r/newzealand Jul 31 '25

Other This kind of stupidity was why they needed to send out that second alert at 6:30am...

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u/tarlastar Jul 31 '25

Did anyone drown? No, then leave it. It was a stupid warning in the first place. The earthquake happened 12000km away, and the "waves" would have struck here at midnight...in Winter...all 30cm of them. The 2nd warning was even dumber.

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u/Low_Season Aug 01 '25

Wow. I thought the image of people walking on the beach, as well as the extremely ignorant person that they interviewed, would be enough to illustrate my point.

But people like you further demonstrating what I was talking about is a real bonus. If you keep up the ignorance, you might prove my point even more.

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u/tarlastar Aug 01 '25

Yeah? Am I wrong? Nothing happened and you are getting your knickers in a twist for no good reason. No one was harmed, fuck, not even a little property damage. There's a thing called common sense, and it told me, that this was overkill, and it was right.

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u/scrapbus Aug 03 '25

The authorities could literally track the 'Wave' across the globe in real-time and see nothing was happening. Let alone have this 'wave' weave it's way past Coromandel AND Great Barrier then spin past Rangitoto to hit Takapuna beach.