The Weather Thread

[horrie hastings]

Good news. Very efficient job by the SES there.

Thanks MR, seeing some of the damage on the news to other properties ours was only mild, still though it was a scary having half a tree come down in the drive way and blocking access out.

[horrie hastings]

Good to hear there was no roof damage and that the SES were champs! Amazing work they do..

To close the loop on my story, we arrived home at 3am and it doesn't look like anything was busted. If anything, my tomatoes/veggies got a good watering while we were away, which is pretty sweet.

Thanks, still have to get up and have a look after the winds die down but the way the branch fell it looked like it missed the roof completely.Keeping an eye on the trees still yesterday and today as the wind is wild.

[Big Dog]

Wind is next level on the south coast. We have a power outage. The Hub (our local convenience store) is closed and I'm out of beer.

We can't have that! Door Dash provide alcohol home delivery if you're desperate.

https://www.doordash.com/alcohol/cat...E-flXXtF9_fuqK

[Bates]

Wind is next level on the south coast. We have a power outage. The Hub (our local convenience store) is closed and I'm out of beer.

[mightyrooster]

Crazy wild wind here today. Not good when you’re surrounded by trees and you can hear your roof tiles rattling.

[mightyrooster]

SES, came at 7.45 pm and removed the large main branch and chopped into smaller pieces then about an hour later they came and removed the remaining branches and patched the fence which was damaged, have to admit i was very impressed with the job they did.
Will get the roof looked at later when the weather settled down, hopefully there was no damage there, there is no signs of visual damage at ground level.

Good news. Very efficient job by the SES there.

[ism22]

SES, came at 7.45 pm and removed the large main branch and chopped into smaller pieces then about an hour later they came and removed the remaining branches and patched the fence which was damaged, have to admit i was very impressed with the job they did.
Will get the roof looked at later when the weather settled down, hopefully there was no damage there, there is no signs of visual damage at ground level.

Good to hear there was no roof damage and that the SES were champs! Amazing work they do...

To close the loop on my story, we arrived home at 3am and it doesn't look like anything was busted. If anything, my tomatoes/veggies got a good watering while we were away, which is pretty sweet.

[horrie hastings]

There sure has been some bad storms the past few days. Hope you don’t discover any more damage tomorrow. We’ve had a few shockers here in Canberra too. Mainly heavy rain though tonight. Stay safe.

SES, came at 7.45 pm and removed the large main branch and chopped into smaller pieces then about an hour later they came and removed the remaining branches and patched the fence which was damaged, have to admit i was very impressed with the job they did.
Will get the roof looked at later when the weather settled down, hopefully there was no damage there, there is no signs of visual damage at ground level.

[horrie hastings]

- On the way back the plane had to land in Sydney as there was lightning in Canberra. After many hours of waiting, they announced that we're getting loaded onto a bus for Canberra. Currently on the said bus, going through thick rain.

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Lucky your flight from Brisbane wasn't any later or you probably would not have been able to land in Sydney either.

[mightyrooster]

Also just found out a man was killed from a fallen tree in my old hometown.

[mightyrooster]

Have to wait till morning to have good look, still not sure how we are going to get out the way the branches are in the drive way. It was just one of those things just sitting inside and you hear a very unusual loud noise, i thought it sounded like the downstairs awning had been blown off but when i looked out the front window i only saw a small branch hanging over the electrical wires and within 20 secs or so it had blown off it, i though maybe a bigger branch had hit the roof then blown onto the street, its only when we looked out the balcony window that we saw at least half of one of the big trees laying across the drive way, some of it hanging on wires but at least the wires its on is only the old Optus cables which aren't used anymore, however it is still very close to the main electrical line into the building.

Very scary.

[mightyrooster]

Wow that was a storm that just ripped through, thunder , lightning and torrential rain, have half a tree down in our drive way and very close to the electrical wires and the way the branches are across the gate we cannot get out, will have to have a closer survey in the morning when there is no lightning and rain. Relevant authorities have been alerted so we just have to wait and i'm certain there are many worse off than us at the moment, at least we still have electricity .This is the worst storm than i can remember since the great hail storm from years ago.
Anyone else who has the storm hit or whether its on its way, just stay safe.

There sure has been some bad storms the past few days. Hope you don’t discover any more damage tomorrow. We’ve had a few shockers here in Canberra too. Mainly heavy rain though tonight. Stay safe.

[ism22]

Just got back from Brisbane. Summary:

- Golden weather up north. Paid for it if I began my morning runs too late (by late I mean after about 5:30am) but loved it.

- We went to Dreamworld for a day. Due to lightning they closed all the rides for 1/2 the day. It then fined up and all was good. I got onto the last ride for the Steel Taipan. Damn it's a great rollercoaster. FWIW on this same day, some assault relating to road rage happened outside Dreamworld and the guys ran into Dreamworld, so they closed off a section of the park while police investigated. Fortunately all we saw was a fenced off area.

- On the way back the plane had to land in Sydney as there was lightning in Canberra. After many hours of waiting, they announced that we're getting loaded onto a bus for Canberra. Currently on the said bus, going through thick rain.

- I guess it's fair to say that the weather's been a bit crazy. I hope it didn't damage our roof as we're in a position where we have a 1 degree flat roof that's 100% approved. However, over time it has become slightly less than 1 degree. As such, the insurance company are absolute b@stards whenever it gets broken by a freak storm (e.g. a couple of years back it snowed, farked the roof and they sent in some thugs to rough me up while claiming it was a non-compliant roof that had always been broken so there'd be no pay-out). It was a really painful process getting them to fix it...

[horrie hastings]

I hope everything is ok It certainly was a cracking storm and a great light show

Have to wait till morning to have good look, still not sure how we are going to get out the way the branches are in the drive way. It was just one of those things just sitting inside and you hear a very unusual loud noise, i thought it sounded like the downstairs awning had been blown off but when i looked out the front window i only saw a small branch hanging over the electrical wires and within 20 secs or so it had blown off it, i though maybe a bigger branch had hit the roof then blown onto the street, its only when we looked out the balcony window that we saw at least half of one of the big trees laying across the drive way, some of it hanging on wires but at least the wires its on is only the old Optus cables which aren't used anymore, however it is still very close to the main electrical line into the building.

[horrie hastings]

Stay safe mate.

Thanks mate, worse seems over even though the rain is still heavy. Still; a bit of lightning and thunder around.