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Post by jonesy on Sept 26, 2011 22:28:23 GMT 12
Has someone forgotten to change the clock here.... Hope you checked your smoke alarms too!!
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Post by ErrolC on Sept 26, 2011 22:48:15 GMT 12
Has someone forgotten to change the clock here.... Hope you checked your smoke alarms too!! Thanks for reminding me. You need to go to your profile, and modify it by changing DST (at the bottom) to 'Yes'. The site software runs on GMT, you tell it what timezone you are in so it displays your local time.
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Post by jonesy on Sept 27, 2011 6:59:42 GMT 12
Cool! Thanks for that. Now I wont be late. Or early. Or something like that...
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Post by baronbeeza on Sept 27, 2011 9:39:22 GMT 12
Thanks Errol, worked for me.
I was also sitting around waiting for someone to change the clock for me.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Oct 6, 2011 19:35:14 GMT 12
Things are picking up,
Warm evening in Auckland. Our first barbeque of the season took place tonight.
Roll on summer. It's been a tough winter.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 6, 2011 20:21:16 GMT 12
Indeed Peter, we've had a scorcher here today, I mowed the lawn earlier today and it was like summer out in the sun. We've had a thunderstorm earlier this evening and in fact we've had thunderstorms each day for the past three or four days. It's definately spring! And thunder still makes me bloody nervous.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Oct 6, 2011 20:48:26 GMT 12
Lightning Dave cannot be hit again, it is against the stats
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Post by Darren Masters on Oct 7, 2011 14:24:59 GMT 12
Indeed Peter, we've had a scorcher here today, I mowed the lawn earlier today and it was like summer out in the sun. We've had a thunderstorm earlier this evening and in fact we've had thunderstorms each day for the past three or four days. It's definately spring! And thunder still makes me bloody nervous. Dave, I'm yet to see one decent thunderstorm here! Gosh, I miss the Aussie cracker storms. Hardly ever lightning or even thunder here. But yes, glad it is warming up. Feels lovely I always said, Auckland has fantastic summers!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 7, 2011 17:14:36 GMT 12
You should have been here a couple of years back when I got struck, that was a huge storm that lasted a week or so, and was something I never want to experience eber again.
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Post by Darren Masters on Oct 7, 2011 19:20:02 GMT 12
You should have been here a couple of years back when I got struck, that was a huge storm that lasted a week or so, and was something I never want to experience eber again. What? Hit by lightning and survived?
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Post by Darren Masters on Oct 7, 2011 19:57:39 GMT 12
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Post by kiwitone on Oct 7, 2011 23:25:33 GMT 12
I guess you struck it lucky Dave....tish boom...years ago in outback near leonora, I got out of the tent and slept sitting up crapping myself in the toyota arkana; during a storm that seemed to to last all bloody night with no rain either!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 8, 2011 15:07:11 GMT 12
What? Hit by lightning and survived? Yes. I was struck by lighting whilst walking into town a couple of years ago. The lightining was a hell of a bolt, and hit a tall tree in Victoria Street, which seemed to explode in front of me just like the trees hit by shells in Band of Brothers, but in reality it was not the whole tree, just the bark exploding. It left a gouge from the tip of the tree to the base that remains like that oday and thankfully the tree survives today with it's new stripe. The bolt then arcked across towards me, but thankfully there was an electrical junction box between the tree and me which has a metal aerial on it, which the bolt hit first before arching to my umbrella and shooting up my arm and down my body. Had that junction box not had the aerial, I would be dead now but it took enough sting out of the bolt to save me. Even so it was a hell of a kick. There was a road worker standing a few feet away from me and a lady across the road who both saw the whole thing. Let's just say it was not an experience I want to repeat, it scares the crap out of me thinking about it now because I have looked a bit deeper into what usually happens to strike victims and I consider myself very bloody lucky indeed to be still here. That was the first day of a storm that went up and down in intensity but lasted at least a week and I recall a few days later sitting in the upstairs room of the cricket pavillion on Victoria Square at a meeting one afternoon during it and watching strike after strike coming down all around the town centre and river area very close to where I had been struck. So yes, the roll of thunder sets the hairs up on the back of my neck nowadays and you can keep your "proper" thunderstorms in Australia.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 8, 2011 15:11:40 GMT 12
By the way, back at the time I did post about it on the forum in a thread called Lighting Strike which was popular at the time. And ye, even now people here in town and on the forum still occasionally call me Lightning Dave.
I saw a programme recently that said 70% of people who survive a strike even if diffused like mine was, end up with heart, nerve and brain problems and'or often memory issues. So I have a valid excuse if I have forgotten to do something. I'm a bit worried about the old ticker after seeing that.
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Post by baronbeeza on Apr 9, 2013 12:00:41 GMT 12
Has someone forgotten to change the clock here.... Hope you checked your smoke alarms too!! Thanks for reminding me. You need to go to your profile, and modify it by changing DST (at the bottom) to 'Yes'. The site software runs on GMT, you tell it what timezone you are in so it displays your local time. Am I alone in still operating one hour out ? Thanks Errol for the reminder on how to change back. Cheers.
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Post by ngatimozart on Apr 9, 2013 13:50:25 GMT 12
Me too.
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