love30stm

Thought i might share the video I took on Saturday from inside my house at the storm outside thst left us with no power over the weekend

Jo-Chris

Looks pretty bad - glad you got your power on eventually so you can log your experience on here!

nelsonpom

Impressive storm, when it blows here in NZ it really seems to blow !!!!

Pointer

BBQ weather in Scotland

nelsonpom

Can you have a BBQ in Scotland ? Kinda sounds like a complete contradiction

Pointer

we do but we dont sit outside and eat it. one person holds the umbrella while the other turns the meat over assuming that is that you can get the coals lit.

otherwise we just use a frying pan and call it a BBQ

So looking forward to a BBQ down under with the sun shining

tiri

there's two things I don't miss about NZ: the awful weather and powerlines. Not a great combination at the best of times!

janek

You're obviously not in Australia if you think it is going to be a 'stormless' or 'storm free country'. There's no shortage of bad weather all over Australia at certain time of the year, some of the wind storms come with fire attached!

Pollyana

And most of the storms here bring down powerlines, some cyclones can cause blackouts lasting days.

tiri

Not yet I'm not but I soon will be. At least the houses are built better to withstand storms there, but rest assured I shall try to live somewhere that doesn't have too much of a problem with either fire or storms. It's a big enough continent so I'm sure I'll be able to find somewhere

I was just looking at a news report that said that upteen thousands of homes in northland were still without power after the storm, which century are we supposed to be living in ? ? ?

Jo-Chris

If you could see the amount of damage to the electricity network you may have a different opinon, the storm didn't really stop on a particular area but affected the whole of the North Island.

janek

Indeed a very big country but not a lot of it is inhabitable. I am sure they will find room for you though....

You read news reports about a country you have a very obvious dislike for???

You might find the Australian newspapers more to your liking, and they would certainly be more relevant to you.

love30stm

omg Houses are built to withstand Earthquakes duh!!! and in our Road 3 power poles came down into the road, I dont think you appreciate what damage was caused!! crikey oh riley

love30stm

Ive been here 3 years and this is the first time we have had power outage and this bad a storm, as for the weather? well its much better than the UK and we at least have a summer, you obviously just want to find negatives in New Zealand! enjoy Australia I'm sure it sounds like it will suit you

love30stm

Your welcome