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06-03-2010, 09:54 PM
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Well here in Adelaide about 7 pm tonight your cabbage patchers time (VIC)
We copped a 5 min heavy down pour as Darwin has,All my gutters (spouting for you cabbage patchers) were pi55ing over,road was awash... But I feel for all the poor hippies at the Womadelaide and the Fringe Festival,all held in the parklands,and all the grass is dead cos of the drought... So it will be Woodstock all over...  vik...Pigs in mud... |
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06-03-2010, 09:55 PM
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06-03-2010, 09:57 PM
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Didnt get any Hail in Roxburgh Park, but it flooded out the front of my house. The water was about knee deep at the worst of it. Left debrie everywhere
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06-03-2010, 10:43 PM
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i raced home got the washing off the line and as i got in it started to spit then hail, i quickly ran out and put a blanket over the missus car and copped a few bits of hail and then remembered about my gutters... my front yard was flodded, so was my back yard and well the zb was in the shed thankfully and the ute is locked up down at DW...
poor hilux didnt even get thought about through all that...
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06-03-2010, 10:53 PM
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playing in my big shed
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you copped a bit bit of a beating down there by the looks of it guys.
did the hail hit the Cranbourne area do you know ?? i have friends that have just moved there this week.
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06-03-2010, 10:59 PM
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So far at work, we're about $1,000,000 + in damages from the hail. The IT room roof collapsed and killed all our servers and thats about $1,000,000 there just alone. Severe water damage on multiple floors, at one stage on level 2, there was a geyser coming out of the carpet spewing water and ice about 1 meter high. A lot of TVs bit the dust too.
Also the channel 7 truck got a direct hit by lightning, everyone inside it was fine luckily but all their equipment is fried, which is some big $$$. Also a small fire started nearby. |
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06-03-2010, 11:00 PM
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I was driving along Plenty road, Preston at the time of the storm. Very heavy rain, and a bit of hail as well. Not bad like others have posted, but you still wouldn't want to leave your car uncovered in that weather.
After getting home (I just avoided a supermarket trolley had overturned and blocked half the road) I parked under a tree, and ran inside. I've just taken a look at the car; thus far, I can't see any damage. I'll do a final check tomorrow to see if I've missed any damage. |
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06-03-2010, 11:00 PM
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Wonder how Knox Ford went or the other cars yards
in ferntree gully
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06-03-2010, 11:19 PM
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06-03-2010, 11:24 PM
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my boss just called me and wanted to know what the damage was at our nearly finished building... all i could reply was well the building has a few leaks... and i dont think we will be putting ashphelt on the drive way on wed.... im guessing half of it is in the basement
just seen pics of some mates familys cars and there are holes in pannels sunroofs and windows.... wonder how prompt the insurance companys will be?
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06-03-2010, 11:27 PM
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playing in my big shed
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gotta get the priority right.
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07-03-2010, 12:53 AM
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Hmm Project XW VAN !!!!
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He sent me the pic... I had a chuckle at that one...
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07-03-2010, 01:09 AM
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Yeah we got smashed in Rowville... 5 windows shattered at home and my G/F's mazda 3 is a write off (see pic).
I saw what was coming and dived into a petrol station to get out of it so the ute, my G/F and I are all fine.... but I did manage to get some footage in the middle of it and it was truly amazing.... closest thing to a hurricane I reckon I'm likely to see in VIC. The jolts to the camera after the one minute mark are the car shaking not the camera! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KikBdMRzYEI Last edited by xdc351; 07-03-2010 at 01:15 AM. |
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07-03-2010, 01:14 AM
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Knox City was flooded out in several palces. Lucky both the missus and I had parked our cars under cover there.....usualy don't
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07-03-2010, 01:36 AM
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I feel dirty for asking, but..
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07-03-2010, 01:41 AM
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In a Ford..at last!
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Wow I actually missed a lot of the crazy weather, I only faced driving to the city area and just saw lots of leaves on cars and just flooding. Glad I didn't have to face those massive hail stones.
Are there meant to be any more coming? |
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07-03-2010, 01:43 AM
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quite a few guys on ls1 have had cars fully pelted, some likely write-offs. One guy had his home windows broken plus 3 cars all parked outside.
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07-03-2010, 04:10 AM
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I had a couple of my cars severley damaged, my GU is a write off, delivery ute has repairable damage, they were insured but the race car was also damaged and my sons EL XR6 is trashed , they were not insured. house & work got a beating too, my house in lysterfield looks like a war zone. be close to $100k damage lucky most is insured |
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07-03-2010, 09:39 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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I’ll take back what I said about our AU not being damaged. The roof is covered with small dents and there’s quite a few on the bonnet. My BA only has one small dent on the front of the bonnet which I should be able to rub out with the screw driver handle, hopefully.
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07-03-2010, 10:13 AM
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From Ls1, Ive never seen hailstones that big:
 
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07-03-2010, 10:18 AM
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just looked at my hilux every panel has copped dints guttered i only have 3rd party. looks like i will be keeping it for a long time now...
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07-03-2010, 10:18 AM
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Holy crap! That's nasty! Looks like it was as bad as the hailstorm in Sydney in 1999. I remember that one as my step brothers car was rooted (luckily only a sh!tbox) and he copped a few on scone as big as the one in the pic above. I really feel for those of you that have had your cars/homes damaged.
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07-03-2010, 10:26 AM
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FAR OUT. Ok what I saw on Lygon was nothing like that. Ive got another vid that shows an impressive amount of rain..ill upload it later.
Feel for those who got hit, glad I couldn't find a park on the street! something the vid will show is how dark it got, honestly its like the sun disappeared. The restaurant turned there outside lights on before it got nasty.
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07-03-2010, 10:42 AM
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07-03-2010, 10:46 AM
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Some great footage of Flinders Street!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaioG...eature=related And Elizabeth Street OMFG! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acJOJ...eature=related Elizabeth Street again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZOhcF3Nvus A the hits keep comin' (Elizabeth Street *again*) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0BwV...eature=related
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07-03-2010, 10:51 AM
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Sorry to see the damage on all your cars
i hope that insurance co's get this all sorted out asap Falcon Coupe that vid is insane I am so glad that it didnt hit us here in geelong Jason
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07-03-2010, 11:02 AM
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geez thats bad.. i hope you guys are all ok.. we had this in sydney many years ago a a certain suburb and it was kaos..
did it come on gradually or did it just come on?? hopefully you're all covered and everything gets repaired.. |
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07-03-2010, 11:02 AM
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I'm sure the insurance companies will be extremely overwhelmed with all this so you can't really expect them to sort it out too quickly.
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07-03-2010, 12:18 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7_hzJlh_M0
Thats at work yesterday. Heres the betting ring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKZCCJGhwns Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 07-03-2010 at 12:27 PM. |
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07-03-2010, 01:15 PM
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Thankfully here in Frankston we didn't really cop it too badly. I feel for anyone who had their property damaged...my poor mum cops the double whammy as not only does she live in Chapel St, where there was some serious flooding, but she works for AAMI as well and is sooo not looking forward to going to work today.
As much as everyone thinks that their own repairs and claims take priority, please inderstand that that the staff will be under the hammer and doing everything they can to get claims sorted quickly.
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