Environment Storms in Perth

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Branch Destroyed Fence, Check

Flooding in a Room, Check

Road Flooded outside, Check

Lost Power for a While, Check

Only lasted about an hour, but Dear god it was nasty

 

[aaronm46]

Morley FTW

My day off uni = win

watched tv all day = win

no damage done to house = win

car cleaned = win

 

[wirra44]

I waited on the freeway in a train standing with hundreds of people for 45 minutes, without any news from the driver what was happening

 

[anti_]

probably the biggest natural disaster perth has seen in long long time.

yep, thats saying something.

 

[Impunity!]

probably the biggest natural disaster perth has seen in long long time.

yep, thats saying something.

...since

 

[beez]

I survived the Great Storm of Perth 22/3/2010

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=102380966467567&ref=mf

 

[PunyHumans!!!]

Some pretty insane pictures in that group. Had some water sneek under my roof and come through my door frame for the sliding doors. Little else.

Was rather spectacular watching the first storm rolling across whilst stuck in the freeway jam and then getting the second one on film as I got home. In all honesty I haven't seen anything like that in nearly ten years in Perth. Watching it from my window I was reminded somewhat of my days having sat through a few cyclones, what with the trees bent sideways and the rain nearly horizontal.

 

[electricfeel]

I got home around 10 minutes before the storm started so thankfully I missed it all, although I am a little sad that I missed out on a once in a lifetime experience in Perth.

UWA, particularly the architecture building, has been absolutely destroyed! There are many photos of the architecture library floating around facebook with insane flooding.

(hears hoping we don't need to come in for the rest of this week...)

 

[Scotland]

...since

Natural, Reepy. Natural.

Loving the irony in the architecture building at UWA being the one which copped the most damage. Good functional design, folks.

Looking out the windows of the office this arvo it went from a bit overcast to pitch dark within about 10 minutes. Eerie.

 

[Freo Big Fella]

Was like tornado alley down at Curtin, the first front was sitting over us for a good 45 minutes.

Two hour drive home was fun as well, took me an hour to cross the narrows coming from manning highway. Was amazed to see Perth drivers actually allowing people to change lanes!

 

[Juddy88]

Haha UWA got owned.

 

[stormee]

You think this will give anyone extensions for assignments? How did reid and the law library fare?

 

[Carl Hooper]

No damage down in rocko to report. All is well.

 

[Juddy88]

^^ You wouldn't think it could get much worse there anyway though, would you?

 

[SBI]

^^ You wouldn't think it could get much worse there anyway though, would you?

Yeah, apparently did a few million dollars worth of improvements there.

 

[TurboHead]

No damage down in rocko to report. All is well.

Rocko area gets hit by these storms every couple of years... good to see other areas having to deal with the mess for a change.

 

[Impunity!]

You think this will give anyone extensions for assignments? How did reid and the law library fare?

Apparently if you need an extension on your uni assignments you just tell the lecturer your assburgers is kicking in?

 

[western wolf]

I wonder how Richard Pennicuik the thornlie tree man got on during the storm.

 

[Big Cox]

I wonder how Richard Pennicuik the thornlie tree man got on during the storm.

Apparantly he got hit by lightning (well his harness did). I call bullshit. The guy loves himself so much he would say anything to get in the paper. Next he will have Princess Diana up in his tree for breakfast. Tosser

My dogs kennel flew about 15m in the air before smashing itself on my fence. Thats the worst we got. A bit of water aswell but no hail.

LOL @ UWA architecture building getting pwned. The ultimate irony that

 

[Todd_Gack]

Sheet rain on the drive home. Couldn't see cars in front of me, only 2 red lights.

No flooding at home though fortunately. Though the power stopped working 5 minutes after I got home. What a tease.

 

[MadMac]

I live in Ellenbrook and for once we didn't have the power cut off at all . No hail, just a heavy rain and winds. Outdoor furniture got rearranged a bit and there's a fair bit of mulch on paved areas but that's about it.

 

[footy_4_life]

I live Joondalup way. My sis's car got destroyed. Front windscreen smashed, rear windscreen cracked and the car itself looks like its been sprayed with a hundred rds from a machine gun.

 

[Mr Eagle]

LOL @ UWA architecture building getting pwned. The ultimate irony that

Well in fairness it was never called the good architecture library...

 

[placebo]

I had no power for ten hours. Which was awfully frustrating considering the street about 40 metres away had complete power.

 

[Zarrix]

Bunbury got a fairly modest show compared to Perth, just lightning strikes every few seconds and steady, non-heavy rain for about two hours.