Storm by onewing

Storm

I am a bit late posting pictures because we haven't had any power for the last 24 hours. (Only just got it back about half an hour ago)

16 March at about 3 pm a massive storm hit Port Stephens. This is the view from our family room. You can't hear the noise of the wind but it was so loud. The storm lasted about 20 minutes and the damage it caused was horrendous. The SES are still out there working non stop to clear up the damage.

We were lucky and only lost two large branches from a couple of our trees.

I will post a Port Stephens photo in my topics album later, although this could be Port Stephens couldn't it!!

Today's Port Stephens photo http://365project.org/onewing/topics/2014-03-16
Hope everyone is alright. Look at all the rain & water.
March 17th, 2014  
Wow, that is bucketing down Babs. Glad you & yours were all ok.
March 17th, 2014  
wow! glad you are ok - I will have to check my comp I have friends who live up that way
March 17th, 2014  
@leestevo Mainly damage caused by trees down I believe.
March 17th, 2014  
@net The only damage we got was a couple of large brances fallen off some of our trees.
March 17th, 2014  
@annied The storm went through so quick, but the damage is huge. SES etc have been out all day. Where does your friend live?
March 17th, 2014  
@onewing Anna Bay on Birubi Beach
March 17th, 2014  
Wow, that looks incredibly wet, no doubt a little scary as well,glad you did not sustain too much damage :-)
March 17th, 2014  
@annied Not sure how Anna Bay fared. We are at Corlette and that got hit and Nelson Bay and Little Beach I believe got a bit of a hammering too. Our power was off from 3 pm yesterday to 4 pm today. The picture on the 17th will tell you why!!
I love Birubi Beach.
March 17th, 2014  
@hermann We were okay, lost a couple of branches off trees, but that was all. David went to Soldiers Point just before the storm and because it was so hot he had the windows open. At Soldiers Point he remembered to close the drivers side window but forgot the passenger side and when the horizontal rain hit he got one pretty soggy car!!!
March 17th, 2014  
@hermann Thanks Sally. We have dried out now.
March 17th, 2014  
Wow, that weather looks crazy. I'm glad you got through it with minimal damage.
March 17th, 2014  
Glad your okay... that looks like a lot of rain!!
March 17th, 2014  
Boo
usch..stay dry
March 17th, 2014  
Poor you Babs....looks a wild & windy one! Hard without power.......hope you had something to boil a kettle on!
March 17th, 2014  
Wow! Very scary!
March 17th, 2014  
24 hours without hydro isn't much fun. Very expressive pic. Glad all are ok.
March 17th, 2014  
@karlow75 @lafish @huvesaker @happypat @jennyheath @kathiecb Thanks everyone. It only lasted about 15 minutes and an hour later the skies were blue again and it was very warm and humid.
Yes Pat we have something to boil a kettle on (can't live without my cup of tea). We have gas burners and a barbeque, plus candles, LED lights and gas lamps, so quite self sufficient. Isn't it aqmazing though how you can be walking through the darkness holding a candle and when you get to the room you are aiming for you try to turn the light on!!! ha ha.
March 17th, 2014  
Must have been quite some storm! We were under one of those small but intense storm cells a week or two ago and got 25mm rain in 20 minutes - no rain at all at places 1 km from here. No big damage here, but the gutters were like Niagara Falls.
March 17th, 2014  
Whoa.....looks a bit scary!! Wild! Great capture!
March 18th, 2014  
@golftragic we got about 22 mm rain in 15 minutes too. Quite a lot of damage due to trees down and they are still clearing up.
March 18th, 2014  
@eyesmile It was pretty wild. They are still clearing up
March 18th, 2014  
@onewing Did your roof cope OK? We were a bit anxious for a while, but all well in the end.
March 18th, 2014  
@golftragic yes the roof was fine. David checked it yesterday. A frirnd lost a few tiles though and another ended up with a pole from a small catamaran pierced through their roof. Another pal lost s fence.
March 18th, 2014  
Mmm that does look very stormy indeed, do you have water butts to collect rainwater for the garden, if so they must be full now?
March 18th, 2014  
@paulaw No we don't have water butts on our property we avoid anything that attracts mozzies! They reckoned that the storm only lasted about 20 minutes and was bigger than a tornado and smaller than a cyclone so somewhere in between. It caused such a lot of damage though. SES and other emergency workers are still clearing up the damage mainly caused by falling trees
March 18th, 2014  
Wow! You are getting all the rain that threatens us here!
March 19th, 2014  
That looks like a massive downpour! You've really captured the essence of it. Hope all is ok with you.
March 21st, 2014  
Wow that looks like some storm Babs, we were on the Central Coast on Sunday out walking when it came down but were lucky enough to be sat in a cafe.
March 22nd, 2014  
You moved to Oz for the sunshine then?!!!
March 31st, 2014  
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