I work as an hydrographer, we were all preparing to get out chasing the flood water last week, however we copped it in East Maito and we lost 4 work vehicles and had a metre of water go through our office.. Irony, come on in..
Word is that there is another (however smaller), east coast low on the way for this week.. There is a kiwi bloke who predicts the weather off of sunspots, he called the '07 floods, and these..
Pv4 if your area has been declared a natural disaster zone, your excess will be waived and you will get reimbursed (don't hold me to that because insurance companies will weasel their way out of everything)
Jaliens gives me the horn
My neighbour is with the same insurance company (NRMA) and he said they went in and were told they could claim $500 and not effect premium or excess.
I was thinking of waiting a few days to a week to see if anything gets broadcasted, but if not I'll head in and hopefully get some money somehow.
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i'm guessing it's something similar to that. no-one paying attention to all the misses, sandwiched between two resounding hits
we will loose
I've heard so many similar stories to what Bon has posted since 07. I remember my mum battened down the hatches in July 2012 because she heard on the radio some dude predicted the June 07 weather, and had predicted July 2012 to have something worse. And IIRC nothing eventuated.
For me, it's just like all those twitter accounts made to predict World Cup groups, and if you make enough of them you're bound to get one right, at which time you delete the rest. And then it's all a FIFA conspiracy innit.
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Bon, I'd be interested in hearing about this blokes modelling and predictions as well
obviously what i do deals in longer timeframes and uses statistical techniques to make synthetic storms but i find these real time predictions ascinatingf
I assume they're just going to give everyone $500, because the neighbour also told me that NRMA wouldn't need pictures/evidence of what was spoiled.
Is it true that the government or insurance places gave everyone $1000 back in 07 storms? I can't remember, but am being told it happened.
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WLG Keep us updated on the insurance government rorting your doing
Wouldn't mind getting some money out of the pricks myself to fund my holiday to Thailand.
Can just see myself now knocking back a beer at a Bangkok BJ Bar getting my flute played and thinking how good it is having Tony Abbot paying for it