It Was a Dark and Stormy Sunday
I have an excellent reason for not posting since Friday. Saturday was the usual extremely busy so I was saving my posts for Sunday when Brisbane was hit with a monster thunderstorm. The type that turns the sky green. The type that turns roads into rivers. The type that looks like this:
Photos from The Courier Mail website, not my own!Chez Mooselet suffered no damage. We lost branches off trees including one large gum limb at the top end of the property, which is all bushland anyway. My pool was flooded and is still in a bit of a mess. The neighbourhood as a whole was hit fairly hard, including one of my next door neighbours. The massive gum tree that snapped in half fell onto the road and took out the power lines. Unfortunately one of them, all 11,000 volts of it, landed across my driveway! Eeeek! We were without power for just over 24 hours, and it has been raining off and on - more steadily tonight - since then. Even so I was at the edge of the hardest hit area as indicated by the arrow:
Miss WTF's & Mumfies suburb was absolutely clobbered although they are fine, if a little soggy 'round the edges and lost power. Others were not as lucky, and there are thousands still without power as I write.You can read all about the carnage on The Courier Mail's website. I will post pictures sometime tomorrow - Miss Thing has her formal tonight (woot woot) and so she has my camera. I have told her not to come home if she loses it as it not only has the storm photos, but her graduation on Friday (double woot woot) and pictures of her tonight. The CM has some spectacular photo galleries, Miss WTF has left this link in the comments section of my previous post (although you may need to be a Facebook member and friend of Miss WTF -give it a shot) and feel free to post your own link in the comments to your photos and/or blog post if you live in Brisbane.
More details tomorrow but we're all present and accounted for.
7 Witty Remarks:
Yeah, that map shows where the teenager died (taking photos in a storm water drain mind you.... I say nothing about Darwin and instead wish to relay my deepest condolences to his family, poor buggers).
Now, on a slightly more upbeat note, I've uploaded a vid to the web so if you want to take a squiz of the damage at Chez Miss WTF, have a peek: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ICZPl-vlgo8
Also, will be posting some footage of a little drive around town I did this afternoon which shows the real devastation. My vid doesn't really do it justice, but you get that.
We had channel 7 news shooting from across the street (looking at our driveway) tonight and it was classic! They had asked me earlier if I wanted to stand outside and look like I was busy cleaning up whilst they filmed. I told them that we had already done that and were looking forward to lounging by candlelight and basically to sod off.
So, the power comes on at 5pm today and we flick over to watch our first bit of news (to see if we can drink the water yet coz the roof collapsed on a reservoir and we hadn't been able to drink tap water for just over a day... I'll fill you in on they pythonesque joke at a later date coz it's damn funny) and there are some SES (State Emergency Services) guys carting crap off a pile next door (that we had assembled earlier that afternoon) and putting it on a pile in front of our place.
FAIR DINKUM.... there are people without a freaking roof, with trees through their houses, with collapsed ceilings, with rotting food in their fridges coz we've had no power for 2 days, with shit everywhere....and they stop these poor bastards from working to make them stage a recovery process.
As I sat on my couch and enjoyed the wonder that is television (oh god how I missed information) and the thought of a warm shower, cold beer and watching survivor, I could only laugh.
Stupid buggers!
Funniest thing is that in the last 2 days I've met neighbours I didn't even know I had. We've carted water for each other, lopped each other's trees, laughed and cried at their misfortunes. If nothing else, a crisis DOES bring people together....and set some apart! The bloke over the street was cranky that channel 7 had parked their cars on his driveway to do their telecast LMAO. I did warn them that they shouldn't stand on his grass because he's very protective of it, but did they listen??? NO!
Will come and see you tomorrow Mumfies and take some vid of your joint. Hope you have power now :- ) If not...ooooowww my shower was sooooo warm and my beer was sooooo cold LOL.
Ok, I'll bring muffins to help whilst I gloat...thanks to Dark side Deb for those :-)
Righto, a warm bed awaits!
Wow, glad everyone is okay. And congrats to Miss Thing on her graduation!
Yikes! That picture looks like a mushroom cloud. You sure you guys weren't nuked?
Glad you're all right. That sounds like some storm. And 24 hours without internet is a disaster.
That mushroom cloud was either a funnel cloud, or if it touched the ground, a tornado. Nasty either way. The funnel cloud could have damaging winds like a tornado, but in more of a down burst, aka wind shear.
Oh joy, another storm last night and more water in the house. I'm so happy!
Still, we still have a house so all's good.
Hey,
I just founbd your blog. I hope all is well from the weekend. I live out in Caboolture and we are in for another soaking tonight.
Ashlea
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