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Hmm... it's all relative, I guess. 40 degrees is much cooler than 47, is it not?
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Not too happy about the approaching bad weather- my daughter has got her 2nd ever driving lesson after school.
If she goes well today she will pass the rest easy
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She's already sent me a text to ask if it's still on. My reply was "Yes, it's still on. The storm will have passed by then. Don't worry."
I just hope she doesn't have time to check the radar
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Not too happy about the approaching bad weather- my daughter has got her 2nd ever driving lesson after school.
My youngest daughter was having a driving lesson and on Thomas Road near Kings Park on the day of "that" hail storm.
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Ouch!!
She survived it ok, I gather??
That day was really weird. It was sunny here and I drove my son to footy training. We could see the huge storm front coming in but I could not believe it would turn out like it did.
I got a call later that evening asking if my car dealer in Osborne Park could postpone my car service, which was to be the following day. He said all their windows had been smashed and their cars all damaged.
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She was a total wreck by the time she got home because of course it was also peak hour traffic and flash flooding occurred in quite a few spots along there. I'm not going to lie, I felt physically sick knowing she was out there in it.
Hail was using the grooves of the tin roof of the shed next door to continually slam into our concertina doors - it was like a machine gun affect. How those windows didn't crack is beyond me. We also had water pouring through 2 bedroom windows, lounge room and kitchen - didn't have enough towels to stay on top of it. One of the weirdest days ever
Hail was using the grooves of the tin roof of the shed next door to continually slam into our concertina doors - it was like a machine gun affect. How those windows didn't crack is beyond me. We also had water pouring through 2 bedroom windows, lounge room and kitchen - didn't have enough towels to stay on top of it. One of the weirdest days ever
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Almost 20,000 posts already Teriyakicat.
SHIT!
SHIT!
View of the Northcliffe fire yesterday
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Well, I hope that more than half of them weren't that
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Poor kid- and poor you
You just have to trust that the driving instructor's instincts of self-preservation kick in- there should be no way they would endanger their own lives nor, by extension, that of our kids, just to give them a driving lesson.
Apparently most houses in Perth (maybe elsewhere as well- but I don't know about that) don't have enough downpipes. Obviously that would be a once in generation storm and, as such, is something that most houses aren't built to withstand, but we've had to put in extra gutter drainage in all of the houses we've lived in because of the water coming back in under the eaves and running down the wall inside bedrooms and lounge room, etc. Perth receives about 850mm of rain per year- and a lot of that rain falls in quite a short period of time. Most of the guttering in modern houses just isn't built to carry that amount of water. I see that there are slotted gutters being added to houses nowadays- hopefully that alleviates the problem.
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View of the Northcliffe fire yesterday
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SHIT!
Hope everyone there managed to survive.
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Well, I hope that more than half of them weren't that
Shit (said with positive enthusiasm.)
Back to the fires.
Where you live, were you in any danger?
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Not me. I'm south of Perth but still metropolitan area.
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View of the Northcliffe fire yesterday
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That would of been a very scary site. With everything being so unpredictable you would even be second guessing yourself about it being safe to leave. Aside from the smoke, the heat must be intense
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Aren't they on and off like that till Wednesday
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Yeah your right. The radio was hyping this storm front up all afternoon. There was a 10 mins heavy shower (cockburn) and then nothing.
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It poured and poured last night- seemingly for hours. Looked in the rain gauge this morning... a measly 6mm.
This afternoon there was a brief but heavy period of rain... 7mm in the gauge
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Clothes on the line left overnight due to being out on Sunday and all day work today FML.
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Thats rough. That is rough
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Hahaha!
I put out 2 loads on Sat night just after dark and brought it in an hour later... Still haven't folded it up, though...
Frightening!!!
The whole town of Northcliffe is under full evacuation so the town could be wiped of the map before interstate help gets here.
@abcsouthwestwa 10m10 minutes ago
RT @abcnewsPerth: #BREAKING: WA town of Northcliffe 'undefendable' from #bushfire , authorities urging residents to leave now @ABCemergency
@abcnewsPerth 5m5 minutes ago
Wind change pushing #bushfire towards #Northcliffe , residents told leave now, it's not safe to stay and defend http://ab.co/162bjid
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Saw some woman on the bus in Canning Vale carry an infant, no pram or anything just bringing it on and off the bus by hand, the odd stuff you see about from the occassional low socioeconomics that are about the middle socioeconomic parts of Perth.
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