Cyclone Giselle on One

[toprob]

This doco is very well done, looking at the 1968 storm which sank the Wahine. People who lived through it -- and some who lost relatives -- just telling their stories. I know we've seen docos on the Wahine, but this concentrates more on the damage the storm did as it travelled down the country.

At the time my parents had taken the previous ferry to Wellington, and my uncle was looking after us. I had no idea what was going on (I was 11 at the time), so I got up and started walking to school in New Brighton. I can still remember looking up and hearing this ripping sound, the strangest thing I've ever heard, which I guessed was the layers of air colliding as the cyclone sped overhead. I can only imagine what it would have been like at the places where this layer of wind touched down.

If you missed it, no doubt it'll be ondemand -- 'Descent from Disaster'.

[Ian Warren]

Rob , I have the Wahine Disaster on the the shelf here - the DVD , I did have the book , as young as I was still remember that day , my father was a bus driver for the CTB and was tasked to go around the schools in the Avonhead, Ilam, Upper Riccarton , Sockburn to get the children home and us kids .. first time I saw a flood across Avonhead Rd , was something that you can't forget ... The book was quite amazing showing how rouge the storm went - went up the West coast rather the norm bouncing off the top off the North Is - then head out into the Pacific hit the lower area around Wellington .

[omitchell]

Watching it on TVNZ On Demand. Great doco. Wish they would get rid of the bloody adverts tho lol

Another good doco in the series is this one...

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/ondemand/descent-from-disaster/kaimai-plane-crash-1963-/episode-2