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That would have to be the most violent non-cyclone weather event that I've experienced (North West Brisbane). We had a few trees fall down on the property but nothing near the house, fortunately. The water rushed into the garage but I managed to keep it at bay with a trusty broom. The dog did his part by having a drink from it and then going to sleep watching me work.

I had to go out and pick someone up from the airport at about 7pm. What is normally a 30 min trip each way was 1 hour there and almost 2 hours home. Absolutely incredible carnage around Ferny Grove/Hills. Enormous gum trees either uprooted or simply snapped in half. Power outages across the entire north-west Brisbane. We still have no power and there are at least 3 locations with problems within a few hundred metre radius of our house. No power til tomorrow night, I suspect.
 
POBT said:
That would have to be the most violent non-cyclone weather event that I've experienced (North West Brisbane). We had a few trees fall down on the property but nothing near the house, fortunately. The water rushed into the garage but I managed to keep it at bay with a trusty broom. The dog did his part by having a drink from it and then going to sleep watching me work.

I had to go out and pick someone up from the airport at about 7pm. What is normally a 30 min trip each way was 1 hour there and almost 2 hours home. Absolutely incredible carnage around Ferny Grove/Hills. Enormous gum trees either uprooted or simply snapped in half. Power outages across the entire north-west Brisbane. We still have no power and there are at least 3 locations with problems within a few hundred metre radius of our house. No power til tomorrow night, I suspect.
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Wow, I had no idea this was happening. All we got was some rain and some light thunder/lightning.
 
Geez! You guys are always getting massive storms up there!
We had one down here a couple of weeks ago, the ridiculously heavy rain combined with the huge winds to make the rain almost horizontal! It was fun driving in that! Almost had to rely on the lightning to help you see where you were going.

Just checked the Weather Channel, looks like you guys are in for some more.
Take care!
 
Judging from the title, I expected this thread to be speculating on a Melbourne Storm relocation to Brisbane...
 

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So lucky my power only went out for 2 minutes yesterday. Had so much rain and it was stormy here (south-western suburbs of Brisbane). Water leaked in through our windows too. I hope everyones okay especially you POBT.
 
Victoria needs more rain:mad: It's incredibly dry here, we also need rain in our matches, suits us and we win 90% of the time:p
 
POBT said:
That would have to be the most violent non-cyclone weather event that I've experienced (North West Brisbane). We had a few trees fall down on the property but nothing near the house, fortunately. The water rushed into the garage but I managed to keep it at bay with a trusty broom. The dog did his part by having a drink from it and then going to sleep watching me work.

I had to go out and pick someone up from the airport at about 7pm. What is normally a 30 min trip each way was 1 hour there and almost 2 hours home. Absolutely incredible carnage around Ferny Grove/Hills. Enormous gum trees either uprooted or simply snapped in half. Power outages across the entire north-west Brisbane. We still have no power and there are at least 3 locations with problems within a few hundred metre radius of our house. No power til tomorrow night, I suspect.
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Where are you POBT?

I'm in Upper Kedron and we were absolutely hammered. I'm a bit of a storm-watcher and I can say I have never seen anything like that. The pictures on the TV and online only begin to describe what the scene was like on Sunday evening. Not realising how widespread the damage was we went out to try and get some pizza for dinner. We made it as far as Keperra before the task of dodging trees and fallen powerlines made the journey to ardous and we returned home to have cereal for dinner. The scenes were heartbreaking seeing people with trees through their roofs or without scetions of roofs, cars smashed by trees. Whilst I'm lucky enough never to have been in a war zone, the metaphor being used by the press was hard to avoid.

We're lucky in that we're in a relatively new estate no no big gum trees close to our place to worry about. Our side fence has been slightly reconfigured to more of an oblique angle but that's the extent of our damage. We've lost a TV and a fridge/freezer full of food, but are counting ourselves very lucky in comparison to some other around our neck of the woods. The power came back on at 10pm last night, so we're looking forward to getting back to some sort of normality. Needless to say I won't be enjoying summer storms for quote a while.

Lastly a big hats-off to the SES and Energex crews and the men/women in blue who were out doing their thing within the hour.
 
My mother in law lives in Keppera at the retirement estate that had some resident evacuated, from the sounds of it the storm was horrific. My wifes family used to live off Hilder Drive in the Gap and the scenes there looked like a river which is just incredible to imagine.

Like BD said before, what is really amazing is that it was such a small area heavily effected. On the GC, we had a fair bit of rain (about 60mm where I live) and a bit of wind, but nothing extreme.

The scenes on TV reminded me of the post Cyclone Larry Innisfail where I was working for a few weeks after that storm.

Just hope that anyone living in that area has not had too much damage:thumbsu:
 
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Where are you POBT?
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Not far as the crow flies - Camp Mountain. We are protected somewhat by the mountains around us, I think, which probably is why The Gap copped it when the storm came in from the South West. We are at a high point of the neighbourhood though and the wind was ferocious. The upstairs windows got a good shake up so I decided not to go up there during the storm.

I did a bit of a stocktake last night and we've lost probably about 8-10 trees, a couple of which were very healthy and strong looking gums. No structural damage to anything though. I had to go and collect the wheelie bin from the end of the street (50 metres away) although the crows had done a good job cleaning up the rubbish that had fallen out.

I just got a text from home saying the power is back on. Very happy as we were thinking we might have to relocate to a friend's house. We have no town water and so when the power is out, the electric pump for the water tank doesn't work either. So - no power, no water makes for one smelly little family! We did stop off at my sister in law's place last night to wash and have a cooked meal - although, we have a gas stove at home so weren't totally primitive (no espresso machine though :()

One of the most amazing things was nature's response. Our house is set into the bush a fair bit. I got home on Sunday just as the storm was hitting. But the neighbours said that for the 2 hours before, the birds were going absolutely ballistic. We have a lot of kookaburras around but don't hear them a lot. Apparently, they were almost deafening - and were joined but cockatoos, galahs etc. A few of the long term locals say that the kookaburras are better than BoM when it comes to storm warnings. Then, after the storm had subsided and night had fallen, the insects, frogs etc started up. Lucky we had no power as you would have been hard pressed to hear the TV anyway - it was that loud.

On the emergency workers, when I had to go out that evening about 2 hours after it first hit, they had already cleared paths through the debris for cars to get through - that included chain sawing through massive trees and moving power lines off the road. On the way back from the airport, the police were controlling traffic on almost every major intersection. Such a rapid response. I was talking to someone who has lived in Brisbane for a long time. He reckons that the government response to this sort of thing is incredible. Once, people were expected to simply help themselves and there was no expectation on government to do anything much. Now, within a short period of time, emergency funds are available, drinking water is ready, most schools are reopened, the roads are clear and safe, power has been restored to all but a few pockets of the city, roofs are tarped and so on. Yep - there will be a few cases where people have not been given the priority they think they deserve. But, by and large, everyone involved in the response deserves a massive wrap.
 

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Good to hear power's back on POBT. Nothing worse than having youngun's without electricity (Our 4yo asked her Gran is she could take some of their electricity home with her so she could watch TV!!! :D ). Funny you should mention the bin as we lost ours down the street also. Luckily it all stayed in there!

You can always tell how good (or should that be bad) based on how many neighbours congregate outside afterwards. It was packed around us! And I have heard that about the kookaburras...

Here's an animation of the Brisbane 64km radar. Yep, we had a big black blob right on top of us. http://www.theweatherchaser.com/videos/events/2008-11-16.Brisbane/IDR664
 
Just looked at the BoM site now and it looks like Toowoomba is getting fairly drenched at the moment.

Looks headed towards the Gold Coast and southern Brisbane.
 
Good to see the 7 News showing an SES worker asking people who don't need to be around to not come for a look as it will crowd the area and make it hard for the emergency workers to do their work. Fair enough.

Cut back to Kay McGrath, presenting the news from some street in The Gap which has been hit hard.

Idiots.
 
Here's a shot I took about a minute before all hell broke loose. Doesn't look to impressive possibly, but speed that gust front was moving was phenominal. Lightning flanging everywhere too.

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Man it is peeing down here now.

I just had a frog in my lounge. Did the rain bring him inside??

Why do I have such an aversion to frogs?
 
Got home last night to find that the electric pump for the water tank must have blown in the power outage. So, electricity but no running water (including toilets). However, it is hard to be too pissed off when there are others with no home.
 

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