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Gales have arrived here now :evil: :evil:
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:roll: Not again Michael ;)
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SW at storm force now with hail :twisted:
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Michael wrote:SW at storm force now with hail :twisted:
How lucky, better than the boring day we got here today :evil:

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Andy wrote::roll: Not again Michael ;)
Yes, Andy, I think Michael is trying to create a new GALE posting. The other one which seems to get dragged up now and then is getting rather large, although I would expect Michael to make that posting the largest one on this forum, now that Michael has put over a thousand postings of his own :-k

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By the way it might of been wind in Auckland today from the reports on the tv3 news tonight. :lol:

Perhaps Michael needs to spend some time of the south coast of south island when gale force southerly winds with driving rain and hail, are lashing the coast line and temperature barley above zero... then we would all have a laugh.

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We keep this "Galey Weather" right to the bitter end :evil:
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The Gale tonight sounds like a freight train in notch 8 with a full train :roll:
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Michael wrote:The Gale tonight sounds like a freight train in notch 8 with a full train :roll:
Obviously not a hog (Dg, Di, English Electric Df) or even a Dj, although the Dj was reduced to only having a Notch 9 strength in their later years, notch 10 only good for cancelling the vigilance, if you had your left hand on the throttle :)


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The old Da's used to have a good sound,Lying in bed hearing them in the distance and perhaps the wind is the sound of a wagon bouncing on the sleepers ;) :D
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Michael wrote:The Gale tonight sounds like a freight train in notch 8 with a full train :roll:
Obviously not a hog (Dg, Di, English Electric Df) or even a Dj, although the Dj was reduced to only having a Notch 9 strength in their later years, notch 10 only good for cancelling the vigilance, if you had your left hand on the throttle :)


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:-({|= Weathers got more dreadful tonight with storm force gust,Its even stronger now the high is to the north than from the low circulation itself :-({|=
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The wind here is like Wellington used to get in frequency and strengthwise in Wellington in the 1970's :?
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WINDS AGAIN AT GALE FORCE WITH DRIVING CONTINUAL RAIN :-# WHEN WILL THIS INSANE WEATHER EVER END :evil: :cry: :( :-({|=
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Michael wrote:WINDS AGAIN AT GALE FORCE WITH DRIVING CONTINUAL RAIN :-# WHEN WILL THIS INSANE WEATHER EVER END :evil: :cry: :( :-({|=
....as soon as you take your hand off the throttle of that Da ;)

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more gusts to 50 knots here again today
and more of the same forecast again tomorrow michael
its about time we had a decent period of sw gales
all the trees were starting to grow too straight
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Your weather is in Dynamic Brake mode with both engine and train brake swung far forward :P
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Michael wrote:Your weather is in Dynamic Brake mode with both engine and train brake swung far forward :P
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:....as soon as you take your hand off the throttle of that Da ;)

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Coming down from Springfield to Rolleston used to be quite pleasant in winter time in the cab of a Dj. The heat from the grids on the LA's side would keep a crew quite warm with a thousand tonne weight pushing against the combined dynamic brake effort of a Dj/Dg combination on the downward drift of a trainload of coal/timber/cement from the West Coast. :)
...a bit diffrent in summer tho' :evil:

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WINDS STILL AT GALE-FORCE NOW WITH HEAVY RAIN WOW LOVE WINTER [-X
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Winds now Gale Force here :evil:
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Michael wrote:Winds now Gale Force here :evil:
Really? That's a shame... not a breeze, not a cloud down here in Omarama... :twisted: :P
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Most of the SI gets unreal weather :shock:
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Michael wrote:Winds now Gale Force here :evil:
Really? That's a shame... not a breeze, not a cloud down here in Omarama... :twisted: :P
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WINDS NOW RISING TO GALE FORCE WITH RAIN :evil: :( :cry: :-({|=
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Michael wrote:WINDS NOW RISING TO GALE FORCE WITH RAIN :evil: :( :cry: :-({|=

Hold in there, Michael, especially when the looks like there is no relief from them in sight for the next umpteen years :) :) :) :) ;)

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SW NOW AT GALE FORCE :(
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
Michael wrote:WINDS NOW RISING TO GALE FORCE WITH RAIN :evil: :( :cry: :-({|=

Hold in there, Michael, especially when the looks like there is no relief from them in sight for the next umpteen years :) :) :) :) ;)

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