Leaving work last night, I remarked to a colleague that the world looked wrong. By that, I mean the colours were wrong. The sun was nearly setting, but its golden glow was somehow reflecting off a monstrous thundercloud looming to the south. It was the golden hour, but applied to everything that I was expecting to be in shade.
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rustica there was lots of lightning, though it was too far away to hear the thunder.
By the time we got home I went to unplug the sensitive electronic kit around the house, then we stood out for a while hoping to be able to photograph it. Alas, none of the shots were any good. Then came was this sudden roaring sound, which we took as our cue to take shelter... it was hail. I think it was the largest hail I've ever seen. I photographed them with a 50c coin for scale, which is pretty much the same size as a 10p piece. It wasn't a huge dump; we must have only caught the edge of the storm, because there were reports of golf ball sized hail over in Addington and Papanui (3-4km away) breaking conservatory roofs...!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/your-weather/7612215/Lightning-lights-Christchurch-sky has some decent photos. Poignantly, it was the second anniversary of the September 2010 quake which kicked off all that fun and games.
After it passed, I plugged things back in, and found that (long story short) the DSL modem was fried. Can't say I'm that surprised, really, so I picked up a new one today. The replacement has a web interface which requires me to solve a captcha to log in, even on the LAN side. I'm not sure what I think of this.
On the other hand, I now have some more dead tech kit that I can rip apart and turn into paperweights :-)
As I drove to meet
rustica there was lots of lightning, though it was too far away to hear the thunder. By the time we got home I went to unplug the sensitive electronic kit around the house, then we stood out for a while hoping to be able to photograph it. Alas, none of the shots were any good. Then came was this sudden roaring sound, which we took as our cue to take shelter... it was hail. I think it was the largest hail I've ever seen. I photographed them with a 50c coin for scale, which is pretty much the same size as a 10p piece. It wasn't a huge dump; we must have only caught the edge of the storm, because there were reports of golf ball sized hail over in Addington and Papanui (3-4km away) breaking conservatory roofs...!http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/your-weather/7612215/Lightning-lights-Christchurch-sky has some decent photos. Poignantly, it was the second anniversary of the September 2010 quake which kicked off all that fun and games.
After it passed, I plugged things back in, and found that (long story short) the DSL modem was fried. Can't say I'm that surprised, really, so I picked up a new one today. The replacement has a web interface which requires me to solve a captcha to log in, even on the LAN side. I'm not sure what I think of this.
On the other hand, I now have some more dead tech kit that I can rip apart and turn into paperweights :-)
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