[Ag-eq] The storm

[Jewel]

When I last mentioned the antarctic storm that was predicted to hit New Zealand and that it appeared 
to bea rather more akin to a storm in a teacup, I was being a little premature.
When the * monster arrived in the south, it seems that it was just flexing its, metaphoric, muscles 
giving us hardy Southlanders just a tiny glimpse of what it was capable.
However, it gathered confidence as it progressed northwards and by the time it touched base in  the 
North Island, it had also hit its straps and set about giving those 
blown-up-with-their-own-importance North Islanders a right good looking to with blizzard force winds 
of 150 kilometres in Wellington, a province that is well accustomed to wind, and then dumped huge 
amounts, that is,  huge amounts as New Zealand sees them, of snow on the central plateau and close 
many main and secondary roads.

            Jewel