My street is cutoff now. A couple of big trees have come down across the intersection and taken down power lines; the other end of the street is blocked by another downed tree. People are waiting for the SES but they are pretty busy with the houses around the peninsula that have lost their roofs. It doesn't seem to have gotten any better today. You can't see the wind in that photo but its still howling. I've lost all the screening hedge I planted a couple of years ago to block stray light - blown right out of the ground by the wind but hopefully I can replant them later.
We get a couple of these rippers each year through SA. It's a little more unusual for you lot on the east coast from what I remember. I have built my roll off roof with 140km winds in mind. Last year I got a gust of 120km/h during a storm and it picked up the roof off the rack and floated the roof about 300mm away from closed position. I found it the following day. That aside the whole building was fine.
Dave I suggest you put another sleeper worth of concrete on top of your obs support/pier. You might need to go down a bit more too. That sort of flooding is going to affect your PA a lot. Also when you install the dome make sure you put in extra bolts into the concrete with large washers, that will stop any further storms lifting up the dome.
It's a tad wet here too, but when the floodwater is 50m from my fence it'll be too late to tell you!
Someone else's roof banging in your back yard? Doesn't sound good...
I hope it all hangs together for you. We've only had a measley 26.7mm yesterday and 8.7 so far today in comparison.
Take it easy out of those roads too.
Al.
it turned out to be a section of fence from next door. i have had a kip and feel like i have had an allnighter. we have just had a message on the mobile from the SES on possible flooding
Al Meehan was supposed to take his wife to hospital this morning at 5:30am for an operation. unfortunately a large tree fell on all of his cars. Funny thing was i thought that something was wrong and went over at 5am. I ended up taking them up to the John Hunter. I hope that everything went OK as becoming more coherent only now i see that the hospitals had power issues.
Al Meehan was supposed to take his wife to hospital this morning at 5:30am for an operation. unfortunately a large tree fell on all of his cars. Funny thing was i thought that something was wrong and went over at 5am. I ended up taking them up to the John Hunter. I hope that everything went OK as becoming more coherent only now i see that the hospitals had power issues.
Man that has to suck. Those cars are a write off. I feel sorry for you Al. I hope the insurance company is not a pain.
Be safe your NSW'ers.
Also be prepared for loss of mobile coverage, last i checked an hour ago, 340+ mobile base stations without mains, over half of which do not have anything beyond 1-2hrs of battery life left.
Sorry for my flippant tone. At the time I thought it was just a bad night and some nuisance flooding. It's become much worse than that. The damage and loss of life is not funny.