It’s now after 8pm Tuesday and we’ve been without power since the storm hit at about 4:30pm Sunday. Pretty soon we’ll be able to raise the bat for a half century of hours in the dark ages.
The damage is immense in this part of the world. I drove around Fig Tree Pocket and Kenmore today and there’s large branches down on powerlines still and strewn across roads. Most houses have some collection of tree material out front somewhere. It was a nasty little cell that got us.
You can say that for much of the East Coast over the past decade. The Southern Tablelands gets its fair share of supercells as well, the only difference being that they mainly stay away from the populated centres and so cause much less damage than in SEQ.
Tennis ball sized hail was recorded on at least two occasions last summer, and not that far from me either.
And an about face.. changes are coming
As of 3:15am today we have power again - woohoo! 59 hours in the dark in all, and some houses are still yet to be reconnected.
Storms again forecast for the weekend, here’s hoping they don’t quite pack the same punch Sunday’s ones did.
Finally at long bloody last, I’ve already had enough with the BoM over their new crappy interface.[1] I told the BoM I would never EVER use their revamped website ever again, and maybe that was enough to get them to change it. Ha, seems they finally got the message.
Bout bloody time something was done about this. 
trying not to resort to incredibly foul language while ranting or my post will get deleted… ↩︎
I’m sure you have that much influence. Delulu. 
Wow. What area was this? I got reall lucky this time. Did’nt get any of the bad stuff.
“Storm of the century”
Hurricane Melissa tears through Jamaica; Downgraded to Category 4; Cuba next in line for destructive storm
News.com.au and their typical dumpster quality journalism, publishing an AI generated photo of the “eye of the storm” from a plane (left image)….
Halloween got washed out basically here in Brissie tn, huge storm rolled in from about 5.30pm
Mostly avoided our parts this evening (which after Sunday’s effort was a blessing), but I think the threat of storms kept a lot of the kids away.
We had none, which isn’t unusual. Though talking to someone on the northside tonight who thought the kids were bussed into their area they had so many!
Here on the coast we got smashed, end of my street flash flooded
I don’t think it rained much on the northside .
The full cost of the Bureau of Meteorology’s website overhaul was approximately $86m, Guardian Australia can reveal, after years of delays and millions in cost blowouts.
Consulting firm Accenture received $78m in a contract for the website aspect of the overhaul. BoM has faced criticism in the past few years for the nine contract extensions made on the Accenture contract – which was originally supposed to cost $31m.
Deloitte also received $35m for its work on the site – a contract that was originally supposed to cost $11m.
