Cyclone Impact In Eastern Nz

I agree with your conspiracy theory, Heather. Thank you. I think my conspiracy theory is done. I reckon I've got a decent body of work here actually over two seasons with the Warriors where the stars are out and then they play quite well. So just keep adding to it. Just keep reminding Piney. 4.25. Heather, our aviation forecasts yesterday were nothing more than a wet and windy day. Day totally different to the general forecast. Heather, it was the news media that with hysterical eye looked at the forecast saw that it wasn't going to be that bad. That's Ross from Raglan. Heather, I've had a guts full of the Met service and their poor reporting completely ruined thousands of people's weekend, promoted anxiety and panic. Heather, the media continue to call it a cyclone even though it was a tropical low. I was sitting there the whole weekend going, why are we still calling this thing a cyclone? Anyway, not everybody. I mean, there were loads of people, I don't know about you, I went out and... I don't know, I'd like to see the husband out tie down the trampoline, tie bits and bits and pieces together so they don't fall over. Other people went out and bought all kinds of emergency stuff, so it did actually really impact people's lives. Not everyone's though, let me refer you to Hawke's Bay. So there were 550 coastal homes in Hawke's Bay that were told they had to evacuate over the weekend and it turns out a whole bunch of them just completely ignored it because the local newspaper Hawke's Bay today went to talk to them about it. Found all of the houses that they knocked on the doors of in Te Awanga, Homaona, Waimarama, Ocean Beach, none of them had evacuated. Everybody had stayed put. They all said they were ready to go. They had grab bags ready to go. They had the cars ready. They had the caravans locked onto the cars. They were all good to go. But all they got was big swell. So they stayed put and they described the evacuation orders as an overreaction. Wairoa Mayor Craig Little. Said he refused all the other Hawke's Bay councils declared states of emergency, he refused to do it. He said we didn't need a state of emergency. When you make a call like that, it means you are under the pump. I think it takes away the importance of a state of emergency. Now, if you remember your history, as in your recent history, Wairoa has been flooded twice. So they know what it means to actually be in a state of emergency and I respect him for holding the line on that. Good on him. Anyway, we'll refer this to the huddle when they are with us. We've obviously got. So you've got Trish Sherson and Josie Pagani with us after half past five. Listen, on the Iran war. So this is where the Iran war, I kind of referred to this at the very start of the programme. This is where it's hitting us now. ANZ has just increased its prediction of how many OCR rises we're going to get in this calendar year. They had one previously. They're now calling three. They say it's going to happen in July, in August and October, all of which you will note is before the general election. So that makes things a bit hairy for the incumbent government. The good news, there is good news here, good news is that they previously thought it would peak at 3.5%. Now they're saying it's only going to go to 3%. And before it pauses and everybody takes a moment to reflect and see if it's working, Sharon Zolna will be with us after five o'clock and talk us through that. News Talk ZB.