Tongaririo blows
August 7th, 2012 at 11:00 am by David FarrarI was on Mt Ruapehu over a decade ago when it erupted. We had just finished skiing and were in the carpark and started taking photos of the lahars flowing from the crater and the mushroom cloud emerging like a bomb had gone off.
After a few minutes of photo taking, someone suggested wouldn’t it be a better idea to take the photos of the eruption after we got off the mountain, and we quickly concurred and headed down the mountain road.
An awesome sight, seeing nature let loose.
Stuff reports:
Volcanic activity at Mt Tongariro could continue for weeks, months or even years after Tongariro rumbled to life after being dormant for more than 100 years last night.
Last night’s eruption was a total surprise, so “we have to expect the unexpected”, GNS volcanologist Michael Rosenberg said.
The mountain erupted at 11.50pm, sending ash across roads and prompting a potential threat warning for central North Island regions.
The eruption threw rocks and spewed ash from the Te Mari craters, near Ketetahi hot springs, on the northern side of the mountain, GNS Science said.
Flights have been affected and some roads closed.
There were five reported eruptions from the Te Mari craters between 1855 and 1897 but they had been dormant until now, the GeoNet website said.
Heh, how long until someone claims this is a sign that God is against same sex marriage 
Good that no one was injured or killed. It will be interesting to see how long the activity lasts for.
August 7th, 2012 at 11:08 am
This has nothing to do with same sex marriages.
Vote:This is a Taniwha waking up and throwing its toys out of its cot in protest about the Government not conceding that Maori have ownership of New Zealand’s water.
August 7th, 2012 at 11:09 am
How long before DPF gets a new script from party central?
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 11:09 am
Almost got it right DPF, it is actually the Taniwha that was woken by the suggestion that the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand don’t have 21st Century ownership rights to all the water (including that which you are about to pass after last night’s intake of the product of indigenous grapes, hand rolled between the sweaty thighs of …… ) oh wait wrong track …
Vote:A mighty Totara also fell down somewhere during the last 24 hours.
August 7th, 2012 at 11:09 am
Snap Alwyn
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 11:10 am
According to the scriptures they quote, the God of the Jews and Christians would probably be against same gender marriage as he is already against same gender sexual lifestyle choice, whether the eruption is linked to that I wouldn’t know.
Looking forward to seeing your comments when adoption comes up for grabs and then hate crimes laws against dissenters and others are enacted and then used to try to shut them up like in Canada.
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 11:10 am
“Heh, how long until someone claims this is a sign that God is against same sex marriage.”
Not sure about this but that line does seem to be a sign that DPF is obsessed with the matter.
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 11:11 am
Didn’t Hone Harawira link the eruption with asset sales on Firstline this morning?
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 11:12 am
According to a letter to the editor this morning, John Key has signed the UN Treaty on Indigenous People which has a water clause if I remember rightly.
Vote:Helen Clark wouldn’t sign it for some reason.
August 7th, 2012 at 11:15 am
Volcanic seismography recording for Tongariro is here
Vote:http://www.geonet.org.nz/images/volcano/drums/ch/wtvz/10/drum.png
August 7th, 2012 at 11:28 am
Still Here: The UNDRIP has all sorts of horrible fishooks which meant Key should never had signed the damn thing…probably the only time I agreed with Clark…
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 11:31 am
Naaaaah. Might be a sign God has had a gutsful of the Waitangi Tribunal.
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 11:45 am
The only people doing that are exceptionally silly libbies setting up a straw man so they can go hyuk hyuk hyuk – Christian rubes
1 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 11:49 am
It is a sign that God is angry about illegal parking on Esk St in Invercargill.
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 11:51 am
Isn’t Hone the biggest blow-hard in NZ with 1 cu km of magma ejecta and water? Sharples, lil bit of steam or maybe a cow fart.
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 11:53 am
The 5 biggest modern eruptions are listed here: http://conzervative.wordpress.com
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
As Jimmy Carr says in his stand up rountine, “I don’t think God hates homosexuals at all. If he didn’t, surely he’d create some sort of disease to wipe them all out.”
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Well, at least there was no anal sex involved.
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
… sob … there is no escape … sob …
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
So why is it you are all so obsessed with someone else’s sexuality?
Vote:Can’t even have a volcano shoot its bolt without you all getting fired up.
August 7th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
“Tongariro rumbled to life after being dormant for more than 100 years …”
Wrong. Red Crater erupted in 1926
Vote:http://www.escaperience.net/2012/02/volcanic-craters-and-emerald-lakes/dscn3102/
August 7th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
You’re slow out of the blocks this time DPF… 7:35am this morning I think you’ll find the call was made:
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2012/08/dom_post_on_same_sex_marriage.html#comment-1006079
Thank you, thank you.
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
If they find water on Mars – who owns it ? Taniwha of course.
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 1:34 pm
Paulus- No doubt the Iwi lawyers have already thought of such a profitable possibility! I’m just wondering how much this eruption is going to cost the NZ taxpayer?? This Taniwha must be ‘appeased’- and we all know ‘appeasing’ Taniwha doesn’t come cheap…
Vote:August 7th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Paulus (1,102) Says:
August 7th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
If they find water on Mars – who owns it ?
The Martians?
Vote:August 8th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
DPF nearly earned a darwin award!
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