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Saturday
superstorm
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17-Nov-12 |
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From: Garrett
Russell
Date:
Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Subject:
Saturday
Gliding Ops Cancelled
To:
members@glidingcaboolture.org.au |
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| Heavy
weather approaching the airfield, duty crew hurrying home
and gliding operations are cancelled |
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From: Peter
Stephenson
Date: 17
November 2012 10:04:16 AEST
To: Garrett
Russell
Subject: Sunday
Flying ON! |
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| I
cannot change the roster as I am sitting in a tent at the
Atkinson dam and there is a storm threatening to blow us
away!!! |
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From: Peter
Stephenson
Date:
Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Subject:
Sunday
Flying ON!
To:
members@glidingcaboolture.org.au |
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The storm
has passed. One side of the tent collapsed but we are
still dry :-) fortunately we were only on the edge of the
storm! |
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From: Peter
Stephenson
Date:
Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:38 AM
Subject:
Good luck Brisbane residents!
To:
members@glidingcaboolture.org.au |
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And
at around 11:00 am the super-storm reached the centre of
Brisbane ... wild weather ripped through the city with
more than 4,000 lightning strikes in under an hour ... the
damaging storm turned "day into night'' as lightning
and winds brought down powerlines and left more than 6,000
homes and businesses without electricity ...
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| Kelvin
Grove markets were completely destroyed. |
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| Flooding
at Bowen Hills. |
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| Lightning
over the CBD. |
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| Tree
down at New Farm. |
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| Tree
down at Bowen Hills. |
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| A
large tree was pulled down by wind gusts at Bowen Hills. |
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| Lightning
strikes during the storm. |
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| Lightning
trikes create a strange sight over Wynnum West. |
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Ironically,
today was the fourth anniversary of newspapers reporting
what they described as "one of Brisbane's worst
storms in decades". That storm (16-Nov-08)
resulted in the north-west of Brisbane being the worst hit
area, with branches and debris damaging scores of houses
and putting the Ferny Grove train line out of action (The
Gap and Ashgrove suffered the centre of the storm) .... |
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Storm-battered ... The Gap was one of the worst-hit areas
(16-Nov-08). |
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