Brisbane gets a new ice maker installed courtesy of mother nature.
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[quote]A supercell storm that hit south-east Queensland yesterday afternoon with cyclonic winds and softball-sized hail has left tens of thousands of residents without power, transport delays and a huge clean-up.[/quote]
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[quote]"Over the night we managed to get power back to about 40,000 customers so some work's been able to be achieved but there's a lot of work ahead," Mr Metcalf said.
At the height of the storm, more than 90,000 homes across Brisbane were without power, he said.[/quote]
[quote]Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Sam Campbell said the supercell storm was one of the worst to hit Brisbane in a decade.
"Yesterday we saw an exceptional thunderstorm over south-eastern Queensland, it produced structured wind gusts, giant hail and heavy rain and it is likely one of the strongest cells we have seen in the Brisbane CBD, we have seen in 10 years," he said.
"It was one of the highest supercell thunderstorms to occur in Australia, producing 144 kilometre wind gusts at Archerfield and we had reports of tennis ball to softball-sized hail."
Senior forecaster Peter Otto told 612 ABC Brisbane conditions around Archerfield were equivalent to a category two cyclone and wind gusts likely reached up to 160kph in nearby areas.
Resident James Marriott, from Toowong in Brisbane's inner-west, said the storm tore off the roof of his apartment.[/quote]
I'm about an hour north on the Sunshine Coast. Went up to the top of the building I work at (17 stories) and we watched the whole thing roll up the coast then head inland, just barely missing us. I snapped some incredible photos but waddayaknow, my good camera's memory card just self-corrupted last night and I lost them all :( I did get some off my mobile though while I was walking around some streets earlier as it approached. It's hard to describe, but this cell was so large and so... tall? That you had to stand there and rotate your whole body - not just turn your head - to take it all in, if you get what I mean. It felt so menacing;
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And back at home, pissing rain with one very unimpressed goat...
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Will try and recover my SD card from the camera but it's looking unlikely. Argh.
I was on the Eastern end of the city and ended up wading through flooded streets to the West side for a bus home. It was eerie with all the building alarms being triggered by the hail. The streets were absolutely decked in leafs too.
dam :<
Most of the rain missed us, but we got some good winds. Tree branches across the road from us were horizontal and the wind through the branches was making some pretty cool sounds.
Holy shit I heard of this earlier when I checked Yahtzee's twitter.
[QUOTE=Yahtzee Croshaw]FUCK ME SIDEWAYS two of my windows just got smashed in by hailstones[/QUOTE][img]https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/643210285/twitterpic.jpg[/img]
Yeah, his profile pic is pretty apt in that regard, I'd probably look the same way too if my windows got smashed by hailstones the size of tennis balls.
I work in Archerfield on the other side of the road to the Airport. My car is all dented and our office flooded. 1" deep water in the workshop, turns out steel cap boots are good at keeping my socks wet.
I didn't get any of the hail where I lived, but we did lose power for 22 hours... and the yard is a mess with leaves everywhere from the neighbor's gum tree.
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