Hail storm

How cool was that hail storm I haven't seen one like that for a while anyone get some good picture's? Here's my fron't stairs.

Not much luck there Emma have another go!

yeah scary stuff
lucky my dad's car at the panel beater so i could use the garage

wait... crap! i hope that car is ok!

I'm trying for some reason it's not posting it says it's posting but nothing shows oh well it looked like snow my brother bought a kombi the other week and it was out he says he is to scared to have a look just in case it's damaged!! I think the old kombi's old out pretty well though

At Virginia

[Edited on 19-5-2005 by emma31]

Gee Mike thought i had some cool photo's how do you get yours to post so big you look like you got some good amounts of hail

Yeah it was coming down hard. We had some hail stones the size of marbles at the start but then they got smaller and more prolific. Luckily my car was undercover.

I've never seen that much hail before.

im dreaming of a white christmas

Daughter is at Kelvin Grove and rang me in the middle of the storm......she has a tin roof and I could hardly hear her. After the storm she rang me back laughing.............someone was trying to drive down the street, but was slipping and sliding all over the place. She took photos and says it looks like it snowed.

geez i love hail storms...it means cheap new cars:thumb

...wow crazy stuff....it's crisp down of a night here but we haven't seen rain in a while....so dry and grass not growing

it was a good storm but had to try and drive a 48 seater bus thru the city with dickheads parking under overhangs and bridges blocking the entire road. used the old air horns and deafend a few people but finally made it to the transit centre. it was like driving in a foot of snow at times. very thick and slippery

i was inside at work when it hit...:cry
and when it finished, i was outside, playing in the snow!!

what a strange time to have such a severe hail storm... in the middle of may, at 5:45pm, on a day that wasnt particularly warm to begin with!!
supposed to be another one just the same coming through tommorow... i hope ive finished uni by then :o

try this link, its got my pics posted, plus some others from people around brisbane...

http://flickr.com/groups/brisbanehailstorm/

don't ya just love a good storm......Not

this is a pic of WA on Monday :o

FARK! I would freak if i looked out the window of my car and saw that. It'd certainly be put the pedal to the floor and get the hell home before it hit!

....goodness almost like a mushroom cloud with it's feet off the ground...that would be a bit freaky to see

Was is slow....doesn't look like much movement....it just looks to be hovering??

i just got to the car wheh it hit. i got into towong shopping centre in time. but driing home, it was interesting to see ares with 40cm of hail/ice across the road!!

Well what a day yesterday was it did not shape up too well for me, you know those days you just should not have gotten out of bed!
It all start wrong, woke up late so in a mad rush to get to work, I had to drive Esmay (our fastie) in so I was not too late (I normally take the pushy).
Over lunch I had to go out to run a few errands. Silly me left the lights so a dead battery in an auto I couldn’t even jump start. I luckily managed to get some jumper leads and another car to start off. Finally did my running around and got back to work ~2 ½ hrs after leaving!
In the arvo I had also planned to meet some one on Brissy south side (I work north side). As you all know now not a good time to be out on the road in Brissy. As I got close to the city I could see proceeding was pointless, rang the guy and called it off, but being not far from the missus work in the city decided to pick her up and get home before the storm hit. Well got as far as Roma St. and the traffic was blocked solid, all you could do was sit and wait for the hail to come. Sure enough ~5min later it hit.
I tell you it’s a frustrating feeling sitting in still traffic waiting for the hail to come. Poor Esmay got pummelled. Creeping along icy roads, even light throttle just spun the wheels, it was scary, and friggin noisy! After what seemed like hours in the hail (maybe 4-5min) I made it to the missus work and managed to get under cover before the size of the hail increased to golf ball size.
We went out and watched the hail for a while; everything was white, just like snow. The road was covered 2-300mm deep in places, amazing stuff when your not trapped in traffic swearing at everyone in front of you to get out the f#$&ing way.
We waited it out until we thought it was safe and went to leave. Put the key in the door and SNAP. You know that sinking feeling you get when what else can go wrong, well it did! Key broke off in the lock, muttered all the relevant swear words, cursed about all the times I said I must get a spare cut but didn’t. On the bright side, I did leave the windows open a little and with some scrounged wire managed to get in, at least we could get our wallets/house keys etc.
Stupid me then spent 20 min getting the ignition wires out and hot wiring with some scrounged bits of electrical wire, went to drive off the “click” went the steering lock…. more muttered swear words. I had a quick look to see if I could get the lock off and soon admitted defeat.
So we decided to catch the train out to Toombul (near home) try our luck getting the Mr Minit guy to cut a key from the broken bits. A HUGE thanks to the man there, he said he will do his best and didn’t even charge us, he said see if it works first.
Feeling a little brighter and a nice ice-cream to fill the tummy we caught a cab home to get Andy and head back into the city. On the trip in, ~8:30 by now, over two hours after the storm passed and there was still thick ice over the road near Roma St. We get back to Esmay carefully try the key. A little tight but it worked fine in the door, and yep in the ignition also. Cheers of joy from the missus, I think as much that it worked than the fact I finally stopped swearing.
A few minutes to put back all the wires I had pulled out and Esmay was drivable again.
So that was my day! One I hope not to repeat in a hurry!
Again, a BIG thanks to Mr Minit at Toombul who did a great job give the mangled bits ha had to work with. I’ll be going back to pay the man and have a few spares cut!!

Oh, as for the damage to Esmay, nothing quickly visible, but I’m too scared to have a close look. If there are any dints they are only tiny, amazing given how hard the hail was hitting and the layer of ice on her when I finally got under cover.

Richard
:duh

I managed to avoid the hail, just I think. I left the city on my motorbike thinking it was just a storm. Then heard hail was coming on the radio and thought hail on a motorbike can't be a good thing. So I did everything short of running red lights to beat it, which I did.

here's some pics from friends.

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thats insane! would have been a bit of work on for the tow trucks yeah?

:jesus

JJJ were talking to someone this morning who saw two blokes in full snow gear, skiing down hills, after the storm - what a hoot!

Cheap cars is right - new and old!! 🙂

Those are some great pics Wes. Not at your place I guess?

The noise of it coming was amazing, an ever increasing roar.....

i dont know what to say...
whoo hoo or OMG!
thankfully it just missed our place and da cars in the street
but the 'snow' was still in the streets at lunch timeish today..
unbeleivable..
so if you coming to brisvegas for hols soon..
pack ski-gear and thermals next to boradshorts and sunscreen.. lol

...you are kidding me.....that was a MASSIVE hail storm..... INCREDIBLE.....yes you'd think it was snow.......in Qld!!!

So lucky you made it home before it came along

Last night was the best fun I have had in ages!!!!!
About 8:30 my flatmates and i went driving around to look at all the beautiful snow. Went to uni QUT at Kelvin Grove. The sports oval was just white with thick mist coming off it. Then drove over to Toowong. (Heard that was the best hit.) Accidentally got my flatmates car bogged in the ice! Had to push it out. Stood knee deep in hail in the main street in toowong. Then "borrowed" a for rent sign outside a block of units and went toboganning in the park next to the wesley or coro drive. Ended up wet, dirty cold and sore. But I havent had fun like that in ages. Sorry to those who didnt enjoy it. Especially you Andy. That would have sucked. But to me, it was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

jenz58 wrote:...you are kidding me.....that was a MASSIVE hail storm..... INCREDIBLE.....yes you'd think it was snow.......in Qld!!!

yep just got back from uni now n St. Lucia and Toowong still had ice/snow about a foot + deep on the footpath.. still can't beleive im at home in bribane town.. :duh
well i suppose it will be a good rehearsal for a europe visit in january next year in the middle of winter...

I got caught in it on the gateway on my motorbike.Unbelivable,with all my gear on it was like rocks being chucked at me.

how scary is that! :o

anyone else have more graphic pics?

h , can you sent me info on your pet sitting thingy?

That’s more insane than Sydney weather of late. How much more evidence of global warming and changing weather patterns do they want before ratifying Kyoto.

hear hear bus914... i think we humans need to take a look at what the weather is throwing at us.

Unfortunately, me being south of brisbane (instead of north) missed out on all the fun. DAM!!!

here is a photo of me and my flatmate at qut kelvin grove on thursday night. I have the blue beanie on...... it was f#%*ing awesome!!!!

another one....

and another

was it hail, or was it snow?

global warming......... i wont even enter that debate..........

its hail chris.

it doesnt snow this far north :duh

I have some more pics, but they aren't as good.

These are Gympie Rd the next morning, and it was still there Saturday arvo. I guess it is what was shoveled off the road for the cars to get through.

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yeah who would of thought you were in sunny brisvegas? 😀

here's some I found on the mx6 forum













[Edited on 23-5-2005 by Baja Wes]

[Looking good beetle girls😉JVLRacing

[Edited on 23/5/2005 by gayanne]

i think this is definitely one of those days we will be telling our grandkids about...
with photos to prove it!

"one day, back in good ol' 05, we had this amazing storm, and brisbane was covered in ice... it was like snow in brisbane.. unheard of until then..."

That's if it doesn't become a more common occurrence. Similar thing happened in Sydney less than a year ago.

Love the Sydney pic!! Hahaha 😀
Actually I love all the pics... bring on more wild weather I say!! 😉

Glad to NOT hear about any poor hail-damaged VWs....