#new zealand weather

[gumnut-logic]

::hugs to all Kiwi Thunderfam::

Please stay safe, especially everyone on the North Island.

Thinking of you all.

Nutty

(Pissed at the ABC news lack of info on our neighbours)

[spybrarian]

does the internet know that Aotearoa's official weather authority gives us our forecast in bbq based hieroglyphs?

This link goes to a barbecue RADAR

I'm never getting over this, truly

[meteor-mp3]

blargh i miss australia....i havent been in 6 years what the hell

[nzmistressv]

This Auckland weather is killing me

[de-i-ji]

aotearoa/new zealand is currently under a national state of emergency, only a third in our history.* cyclone gabrielle has devastated the north and east of te ika-a-māui/north island, barely weeks after flash flooding hit northland and auckland.

no confirmed deaths but the damage is unfathomable.

EDIT: sadly there are now 5 deaths associated with gabrielle. entire communities have been completely isolated with no communications in or out. numerous places have dwindling water supplies.

EDIT: the death toll is now 7

*the other were the christchurch earthquakes and covid which gives a glimpse at the scale of what we are facing

[airyairyaucontraire]

Can I just say a hearty “Oh, for goodness’ sake!”?

Anyway I’ll be off work Monday and Tuesday, weathering the storm at home.

[original-punks]

come toast some marshmallows with me 🖤

[purrpleberrie]

Visited some family in Southland over labour weekend and also went to Edendale's tulip day. Was so pretty to see the tulip fields, they also had one they were letting people walk through.

Plus some bonus calves hanging out because spring.

[fiction-quotes]

In the old days, in the years that have gone before us, the land and sea felt a great emptiness, a yearning. The mountains were like a stairway to heaven, and the lush green rainforest was a rippling cloak of many colors. The sky was iridescent, swirling with the patterns of wind and clouds; sometimes it reflected the prisms of rainbow or southern aurora. The sea was ever-changing, shimmering and seamless to the sky. This was the well at the bottom of the world, and when you looked into it you felt you could see to the end of forever.

This is not to say that the land and sea were without life, without vivacity. The tuatara, the ancient lizard with its third eye, was sentinel here, unblinking in the hot sun, watching and waiting to the east. The moa browsed in giant wingless herds across the southern island. Within the warm stomach of the rainforests, kiwi, weka, and the other birds foraged for huhu and similar succulent insects. The forests were loud with the clatter of tree bark, chatter of cicada, and murmur of fish-laden streams. Sometimes the forest grew suddenly quiet, and in wet bush could be heard the filigree of fairy laughter like a sparkling glissando.

The sea, too, teemed with fish, but they also seemed to be waiting. They swam in brilliant shoals, like rains of glittering dust, throughout the greenstone depths – hapuku, manga, kahawai, tamure, moki, and warehou – herded by shark or mango ururoa. Sometimes from far off a white shape would been seen flying through the sea, but it would only be the serene flight of the tarawhai, the stingray with the spike on its tail.

Waiting. Waiting for the seeding. Waiting for the gifting. Waiting for the blessing to come.

  —  The Whale Rider (Witi Ihimaera )

[gumnut-logic]

Auckland Thunderfam, report in before I go grey!

Those of you in Auckland please stay safe ::grabs all of you and my sister and family who were flooded out of their hotel room today::

Nutty

(who frets cos I do that)

[aceoffangirls]

When you live in Australia but you also have a really bad sleep schedule so you can still talk to all your online friends

[hindbodes]

[memenewsdotcom]

New Zealand declares emergency over Cyclone Gabrielle

[catstalkingwords]

These words are from @jephjacques‘ blog on https://questionablecontent.net/, from at least 10 years ago guessing by where it was written down in my Book Of Words. And I’m still jealous of the southern hemisphere’s weather this time of year 🥶

Questionable Content is a comic that my friend Scully was already a fan of and recommended to me in college (probably around 2007), and I have been reading it ever since. Lots of great webcomics have come and finished... Octopus Pie, American Elf, Girls With Slingshots, Nimona and Mare Internum being some of my favorites. But Questionable Content is still going, and though I haven’t met him, I love Jeph for it <3

[airyairyaucontraire]

First up, my family’s house is perfectly all right and we have everything we need for the moment. We’re safe.

The scary shitty weather continues, and all Auckland schools, early childhood education centres, etc are to stay closed until 7 February (otherwise, tomorrow would have been the first day of term for many of them, and my nieces were due to have their first day of school on Wednesday). People are being urged to stay at home tomorrow to keep the roads clear (there are a lot of closed roads too) and reduce the risk of getting cut off at work or school unable to get home.

I’m still waiting to hear from my work whether the courts will be closed and whether we’re expected to go in. I’ve asked repeatedly in the office group chat. Honestly, if we are I might ask for a day’s leave. I’m not up for driving through that, it’s just a bad idea.

They had to move the alligators at the zoo because the creek overflowed into their pond! (I think this might be about ensuring the alligators can’t get over the bank into the creek and make a daring escape.)

My mother is presently vigorously flipping off the mayor on the TV news (he has dealt with the emergency very poorly and his communications look particularly lousy when we’re all used to the excellent standard set by Jacinda Ardern).