I was crossing this bridge 36hours before!Call it bad luck or just a coincidink, but I, or mother Earth anywho, have managed to cost pop and prob Lindsay's pop for that mater some more money!
If you haven't heard. Brisbane has been getting hit with the worst storms since the 80's. There are a couple shots including one of Redcliff where I was on saturday, the day before the knarly storms started. Crazy waves of thunder storms and the skies opening up and dumping more water than any of the drought affected areas could handle. Queensland was in a huge drought problem before sunday. The government launched a pretty controversial water recycling problem which would recycle water from piss and poop and put it back into the water reservoirs. MMMM....
But now the program is being re thought because the dams went from being bellow 30% to nearly 100% in the last 4 days! Some areas have received well over 300mm of rain the last 4 days and most of that volume coming in short burst in the evenings. As much as 210mm hitting Ipsisch last night (30 minutes south). Tonight will only bring more, as the first squall has already come through. Rain going sideways so fast it looks like a snow storm. Mt Coot Tha, which normally stands tall to our west was completly erased as this fast cloud made it's way through tonight. The clouds glowed purple and red every few seconds and the rumble was loud and deep.
The Sunday brought a color in the sky I have never seen before. Best described by a forest green as the sun was being bullied down by the emerging clouds. Anywho, the destruction around has been pretty big. The hardest hit being a suburb called The Gap, a mere 30 minute bike ride to the north. Insurance claims are around 100million as of today but are expected to reach 2-250.
Bermuda's got hurricanes
Canada Snow Storms
Ozzie's got storms of lightning bolts hunting people down from the skies! I thought the maggies were bad!
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