I am South of the border but it sure has been raining here..the lightning near sent me crazy it was all around here last night... it freaks me out because it got me once and I will never forget that.
I doubt if I can get out the drive it has been flowing like a river... I was to go to Sydney today but bed looks better..a few mags astronomy of course..a pad, a pencil ..so get ready for a new theory of everything.
alex
Looking out the window it feels like I am on an island on the clouds.
alex
Here is a quick pic of the storm that came up from NSW yesterday. Living South of Brisbane we were lucky as the worst of it moved through the Gap area where a good friend of mine Pat, had his 2 roof whirly birds ripped off as well as water into his roof. I suppose something good comes from something bad at least for Pat, a few of the big trees blocking his view of the sky are now laying over the road and house next door...
Peterm
Here is a quick pic of the storm that came up from NSW yesterday. Living South of Brisbane we were lucky as the worst of it moved through the Gap area where a good friend of mine Pat, had his 2 roof whirly birds ripped off as well as water into his roof. I suppose something good comes from something bad at least for Pat, a few of the big trees blocking his view of the sky are now laying over the road and house next door...
Peterm
fantastic image Peter, I hope Pats damage wasnt too bad
We got caught in it yesterday afternoon on the Pacific Hwy.
We decided to take a drive to Coolangatta/Tweed Heads for the afternoon...and ran straight into it on the journey home
Visibility was practically zero...and traffic was at a stand-still. It was weird to see a three and four lane motorway come to an absolute stand-still. A car park!
Fortunately, the house and yard wasn't too bad when we got back to Wynnum.
We live in Burpengary and 5pm WOW - down it came. I have lived in the tropics 7 years and have never seen rain or wind like it. It looked as if Hughey was throwing huge buckets of water horizontally. Our patio got flooded in minutes, then it poured into the downstairs room and computer room. Then the power goes off. There we are with a sponge and a mop and a couple of buckets. Then enormous crashes from outside. My son and I were too scared to go outside. There were missiles hurtling down.It lasted a good 45 min. we had to go out eventually and try and move the water pouring in. Chaos everywhere. One huge branch from my gum tree had fallen across fence into neighbour's garden, missing his house by a metre. I had three rainforest trees fall over. *I have a tiny residential block but managed to squeeze in about 20 trees - Queensland maple, Mexican palm, quangdong, poinsettia, bush tamarind, ice cream bean etc. It looks a mess now, but I said to SWMBO that now the rainforest looks natural with fallen trees. (My excuse for not being able to clean them up) Some of their roots are still in ground, so they will grow on. Power just now restored, kind councll are going to take awaythe rubbish away if Iput itout on footpath. School opposite had branch land on classroom. I watched the crane remove he tree - a shame really but the BEST NEWS is my neighbour
s tree blocking view to north is so badly damaged they have sawn most of it down along with offensive electric lighting HA HA Neighbour on other side lost 6 huge palm branches from his tree - all landing in my garden. SPLENDID, more views to the south HOORAY
Only downside is I will probably have to pay for the tree branch - too heavy for us. And I got sacked on Friday AAAGGGHHHH
Those super cells scare the bejus out of me pete .. the view you have there isn't one those in the path ever get imo ..I saw one down here last month and despite the devestation it caused thankfully it went out to sea.
anyone remember the storm cell that smacked brisbanes south in 84?
We got caught in it yesterday afternoon on the Pacific Hwy.
We decided to take a drive to Coolangatta/Tweed Heads for the afternoon...and ran straight into it on the journey home
Visibility was practically zero...and traffic was at a stand-still. It was weird to see a three and four lane motorway come to an absolute stand-still. A car park!
Fortunately, the house and yard wasn't too bad when we got back to Wynnum.
Can relate totally Matt! We left it a bit late to head back from a day at Cooloongatta too. I thought it was just people heading back from the coast clogging the highway at first, but we averaged 30km/hr most of the way back.
At least we didn't experience any of real stuff. Got home to discover lines down in our street and branches everywhere though.
At least it gave me enough time to listen to a few albums all the way through!!!
The really weird thing was we saw a number of police cars and ambulances fly past us on the shoulder with lights and sirens going...and yet we didn't see a single acco on the way home.
fantastic image Peter, I hope Pats damage wasnt too bad
Hi Houghy,
Pat (Astrofest committee member) thanks you for your concern. Pat found his whirly birds some distance away. His home was pretty much in the thick of it and escaped without too much damage thankfully - oh yeah, his LX200R is safe and secure in his garage - was the first question I asked him -followed by and how are you...hmmm similar question I asked Brendans (Thunderchild Observatory) parents recently when their home was hit by large hail (must remember it's how are you first and then hows the telescope). Others around Pat are not so lucky, with trees over them. One of his friends home on the hill above him has been pretty much destroyed (it featured on last nights news). I think the authorities are going to have to review the nutbag laws about tree removal in suburbia, especially Gum trees. Seems homeowners now have the uneasy situation that trees not bowled over in the storm now have huge upper limbs bareley hanging on, estimated costs to get a lopper in are huge. I can't see why residents should bear such costs when they were never allowed to remove the potential killers in the first place. It will be interesting to see if the local council/government ammend the laws after this.
PeterM
Hi Houghy,
Pat (Astrofest committee member) thanks you for your concern. Pat found his whirly birds some distance away. His home was pretty much in the thick of it and escaped without too much damage thankfully - oh yeah, his LX200R is safe and secure in his garage - was the first question I asked him -followed by and how are you...hmmm similar question I asked Brendans (Thunderchild Observatory) parents recently when their home was hit by large hail (must remember it's how are you first and then hows the telescope). Others around Pat are not so lucky, with trees over them. One of his friends home on the hill above him has been pretty much destroyed (it featured on last nights news). I think the authorities are going to have to review the nutbag laws about tree removal in suburbia, especially Gum trees. Seems homeowners now have the uneasy situation that trees not bowled over in the storm now have huge upper limbs bareley hanging on, estimated costs to get a lopper in are huge. I can't see why residents should bear such costs when they were never allowed to remove the potential killers in the first place. It will be interesting to see if the local council/government ammend the laws after this.
PeterM
call in the SES - say you have no means to remove the "danger". by now there must be some disaster releif funding going to the Councils and the SES to clean up the mess (was the case here last year after the flooding and the pasha bulker storms)
Neighbour on other side lost 6 huge palm branches from his tree - all landing in my garden. SPLENDID, more views to the south HOORAY
