so how many people got caught up in the hail storm..im in the riverstone area,i think it must have been hit the worst,,i still have ice in my yard,i had hail the size of 2 golf balls coming down,have never seen it that bad,broken house windows in ever street,,,and the 58 in my yard is very bent,my v8 vp commodore is very bent,,,,its a sad day....i have a wanted add in the for sale section for panels for the 58 bug...anyone in the area get any damage...
cheers..............:jesus

That's not good

It was about this time a few years ago that you got hit up there with a massive hail storm wasn't it??

we must of got the last of it just huge drops but the storm was ciircling around us here at coffs
hope ya cars get fixed up man!
cheers
rhys

i have been here for 5 years,i think i have seen more bad storms here then anywhere else i have lived..
it must be a hole....:puke

I received an email from a girl today who is having Her Beetle painted at a VW Workshop... 10 beetles were outside.... along with Her mothers non VW car which was totalled... She had sent Me a pic of a Purple Beetle that was just finished last weekend... it was also outside...
Golf ball size hail.. makes a mess of most cars even including VW Beetles which are much stronger than the modern car.
My condolences to anyone who was caught in the storm.....
Lee

Hmmm, bad luck about the weather, we had a rough few days of storms in byron as well, no large hail stones though...

I went to riverstone once, to AP spares, is he still there?

A hole may be right but could be a little harsh

We got hammered here in Tweed, I was watching the storm going over Byron as well, one of the most intence lightning storms I have ever seen!
Rob...

How awesome was that lightning :thumb Just sat on the deck drinking beers...better than the openning ceremony at the rugby world cup

We had to go to Lismore for dinner and that was the scariest trip over ever. Incredible lightning but would have rathered been home protecting the house. Byron missed it but i think we got it here(ocean shores) then it moved to tweed and out to see. My parents are camping up at indy and mum rang me in a panik to see whether it was heading their way.
More to come tonight. Go to the bureau of meteorology web site
http://www.bom.gov.au  and click on the state or radar images. There also should be some where about severe thunderstorm warnings.

At least its not "Golf" sized hail

OK better go and get meself some beers for the show tonight!

Rob.....

My sister in law lives at Vineyard, both of their cars got damaged. I was there for a BBQ in the evening (a couple of hours later) & there was still ice on the ground. The amount of crap on the road was incredible! Sorry to hear about the damage wrecker67, real pisser.

I'm just north of brissy, we didn't get it bad......I was sitting in the lounge room with the rain and lighting and thunder and you'd think (since it's normally first) that we wouldn't have hail. but at 9:30 the rain turned to hail, I don't think I've ever moved so quickly, I had the bug in under the patio in around 1 minute.......and that's driving around my house to get to it........no damage here.....

Hope everyone's cars aren't to badly damaged...... keep your cars in tonight....I'm watching the storm pass over right now......

I just love watching massive electrical storms. We don't get them as big as you guys.

I can remember going to Kirra Beach a few years back and trying to find the place we were strying during a massive down pour:o

I've been in the tropics/Pacific Islands but had never experienced such a heavy downpour. It was kinda exciting at the time

Y2K why would you go to Lismore?

It hit byron pretty hard last night and just now, only little hail though...heading north

Byronbus, we decided to cut some laps of the town........ha ha ha..........nah just kidding. Had to do dinner for G's mum's birfday.
Hey todays was pretty good, never seen it so green. I was waiting for the golf ball hail stones,

Was watching Indy and the drivers were getting hit pretty bad by hail, then we got it here as well on the North Side of Brissy, not quite golf balls but at least very large marbles.....all I could do was watch as they bounced off the 3 VW's parked out front......

Oh no hope theyre ok. Dubs are fairly hardy. Mine wont get hurt, shes all plastic...he he he

:o Just had another hit...where it all coming from? Thinking of parking the ute outside and selling it as ice...
Byron sticks out so much seems to catch all the storms

Watch out Bus theres more coming down from the north. But it all seems to merge together over my place. I think im in the centre of some sort of traffic intersection..doh.

Sunny again

we were at a bushdance last night at my sons school in lismore with all the lightning flashing looked grea untill it got too wet no hail though
marcel

Lismore got hit pretty hard on Thursday nite didnt it?

Sorry to hear about your cars Wrecker ... i work a kellyville, but luckly my 58 was undercover when the hail came .... i git caught out bad last time , remember a few years ago when we had that really bad hail storm in east / Sydney ... my white 69 got hit hard & often ... it looked like a golf ball afterwards ... and a mate of mine even painted on the doors " DUNLOP 4" as a joke ... it was funny now that i think back ... but it is never nice to see your pride and joy cop a beating from the weather ... next time you come past the Ettamogah Pub @ kellyville ... pop in i'll buy you a beer.
:beer

:thumb have to take you up on that beer soon....cheers.
the force of the hail riped the door mirror of the bug...
roof lining is coming out the commodore tomorrow to start repairing it...:beer

Tweed Heads got hammered, had to hide under a bridge at Currumbin for 2 hours before I could make a run for home!
Rob...

Were you on your bike Rob?

I think it was this time of year when I was up there last. It was only really wet the one day though:thumb

My daughter Bridie has just arrived home from work.

She is at AAMI's call centre here in Melbourne, but they get the after hour calls from around OZ.

She started work at 2pm. She said at 2.30 pm thy got hit with calls from NSW and southern QLD from people who's cars had been damaged in the storms.

They called extra staff in and some staff are doing over time to cope.

Bridie said they had queues of 60 calls waiting at any one time. This was and still is constant. Bridie decided to come home because she had brain meltdown after 8 hours of continual calls.

Geez it must have been so bad up there.

well I am finally back in the civilised world today. A really nasty storm hit Brisbane yesterday, with the worst of it hitting Mt Nebo and Samford area, and I live in Samford.

It flattened a few trees, broke one in half, pulled others out by the roots, and generally made a mess of the place.

We lost power and only just got it back today. Suburban people might think losing power is fun cos you get to get out the candles, but we're on tank water. The pump on the tank needs electricity to pump the water. So we had no power, no running water, no toilets, no showers. Oh what fun.

One tree fell across the driveway blocking it and had to be towed out the way by the baja. Lucky I park in a shed so was safe from the hail.

Broken tree;

broken roof;