2019 Rugby World Cup
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@Snowy said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Hagibis now cat 3 (was 5) and weakening. Seriously massive weather system though.
Check out https://earth.nullschool.net
there's one big storm in the world right now, and it's right over the RWC. Ha ha ha ha ha, as they say... rotten luck.
@gt12 is this one really as big as they say - potentially the biggest in 60 years? If so, could explain the early cancellations and the inability to reschedule.
Also, I read somewhere they thought they could handle one rearrangement, but 3-4 was just not feasible. Makes sense to me; I'm gutted games got canned, but I totally get why
It’s still not even touched down and we are already on an evacuation warning here, as are a few other places in Yokohama and Tokyo. It’s moving slowly, which sucks a bit.
Heaps of rain - not much wind yet - saw on the news this morning that they predict we’ll get up to 800 mls of rain within this 36 hour period, and up to 1000 down around Shizuoka where it should hit first.
To put that in perspective, October is one of the heavier rainfall months with about 135 mls on average. Some places will get that in an hour (perhaps more). Our little garden already has about 2cm of standing water, so I’m a bit concerned.
So, we’ll see how strong it is as a typhoon, but just for precipitation, things are already very worrying - mainly because they get concerned about landslides with this much rain, which often come down on the houses built on the flat land below. That was what made the storms in Hiroshima so bad a couple of years ago.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/special/01/1919/
Anyway, as it is moving pretty slowly, I think it will be a very long day and Sunday games in Iwate must be up for the chop. I’ll bet that the Japan game happens, the trains are due to start running at midday tomorrow (will all be shut down here by midday today).
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In years to come , it’s going to be interesting to see How this World Cup is remembered ,
Let’s hope we have a cracking finals series and All the negativity can be put to bed.
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In years to come , it’s going to be interesting to see How this World Cup is remembered ,
Let’s hope we have a cracking finals series and All the negativity can be put to bed.
@kiwiinmelb guess it depends if we win or not as to if we remember it at all
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@kiwiinmelb guess it depends if we win or not as to if we remember it at all
@taniwharugby said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@kiwiinmelb guess it depends if we win or not as to if we remember it at all
They are all bad world cups when we lose ,
This one will have mayonnaise on top .
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In years to come , it’s going to be interesting to see How this World Cup is remembered ,
Let’s hope we have a cracking finals series and All the negativity can be put to bed.
@kiwiinmelb said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
In years to come , it’s going to be interesting to see How this World Cup is remembered ,
Let’s hope we have a cracking finals series and All the negativity can be put to bed.
Cards will decide a narrow fixture, and they'll be controversial as all hell.
Alternatively, we'll romp through, post loads of poitns and all will be forgiven
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Tornadoes in greater Tokyo. Scary.
https://twitter.com/OliverTrenchard/status/1182815067047219200
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on the RWC Facebook page, 1 hour ago...algorithm probably didnt get told about the Typhoon
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on the RWC Facebook page, 1 hour ago...algorithm probably didnt get told about the Typhoon
@taniwharugby love the comment at the bottom
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It’s still not even touched down and we are already on an evacuation warning here, as are a few other places in Yokohama and Tokyo. It’s moving slowly, which sucks a bit.
Heaps of rain - not much wind yet - saw on the news this morning that they predict we’ll get up to 800 mls of rain within this 36 hour period, and up to 1000 down around Shizuoka where it should hit first.
To put that in perspective, October is one of the heavier rainfall months with about 135 mls on average. Some places will get that in an hour (perhaps more). Our little garden already has about 2cm of standing water, so I’m a bit concerned.
So, we’ll see how strong it is as a typhoon, but just for precipitation, things are already very worrying - mainly because they get concerned about landslides with this much rain, which often come down on the houses built on the flat land below. That was what made the storms in Hiroshima so bad a couple of years ago.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/special/01/1919/
Anyway, as it is moving pretty slowly, I think it will be a very long day and Sunday games in Iwate must be up for the chop. I’ll bet that the Japan game happens, the trains are due to start running at midday tomorrow (will all be shut down here by midday today).
@gt12 said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
It’s still not even touched down and we are already on an evacuation warning here, as are a few other places in Yokohama and Tokyo. It’s moving slowly, which sucks a bit.
Heaps of rain - not much wind yet - saw on the news this morning that they predict we’ll get up to 800 mls of rain within this 36 hour period, and up to 1000 down around Shizuoka where it should hit first.
To put that in perspective, October is one of the heavier rainfall months with about 135 mls on average. Some places will get that in an hour (perhaps more). Our little garden already has about 2cm of standing water, so I’m a bit concerned.
So, we’ll see how strong it is as a typhoon, but just for precipitation, things are already very worrying - mainly because they get concerned about landslides with this much rain, which often come down on the houses built on the flat land below. That was what made the storms in Hiroshima so bad a couple of years ago.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/special/01/1919/
Anyway, as it is moving pretty slowly, I think it will be a very long day and Sunday games in Iwate must be up for the chop. I’ll bet that the Japan game happens, the trains are due to start running at midday tomorrow (will all be shut down here by midday today).
Shite
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Doesn't look like the game will take place.
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@nzzp green circle is where eye of the storm was about 12 hours ago
@taniwharugby said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@nzzp green circle is where eye of the storm was about 12 hours ago
movement since this morning...green circle where it was at 11am NZT
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@jegga said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
One person dead already unfortunately
But the Scots are suing RWC for costing them a chance at a QF. Now that's priorities
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@canefan I saw one comment on FB froma guy there saying 'my son has played in worse rain than this in Wellington and the ABs game would have been finishing about now, they could have played'
@taniwharugby said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@canefan I saw one comment on FB froma guy there saying 'my son has played in worse rain than this in Wellington and the ABs game would have been finishing about now, they could have played'
Obviously the authorities didn't want people moving around in the city. But it's a shame they couldn't play the game earlier in the day if they knew the storm would hit later in the evening
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been in a bunch of tropical cyclones. had the eye of Winston go right over us, 2016, a 35min calm lull before the lethal destruction started slamming us again from the other direction. Despite all the forecasts you never know where they are going to go. Or when. They speed up, slow down, go sideways, even backtrack. The forecasting is not exact.
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Well, it’s pretty bad.
We haven’t left but there is flooding in our city, nearer the river, so we are now hoping that the flooding doesn’t extend around to our area.
Having said that, we put the car on the 2nd floor of the wife’s work, and put down a barrier for flooding, so said fuck it and started drinking.
Beer and chips right now.
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Well, it’s pretty bad.
We haven’t left but there is flooding in our city, nearer the river, so we are now hoping that the flooding doesn’t extend around to our area.
Having said that, we put the car on the 2nd floor of the wife’s work, and put down a barrier for flooding, so said fuck it and started drinking.
Beer and chips right now.
@gt12 said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Well, it’s pretty bad.
We haven’t left but there is flooding in our city, nearer the river, so we are now hoping that the flooding doesn’t extend around to our area.
Having said that, we put the car on the 2nd floor of the wife’s work, and put down a barrier for flooding, so said fuck it and started drinking.
Beer and chips right now.
Stay safe mate
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Well, it’s pretty bad.
We haven’t left but there is flooding in our city, nearer the river, so we are now hoping that the flooding doesn’t extend around to our area.
Having said that, we put the car on the 2nd floor of the wife’s work, and put down a barrier for flooding, so said fuck it and started drinking.
Beer and chips right now.
@gt12 said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Well, it’s pretty bad.
We haven’t left but there is flooding in our city, nearer the river, so we are now hoping that the flooding doesn’t extend around to our area.
Having said that, we put the car on the 2nd floor of the wife’s work, and put down a barrier for flooding, so said fuck it and started drinking.
Beer and chips right now.
Drinking beer is a great strategy for seeing off a Super Typhoon. Stay safe!
