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Scoop Images: Big Blow At Wellington Airport

Published: Thu 19 Aug 2004 10:20 AM

Three images and three brief MPEG videos of yesterday's storm taken near the Wellington Airport. The Airport was closed for the entire day due to high winds.

Lyall Bay beach in the teeth of the storm

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Click Below To Watch A Brief MPEG Video:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/mpegs/DSCF0422.mpg

A panorama of Wellington Airport in the storm

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Click Below To Watch A Brief MPEG Video

(Note camera operator is blown over at the end of the video.)

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/mpegs/DSCF0429.mpg

A wave breaking onto the Wellington Airport runway

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Click Below To Watch A Brief MPEG Video:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/mpegs/DSCF0430.mpg

Alastair Thompson

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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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