. It's quite quite shame really, because I didn't
think that one would actually bother it today.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
It was actually supposed to be on today.

Speaker 23 (46:00):
Yes, this day was today.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
Yeah, oh understand.

Speaker 23 (46:04):
Yeah yeah yeah. Disappointing.

Speaker 14 (46:10):
I feel sorry because they must have lost a lot
of money with that.

Speaker 16 (46:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
I'm just trying to read the article story about to
see what why they canceled it. I think one so
it was canceled today. I can't see a thing online
about that, but I'll look more in twickly and this
thank you eighteen past nine, get in touched Marcus or twelve.
My two sisters just stand and part me after ninety
minute delay from Ukland. Well done and he's in in

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pilots with one wheel landing eke. Winds are bad. Just
to go to the AMP website, the Hastings AMP website.
I think they are trying to open it tomorrow, so
just check that. I think that might be the go.
So that's the situation there, Sean. Good evening. Just got
a bit of trouble with my button, Sean, but welcome anyway,

(46:59):
good evening.

Speaker 24 (47:01):
Quite a crazy day there, mate, that's unbelievable. I'm down
in South Otago living in Milton and working in Belclouther,
and I went out at lunch time to do a
few jobs and it hit just as I was leaving
one of the shops to head to head down to
the warehouse. And I've never struck anything like that. That

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was quite incredible.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
And what you say is right. It was like a
hit because in Bluff we had fine and quite still
weather and suddenly just a boomfer. It just could literally it.

Speaker 24 (47:35):
Yep, we were literally the same mate. I went went
to a plumbing supply store in Belclouther.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
I was there for.

Speaker 24 (47:41):
About fifteen minutes and then when I went to well,
you'd hear the doors waving in and out in the breeze.
And then I went to walk out the doors as
I got my stuff, and I literally said to the
girl at the counter, gee, that's got dark. And I
jumped in the car, went around the corner onto the
main street, and it just absolutely hit.

Speaker 6 (48:01):
The side of the car was.

Speaker 24 (48:03):
Getting pounded like it was being sand blasted with braw crap.
And then I turned turned a corner off the main
street to head towards the warehouse, and I could see
the spray from the river above, the cloud above the
flood banks. And then there's a house about another hundred
meters down the road on a corner, and I literally

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saw the roof heel off the top of the house
and then the reffing iron just explode into pieces and
just into the air, and I just quickly turned into
the car park. It was it was quite incredible. I mean,
I'm just almost shaking now thinking about it. It was,
it was.

Speaker 6 (48:42):
It was amazing, just a crazy.

Speaker 24 (48:44):
Crazy day. I've never seen so many trees blowing over
in all my life.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
It's just it was nuts.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Yeah, I quite agree to. I've never seen so much
of tin iron furniture rolling down the main street Williaburns.
It was just carbage.

Speaker 24 (49:00):
Oh yeah. Like we had a house across the road
from work. They had a window blowing in, they had
the power seat their house snapped. A couple of hundred
meters down the road at PG, or just past PGG,
there was a guard on State Highway one. There was
a garden shed up in the power lines. It was

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just wherever you're locked, you know. The fire alarms were
going off.

Speaker 7 (49:26):
There were fire.

Speaker 24 (49:26):
Trucks driving everywhere. And the thing that shocked me the
most was the amount of people just driving around. It
was just its like off the road.

Speaker 7 (49:35):
You know, we're right.

Speaker 24 (49:37):
Near the turn off to the Catalans, you know, tourist route,
and the amount of tourists who were like pulling in
and people in campavan still driving on it was. It
was incredible.

Speaker 7 (49:47):
It was just pull over.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
And the new menace seems to be those freestanding basketball
hoops that kids have. They seem to be dangerous as well.
They were blowing around and blowing overcoursing damage. Yeah.

Speaker 24 (50:01):
When I went to park up some vehicles at work
before we peeled out, you know, there was a trampoline
just around the corner from us and another business there
was a trampoline wedge between their building and defense. God
knows where that came from.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
It was.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
Yeah, I think the thing the thing I've found sure
with trampolines when they got when you get them on
your front yard, they're there for good because the owners
are too embarrassed to go and collect them.

Speaker 24 (50:30):
I mean, we just the way that it hit one
of our young one of our guys at work, he
shot home to Milton at lunchtime just to check up
on his kids because they were home because of the strike, Yes,
and he was. It was seven minutes out of out
of Kluther when it hit, and so he was, and
there was a whole stand of blue gum trees just

(50:53):
he said, we're just flattened. And then going through those
sort of esses just out of belt Cluther, two trucks
blowing over on the side of the road.

Speaker 23 (51:03):
You know.

Speaker 24 (51:03):
I talked to a couple of colleagues down and war
and one of them said, you know that new extension
at Fonterra Edendale. Yes, he said, the roof blew off
that and was down at the roundabout.

Speaker 4 (51:18):
Really yeah, was that?

Speaker 6 (51:22):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 24 (51:23):
And the other colleague said the roof had been blown
up the grandstand at the racecourse at Gore Well.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
Who they canceled the race and the grandstand had got
the grandstand roof had gone wow.

Speaker 24 (51:32):
Yeah, yeah, that's well, yeah, that's what my boss told
me down there. So it's just incredible.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Well, there a lot of trees down at bound. It's
not that there's not a lot of big trees in
about Cluther, but with the trees are there's a lot
of trees down on a lot of fences down on bluff.
With the trees and fences down in about Cluther.

Speaker 6 (51:48):
Yeah, both both.

Speaker 24 (51:50):
I had some roofing go on one of our rental
properties in Milton, and it took me four phone calls
to builders to get someone to go and screw some
of it down because they were all propping up fences. Yeah,
I saw, Well, we're literally fifty meters from work a
fenced front fence have disappeared off a house.

Speaker 7 (52:10):
My own.

Speaker 24 (52:11):
One of my fences around the corner from my house
is blowing over about a ten meter section. Yeah, it's
it's quite amazing. Never seen anything like it. Neighbors see
anything like it since seventy five.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
Yeah, the big blow. And I certainly think too, with
the media all been focused in all plowing, there is
an understanding of what a severe what a severe weather
event it's been. I still I'm still not seeing it.
Given probably the prominence something like this probably warrants. I mean,
it's yeah, it's I think it'll be an expensive storm
in terms of clean up and getting rid of the
trees and everything. And it's going to with fences down
and stock are wandering and all sorts of stuff. You know,

(52:46):
it's going to be a problem.

Speaker 24 (52:48):
Oh, I completely agree. Like I had to do a
whole lot of back roads to get to get that
come because you know, the main road was closed off,
and I've never seen so many trees down I mean,
I mean by the time I went home. Luckily, a
lot of a lot of trees that were down on
the road have been cut by farmers and things, and
you were able to sort of get through. But it
was very much. You know, what's normally a twenty two

(53:10):
minute drive home was probably about forty five minutes.

Speaker 16 (53:13):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 24 (53:16):
Yeah, it was just crazy, just crazy.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
And as I say, amazing no one was killed because
all that ten and all that tin flying around, all
those trees. I mean, not that I've heard anyone cooled.
I haven't. Well, I think I probably would have heard,
but gee, they're lucky, oh.

Speaker 24 (53:30):
For sure, Mate, for sure. And the amount of debris
we saw just you know, like blowing down the street.
It was incredible.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
Nice to talk. Thanks so much to that, Sean. Keep
your calls coming through here on midnight tonight. The number
is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to nine
two to text just your experience of the weather and
the storm pretty fall on, like really fall on. Hep
those texts coming nine two nine tow to text or
eight hundred and eighty to ten eighty here's or twelve

(53:59):
if you got to be a part of it. Anything
else you want to you want to mention, you are
more than welcome. Ah, just look at the text. By
the way, the break is the break is at the
full time score. No oh, okay, break is lost by
one eighty three eighty four, leading for most of the games.

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So come from the front loss. I guess you'd call
that one. By the way, I think selfone reception story
patch in the south on as probably is internet and phones.
I think Marcus summer truck driver was traveling from christ
Jews Tuamadu today, never seen the traffic so light. People

(54:39):
did take heat of the advice through their conditions, but
all fairness to the talking about tourists, they're probably oblivious
to things. Yeah, we'll imagine trying to write. Well, imagine
arriving today at Queenstown Airport and picking up your campavan
for a week and then trying to hit the Devil's
staircase would have been terrifying. A text here says this.

(55:04):
The text sent from this number was not sent by me,
the owner, but by my son who has been drinking.
He had no right to do that, and I'm not happy.
My apologies. Power out and Chevy at fifteen minutes ago
from Glenn, Marcus, first time texted you a long time.
This was up at Ten's. They didn't put the tools
down to eleven thirty men flat tech and are now

(55:27):
catching up on all the news around the country. Mahe
dog Cameron, I think I heard the show is on
tomorrow and Hastings Mike, pay to checky Apparently it is on.
Marcus the Ranger Tata River is rising quickly, cheers m Susie.
It's Marcus. Good evening, Oh Marcus, how are you good? Susie?

Speaker 19 (55:46):
Thank you good.

Speaker 25 (55:49):
I'm just wondering if anyone else is having trouble with
our phones. When I rang a number, it cuts off,
and when I rang it again, it goes through. It's
going it to all the numbers I rang.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
Yeah, my partner, Vanessa, her phone's doing that. I don't
know what providers she's on. No, do you know what
providers aren't?

Speaker 25 (56:06):
No, No, it's just that when you ring, it cuts
off from you ring again. It's okay you.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
No, No, it's been free bad all day for her.

Speaker 25 (56:15):
Yeah, but I'm very lucky. I've got the pair on, Marcus.
And the only thing that went down for me as
my internet because I couldn't get into Netflix.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
Not much on there anyway.

Speaker 25 (56:27):
No, you're right, dear Marcus, is not. But I had
to put my pathword and everything, and there I was
the other night. I tried to look and I didn't
find anything I wanted.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Susie, are you and in Chicago?

Speaker 23 (56:39):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (56:41):
Did you have any damage to your house?

Speaker 25 (56:44):
No, not at all. Was one of the very very
lucky ones. But I did watch the news and it
was heavy.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
It really was on the news tonight because we're out
for doing it because we had no power. But there
wouldn't be any footage from in Chicago, was there. There
was no camera cre what there was for you.

Speaker 12 (56:58):
See what there's the big tree in Alice Road, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
So for those that don't know, you've got the big
night of ten and the Burger king and then across
and it came right across that road. Lice rode the
old lucky didn't kill anyone with their cars underneath that.

Speaker 25 (57:15):
I don't think so, Marcus, that I think they were
lucky there, but I know they closed off the roads
because my girlfriend lives on Alice.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
Road, because there's always cars waiting at the lights there.
It's a light control intersection. It's a miracle.

Speaker 5 (57:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (57:28):
Well, I don't if there's any cars hit or not,
but they are lucky there wasn't.

Speaker 7 (57:32):
If that would be good if they wasn't.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
I think they're very lucky. The teachers were on striking.
None of the kids were at school, so they weren't
kids wandering around all that traffic. I think that was
a blessing.

Speaker 25 (57:43):
Definitely, definitely, Mark. What was it like you coming from
Bluff Marcus? Was it very rough?

Speaker 7 (57:48):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (57:49):
It was terrible. Yeah it was. There were a couple
of stoppages because they're working on the lines like they
were again on Tuesday, but there were that hour between
twelve and two and Bluff was chaos. There was tin
fly and there was the service center which is the
post office. The lights were blowing and it is Yeah,
there was a lot of damage.

Speaker 25 (58:09):
Ah well, I came Marcus, thank you, nice to.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
Talk to you. Susie, thank you. Do you know anybody
says gets a chance to say goodbye to me, they've
got a surprise. She said, good, thanks very much. Massive
tree that one it might attend. And these are old trees,
like beautiful trees, but trees that look like they're about
one hundred and fifty years old. Southern District councilors calling

(58:33):
residents of to a Tarpli, Ohigh, Nightcaps and or Toto
to conserve water immediately. Only three to four hours of
drinking water reserves left for each of these townships. With
the power down, the council's water team didn't have enough
generators to power the treatment plants to meet demands of
these townships. The council was most concerned about Tuatarpari drinking

(58:57):
water supplies. There were critical es extreme water conservation that
happened now in the community. Water would likely run out
by midnight. There Bubvo and prepared to be with power
without power overnight, and if the roads are closed too,

(59:17):
they'll probably stay closed overnight. Hello Richard, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Oh Hi, here's it going mate, Richard?

Speaker 3 (59:23):
Good, Richard, thank you good.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
The damage. I've been Chross Church for a few days
and it's just been quite windy and I didn't realize
until this afternoon or this show even damaging that one's mean. Yeah,
there was supposed to be a motorcycle race on Sunday
and some in Greymouth, and I says, anyone listening that

(59:49):
can update on if that's going to happen.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Is a street race, track race or something else?

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Every year the low weekends or they shut down a
piece of Graymouth.

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
SOI Mega Minor ten Greymouth Motorcycle street Race.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Is something like that, and I've got looked it up,
but it doesn't I can't find anything on mine.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Okay, I'm on Facebook. This was nine hours ago. This
was before the storm, nine hours ago, said getting ready
for Sunday. Still all go? Whether ed road conditions can
change a lot the next three days, three more sleep,
so it still looks like it's good to go.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Thanks for the information.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
But you've got Facebook.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Oh no, don't do Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
Can you ring on Friday? What are you ride?

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
I'm a complete spectator this year.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
Okay, given up? He got scared. Yeah, look, I'll have
a look to a ride. But if anyone's got anyone
but they last posted nine hours ago and said it's
good to go. She is Richard fourteen to ten here
till twelve. Have you got any more information about anything?
Come through? Eight hundred and eighty eight off topic on

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the weather, but these last two cricket series Ozzi's and
now England been ruined by bad weather hopefully show we
shouldn't be scheduling international cricket here in October. That's right,
you'd be better off doing it in April. Wild winds
is still hammering our ear in the wided Upper. It
really started to hit four pm here. State highways closed.

(01:01:26):
Mount Bruce and Morrowsville back roads are closed. Lem Attack
a Hill road reopened free Carmen Marston today, which was surprising.
We left to go home and the hill was definitely
had was definitely sheltering. It had the road closed on
US power lines down just for Ikdahuna. We got through

(01:01:47):
by going out Tomorrow'sville then cutting back to South Road
one to rap around the back Akadahunah. Thank God for
maps and finding away. Conditions weren't too bad. They were
worse on Tuesday driving down when the trucks got blown over.
Good evening, Leaner ats Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 26 (01:02:02):
Oh, good evening. I just had a little bit of
incunce about about quarters of twelve this morning. I had
my door, my front door open, and it shouted from
the west and I was sitting looking at some books
and I could hear these noises in my lounge this

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is where I'm sitting, and I couldn't locate it. And
then all of a sudden there's a big gust of
wind and it blows my sliding door, which is a
very big one between the lounge where I'm sitting in
my kitchen, and blew it right off the rails. Now
the door outside door, the front door is on an

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angle right across the whole room to where the other
door was, and took it right off. It's a very
heavy door. I tried to lift it myself, but I'm
afraid I'm a bit old to do any shifting, so
I have to wait to get some able body means.
But yeah, very nasty weather. I was talking to my

(01:03:11):
family that well. They rang me this afternoon to see
if I was all right because they'd been looking at
about the wind and everything going on in Southland on
Facebook and they were moaning about the temperature over there
being thirty nine degrees when they got up in the
morning this morning it was only it was twenty nine

(01:03:33):
degrees and they were very uncomfortable with that weather. And
I said, well, we could have the nine down here,
it'd be quite nice. Where are they, Leenah, they're in
Queensland in Australia. Something they'd found all this out about,
more than I knew on Facebook, which I don't know
anything about.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
Did that door was the glass door to the door shutter?

Speaker 26 (01:03:58):
No, it's landed on a top of a partly on
top of a kitchen chair, and I was able to
lifted up, but I wasn't able to move it along.
I'm eighty seven and I don't have quite the strength.
I am quite a strong person for that age. But yeah,
so I'll have to get anighbor worthy man to come

(01:04:18):
and do something here.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
Okay, good luck with that. Leader, nice to talk. Thank you, Amanda.
It's Marcus. Welcome, Hi, Amanda, can evening.

Speaker 10 (01:04:31):
Sorry about that, Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:04:33):
I've just come up a flight from Wellington. It's back
home into Ackland and I was just wanting to share
my fun experience this morning in the wind Yeah, so
I was. I was over there on the conference, so
I tacked my suitcase so I had I only had
long dresses, which is really a rookie mistake for Wellington.

(01:05:00):
So anyway, I'm walking along Windy is how I had
to take my earrings off because I thought they would
going to get ripped out of my ears. Bumped into
a lady at the traffic lights, and I said to her, ah,
I don't know why I bothered doing my hair this morning,
when she responded, oh, well, yeah, it's a good thing
you didn't do it, because it looks like, oh well,

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this is a great way I'm crossing. I move a
bit further down, and then I'm getting by the harbor
because that's where the conference is. And I go across
this road, but the wind was so bad I had
to sort of take a step back now because I
was due to fly back. I also have in my
hand my suitcases that I've been pulling along. Like the

(01:05:43):
green Man comes on, I go across, I get a
bit a third of the way before my suitcas in
sort of takes on a life of its own. I've
got this long dressed down to the ground that then
turns into a blooming parachute, and I've got ballet flats
on that are starting to slide, and I'm being dragged

(01:06:03):
along the road.

Speaker 8 (01:06:04):
So I.

Speaker 16 (01:06:06):
Refuse, and then finally thought, I thought to myself, what
the hell am I going to do. So I was thinking,
do I take my shoes off so I've got I
can grip with my toes as I peeped across. But
thankfully there was a lull in the wind and so
I managed to make it across to the conference. And
then I had the joys and streets of trying to
work out whether I was going to get home back

(01:06:27):
to Auckland tonight. So thankfully I did. But yeah, I
never experienced win like.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
That ever, what a stressful day, and across it all
is the worry about the flight back. Was the flight
back quite calm? Was it?

Speaker 23 (01:06:40):
Well?

Speaker 16 (01:06:40):
It wasn't how a few little pockets coming into Ortland,
but from the Wellington side it probably was one of
the smoothest flights I had.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
Yeah, often the way that you worry about it, it turned
out to be as smooth as anything. It's weird flying,
isn't it, because it doesn't seem to reflect what's going
on down below.

Speaker 18 (01:06:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:06:58):
I think the worst part was trying to work out
whether I was going to get a flight because I
was originally due to fly it quart it effect, but
I can't. I'd changed back because I thought, oh no,
So I went for the last flight out to the airport,
the nine o'clock I think it was, was an hour
and a half behind scheduled, so that wasn't leaving now
until ten thirty. So then I asked, But I ended

(01:07:20):
up on a flight, the seven o'clock flight, so I thought, oh,
that's great, But then that got pushed back and pushed back,
so I ended up on the nine o'clock flight. And
but anyway, I'm home, so that I know a lot
of people have sat down there. You know, some friends
couldn't get out, couldn't change their flight because they can't
get home till Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
Well, did you learn anything at the Did you learn
anything at the conference or with the guest speaker?

Speaker 16 (01:07:44):
I know it wasn't a guest speaker. It was lots
of cool stuff about innovation and digital technology and AI
and all these cool things that are happening, and how
it's you know, you've got to embrace it or get behind,
and the wonderful things that can do to give us
more time to do other stuff.

Speaker 24 (01:08:04):
So yeah, it's.

Speaker 16 (01:08:05):
Quite it's quart of good conference, but lots of cool
things to take back and think about and how we
gonna mix things up and stuff for you.

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
Great conference sounds terrifying, Amanda that want to embrace AI
want to avoid it like the plague. Hold your horse.
I'll be with you after the news. If you just
join us to a tarp reconserve your water. If you're
on the east coast of the South Island, watch out
the Wymac and any river is getting high and the
thing a Tata river is getting high. Also they are
the two big takeouts, very strong ones, historically strong like

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a Force two hurricane. You are forced two hurrican's very good.
That woman with the parachute dress, the wayward suitcase, all
the things she said was good. Ballet flats, parachute dress,
wayward suitcase, just a couple of things for a crack
into the collers heads up. A evening he heads up
for drivers. Inded TA are about to close both bridges

(01:09:01):
that go over the Rakaya. So I imagine that will effect
truckers greatly because I think the d tios are quite
long there. Check in did Ta website that there's just
a phone range has told me that. And evening Marcus
Kadaki beach resident here a crunch times about one am
tomorrow for potential flooding. Police have been warning all residents
white baits still running? Cheers Nick? Does it mean the
residence of the campground?

Speaker 7 (01:09:22):
Nick?

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
Quite a few established looking people there by the way, Sus,
it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
Hello, Hi, sus.

Speaker 5 (01:09:34):
How are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Yeah? Good good? Thank you? How are you doing all right?

Speaker 23 (01:09:38):
Good?

Speaker 7 (01:09:38):
Good?

Speaker 10 (01:09:39):
I was just phoning to say, Marcus, how cool is
the eighty seven year old lady from Southland who doesn't
want to be like her?

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
I thought I should have gone right after work and
fixed her door, but I can't be bothered.

Speaker 23 (01:09:51):
Oh she was amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:09:53):
She was amazing. She was amazing. I just thought, God,
it's gonna be hard to move a door and get
that back onto it. It's slidings, isn't it. But anyway, yeah,
I might see if I can do it. Yeah, but anyway,
that was good. Like the way she says she's strong
for a rage.

Speaker 23 (01:10:07):
I love that.

Speaker 10 (01:10:07):
But that's just such the right attitude. You know, I'm
pretty strong for someone my age.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Yes, exactly.

Speaker 10 (01:10:13):
Let's just be like her.

Speaker 19 (01:10:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:10:15):
Yeah, you know what I was ringing about tonight was
just like a big shout out really to the you know,
all the information that we got about the storms. And that, gosh,
it was really accurate and well informed, won't we you know,
like big shout out to the people that's providing all
that great information.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
It's a good point of it means that because they
certainly didn't they certainly didn't talk it up more than
they should have as exactly what like they what they
said it was. And as I was driving around Bluff today,
I thought, what a shame that not more people had
realized it. And I think Bluffs a maritime community, they
do know the weather. But there was outdoor furniture blowing around,

(01:10:57):
there were trampolines, there was wheelibins. I mean people, I mean,
wheather seems to getting more extreme. People do need to
take notice and just do a bit of a lockdown
around the property because a lot of places look like
they're getting really damaged kind of unnecessarily.

Speaker 10 (01:11:12):
Yeah, one hundred percent, and you know then there'll be
insurance claims and the fly on effect. And actually probably
just needed a bit of sense and sensibility.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
And I also think so is because you seem like
you've got a bit of time to talk. We've got
to rethink our fences. Fences just are so poorly, poorly
made they just blow over all the time.

Speaker 10 (01:11:31):
Yes, that's right, And I think it's to do with
you know, like I don't know, it's not is it
the new ones that are not standing up for someone?

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
It seems to be the new ones. It seems to
be they're just people. They just seem to be not
proper footings, not well constructed, wrong timber that probably rots,
and after ten years they just go because they're a
big area to the wind and they just all go
over at once.

Speaker 10 (01:11:55):
Yeah, that's correct. One of the things that blows my
mind though, is you know when you need to have,
you know, all these consents for these new sheds and
bits and pieces, and how they've changed all the legislation
with that. But you can have an old farmhouse and
an old property with old old tin and old old
posts and you don't have to pull that down yet

(01:12:16):
to build something with new materials, you have to have
one hundred percent content, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
I think with small sheds it's quite liberal. You can
do that quite easily.

Speaker 15 (01:12:26):
Now hmm.

Speaker 10 (01:12:29):
Love lessened up a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:12:30):
On that, haven't they.

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
Now, what's what driver are you doing?

Speaker 10 (01:12:32):
Sus We're doing I'm doing I'm actually just at Chertsey.
I'm actually doing christ Church to Timoru, and I waited
till the storm sort of had passed. I was at
the prize giving in christ Church. So but the road's
clear things, you know, everything's quite effort. So that's that's
a blessing.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
But I've just heard this shutting the bridge over the Rakaiah, Yes, I.

Speaker 10 (01:12:56):
Did hear you say that. So I'm that's a little
bit of a caution for me.

Speaker 3 (01:12:59):
Yeah, so you're not where You're not at that yet,
are you. No, No, not on.

Speaker 10 (01:13:03):
That but yet no. So yeah, we'll have to keep
an eye out for that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
Yeah, yeah, you might need to get it. I'll see
if I get more information. Actually, if anyone, I'll just
chick into Ta for that because it was text but
that will affect a lot of people. I could text
our guy there, but I just don't know if he's
still up or not. If you don't have got any
more my presuma, they're texting it because I think it's
either texting shutting the bridge because the river's up. But

(01:13:31):
with those big braided rivers too, what happens is the floods,
you get messive logs that come down and besh against
the concrete piles and compromise them. That would be my
understanding there. So maybe they've seen that there's damage. I'm
just looking at the I'm just looking at it. Now
what river do I say they're going to close?

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
Rakai don't know now which one is? Then I'm not
great with my Southland. Oh yes, the Rakaiah. That's the
first big one you come to, isn't it.

Speaker 27 (01:14:03):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
I haven't got warnings there, so they haven't clothes it.
It's good to know, yes, so it's good luck with that.
Gordon's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:14:13):
Yeah, Marcus. Last night you were talking about or people
were talking about cooking the eggs in the microwave.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
Correct.

Speaker 19 (01:14:21):
I've never boiled an egg in the microwave. But what
I do do is scramble the eggs. Oh yes, And
I take two eggs, crack them into a cup or
cracking them into a shaker, add some milk or knob
of butter, season to taste, and then do it a
good shake. So break so mixes everything up and then

(01:14:44):
pour them in a cup and sit that in the
microwave for thirty seconds and then take it out and
just run a knife around the inside. Of the cup
because the egg cooks from the outside of the edge
of the cup. Put it in for another thirty seconds,
take it out and do the same thing again, and

(01:15:05):
stop it all up because it does get a bit
of lumpy. And then there are another thirty seconds for
whatever you need to do with your particular microwave, and
then stir it all up for the knife and the
good ass good stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:15:21):
Good.

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
I appreciate that. Thank you, leot Smarcus. Good evening yday.

Speaker 4 (01:15:26):
Yeah, I'll not long come across the requirement. It's probably
about ten minutes ago, and a truck trail in it,
and I have.

Speaker 6 (01:15:36):
Place and.

Speaker 4 (01:15:40):
Traffic management all teed up and around that area, so yeah,
that's not highly possible. It will be getting closed.

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
Is it because the because the river is really high
or is it because of logs?

Speaker 4 (01:15:55):
I would say it's the height of it. I came
through probably about seven o'clock getting north and yeah, half
I iron then and like what I could see. Yeah,
I could see the water from bridge, so it's pretty

(01:16:18):
much can quite high.

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
Okay, And for those that don't know the Rakaylie, normally
it's just two or three strands of water. It's right
across the whole span, now, is it?

Speaker 4 (01:16:28):
Yeah, it looks that way. Yeah, okay, it's lots like
it's right across.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
I'll wait, just are you a local.

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
I'm from Tomorrow, but I travel at daily, five days
a week, so.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
Your diversion would be right up round Windwhistle Mount Hut,
wouldn't it, meth, But it's a long way round, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:16:52):
Yeah, that is a long way around, may I. But
I'll correspond with my bastards. I'm on the south side
of the roach now. But yeah, I meant ash and
drop the prey off and then back up to christ Church,
get reloaded and then do the return. So you'll see

(01:17:16):
what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
It will be an extra fifty k's, would it? Yeahs okay, Yeah,
good information. I really appreciate that. That's the real dealsa.

Speaker 16 (01:17:30):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (01:17:30):
It looks like they will be closing the rakaia. That's
breaking aws.

Speaker 7 (01:17:33):
You heard it?

Speaker 3 (01:17:34):
Here go Sue's gunn it. When Sue say she was Chertsey,
Won says there a Chertsey. I don't even know what
chertsey is, says She says, you're a Chertsey, Dan and
the helles Chertsey gorgeous name for a town. Sounds like
something out of the Cotswolds. Probably is. She might be

(01:17:59):
a teacher, she said, is in christ Church for at
price giving the reckons, she'll be oh yeah, oh she's
south if she's she's over there a car. She's in Jersey.
She's home and host Larry Marcus welcome. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:18:11):
I think Kurtie that that is south of Require Ye,
yes too. Bit of a public well in the old days,
sort of a riding crossing over over the over the
railway that and that required bridge that was the longest
was a mile and the tenth an old money. Yeah,

(01:18:31):
it was the longest in the country.

Speaker 19 (01:18:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18:35):
The funny rivers, they're funny riversized once because there's not
much extion, but when when it rains it must they
really fill out. And those logs that come down, although.

Speaker 13 (01:18:43):
I don't know if there's a hell of a lot
of logs up on those catchments now. The yeah, but
certainly braided and probably a lot of scaring goes on.
But what I was thinking that Marcus, probably any reports
coming about any damage out and the and the national

(01:19:03):
parks I around that south coast, the field land track,
you know, that's south south coast track. Yes, it's pretty well.
Well I did this here photography of a trial plot
or a study plot right around as far as the
wait Tutu River last summer, big mature trees, but there

(01:19:24):
was already quite a few windfalls in there. And just
looking on that the way that that storms coming this time.
It wouldn't surprise me if there's a whole lot of
trees come down over that track area, you know, like
it's when they go they all toppled together. But be
interesting to see if there's anyone stuck in there, if

(01:19:45):
it's cleaning up to be done.

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
Yeah, and I imagine there are tracks that don't get
a lot of egs. I know they've got that lodge too,
that the white to lodge at the mouth of the
ray Rauahiri. But yeah, it's yeah. I think the Haart
Ridge is going all right, but you're not. I don't know,
have many people. You don't hear of many people walking
along there these days.

Speaker 13 (01:20:04):
Sh be heard o slog But it's interesting. It was
a big area of the terror Us that got slammed
in the back in the nineteen thirties and completely flattened
the whole area there was apparently what some tramping parties
had the hell of a job getting out. You know,
when you get a complete forest laid down.

Speaker 7 (01:20:22):
It was.

Speaker 13 (01:20:25):
The well you know, I guess in that big blow
of seventy five when they're talking exotic pine forests around Arewell,
that got flattened or we flattened really because in nineteen
sixty four when I was working down there, the first
about it was about seven thousand hectares of air welf

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were Latin?

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
Who were you working for?

Speaker 13 (01:20:49):
Then there were still lands and survey. Yeah, we got
to come in and measure up the size of the
of the of the damage. Airwell Forest and Bellmorral forests
up towards cold and they both got pretty much flattened.
That they stage there was first amounts of timber to

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get rid of. But one one thing they did like
about that one was was when the trees got knocked down,
they fell or clapsed with their roots on still, and
that meant they got I reckon. They can sometimes live
for you know, a year or two like that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
Oh well, that's of interest to be because with this
great tree I've got to remove tomorrow, it's all got
its roots on. So I don't want then I don't
want the cattle to get in, so I might Yeah,
that might regrow, mightn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:21:41):
Well, well, you get the timber will stay good, live
for a lot longer, and you get a lot more
of a chance to recover it. You know, we have
some of the other wind damage where they actually break
off part way up the trunk. They have to be
recovered really quickly. You know, they're are you going to
try and recover timber of any value? It's it's it
can go dozy, you know, reasonably quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
It'll be interesting I think whether the storm takes on
the same proportions of the seventy five big blow, because certainly,
I think from south from a South and Central Otago
point of view, it seems to certainly be as big
as a storm that people can remember, although without without
the snow. Obviously, it's not one of those ones where
the snow's coming either, the worst predicting snow. I haven't

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seen any results.

Speaker 13 (01:22:27):
Of that, but no, I'm just thinking. Was having flying
over and looked at that particular area along the south coast,
it just seems like a few of the trees on
the outside of they went over and take a lot
of them down there.

Speaker 3 (01:22:42):
Nice to talk Laurie, thanks so much of that twenty
one past eleven. Looking forward to your calls. Let's be
hearing from if you want to talk on East Marcus
till midnight, anything else you've got, be good to hear
from you now. By the way, the black Caps they
played about twenty two balls and against against the England
Eden Park. That's been a disaster that series. It wouldn't

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be cheap to bring England in their whole entourage apt
with them. They like an entourage, so that was happening.
That was a wash out and the Breakers got whipped
right at the end. They played the Brisbane team. They
started well, ended badly. They blew an eighteen point lead
and half time to lose to the Brisbane Bullets. Didn't

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look happy and the team photos they might come right
at the end. They came right at the end last year,
didn't they? Right? Ish tat you're on about? If you
want to be a part of the show. Eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Marcus till twelve with you till midnight?
Next half hour romance from twelve. Haven't heard from anyone

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at Hamna tonight or Culviden or Queenstown apparently powers out
in Tiano and Manipurti, which hasn't really been reported, so
you might have talked to say about that too. But
for those that have just tuned in, Bluff got hammered,
and the Calgo got hammard Otago got hammered. Balcluth got hammered.
They got hammered, and Covid and got really hammered. I

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think the coast is still cut off, but they got hammered.
I think christ Church itself was all right, but everywhere
I think christ if I had worse weather two days ago.
But she's been She's been a she's been a thing,
that's for sure. Anyone without loss. India they went to Bed.
I don't think they. I think they've chosen to Bed.
I guess that's the thing there. Hi, Dave Marcus, who's

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India playing New Zealand? This isn't the women's one day?

Speaker 19 (01:24:35):
Oh hey?

Speaker 27 (01:24:37):
I was surprised to see Brendon McCallum and Southy both
in the England camp today tonight. Okay, well was I
seeing things now? I did I know what I was seen?
And they both looked to me like they were in
the England camp. Now I went to peck and save
and I got myself some more tigle Manuka smoked chicken rashes.

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Another pack there's a bit of a stand of them,
and uh, three pets of sausages for twenty four five
dollars and coffee eleven dollars a twenty pack of twenty six.
That's the that's the good, you know, the sachet coffee. Yeah,

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and so it was. It was a success. But been
a bit bowie here Marcus, but nothing. She sort of
cleared up by the afternoon. She sort of blew itself through.
So it wasn't so bad here on the coast.

Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
Yeah, christ Church seems to have really missed it. I've said,
they have no reports of any damage in christ Church,
but Hemmer and Culverdin and wirew seemed to have really
bore the brunt of it.

Speaker 27 (01:25:41):
Yeah, that doesn't surprise me more. The high country. Hey,
you know, it was just a bit like an old
Northwester here.

Speaker 3 (01:25:49):
You know, it comes in from the west over the
hells here.

Speaker 27 (01:25:53):
Wow. But would you like me to send you an
email of us peck of Russia Bacon.

Speaker 3 (01:26:01):
Oh, you know, I'll have a look at that I'll
look for that. I'll give that a go. I'll let
you know about that, Dave, right, Rogie, that what.

Speaker 27 (01:26:09):
Brand eagel teagel monoca smoked chicken rashes?

Speaker 5 (01:26:13):
Mate?

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
Can you be you're pleased that Metcalfe signed with the
Warriors until twenty twenty eight?

Speaker 21 (01:26:19):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:26:20):
Has he?

Speaker 3 (01:26:21):
Yeah, it's just been dounce today. That's a good thing.
They got him. He's he's loyal, so that's good. He's
still young.

Speaker 27 (01:26:26):
I think, are you giving the Warriors big rats for
next season?

Speaker 3 (01:26:33):
Oh that's a good question. No, I don't think I am.
I think I don't know how. I don't know how
long it's going to take him to come back from
injury and Mark, I think there'll be two years away
for some of the young people through the flick Cup
coming through. So I give him two years maybe.

Speaker 16 (01:26:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:26:54):
I came over the old y mac Bridge or the
other day I was going up to the Tigele the Kelly's. Anyhow,
I was surprised at the state of distri Pier that
they had old Ye Mate, bridge is in you know.
I think we need to do something those bridges in
the Rakaia. I need something doing like double lane and

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they need replacing, Marcus, I think they're past there used
by date myself, Rakaia and the old ym At bridge.
If indeed we are going to bother replacing it because
we have got the new Ymt bridge, but by Kroche,
she's in a poor state of repair. It's got you know, yeah,
it's sucking fairly tatty.

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
Well one got damage last year? Was it the Rakai one?
There was some quite significant damage to it.

Speaker 27 (01:27:42):
Yes, there was. I think a cat or a car
or some vehicle almost went over. And the same seems
to have happened on the old ym Mate bridge. There's
lenks missing and being repaired and gate I see a
gate was being in place here on the old ym
Mate bridge. She's looking here bed state of repair Mate,

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I think I think back to the late fifties, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:28:09):
Okay, nice to hear from your Dave. Thanks for twenty
six to twelve. Looking forward to your calls. Hi Joe, welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:28:15):
Hi.

Speaker 12 (01:28:16):
So I've had a.

Speaker 17 (01:28:17):
Pretty interesting day to day because I've spent most of
it in Rotherham, which is just down the road from Colverdon. Yes,
I'm the manager of the medical center there. So with
the wind start at about ten o'clock and I have
never experienced wind like it. We had a camp a

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van that got lifted over a fence and tipped onto
its side earlier in the day and then just getting
out of Colverdon back to christ Church and now I'm
in Ashburton. But a lot of really big trees, big
mature trees that have that have been uprooted, and you know,

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just even in Roberham Township. But in terms of the
require bridge, I've just come over it and there are
traffic management vans at either end, but it's still open.

Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
Sure, so we imagined that'd be there because they'll be
assessing if they need to close it, right Yeah, yeah,
so yeah, I can't imagine how a camper van could
be blowing over a fence. That's unbelievable.

Speaker 17 (01:29:26):
Ah, And why they would be out driving in it?

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
Yeah, Well have you seen the daily rate for those things?
You're playing five hundred a day? You probably want to
use it.

Speaker 17 (01:29:35):
But yeah, yeah, it wasn't looking very mighty, but that
there were people trapped inside. But I don't think that
they were hurt or anything, but they would have got
a hell of a pride.

Speaker 3 (01:29:46):
And from a medical center point of view for people
getting injured by me, and there's a lot there were
a lot of things to injure people flying around, weren't there.

Speaker 17 (01:29:56):
Yeah, we didn't actually have too many casualties, to be honest.
That's good because we sort of find everyone and said
just stay at home and don't come in and we'
wouldn't charge them for appointments or anything.

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
So yeah, yes, I was worried about people and Bluff.
There are people in Bluff saying they needed oxygen delivered
and the road was closed and stuff like that. So
it does get tricky quite quickly, doesn't it from a
medical point of view when access is compromised.

Speaker 23 (01:30:22):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
And I imagine the clear up will be it'll be
a lot of big job. And have you been to
Colverdon today?

Speaker 17 (01:30:31):
Yeah, so we could. I went turned. I had to
go inland at Colvid and because the bow Moral it's
the moral piece of you know, that was the piece
of road that was closed and they'd snapped. There were
power poles that were actually snapped in half, and even
going around the bypass, who was power lines that were

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down and across the road. So it was a lot
of debris. It's going to take a lot of you know,
a lot of cleanup.

Speaker 3 (01:30:58):
And what about those big privot irrigators? Are they all
destroyed and tipped over?

Speaker 12 (01:31:03):
Not too bad?

Speaker 17 (01:31:05):
There were a couple that were twisted, but there were
a lot that were still looking pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:31:11):
Is it your do you do that community to stay?

Speaker 4 (01:31:13):
Joe?

Speaker 17 (01:31:15):
No, I'm going to commute from now Beach. So, but
it was really still this morning and then it just
came up at teen. It just I mean, it was amazing.
It just went from being quite mild to being an
absolute storm. It was amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
Thanks so much for the call, je Joe, I do
appreciate it. George, it's Marcus. Good evening, Good evening.

Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
Oh George, I'm just going back.

Speaker 28 (01:31:46):
I've been working down stomachy drive. We just loaded the
bus onto a dreads quater.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
Okay, and so the roads open now, is it?

Speaker 16 (01:31:56):
Wow?

Speaker 28 (01:31:57):
It's that they were just hosing and cleaning.

Speaker 23 (01:32:00):
When when we left.

Speaker 3 (01:32:02):
Gosh, it's been a performance, hasn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:32:06):
Going on and on?

Speaker 17 (01:32:07):
Yeah, yeah, well.

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
They're still fire. Were there's still emergency services down there? George?

Speaker 27 (01:32:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:32:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:32:14):
We we got down there with the cranes that two
o'clock this afternoon. Yeah, there's a and everything kept coming
off the bus and they couldn't get barrel. I don't know,
they couldn't disconnected, isolate I don't know, but they ended

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up doing it different.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
People come from.

Speaker 28 (01:32:38):
Chinese people come, I think.

Speaker 21 (01:32:39):
And isolated it properly in a couple of wires.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
And then we could carry on.

Speaker 3 (01:32:46):
So they removed a battery from the bus, did they.

Speaker 4 (01:32:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the batteries were removed.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
There sounds to me like they're not too sure about
what happens with our batteries when they get compromised, because
that's a big effect to get people in and experts
and stuff. That sounds like a pretty complicated scenario. Sounds
quite quite sketchy.

Speaker 19 (01:33:08):
It was.

Speaker 28 (01:33:09):
It was I suppose it's the first time, but yeah,
it was a Gary on the air.

Speaker 6 (01:33:16):
Yeah, yeah, I suppose. Yeah, it's difficult.

Speaker 3 (01:33:18):
So you're saying the road's probably about to be open,
if not already, George, would that be right? Yeah, appreciate that.
Thank you so much for the heads up. Barbitt's Marcus.
Good evening.

Speaker 8 (01:33:31):
Oh Marcus, look I just said I'll make this very quick.
I just want to thank you so much for every
time something like this happens. It doesn't matter what it is.
You're the one that gives the best coverage to motion
depth and you seem to bring the best out and
people and people will ring because they know that you

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know that, you know that you're interested in what they're
going to say. And yes, that's all really that I
wanted to say.

Speaker 3 (01:34:07):
Oh thank you. Thought I thought you say I thought
you'd say, but there's no buds about it. Yeah, well
it is interesting. I also think of people without powering
out the cell phones. They do it information because it's
not nice to be without power and not know when
it's coming back on. You do feel quite isolated.

Speaker 8 (01:34:23):
Look in Dneed and we had a power cut today.
I think Moscule still got one.

Speaker 3 (01:34:27):
Nice Moscule seem funnily enough, the people as they rang us,
their power came back on. There were two people that
came on. About one came on I think between eight
and nine and one between nine and ten. So hopefully
they're all back on.

Speaker 8 (01:34:39):
Yeah, oh good, good. Yeah, because there's a lot of
because it's so straight. I'm not saying it's a place
foudly people or anything, but you know, there are a
lot of people because it's so flat.

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot of retirement.
There's a lot of retirement homes. There a lot of
retirement homes and moscular think yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:34:56):
That's yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:34:57):
But I must say today, when the wind first started,
I went into the basement. There's a couple of steps
down to basements, and was so strong. The wind was
so strong. It was this really strong gust. It pushed
the door. I thought someone was pushing on and I
thought they're not getting in here, and it was the wind.

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And I ended up on my hands and knees.

Speaker 3 (01:35:21):
Yeah, I could understand that it was that powerful.

Speaker 8 (01:35:23):
It was just so strong. And the trees, it's amazing
how the trees don't blow over, a lot of them,
especially the older ones, the big ones, the old ones. Certainly.
Not much coverage from Dneva actually today.

Speaker 3 (01:35:38):
No, no, And I was the biggest damage I saw
in Dunedan was that a lot of the at the port,
A lot of the container's had blown over. They sticked
too high, they were really they really scattered around.

Speaker 8 (01:35:50):
Yeah, yeah, there's quite a bit of damage, but we
don't hear that much about it. But look, it's yeah.
I just hope that everyone has a safe night, and
just thanks again for all your coverages.

Speaker 3 (01:36:02):
Just pleasure, but it makes for a makes free I
wouldn't say it an enjoyable night, but it's nice to
be hopefully of some form of service to people getting
information out to them, so I appreciate that, Barb. Thank you.

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