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 Post subject: A Fathers Day Tale
PostPosted: Sep 5th, '10, 14:29 
Like a screaming banshee riding the horses of the apocolyse... chasing the dawn of a rising sun... and cutting a swathe and flattening all before it....

Out of nowhere Gerringong got flattened by an extreme wind storm with winds gusting over 100km/h...

Roofs lost, windows broken, trees down, branchs driven through walls, cars crushed, trucks, caravans and 4wd vehicles scattered all over the highway... and power lines down and power out from about 07:00 until about 15:30...

I've seen it blow a gale here before... and some savage storms.... but none like this morning...

It only lasted until about 5-6 hours until lunch-time... and has been a gentle breeze since, almost still and almost silent.... other than the piecing wail of emergency sirens and the stucco scream of hundreds of 2 stroke chainsaws....

Approx 150 SES and other emergency service workes in town... and trafiic snarled for kilometers, all trying to get to their famailies for fathers day...

Even the mobile phone coverage was out, or overloaded for most of the day...

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 Post subject: Re: A Fathers Day Tale
PostPosted: Sep 5th, '10, 14:32 
Even ripped my letterbox off... :D
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 Post subject: Re: A Fathers Day Tale
PostPosted: Sep 5th, '10, 14:33 
Place is chaos... including the roads in and out... and up north to Kiama..

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 Post subject: Re: A Fathers Day Tale
PostPosted: Sep 5th, '10, 14:35 
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 Post subject: Re: A Fathers Day Tale
PostPosted: Sep 5th, '10, 14:44 
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Jeebers!

Pretty Wikked storm by the looks of things, Hope everyone is ok!


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PostPosted: Sep 5th, '10, 15:08 
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Wow...... Never seen a caravan blown over like that. :shock:


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 Post subject: Re: A Fathers Day Tale
PostPosted: Sep 5th, '10, 15:13 
3 pantechs, 1 semi-trailer, 4 caravans, 1 winebago, 2 four wheel drives... they'd dragged that one out of the paddock but hadn't cleared it away... trying to let the traffic clear first...


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 Post subject: Re: A Fathers Day Tale
PostPosted: Sep 5th, '10, 15:35 
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He not to be serious but....
what about your AP stuff mate. :sad5:
Oh and happy Fathers day to all :cheers:


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 Post subject: Re: A Fathers Day Tale
PostPosted: Sep 5th, '10, 15:47 
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bloody hell :shock:


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 Post subject: Re: A Fathers Day Tale
PostPosted: Sep 5th, '10, 17:25 
Forgot to add... my daughter (18) .. has been training with the SES for the last 18 months...

Got her first call out today... still isn't home... :D


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 Post subject: Re: A Fathers Day Tale
PostPosted: Sep 5th, '10, 17:47 
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What a mess. :shock:
We are waiting on flood waters here down the Wimmera river, but they shouldnt do much damage


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 Post subject: Re: A Fathers Day Tale
PostPosted: Sep 6th, '10, 09:23 
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Bit of a mess over there Rupe,

Worse of all the letterbox is ripped off!

You managed to save your trout... good.... now how's the TV?hope that's OK!

You managed to hit the radio news headlines down here as well.Not long after the update of the Christ church Quake.

Cheers.


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