We survived the cyclone! That was a severely bizarre week with a number of build-up to an occasion that final occurred earlier than I used to be born. It’d been 50 years since a cyclone got here this far south, and the media was filled with alarming predictions of destruction. Ultimately, we maxed out at 52kts simply after I recorded this video:
It’s right here. However 47kts max gusts isn’t too dangerous, nothing really blowing over right here (but). pic.twitter.com/qFyrZdiyRW
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 7, 2025
We remained fully untouched and unaffected past needing to brush up some leaves as soon as the rain (which has additionally been unremarkable), lastly stops. It seems the worst injury has been a whole lot of properties with out energy and maybe most clearly, the seashores have carried out a whole vanishing act with all of the sand:
What our favorite seaside is like in the present day, versus earlier than. They’ll rebuild it, this isn’t unprecedented, however yeah, there’s some work to be carried out now. pic.twitter.com/6zFMG7bZqK
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 8, 2025
However hey, everybody is okay (not simply us, the entire metropolis AFAIK), in order that’s a superb end result. Again on subject, here is this week’s video:
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- We’re filling within the gaps of the stealer logs which have come earlier than, and doing our greatest to scrub every thing up a bit whereas we’re there (however we’re by no means going to have completely “clear” knowledge: GIGO)
- Somebody tried to phish a PayPal OTP from me and as a substitute confronted some nice trolling by Elle (so proud 🥲)
- Somebody additionally tried to phish my X credentials from me (that one actually took some considering to emphatically put it within the “phish” field)
