gydey wrote:Yes, of course, because Wellington has All of those traits you mention :-)

I'm feeling a bit neglected that Welly has the reputation for natural disasters but everyone else is getting them. At least we've got parliament which is a non-stop stream of disasters.

EoinC wrote:

fatwombat wrote:With snow in Invercargill, earthquakes in Chch, floods in Manuwatu and and power failures in Orcland, there's obviously only one safe place in the whole country for a good velodrome - Wellington!!!

Until velodromes start being made from well-drained, centrally-heated rubber, I guess you'll have to make do with Haitaitai...

Yeah, that's our Olympic quality facility right there. Rubber velodromes sounds like a great idea - is that what they use across the ditch?

fatwombat wrote:...Yeah, that's our Olympic quality facility right there. Rubber velodromes sounds like a great idea - is that what they use across the ditch?

Nordic Pine is the rubber of choice in Oz. There's a velodrome on every street corner, and the roads are paved with carbon fibre...

Ahad wrote:Unbelievable! Big snowfalls like that at this time of year?!

Ohhh... 6 degrees in Ashburton now so cold air heading this way...

If by unbelievable you mean "happens almost every year" then sure.

Big southerlies in september and october are very common.

j2hyde wrote:

Ahad wrote:Unbelievable! Big snowfalls like that at this time of year?!

If by unbelievable you mean "happens almost every year" then sure.

Big southerlies in september and october are very common.

Biggest snowfall in 15yrs according to the news reports so I stand by my statement.

Otherwise the stadium would have fallen down the year after it was built

Ahad wrote:

j2hyde wrote:

Ahad wrote:Unbelievable! Big snowfalls like that at this time of year?!

If by unbelievable you mean "happens almost every year" then sure.

Big southerlies in september and october are very common.

Yup, as soon as the first lamb shows up, along come the southerlies.

Ahad wrote:Biggest snowfall in 15yrs according to the news reports so I stand by my statement.

Otherwise the stadium would have fallen down the year after it was built

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Not necessarily, the current event could be a cumulation of weather events over the past decade, but yes, lots of snow.

It may affect the velodrome after all, as it'll be the only large covered area suitable for sport and recreation available locally for a couple of years. We're already fielding calls from Invers as to the availability of our court spaces here in Dunners which are already over-subscribed, I say chuck down some temporary flooring and you've got a usable multi-purpose space.

Made the news here, that sucks... such a cute little snowstorm

Bigfoot wrote:Made the news here, that sucks... such a cute little snowstorm

I didn't realise americans got international news

clearly the engineers don't remember the roof of the ice rink in CHCH doing the same thing in the snow in the late 90's. One would think someone would have learnt from that.

thorg wrote:

Bigfoot wrote:Made the news here, that sucks... such a cute little snowstorm

I didn't realise americans got international news

They dont, luckily Bigfoot is a Canukistani, so gets plenty of international noo's!

Percy Pig wrote:

thorg wrote:

Bigfoot wrote:Made the news here, that sucks... such a cute little snowstorm

I didn't realise americans got international news

They dont, luckily Bigfoot is a Canukistani, so gets plenty of international noo's!

I did not know that.

Slim wrote:clearly the engineers don't remember the roof of the ice rink in CHCH doing the same thing in the snow in the late 90's. One would think someone would have learnt from that.

I had fun this morning, I rang our architects and said "See that? We don't want to happen to our new place! aight?"

They didn't see the funny side of it.

We have to get international news so we know what to be afraid of - because nothing bad ever happens in the land of the free

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/ ... ed-stadium

Work is expected to begin on Monday to demolish Stadium Southland in Invercargill, which was largely destroyed when the roof caved in on Saturday morning under heavy snow.

The velodrome was the only part of of the $10-million venue to have emerged unscathed when the roof collapsed.

Ah oh. Things set to get even slower down there.

But this is due to global warming and our carbon footprint. The corrilation between the felling of exotic trees used in the Veledrome and them being shipped to Southland is a direct effect on the the amount of snow that fell on the stadium.