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bonners
13-10-2011, 05:00 PM
Here's some pics taken this afternoon at our place. It would have hailed for nearly 20 mins nonstop.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/ZC_74/Storm%2013%20Oct%202011/IMG_4716.jpg

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/ZC_74/Storm%2013%20Oct%202011/IMG_4726.jpg

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http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/ZC_74/Storm%2013%20Oct%202011/IMG_4733.jpg

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jaykay
13-10-2011, 05:07 PM
Tropical QLD hey :hmmm:

hope the car was out of it !!!
Derek ve ss
13-10-2011, 05:09 PM
you should be able to ice skate in the new pool Adam. No damage I hope.
11SLI
13-10-2011, 05:18 PM
Thats not a bad storm...
The one we copped at Loganholme (at xmas) was more damaging then this!

Storm coming
Loganholme storm - YouTube

Storm starting
Loganholme storm 1 - YouTube

Storm here
Loganholme storm - YouTube

Storm still here
Loganholme storm - YouTube
bouka
13-10-2011, 05:27 PM
Wow!

You guys have a couple of days of this according to weather channel.

I would be keeping the car(s) under cover.
bonners
13-10-2011, 05:28 PM
Never said it was damaging....

We actually began filling our pool today.... Was going well.... Now it looks like this...

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/ZC_74/Storm%2013%20Oct%202011/2a586f98.jpg

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/ZC_74/Storm%2013%20Oct%202011/82193a99.jpg
rone61
13-10-2011, 05:33 PM
It was fun driving on the Logan Motorway this afternoon a few minutes after the storm hit, it was just like driving up to Falls Creek a few years ago.
11SLI
13-10-2011, 05:47 PM
dont you have to get the fire department to come fill pool these days?
Thats what ive been told for a number of years now?
AndrewMSS
13-10-2011, 06:16 PM
Nice paving around the pool mate. What finish is the pool - is that Quartzon?
bonners
13-10-2011, 06:20 PM
dont you have to get the fire department to come fill pool these days?
Thats what ive been told for a number of years now?

Nope, town water. Should cost me about $90 on the rates. During the drought, water tankers used to be the only way you could do it. Perhaps you are thinking of that


Nice paving around the pool mate. What finish is the pool - is that Quartzon?

Cheers, yeah the have done some great workmanship. Paving and coping is a sandstone and the pebblecrete is called salt and pepper with small black and white pebbles. I wanted the pebblecrete that makes the water go a very deep dark blue but it was a couple of extra grand.
afmss
13-10-2011, 06:33 PM
what area was the hail ??any car damage
bonners
14-10-2011, 11:13 AM
It was Parkinson mate. According to the news it happened in a 500m zone of the suburb.....

It's now 11am here, and we still have piles of hail frozen solid....

Our part of Parkinson is like a war zone at present. Trees down, parts of houses destroyed. Plants are just shredded...We even had a copper turn up last night door knocking about a little boy. Hope he's alright

No major damage I've seen but I have never seen a storm drop so much hail
Derek ve ss
14-10-2011, 11:27 AM
hey Adam , nice trailer mate....
Mungrel
14-10-2011, 11:49 AM
Wow glad we didnt cop that at my place,
I was driving down the motorway past the airport yesterday just after 5 and visibility went from about 10ft in front of the bonnet, to not being able to see the bonnet.

Wasn't a fun time to be driving!

Hope you didn't sustain any damage.
OMR346
15-10-2011, 08:10 PM
It was more the a 500m zone from Parkinson. I was at work at Larapinta and it was bad there as well. Not quite as bad as you copped it, but he still had shit loads of hail, very strong winds, and a shit load of rain. I was on the balcony having lunch at the time it hit and it was pretty nasty.

Then the drive home down Johnson Rd. It took over an hour to get from Paradise Rd to Hillcrest. That was because of the guy that died when the tree fell on his car while pulled over during the storm.
Mungrel
16-10-2011, 07:35 AM
We had hale at Capalaba yesterday avo. Only lasted a few minutes and it looked much smaller than what you guys seemed to have the other day.
The ute was in the shed safely, the good ol Jackaroo had to stay out and brave it though.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k188/fpv_eta/Hail1.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k188/fpv_eta/Hail2.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k188/fpv_eta/Hail3.jpg
AussieTone
16-10-2011, 08:03 AM
It was Parkinson mate. According to the news it happened in a 500m zone of the suburb.....

It's now 11am here, and we still have piles of hail frozen solid....

Our part of Parkinson is like a war zone at present. Trees down, parts of houses destroyed. Plants are just shredded...We even had a copper turn up last night door knocking about a little boy. Hope he's alright

No major damage I've seen but I have never seen a storm drop so much hail
.......and yet we are just across the highway from you and didn't even get one lump of hail just heaps of rain. The pool was down about 4" and was full in less than 20 minutes.

Gotta feel sorry for the guy who pulled off the road and sheltered under a large tree to avoid the hail only to have the tree come down across his car and kill him.
OMR346
16-10-2011, 02:55 PM
Gotta feel sorry for the guy who pulled off the road and sheltered under a large tree to avoid the hail only to have the tree come down across his car and kill him.

It was pretty nasty. I went thru there at about 7 (took over an hour to get from Paradise Rd lights to where it was, just before the bridge where the interstate rail goes under Johnson Rd) and the car was still there, with emergency services still cleaning up. The car wsa crushed pretty bad, and the tree had been cut up and pulled to the side. The tree is still laying on the side of the road now. It was a pretty dam big tree.

Johnson Rd looked like a war zone, with trees down every where and leaves and small branches covering the road for a few KM's.

One of the blokes at work was telling me about a street in Hillcrest where a few houses lost there roofs.
bonners
16-10-2011, 03:00 PM
We've had a few neighbors have their ceilings collapse as the roof cavity filled with water