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March 18, 2007 5:09pm by David Farrar

Ruapehu Lahar

A long awaited lahar has finally emerged from Mt Ruapehu today. Sounds like it was a moderate one. Morphyoss has been following the action.

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dave

I noted with quiet satisfaction that the lahar was the controlled non-event the engineers and scientists said it would be.

Will the media (in particular the ComPost) now grovel and apologise for their breatless predictions of Tangiwai-style death and destruction? Not bloody likely.

Whenever the media beats something up like the entirely predictable, harmless Ruapehu lahar, you know that nothing will happen. Just recall the Y2K bug, sars, bird flu and this year’s international beat-up, global warming. The tradition of the media beating up claims of armageddon goes right back to Malthus and has always proved wrong.

Real disasters, of course, such as September 11 or the Aceh tsunami, cannot be predicted. Unlike media predictions, they are also real.
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March 18, 2007 5:48pm
culma

Dave – why not control the release of the build up rather than consult local iwi, Doc and any other insignificant stand by’s before the event happens uncontrolled anyway.

Don’t let any NZ media organisation piss you off, they just don’t warrant it man!
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March 18, 2007 7:06pm
Mr I.P .Freely

Controlled , are you stupid , a small spill flooding land ,causing delays for hours to everyone,,Chris Carter the gay minister ,opps i cant say that( WHY MENTION GAY),but chris the gay ,he has been pandered up to the maori gay tangiwhia(THE GAY SCARY RIVER DWEALER ,LETS SPEND MILLIONS PROTECTING A FELLOW ABUSED GAY tangiwhia not the real CHRIS CARTER director of the X-files series,probably not gay (THANK GOD) but back to the subject , this bald idiot has spent millions pissing in the wind when i would have put a little digger up there forming a drainage channel, but shit no one died and the maori monster lives PRAISE CHRIS CARTER, and the conservation dept
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March 18, 2007 7:28pm
Mr I.P .Freely

Shit Dave if someone in whatever dept had the balls and brains , and were not scared of tangiwais, they would have put a small drainage channel in, then there WOULD NOT have been this event, so Dave DONT PAT yourself on the back,SHIT we pander to the primitives
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March 18, 2007 7:45pm
Peter

Dave is right in a sense: the safety systems put in place were well planned and worked well. I personally would have liked to see small earthworks conducted to further mitigate risks, however unlike Mr I.P .Freely, who I do not hesitate to say is a moron, I am aware of the history of ownership of Ruapehu National Park, which goes thus: Tuwharetoa donated the National Park to New Zealand, for all of us to enjoy, but in return there was the understanding that the tribe retained the right to consultation in whatever matters it saw fit. However outlandish one considers their particular objection to lahar-mitigating earthworks or controlled release of water, the fact remains that it was their right, and not some communist/gay/mental privilege. We all owe Tuwharetoa a great deal of gratitude for their gifts of what was private property for the nation, and high-spending international tourists, to enjoy. I think they were wrong on that one, but in the end all it cost was more complicated earthworks further down and a comperhensive early warning system.
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March 18, 2007 7:58pm
Ross Nixon

Did anyone spot this photo of the taniwha’s head floating down the river? http://images.trademe.co.nz/photoserver/60/37652260_full.jpg
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March 18, 2007 8:23pm
Mr I.P .Freely

Dont call me a moron peter , you quote the history of the park , in all the times i have been up looking down on the crater , I HAVNT SEEN ANY MAORIS ,up there tramping PETER YOU DO KNOW WHAT TRAMPING IS, or are you a crim maori,DONT INSULT ME TOSSIER
NO TANGIWHIA Where hurt in this insult from peter TOWARDS ME
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March 18, 2007 8:27pm
culma

Ross – you sick bugger, who in their right mind would use the doctored photo from Frau Clark’s BS pledge card to make a point. But I did enjoy it when I opened it.
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March 18, 2007 8:33pm
Peter

Articles of moronic evidence:

-Variously spelt “TANGIWHIA” and “tangiwais” the correct spelling is Taniwha

-“shit we pander to the primitives”, a statement which suggests that Mr I.P .Freely has the moronic opinion that Maori people are primitive.

-“maori crim”, a statement which suggests that Mr I.P .Freely ‘s simple mind is so impressionable to breathless, sensationalised media reports about violent crime that he is scared of anyone with brown skin.

-“in all the times i have been up looking down on the crater , I HAVNT SEEN ANY MAORIS ,up there tramping”: in a very simple minded observation Mr I.P .Freely seems to think that he has all powerful, all penetrating vision, and that the way he sees something at a given point in time is the undisputed way that things are, always have been, and always will be.

-“tossier”: incorrect spelling in insults is particularly humorous.

– various garbled, nonsensical sentences: Mr I.P .Freely demonstrates that his simple mind has very limited literacy skills.

Hey, why am I even arguing with this simpleton? he won’t even understand my reposts. My point ( mostly agreeing with Dave) was in the first place, is that this lahar, and future lahar risks, is not important to news/politics as the status it is given
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March 18, 2007 8:44pm
Mr I.P .Freely

The 6 lahar patrol traffic police cars will now have to move on from protecting the tangiwhia, the deed has been done and honest travelers can cross the desert road without these vulchers???RIPPPOFF ARTESTSZ??? GENERAL RIPOFF REVENUE TOSSIERS BEING AROUND, not much hope, Dont get raped when the lahar police are around , speeding tickets is the only reason, for there existance
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March 18, 2007 8:47pm
Mr I.P .Freely

The 6 lahar patrol traffic police cars will now have to move on from protecting the tangiwhia, the deed has been done and honest travelers can cross the desert road without these vulchers???RIPPPOFF ARTESTSZ??? GENERAL RIPOFF REVENUE TOSSIERS BEING AROUND, not much hope, Dont get raped when the lahar police are around , speeding tickets is the only reason, for their existance.?
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March 18, 2007 8:48pm
Paul Marsden

Mr. I.P Freely…. Are you Mr I.Shite Freely’s brother?
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March 18, 2007 9:37pm
dave

This Blogosphere makes Usenet look like a haven of erudite debaters.

I make a serious comment about the propensity of the news media to run utter beat ups, and the Blogosphere turns what I say into a torrent of bigoted venom against Maori.

Jesus wept.

Enjoy your sewer.
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March 18, 2007 9:37pm
ostrich

Note that one of the alarmists was a certain DPF
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2007/01/ruapehu_lahars.html

“The predictions are that massive lahars will overflow from Ruapehu in the near future. In one of the more extreme fundamentalist decisions made by the Government, they decided not to did a trench to allow the lake to harmlessly drain after some religious nutters claimed it would hard the spiritual integrity of the mountain. Local authorities have rightfully complained about cultural concerns being given a higher priority than the risk to life”

Note the words ‘massive’ ‘ near future’ ‘extreme decisions’ ‘government’

The Farrar effect strikes again ! joining a long list of predictions from our own Nostradamus
(his prediction was only made this year !!)
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March 18, 2007 9:37pm
John Dalley

I P Freely alia D4J in discuise.
Your as about as iliterate as Peter Burns.
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March 18, 2007 10:09pm
Paul Marsden

Note the words ‘massive’ ‘ near future’ ‘extreme decisions’ ‘government’

The Farrar effect strikes again ! joining a long list of predictions from our own Nostradamus
(his prediction was only made this year !!)

Posted by ostrich | March 18, 2007 9:37 PM

Posted on March 18, 2007 21:37

Seems like the lahar was no-where near as big as might have been. If you ask me, the Govt can thank their lucky stars.
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March 18, 2007 10:24pm
John Dalley

sorry paul, but why should the Govt thank it’s lucky stars. Are you another who thinks the Govt is responsable for natural disasters. I thought that was ment to be Gods domain.
Lahars happen, 45 at last count according to Chris Carter on TV tonight.
they happen, the’re going to continue to happen and not every one of them is going to give us the luxury of the extended warning this one did.
The last lahar that i saw on the mountain happened in an instant with minimal warning.
It went straight through the Whakapapa ski area, picked up the kiosk from where it was and moved it down the mountain. The fact that it happened in summer and not winter was the only saving grace. Had it happened in winter, there wuld have been a loss of life.
Since then DOC has been working to avoid a similar disaster.
So give the moaning a rest. Maybe praise the people that put the systems together. You never know it my turn into another export earner.
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March 18, 2007 11:01pm
chris

Mr Ostrich, you’ve made my day.
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March 18, 2007 11:41pm
Adolf Fiinkensein

John Dalley, it takes one to know one.
‘Your as about as iliterate as Peter Burns.’
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March 19, 2007 2:44am
dad4justice

Dalley froths “Your as about as iliterate as Peter Burns.”

I will meet you one day John Dalley you puss riden – low life bastard, you know it’s called natural justice !!!
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March 19, 2007 6:19am
David Farrar

Ostrich – the prediction of massive lahars

I stand by my criticism that the Government chose a more expensive more risky mitigation strategy than necessary. I never said that the path they chose would automatically fail and it is facile to suggest I did.
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March 19, 2007 9:53am
Fred

Coupla good keen kayakers from TPO had a long look at it before flagging it away as having excessive objective danger.
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March 19, 2007 9:57am
lyndon

I can’t confirm if there’s a taniwha in the river, but I see a troll on this thread.
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March 19, 2007 12:51pm
David Farrar

References to Chris Carter’s sexuality are unwelcome, unless it is relevant to the thread.
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March 19, 2007 1:10pm
sonic

I think the main thing to take out of this is that everyone did a good job, from Carter on down.
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March 19, 2007 3:19pm
Rex Widerstrom

Considering blowing your top is now legislated against in NZ I assume Sue Bradford is strapping on her crampons to head up there and give it a bloody good talking to… you know, suggesting alternative strategies like steaming deeply, entering mediation with the earth’s core, that sort of thing.
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March 19, 2007 5:17pm

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