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Josh85
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... get wet today?
rofl.
We got hit fucken hard up where i work. I saw HELL in the form of clouds decending on us. We were moments away from getting caught in it before we finished.. as soon as we finished i jumped off the harvester (was already lightning busting out all over the place) and ran across the field like a motherfucker and towards the shed.. i could see the black clouds over my head overtaking me and racing across the sky.
Seconds later the world ended.
Good shit.
Nothing like standing in the shed and hearing what sounds like a big jet engine above your head, mixed up amongst the roaring of the hailstones.. and everyone looking at eachother like, "what the fucking crap is THAT sound? That can't be good". |
Rocker Kid
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 22 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm15/Sarah_Pantera/Fun… |
MontysDouble
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 22 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Yeah, I got a bit wet today... but it was hell worth it: awesome thunder storm.
We didn't get any hail, but hooboy did we get the rest.
I was unloading the Bentley truck about 4:00 when the prelude started: a few drops of rain and thick clouds rolling in. The driver had three incredibly poorly packed skids onboard, two of which had burst their shrink wrap and gone all over the place. While we were picking up several hundred kilos of of school circulars and slinging them into cages the clouds were just getting darker and darker. I was thinking oh fuck I hope they don't open up while I'm still tootling around on the fork. Fortunately, the storm held off.
Someone mentioned that the Northern suburbs were already getting hit, I said there's a mate of mine on a turf farm up that way who won't appreciate that one bit.
Forty minutes or so later, several lightning bolts heralded the rain. First rain we've had since, umm- August? September? Not sure but it was heavy. When the front proper rolled through, the wind went from moderate and gusty to gale force sideways rain style.
The clouds were so thick, the light had this weird greenish cast to it.
All the while there was lightning bolts every few seconds- easily the most intense storm I've seen in this respect which is cool because I love looking at lightning. The closest strike was about two or three hundred metres away, I was touching a metal door at the time and got a bit of a buzz from it.
Anyway, after a while the wind subsided and the rain slackened, which was good as I didn't get completely soaked going to the bus stop.
Which leads me to the FFFUUU part: I reach Wellington St bus terminal with ten minutes to spare for my bus, only to see about a hundred people standing at my stop. Half an hour and three no-show buses later, a 400 finally turns up and leaves packed to the gills. Ten minutes after that my 402 hauls off the rest of us.
What the hell happened to the three buses, plus I'm certain at least one more I didn't see not arrive? Breakdown, crash, stranded by flooding? Maybe a case of "screw you guys, I'm going home" from the drivers? FFFUUU... meh, whatever. At least I got a chance to catch up on my reading.
Lots of downed branches and mess around, and one fallen fence on a house near mine. Just heard that there was a mudslide on Mount Eliza, near Jacob's Ladder. Power went out for a couple of minutes at work, no big deal.
Wish I'd had my camera with me... could have taken some good footage. |
YMBOTS
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 22 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
lucky feckers |
MontysDouble
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 22 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
^^^ Err... kind of not YMBOTS.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...23/2853245.htm |
YMBOTS
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 22 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
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^^^ Err... kind of not YMBOTS.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...23/2853245.htm
Awww are you upset you have to spend money on a clean up??? It's a small price to pay for the best show on earth Monty...... |
MontysDouble
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 22 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
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Awww are you upset you have to spend money on a clean up??? It's a small price to pay for the best show on earth Monty......
Me, upset? Nope- why'd you assume that?
Agreed that it's a small price to pay for an awesome show. |
Rocker Kid
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 22 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Speaking fo the weather, it snowed here in Dallas yesterday. We got about 3 inches. It's crazy... Last week I almost got a sunburn and this week I almost got frost bite...
I think Mother Nature was bored doing Her spring cleaning and found some extra snow lying around in her garage and she said; "Now where could I put this snow where nobody would really expect it? Somewhere funny... Like Dallas! LOL!"
Today it's perfect and sunny, about 60(F) outside and there's not a single snowflake to be seen.
I looked up at the sky and was like; "What was with the snow yesterday Mother Nature?"
She was all like; "LOL! Wut?" |
MontysDouble
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 23 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Lots of mess around today- I also saw two downed trees on the way to work.
If I'm feeling motivated enough tomorrow, I'll go to King's Park and try and get some footage of the landslide.
FFS- on the news just now: Big Barney, our premier, has declared the city a natural disaster area. Riiight.
It wasn't that bad. http://smileydatabase.com/s/317.gif |
Josh85
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 23 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
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Lots of mess around today- I also saw two downed trees on the way to work.
If I'm feeling motivated enough tomorrow, I'll go to King's Park and try and get some footage of the landslide.
FFS- on the news just now: Big Barney, our premier, has declared the city a natural disaster area. Riiight.
It wasn't that bad. http://smileydatabase.com/s/317.gif
haha dude. Guess where I was working today???
KING'S PARK!!! hahaha. We had to dig out and lay 270 meters of super ultra heavy turf rolls. They called us to cancel the order coz the park was closed down coz it was like a warzone there.. but my boss was like, "Nah get fucked we've cut the turf, we need to lay it".. so we did.
Whole park was broken branches, fucked up trees, hundreds of thousands of leaves and twigs covering the ground.
Also there were shitloads of birds killed from hailstones.
We didn't get to see the landslide though but one park worker was telling me how this storm drain at the top of this hill burst from all the build up and he was driving his ute up and got hit by a 1 meter high wall of water coming down the hill lol.
Also I'm sorry to say my car got proper FUCKED up by hailstones.. windscreen/windows was ok.. but it's pockmarked like a motherfucker.
my brother was driving it across a bridge when the hailstones started. Had hailstones that were somewhere between the size of a golfball and a tennis ball smashing down where he was.. so my car looks worse for wear now.
We saw cars all over the city today with smashed windscreens and pockmarked to all hell.
My boss's wife's dad's car got hell fucked up too. SMashed headlights, tail-lights, hell fucked up.
definately good to have some rain but goddaaaamn.
Edit: I posted this post before my previous post... but once again.. the time travelling gnome has fucked with the post order. |
Josh85
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 23 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
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Lots of mess around today- I also saw two downed trees on the way to work.
If I'm feeling motivated enough tomorrow, I'll go to King's Park and try and get some footage of the landslide.
FFS- on the news just now: Big Barney, our premier, has declared the city a natural disaster area. Riiight.
It wasn't that bad. http://smileydatabase.com/s/317.gif
It was a huge storm. I wouldn't have called it a natural disaster. I mean.. a few people have got to die at least for that shit. |
MontysDouble
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 23 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Yeah, I saw a couple of cars with dimpled bonnets today. I wonder if they'll get better fuel economy because of the golf ball effect? Mythbusters tried that out by covering a car with clay and then dimpling the clay, and they bloody confirmed it: Myth becomes fact!
I can just imagine the mess King's Park was in today. I'm gonna check it out tomorrow morning.
Oy, Necromech: anything interesting happen down Fremantle way? |
Josh85
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 23 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
There was still some fucken hot chickies struttin' around with their tight asses and their titties pokin' out.
They must love the attention from the workers. Some of them were doing laps around us today.. back and forth.. back and forth.
Secretly they must fantasize about getting ravaged by me. |
MontysDouble
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 23 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
^^^ Good luck with that Josh.
Holy guacamole... check this shit out:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/03/23/2854193.htm |
Josh85
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 23 Mar 2010, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Haha.. stupid university got fucked up.
Serves them right for thinking they're so smart. |
MontysDouble
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Haha.. stupid university got fucked up.
Serves them right for thinking they're so smart.
"If you're so smart why ain't you rich?"
Oh, wait- you are.
Rod Eddington -a UWA graduate- was CEO of British Airways, Ansett and is currently a News Corp. director. Oh, he's also played for Australia.
Aaaand down it comes!
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Zippozeppo/20100513…
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR123.loop.shtml#skip
Rain and lightning with apocalyptic intensity. I should probably go to battery, unplug my modem and leech off my neighbours unsecured wireless, but what the hell- I like living on the edge. |
MontysDouble
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Bugger, blast and damn.
This would have to happen on a Thursday, the one day of the week where I simply can't leave before at least 5:20.
This means that I have to cycle, or wait until 5:45 for my first bus, which doesn't make the connection to the 6:24 402 from Wellington St terminal.
I'll probably bus it anyway, looks like the rain could settle in for an all day session, so I'll be home late tomorrow.
Oh well, at least that'll give me some reading time. I bought three books yesterday, two of which are weighty tomes by Peter F. Hamilton, and I'm still only halfway through Blue Mars which I've been not reading for four months. So little time, so little time... damn you Internet! Damn you to hell! |
MontysDouble
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http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Zippozeppo/20100513…
Yep, definitely taking the bus today.
Ipod's all charged, book's ready to go and in another ten minutes I'll S, S & S; dress then I'm outta here. |
Josh85
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lol i slept through all the thunder an lightnin' up this way.
Also slept in and woke up 5 mins after i was supposed to start work.
Had a pretty decent day though. Didn't get too wet.
Spent like half the day stuck in traffic on the freeway |
MontysDouble
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We didn't have any rain at all at work, although I checked the weather RADAR and there were bits and pieces about.
Traffic was murder for me too: The bus took about twenty minutes to go from Scarborough Beach Rd to Vincent St; Loftus St was a three kilometre parking lot. |
