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Some day, wasn't it? Ventured out at 2.30 into the dust storm, trees
down, power down, everything that depended on them well and truly out. No traffic lights, no trains. Bought a lamb roast from local Safeway, running emergency spots and cash registers on generator, which ran out of fuel as I left. Power failed at home shortly after return. Certainly a bad day to be on the roads, but a bad day for pretty well anything. Everyone now share your Melbourne hurricane stories, sure as hell impressed me. Cheers, Ray |
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On 2008-04-02, ray (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: Some day, wasn't it? Ventured out at 2.30 into the dust storm, trees down, power down, everything that depended on them well and truly out. No traffic lights, no trains. I was wondering what all the fuss was. Swinburne closed all classes after a tree fell on a building and rubble was flying around, and emergency services told all people in the university to stay inside, and yet, I look at the BoM website which said Melbourne was only gusting to 45km/h. We had 45km/h winds at work in NSW, and there was nothing flying around. Then I realise it's 100km/h at the airport. -- TimC Probably best see a real doctor and not take too much diagnostic advice from a bunch of sysadmins who consider the body a meat computer that needs debugging. -- Anthony de Boer on possible nerve damage in ASR |
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"TimC" wrote in message
... On 2008-04-02, ray (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: Some day, wasn't it? Ventured out at 2.30 into the dust storm, trees down, power down, everything that depended on them well and truly out. No traffic lights, no trains. I was wondering what all the fuss was. Swinburne closed all classes after a tree fell on a building and rubble was flying around, and emergency services told all people in the university to stay inside, and yet, I look at the BoM website which said Melbourne was only gusting to 45km/h. We had 45km/h winds at work in NSW, and there was nothing flying around. Then I realise it's 100km/h at the airport. -- I left work at a bit after 5pm on the fixie and it was absolutely bucketing down with rain and it was coming in pretty well sideways due to the wind!!! It was really gusty and there were plenty of wind squalls happening along the wet road surface. I caught up to another rider along Wellington St and when I got to within about 10m or so I was wondering what the hell he was doing suddenly swerving right in close to the gutter......the next thing I know I reach the same spot and a massive cross wind puts me in the gutter too!!! As I reached the pub on the corner of Wellington and Alexander I ran over something sharp and my back wheel deflated in a couple of seconds. Ended up with about a 2cm or so cut in the tyre and so I decided to glue a patch on the inside of the tyre before putting in a new tube. I have got a bit of rag in my spares bag and so I was doubled over to keep the rain off the tyre and then I dried it off, roughed it up, and applied one of the oversized patches that I carry for just such a situation. I got the new tube in and managed to make it home without any further issues (apart from getting soaked!!!). I got home to discover that a massive branch had fallen from our gum tree out the front - it was about as round as my thigh where it broke and probably 6m or so long. The tips of the leaves look like they just brushed the gutter above our front porch on the way down so I guess we were pretty lucky in that regard as no damage was done. Where it broke is still hanging where it split and so I am making sure that the kids stay clear until it gets cleared away. I rode the SS in today along the Yarra Trail and got to dodge lots of fallen branches all the way in and all the way home. Gotta love that Melbourne weather!! Gags |
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Gags wrote:
Gotta love that Melbourne weather!! Gags Yer...it was a bit warm for a waterproof jacket, and I didn't think it was going to rain anyway so I rode (a motorbicycle) to work in a mesh jacket On the way home; It rained It blew I got wet |
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