Water boil.

It’s a day after Tropical Cyclone Gita came through the Naki and apparently there was adequate wind to have annihilated more than a few giant trees. One of which destroyed a water main and just like that we are back to Nueces County standards. No flushing!? I’m sure that’ll get a good chuckle from some of you. Glad we could be entertaining.

Well Gita was nonetheless impressive. Her wind speeds peaked around 160 km/h and her effect over the huge fetch and deep ocean was something I hadn’t seen before. Looking off the cliffs above Back Beach there was just way too much sea rolling in… and for you thrill seekers, No, it wasn’t “rideable”.

Even for the cargo tanker fleet it was something to avoid. They fled to far off shelter. Anyway, we felt thankful to be 80 meters above it all, high on a volcanic hill. We did tie a few trees to our house so that they didn’t kill us or themselves. In the end, Gita’s hype and aftermath has brought back some of the melancholy and reinforced what an unfortunate combination of meteorology and geography the Gulf coast is during the Harveyish times. Again, dang.

Anyhoo, here’s some graphics for you visualiterati: Image #1 is a still shot showing how hard Gita worked to get to our location. You can see she really wanted it. The blue dot is where we live. Image # 2 is video showing the wind evolution. Two take homes from the video… 1-thankful to not be crossing the Cook Strait as it looks to be a wind tunnel, feeding the backside of the storm. There’s a reason the call it Windy Welly. 2-the eye went full quantum tunnel as it crossed the South Island. Neat trick.

As this is my debut post, I will just keep it strictly tech and avoid any of my usual slanted commentary. That comes later, after you ante up for the full paid version of the Des app. Okay then, time to “bugger off”.