Posts by Steve Curtis
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Cracker: The Colorado Experiment, in reply to Damian Christie,
Heres something you can consider that may be more relevant than the people who design and operate the roads in Colorado or others concerns about shopfront design.
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Speaker: Facing the floods, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I apologise for any offence my comments have caused to those Christchurch residents who endured the unendurable flooding.
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Speaker: Facing the floods, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
Agree there Raymond.
Watching Dalziel on TV the other night she seems to have become a 'small person', like the people that used to get walked all over, and who Lianne had advocated for strongly, before as an MP.Is it because as an MP with a caucus, she could pick and choose the topics that interested her and now as Mayor she has a job well past her competence level ?
Christchurch missed out badly when Jim Anderton was beaten to the Mayoralty by that charleton Parker
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Cracker: The Colorado Experiment, in reply to Damian Christie,
. I spoke to a State Trooper, and to the Department of Transportation No rise in crime.
So thats the law enforcement angle covered ...right
Wrong, the Colorado State Patrol only covers protection of State assets and main highway traffic enforcement. The CDOT builds and operates the highways
Local enforcement of drugs is not their responsibility, unless its smoking weed in a car !So this is how you get the bias in your finished work, talk to the wrong people !
Lets hope there is long discussions with the local sheriff or police chief who have to deal with the effects of marijuana use
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Speaker: Facing the floods, in reply to Michael Ball,
We always get nearly 50% more than the amount recorded at the airport.
Well the isoclines of rainfall depth show only about 10% increase on the lower Port Hills over the flat.
While your readings are different you cant compare them with the standardised ' official gauges' -
From the historical analysis of the Hagley park rainfall, it gives a 1%AEP about 90mm in 10 hr and 30mm in 1hr
http://ecan.govt.nz/publications/Reports/review-frequency-high-intensity-rainfalls-christchurch.pdf
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Speaker: Facing the floods, in reply to Hebe,
That rain gauge is miles from Flockton; it's on the other side of town. Completely different microclimate: rainfall,..
Thats the closest that Ecan has ( mostly they have them in rural areas)
Metservice shows yesterday was only 38.8mm in Christchurch ( Hagley park)
Home user gauges arent reliable enough, those that have double the Metservice reading are almost certainly wrong. Other readings show it only varies by a few mm across the city ( excluding Port Hills)
The historical record shows the highest ever monthly rainfall was 187mm and the highest daily rainfall was 125mm. (1975) This being 4x what you had the other dayWith numbers under 40mm for 24h you are a long way from setting any daily records. But of course the flooding problem is quite severe in Flockton
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Cracker: The Colorado Experiment, in reply to Damian Christie,
Problems that didn't already exist under prohibition. But thanks for reducing all that to a snide quip.
Your welcome. Maybe you could have said more of your itinerary in the main story than this -
" I of all people would get to go to Colorado for what must be the biggest event on the worldwide cannabis calendar.
Then there is the pundits who just want more 'wholesome shops'. It screams middle class.
Or worse, patronising superiority such as this -" just to get or hold on to some bullshit retail or cubicle job. Oh really !There are certainly some lost balls in high weeds here
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A look at a few numbers from the Ecan rain gauge at Halswell Ryans Bridge which seems to be the closest point to Flockton.
http://ecan.govt.nz/services/online-services/monitoring/rainfall/Pages/rainfall-chart.aspx?SiteNo=326512
The peak events this year seem to be all under 45mm for 24h. A few last year went from 45mm to 65mm.
The Council design standards give 'median annual max 24h rainfall depth' of 50-55mm for the city area.So nothing this year is out of the ordinary, no where near 100 y/1% AEP figures (which dont seem to be easy to find).
The flooding is obvious to see and the land changes have been known for some time. Last year had some higher rainfall events yet only now has urgency seem to applied.
Is this the notorious Christchurch inertia- yet again- leading nowhere.
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This is the sort of febrile reasoning used in Colorado
"According to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, the organization responsible for much of the campaigning in support of Amendment 64, cannabis use by teens is likely to go down because commercial access would be limited to persons 21 and older."
I nearly fell off my chair laughing ....
But wait theres more..
" This amendment requires the general assembly to enact an excise tax to be levied upon wholesale sales of cannabis, requiring that the first $40 million in revenue raised annually by such tax be credited to the public school capital construction assistance fund."The first $40 mil for school construction fund ?
Its beyond laughable when you know how politics and funding works.
Yep, more libraries for high decile schools. We have been there al lready with the pokies funding and we know how the haves get more from those who have most to lose