Hello everyone! Thanks for asking. As far as I know all the junks and junkies survived with no more damage than shredded nerves. It was a full-blown cyclone. I was in the Weiti River near Stillwater, probably the best place I could have been. I had out two anchors and heaps and heaps of scope and reckon that some of the gusts were F10. Ten miles away, the lighthouse on Tiritiri Matangi was showing sustained 63 knots and there could well have been more, gusting 73 knots - and that went on for hours and hours. Plenty of rain, too, but mercifully, very little debris coming down the river, although wjhen I came to sort out my anchors, yesterday, I found a branch entangled in my main anchor chain and I had to saw it away
Not a lot of sleep for a few days, what with the worry and the somewhat uncomfortable conditions of wind against tide. As this happened just 2 weeks after another 'extreme weather event', it's been something of a wild summer so far. And the cyclone season doesn't finish until May.
However, it's the poor folk ashore who have really suffered as is shown here