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 wrecker67
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todays storm
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...
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| posted on October 25th, 2003 at 10:32 PM |
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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??
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| posted on October 25th, 2003 at 10:48 PM |
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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
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wrecker67
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| posted on October 25th, 2003 at 10:57 PM |
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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 |
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| posted on October 25th, 2003 at 11:20 PM |
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Golf ball sized Hail in storm... Today....
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
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 12:14 AM |
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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
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 05:17 AM |
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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!
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 07:55 AM |
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How awesome was that lightning :thumb Just sat on the deck drinking
beers...better than the openning ceremony at the rugby world cup
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 10:48 AM |
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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.
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 10:50 AM |
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At least its not "Golf" sized hail
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 12:20 PM |
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OK better go and get meself some beers for the show tonight!
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 12:35 PM |
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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.
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 02:31 PM |
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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......
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 02:40 PM |
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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
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 02:59 PM |
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Y2K why would you go to Lismore?
It hit byron pretty hard last night and just now, only little hail though...heading north
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 05:18 PM |
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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,
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 05:21 PM |
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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......
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 05:25 PM |
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Oh no hope theyre ok. Dubs are fairly hardy. Mine wont get hurt, shes all plastic...he he he
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 05:29 PM |
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: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
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 05:37 PM |
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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.
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 05:39 PM |
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Sunny again
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 07:47 PM |
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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
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 07:50 PM |
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Lismore got hit pretty hard on Thursday nite didnt it?
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 08:39 PM |
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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.
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 09:15 PM |
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: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 |
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 09:15 PM |
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Tweed Heads got hammered, had to hide under a bridge at Currumbin for 2 hours before I could make a run for home!
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 09:38 PM |
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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
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| posted on October 26th, 2003 at 10:09 PM |
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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.
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| posted on October 27th, 2003 at 09:51 AM |
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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;
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broken roof;
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