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General Discussion => Incident Operations => Topic started by: Robert-Robert34 on May 16, 2007, 07:54:09 PM

Title: SA Severe Storms 15/05/2007-16/05/2007
Post by: Robert-Robert34 on May 16, 2007, 07:54:09 PM

:-o Wow what an explosive 2 nights of thunderstorms we had over South Australia thankfully it was a quiet tuesday night in Region 5 with only a couple of calls related to the storm itself

How did all of you guys in the Adelaide & surrounding areas fair  :wink:

Title: Re: SA Severe Storms 15/05/2007-16/05/2007
Post by: probie_boy on May 16, 2007, 08:16:55 PM

Quote from: Robert34 on May 16, 2007, 07:54:09 PM

:-o Wow what an explosive 2 nights of thunderstorms we had over South Australia thankfully it was a quiet tuesday night in Region 5 with only a couple of calls related to the storm itself

How did all of you guys in the Adelaide & surrounding areas fair  :wink:

a big bunch of not much happened up here robbo.

had a pretty nice downpour moinday night for about an hour, and i could see but not hear thunderstorms monday and tuesday night. that was about it.

Title: Re: SA Severe Storms 15/05/2007-16/05/2007
Post by: Robert-Robert34 on May 16, 2007, 08:27:20 PM

The power went off here in Kalangadoo twice for a few seconds last night the thunder was amazing as well  :-)

Title: Re: SA Severe Storms 15/05/2007-16/05/2007
Post by: bittenyakka on May 16, 2007, 09:04:28 PM

I could see lightning flashes in the distance but no thunder

Title: Re: SA Severe Storms 15/05/2007-16/05/2007
Post by: 24P on May 16, 2007, 09:28:30 PM

Copped a bit in the early hours of tuesday morning, not much rain but a thunder rumble that seems to go on forever.

Title: Re: SA Severe Storms 15/05/2007-16/05/2007
Post by: Firefrog on May 16, 2007, 10:14:30 PM

We had lighting striking the ground all around us. Loudest thing I've ever heard..... :-o :-o

Title: Re: SA Severe Storms 15/05/2007-16/05/2007
Post by: Robert-Robert34 on May 16, 2007, 10:28:55 PM

Win news said nothing about any severe storms last night but this was before i got the mail drop on my pager :-o but still i knew it was coming by looking at the clouds coming over Kalangadoo very slowly     

Title: Re: SA Severe Storms 15/05/2007-16/05/2007
Post by: fireblade on May 17, 2007, 12:15:27 AM

Well it shook the living hell out of my house and the dog was hiding under the bed! Not to much rain not fond of helping the SES boys do storm damage and sand bagging they can keep it! Even at those jobs when your the OIC you cant hide from the march of the sand bags!

Title: Re: SA Severe Storms 15/05/2007-16/05/2007
Post by: bajdas on May 17, 2007, 09:01:58 AM

SES SCC went active during the night as a precaution.

Advertiser newspaper reported two cars swept away near Cleve. Only 10mm in Adelaide.

It would seem that majority of the storm affected Eyre Peninsula before slipping south to the Limestone Coast area.

I could not attend the callout, so do not know any detail.

Title: Re: SA Severe Storms 15/05/2007-16/05/2007
Post by: Robert-Robert34 on May 17, 2007, 03:17:14 PM

It looks like the Limestone Coast is in for another hiding tonight  :-o :-o only this time with high winds and flash flooding  :-o

Title: Re: SA Severe Storms 15/05/2007-16/05/2007
Post by: Alan (Big Al) on May 17, 2007, 03:55:58 PM

Got flash blinded and nearly crashed my car on the way home from training on Monday night when a bolt struck a couple hundred metres in front of me, and as for my dog well i've never seen a 50kg labrador shake so much in my life :lol:

Title: Re: SA Severe Storms 15/05/2007-16/05/2007
Post by: Robert-Robert34 on May 17, 2007, 04:02:47 PM

Better batten down the hatches tonight cause it looks like as JR on WWE Raw says a 'Slobber Knocker' of a storm  :-D