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All I have to say is... Yikearumba. Thank goodness there is currently no rain or wind. So much destruction around (thankfully our house and street came of relatively unscathed).
Boys' schools are still non operational. Trees down, flood damaged classrooms and no power.
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Ahh sweet! Well done:)
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I think it's heading your way Jools:( Take care. We had violent thunderstorms, wind and rain overnight which eased about 4am (I think) and it's "calm" (eye of the storm?) at the moment. I just emptied another 75ml from the rain gauge so that's 240 over two days! I won't be able to start our clean up until at least tomorrow and only if the weather clears. The garden is shredded! One of our hibiscus may not be able to be saved:(
Kiera wrote: "So... I did something kind of awesome yesterday afternoon... I do volunteer work at Animal Welfare League once a week and, well, this week... I fell in love with this sweet little smoochy, black ca..."How lovely Keira. He'll be your friend for life :)
☼♄Jülie wrote: "The skies are still rocking and rolling here this morning, huge thunder and heavy winds and rain since the wee small hours. Incredibly we have only had a little water coming in the garage. Repairs ..."I piked out of going to work today. I tried to leave to catch my bus at 6.30 but there was thunder and lightning and torrential rain like I'd never seen before and I just thought nup, not going out in that. I do have quite a bit of work I can do at home so have been keeping busy!
Brenda wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "The skies are still rocking and rolling here this morning, huge thunder and heavy winds and rain since the wee small hours. Incredibly we have only had a little water coming in the ..."Sounds like the storms moved south for now so I hope it's a bit better up in Newcastle today.
Hibiscus are tough Brenda so you never know it might recover after a good prune :)
Carolyn wrote: "Brenda wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "The skies are still rocking and rolling here this morning, huge thunder and heavy winds and rain since the wee small hours. Incredibly we have only had a little water..."Nope....here it comes Carolyn, with a vengeance! Bucketing down at the moment and pouring down the driveway....rolling thunder ect. Glad you stayed home! We were going to go shopping today but????:(
Brenda wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "The skies are still rocking and rolling here this morning, huge thunder and heavy winds and rain since the wee small hours. Incredibly we have only had a little water coming in the ..."I got up just before 4am Brenda just in time for a collossal thunderstorm, my little girl ran straight back inside!
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Sounds like a really sensible decision Carolyn! Have a lovely day (slot in some reading if you can!) We still have many, many businesses, all schools, the Uni etc closed here; the massive cleanup will take weeks if not months to finish...
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I bet she did!!! I hope this goes fast!
Brenda wrote: "Carolyn wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "The skies are still rocking and rolling here this morning, huge thunder and heavy winds and rain since the wee small hours. Incredibly we have only had a little wate..."One of the advantages of working at home is not having 2h of commuting so I figure I can fit in a good long read at lunch time instead :)
Hope everything gets back to normal soon. It will be months before all the damage to buildings and roofs are repaired. Good thing storms like this don't come along too often.
Brenda wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "Brenda wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "The skies are still rocking and rolling here this morning, huge thunder and heavy winds and rain since the wee small hours. Incredibly we have only ha..."Might be a few extra bods hangin' out here on AGR today ;)
How's your hubby doing Marianne? Hope he got his toast and vegemite for brekkie!
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Could be Jools:)
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Brenda wrote: "Looks like more tragedy from this storm. A car has washed away in Maitland and the two people inside are missing... http://www.theherald.com.au/story/302...#..."Dreadful conditions and loss of life.Sad too that scammers are so quick to take advantage of disaster and other people's sorrow and misfortune.
I emptied our rain gauge at 9am this morning and it was 120 exactly. We actually saw the sun for a while so I took advantage to walk to the shops to get some stuff. I saw a woman clearing a storm water drain on the way because the public pathway was flooded and we would be waiting more than a week if we waited for council to do it. We had a friend visit us who has no water, power or telephone network due to the storm. They were using ours for a short amount of time even just to recharge or have a cuppa. They only just started trains through Gosford again today. But it's started raining again.
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I feel for you Brenda. I'm not dealing with the sodden towels at the bottom of the doors until I'm sure the rain is done with. We had a bit of sunshine earlier, while it was pouring with rain at the same time.
Marianne wrote: "I feel for you Brenda. I'm not dealing with the sodden towels at the bottom of the doors until I'm sure the rain is done with. We had a bit of sunshine earlier, while it was pouring with rain at th..."Sunshine, what's that? Haven't seen it for days. But can't complain as the worst we have had is steady pounding rain but no other dramas.
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Thanks Marianne:) I wrung the towels out, then put them back on the floor!
Yes we've had a little sunshine but no rain yet this morning. The sky looks threatening though - I hope you guys will be OK; it seems to be heading your way now:(
Yes I was thinking about Marianne when the abc radio announced severe warnings over, and headed for Southern areas...
Brenda wrote: "Looks like more tragedy from this storm. A car has washed away in Maitland and the two people inside are missing... http://www.theherald.com.au/story/302...#..."The water always looks deceptively shallow around that area (train station roundabout) when it floods. Also can rise very quickly as well.
Brenda wrote: "Marianne wrote: "I feel for you Brenda. I'm not dealing with the sodden towels at the bottom of the doors until I'm sure the rain is done with. We had a bit of sunshine earlier, while it was pourin..."I think we are meant to get get some sunshine tomorrow, if not, then Friday.... Friday is meant to actually get quite warm. Bonkers.
Regina, I love your profile photo.Melissa, I'm down near Portland and the same thing happened to us. Yesterday was gorgeous.
Sarah wrote: "Regina, I love your profile photo.
Melissa, I'm down near Portland and the same thing happened to us. Yesterday was gorgeous."
It was - it felt like an early summer. However, in Vancouver and Oregon that can easily change *sigh*
Melissa, I'm down near Portland and the same thing happened to us. Yesterday was gorgeous."
It was - it felt like an early summer. However, in Vancouver and Oregon that can easily change *sigh*
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It's just started raining again :/
Bonkers is the word Regina. I've been using crazy, but that one is better ;)
Sarah wrote: "Regina, I love your profile photo.Melissa, I'm down near Portland and the same thing happened to us. Yesterday was gorgeous."
Thanks Sarah. It is a pic I took with my camera with macro lens attached.
Suzanne wrote: "Bonkers is the word Regina. I've been using crazy, but that one is better ;)"I am a fan of bonkers over crazy.
Brenda- yep raining here again as well. Good bye to sunshine tomorrow I think.
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Ah, memories of my childhood..I grew up at Moorebank on the Georges river and remember floodwaters reaching above our windows and being evacuated by Army Ducks! I don't remember it flooding there like that for many years, but tonight they are evacuating residents there...we would have been among them. This is the worst storms I remember for a very long time.
Just checked the rain gauge here again. Total of 134mm of rain so far in Muswellbrook.According to a number of people I've talked to today, Scone (25km) up the road had about half that, and Denman/Martindale (25km the other way) has had more and lots of wind.
We must have been just on the edge of the nasty bits. (The good side of the edge.)
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According to a number of people I've talked to today, Scone (25km) up the road had about half that, and Denma..."
You certainly could have had some of our 240ml Leonie!
To answer Deaths Coming question from Intro thread - the thing I miss most about Australia is Red Rooster. It's the one craving no where else in the world can satisfy.
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Here at the central coast today we had 158 mm, wind at 135 km/ph
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Yeah luckily we only had the power out for a day
They do Brenda, but it's just not as good
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That's a shame! I imagine the first thing you do when you return to AU is go to Red Rooster:)
Brenda wrote: "Wow that's severe DC! High winds:( When will it end!"The wind is finished for me thankfully
Yeah red rooster is so good, I always heard that fast food overseas is not as good
What are you happy about leaving?
Brenda wrote: That's a shame! I imagine the first thing you do when you return to AU is go to Red Rooster:)"At least twice on the way home from the airport! LOL
Yeah, I love red rooster, I always heard Australia got great fast food
Yeah that's true actually. I find Australian Burger King/Hungry Jacks better and our Fish n Chip/Hamburger corner shops are on average better as well
Great, well at least I know, as I asked what did you hated most about Australia and is happy to leave?
McDonalds in Sweden is bland compared to ours. Probably got less fat in it.
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I think we have been fortunate in that the rain, although heavy, pauses now and again and gives the water time to wash away. When it comes down non stop the street drains overflow and rush straight down our almost 45 degree downward sloping driveway then flood the garage and house when bad.