Brisbane storm
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foxidrive
Retired Admin
How did you blokes fare up there?
okeedokee
The Bastion of Belmont
Thanks for your concern guys.
Luckily we are on the Eastern side of Mount Gravatt which offers us a lot of protection from the storms coming in from the west.
There was a terrific lot of lightening strikes and very loud thunder, which the cat did not like one little bit. Out at Helidon they had 53 mm of rain in 1/2 an hour.
There is a second wave of storms coming through now but not the severity of those couple of dangerous storm cells that came through yesterday.
misi
Growing Little Guru
foxidrive
Retired Admin
The storms are pretty terrifying when they get wild... good job you were ok. Just a frightened pussy.
How about you Guess?
How about you Guess?
Sorry, just found this..
Have I got stories to tell.. I was right in the thick of it driving the bus around Bulimba heading to the City.
Anyway, I was driving down Riding Road as the lightning was striking all around me. The strikes were SO BRIGHT considering it was 11am. One Strike will remain in my mind for ever I think. About 500 meters in front of me, one hell of a flash came straight down in front of me as I went along Riding Road. The Bloody thing did the splits just before striking ground ( like a upside down Y ) and struck ground on both sides of the road. An instantaneous almighty bang and everything shook.
As I progressed along Oxford Street ( Haunt of the yuppie caf'e set ) and into Smallman and snaked around to the river. By this time, The rain was pelting down and the wind was near gale force. As I turned at the ferry stop, I was looking right at a block of flats ( 6 pack ) on the corner in front of me. As I watched, the roofing iron began tearing off the balconies and flying across my path. Just managed to avoid all the flying sheets apart from running over a few sheets that landed in front of me. The wind then stopped as I made my way to cross the Story Bridge. Then the wind came up again as I crossed the bridge. As the wide was blowing across the bridge, I had to straddle 2 lanes to have a bit of a safety area either side of me as the wind easily blew the bus up to 2 meters sideways as I kept correcting my course. By the time I reached the City terminus outside McArthur Chambers in Edward Street, All that could be heard was numerous fire alarms going off all over the place and never ending sirens from emergency vehicles.
On my return journey, all the streets around Bulimba were covered in vegetation, eg, leaves, fallen branches, tree limbs..
Was a very exciting morning !!!
Have I got stories to tell.. I was right in the thick of it driving the bus around Bulimba heading to the City.
Anyway, I was driving down Riding Road as the lightning was striking all around me. The strikes were SO BRIGHT considering it was 11am. One Strike will remain in my mind for ever I think. About 500 meters in front of me, one hell of a flash came straight down in front of me as I went along Riding Road. The Bloody thing did the splits just before striking ground ( like a upside down Y ) and struck ground on both sides of the road. An instantaneous almighty bang and everything shook.
As I progressed along Oxford Street ( Haunt of the yuppie caf'e set ) and into Smallman and snaked around to the river. By this time, The rain was pelting down and the wind was near gale force. As I turned at the ferry stop, I was looking right at a block of flats ( 6 pack ) on the corner in front of me. As I watched, the roofing iron began tearing off the balconies and flying across my path. Just managed to avoid all the flying sheets apart from running over a few sheets that landed in front of me. The wind then stopped as I made my way to cross the Story Bridge. Then the wind came up again as I crossed the bridge. As the wide was blowing across the bridge, I had to straddle 2 lanes to have a bit of a safety area either side of me as the wind easily blew the bus up to 2 meters sideways as I kept correcting my course. By the time I reached the City terminus outside McArthur Chambers in Edward Street, All that could be heard was numerous fire alarms going off all over the place and never ending sirens from emergency vehicles.
On my return journey, all the streets around Bulimba were covered in vegetation, eg, leaves, fallen branches, tree limbs..
Was a very exciting morning !!!
misi
Growing Little Guru
Frightening...
I like to watch lightening when they are far but when they are near my place I would like to switch them off...
I like to watch lightening when they are far but when they are near my place I would like to switch them off...
foxidrive
Retired Admin
I also like storms, like misi - when they aren't category anything storms.
You had some scary driving there Guess... were there any passengers out at that time in the city?
You had some scary driving there Guess... were there any passengers out at that time in the city?
There are always passengers !! Some would still be waiting in the middle of a Cyclone if they could, and still complain if the bus was late.
And probably if you drove through water to pick them up they would complain that the seats were wet. 
There's no pleasing some people. Glad you survived the storm unscathed.
There's no pleasing some people. Glad you survived the storm unscathed.
foxidrive
Retired Admin
Wow! That's electrifying!
misi
Growing Little Guru
Some of them came from my wife's eyes.
Some of them came from my wife's eyes.
Are you sure they weren't daggers when you did or didn't do something like you were meant to ?
Did they complain about the drunken driver weaving all over the road?
foxidrive
Retired Admin
You'd have to be drunk to drive in the middle of a cyclone.
I have !
