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Storms in Perth (Aus)
Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 3:42 am
by Grug
Saw some pretty bad storm damage on the news over in Perth.
IIRC Black Wolf resides over there. Wonder if he's alright...
Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 3:53 am
by Top Gun
Wow...those were some nasty winds; they got up to hurricane-force. Hope he's all right.
Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 11:22 am
by Black Wolf
Yeah I'm all good. Got pretty crazy though. There were trees down all over the place, and a few buildings got pretty banged up (mostly roofs off, but apparently there were some places that were complete write offs). I didn;t get any sleep the night of the stors because the rain and wind was too loud.
Still, it's gone a long way towards making up for a very dry spell - it's done a lot of good for the dams, and the rain made it a fair way inland , so the farmers got some. If we get a few more like that in the coming months, the rivers'll get up and we'll have a decent Avon Descent (It's a white water kayak race that starts in my home town, so I'm kind of partial to it
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Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 8:02 pm
by Flipside
Glad to hear all is well BW
Yup, seems that Australia has actually been a bit overdue for this, which is probably why it hit so hard when it did
Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 10:52 pm
by Black Wolf
Australia?
It hit about 2% of Australia
Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 1:47 am
by WeatherOp
Black Wolf wrote:Yeah I'm all good. Got pretty crazy though. There were trees down all over the place, and a few buildings got pretty banged up (mostly roofs off, but apparently there were some places that were complete write offs). I didn;t get any sleep the night of the stors because the rain and wind was too loud.
And you didn't get any pics for me to see, very sad.
Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 1:47 am
by WeatherOp
WeatherOp wrote:Black Wolf wrote:Yeah I'm all good. Got pretty crazy though. There were trees down all over the place, and a few buildings got pretty banged up (mostly roofs off, but apparently there were some places that were complete write offs). I didn;t get any sleep the night of the stors because the rain and wind was too loud.
And you didn't get any pics for me to see, your evil.
Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 8:44 am
by Grug
Good to hear things are all right.
Some of the places they showed on the news looked pretty devastated.
It's mainly cold over here in Brisbane. But we had a fair bit of just rain last couple of weeks. Not much gets past the mountain ranges though. So the farmers arn't really getting any rain at all.
Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 12:32 pm
by Vasudan Admiral
There's been a good soaking rain this side of the island too recently.
Too bad none of it was in the Warragamba dam catchment area.
Rain, rain, go away, go out west and stay that way....