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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 536790" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>On my way home from choir, I drove down to have a look at the wharf. The sea was just washing back and forth across the whole breakwater, where we normally park to pick the kids up from the school boat. The bulk of the jetty itself was underwater at the top of the tide. I was there about two hours after the tide began to drop. I suspect tomorrow morning will show a badly eroded beach again. They bring the bulldozers in when the weather clears, because the footbridge to the beach ends in mid air until they dig some beach back. A few houses may have been swamped as well. As we drove around, husband & I saw the fire brigade volunteers going here and there, making emergency repairs to homes and power poles. Broken trees everywhere, debris blowing across the road. The wind is still wild outside. It's not forecast to ease until well into tomorrow.</p><p></p><p>husband is home tomorrow but is driving difficult child 3 to college in the morning. Normally difficult child 3 could catch the boat to the mainland, but it's not likely to be running. The roads will be covered in debris and could be flooded. I'm on the later drive to collect difficult child 3 at lunchtime - I'll get to see the state of the road then. Any flood should have subsided by then too.</p><p></p><p>Our house seems to be coming through okay. </p><p></p><p>Do watch for the transit of Venus if you can, if your skies are clear. The best way to set this up is to get binoculars or a spy glass or similar and (without looking through it) point it at the sun, then let the image from the eyepiece fall onto a shaded sheet of paper. Move things around a bit, moving the paper in and out, until the image comes into focus. Or you can improvise a pinhole camera - seriously, a sheet of paper with a tiny hole in it can also capture the image for you.</p><p></p><p>Alternatively, watch it through welder's goggles.</p><p></p><p>Have fun!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 536790, member: 1991"] On my way home from choir, I drove down to have a look at the wharf. The sea was just washing back and forth across the whole breakwater, where we normally park to pick the kids up from the school boat. The bulk of the jetty itself was underwater at the top of the tide. I was there about two hours after the tide began to drop. I suspect tomorrow morning will show a badly eroded beach again. They bring the bulldozers in when the weather clears, because the footbridge to the beach ends in mid air until they dig some beach back. A few houses may have been swamped as well. As we drove around, husband & I saw the fire brigade volunteers going here and there, making emergency repairs to homes and power poles. Broken trees everywhere, debris blowing across the road. The wind is still wild outside. It's not forecast to ease until well into tomorrow. husband is home tomorrow but is driving difficult child 3 to college in the morning. Normally difficult child 3 could catch the boat to the mainland, but it's not likely to be running. The roads will be covered in debris and could be flooded. I'm on the later drive to collect difficult child 3 at lunchtime - I'll get to see the state of the road then. Any flood should have subsided by then too. Our house seems to be coming through okay. Do watch for the transit of Venus if you can, if your skies are clear. The best way to set this up is to get binoculars or a spy glass or similar and (without looking through it) point it at the sun, then let the image from the eyepiece fall onto a shaded sheet of paper. Move things around a bit, moving the paper in and out, until the image comes into focus. Or you can improvise a pinhole camera - seriously, a sheet of paper with a tiny hole in it can also capture the image for you. Alternatively, watch it through welder's goggles. Have fun! Marg [/QUOTE]
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