NSW & ACT, beware outdoors. BIG STORM!

[ballaratdragons]

Big storm up your way folks. Take care.

[leon]

Dosn't look good Ken, take care folks, we hope no one gets injured.

Leon

[h0ughy]

nah nothing really happening, its fading fast

[Matty P]

Lots of lightning and thunder but no rain. Looks like it is clearing up.

[ballaratdragons]

that's good news guys! :thumbsup:

Looked very nasty on the Radar!!!!!!

[leon]

Well, that is good, but we did think of you. ;)

Leon :thumbsup:

[Ric]

Nothing to report out my way at the moment, but there is that eerie stillness in the air and thick dark cloud.

Cheers

[RB]

We copped it rather bad.
I was away when the storm hit so my computer gear was still connected up.

Lightning hit through my ADSL line filter (sizzled it) and took out the ethernet port on my main computer.
Luckily I had a spare filter but I have to replace my ethernet card.
Using the lappy for now.

Could've been much worse.

[ballaratdragons]

:eyepop:

much large hail or wind?

[RB]

No hail, luckily Ken.
Just a lot of lightning strikes and torrential rain.

:scared:

[ballaratdragons]

:thumbsup:
Keep safe :)

[GTB_an_Owl]

all gone out to sea now
but still cloudy

don't think we copped it as bad here as up the mountain

geoff

[kljucd1]

Hi,

We got it bad in Liverpool.

The winds looked like they were going to blow every tree down. Some branches ended up on cars and power lines. The rain was coming down in thick white sheets. It also came in two waves as well. There was some hail as well. The power also went out for a few hours.

Don't know if anyone got hurt though.

Regards


Daniel...

[iceman]

The mountain copped it bad!

We had lots of lightning and rain, but not too much wind. The lightning didn't come below the clouds, was really weird.

The girls woke up during it of course, so they'll be tired today. Lasted a good hour.

[Dennis]

Glad you all survived the storm - sorry to hear about your lightning strike RB. Would a UPS with built in line protection have helped if the modem was plugged into it?

Cheers

Dennis

[Dujon]

Good to see you got the washing in in time, Daniel (unless it's now in the next suburb :( ).

Not much here. A bit of rain (9.5mm on both gauges) and a bit of wind but not much in the way of lightning.

[kljucd1]

More importantly, that white bucket you can see in the corner of one of the pictures is the one that covers my HEQ5!! I was too worried about going back out to bring it inside, but as you can see from the picture below despite damage to cars and buildings (one building I saw lost it's roof and there was that poor mercedes benz!) the bucket held on and my mount was dry afterwards!! :D:D

Regards

Daniel...

[RB]

I've got a UPS on the system Dennis but I'll be looking into a line protector of some sort.
I hate to think how much worse it could've been though.

[ballaratdragons]

Watching the news tonight they showed the damage that the storm did in Wollongong, and Blacktown! Pretty bad in both!!!!