Yes, very savage today. I think that here in Taylors Lakes we got off lightly compared to the rest of Melb though it was still wild.
I couldn't believe the floods in the middle of the city!!
Spent most of the afternoon trying to get some lightning pics but very difficult during the day and I'm sure the weather gods were toying with me and laughing.
Hope not to many were hurt, couple of years back a guy with a broken leg got caught out on the middle of a bridge on his crutches round here
If somone hadn't stopped and pulled him into there car he was in a lot of trouble.
I am not being facetious, when I say that those porsche's must have tough windscreens
Sorry to hear about all the hurt and damage
My Lancer and the Pulsar were both facing the same way, into the coming hail - it was striking directly. Pulsar gained two substantial star fractures from strikes, the Lancer has none.
What a terrible storm. It is similar to the one that wrecked Lismore, but we didn't have so much torrential rain, mainly golf ball to tennis ball sized jagged hail. We were lucky and it was declared a disaster area. Our printing business had holes punched through the roof and many thousands of dollars of stock ruined. The Government was helping out and most insurance companies were excellent. Be aware of shonky operators trying to fix roofs. We had to have our work done four times before it was satisfactory. Wrecked cars were more problematic. Some poor young people had their cars seized by insurance assessors with thousands of dollars of stereo gear inside, and no chance to retrieve anything. It was a case of "give us the keys, find your own way home". Good luck everyone, I know what you're going through.
I hope all you guys get thru this damage soon & retain some sanity.
I went to the new car year at Ferntree Gully....to see if the cars were damaged (aka we were due to pick up a new car on this Tues).
Suffice to say...all cars are heavily damaged! Meh ...it's only a car...people have homes that are damaged.
I used to see storm/Hail cells like this in Ipswich/Gatton areas of Queensland back in the 80s. Thre build up was very tropical...hot steamy then a storm brews & breaks with major force.
Amazing stuff ... and those damaging golf balls Saw on the news last night about it, and Flemington Race Track was all white!! Bad impact craters Eric .... the insurance bill for all those car repairs will be horendous. More rain and storms coming ... yikes
Won't bother with repairs. Not going to risk the insurance company saying write-off and taking it off me. Same with the other two cars. Still drive just fine!
But I'll read the policy for the Pulsar and see if I might be able to get a windscreen?
looks like its tracking west - the city and western suburbs are in for some fun, looks like we'll miss out here in Berwick buuut the night is still young Hoping for some extreme mad sick max lightning.
Yes, it looks like its drenching some very dry areas before it hits Melbourne, which is great. Some of the water catchments down there are an amazing sight ... eg Lake Eppalock and Cairn Curren - so low .. (ex Bendigo girl )
buuut the night is still young 
Hoping for some extreme mad sick max lightning.
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