D2000 Posted 20December, 2018 Report Share Posted 20December, 2018 Anyone cop any damage? Thankfully my 996 was safely tucked away in its garage. Our old Kluger copped some while being driven - although given the age and condition of the car may not be worth an insurance claim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeM Posted 21December, 2018 Report Share Posted 21December, 2018 Man that was wild from what I've seen online. Tom lost a windscreen on his 912 I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coastr Posted 21December, 2018 Report Share Posted 21December, 2018 Yikes summer in Oz is no joke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzieman Posted 21December, 2018 Report Share Posted 21December, 2018 4 hours ago, Coastr said: Yikes summer in Oz is no joke I was going to say it's fine in Tassy , but then I realised it's not really Oz The mainland is getting extreme events now and the gods must be angry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted 21December, 2018 Report Share Posted 21December, 2018 I was lucky just some small hail then very heavy rain for 20 minutes or so ....................some suburbs really got hammered hard with hail stones tennis ball size ,very high winds etc https://au.yahoo.com/news/massive-hailstones-pummel-cars-homes-severe-storms-lash-sydney-080602310.html 😨 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZ930 Posted 21December, 2018 Report Share Posted 21December, 2018 Up here, just north of Sydney according to the news, we had a brilliant display of mamatus cloud followed by a lighning show, winds up to 70knots (not km/hr) with horizontal rain. (12.5ml), visibility reduced to 20 metres. No hail, just branches. Aftermath was trees across the driveway, trees and branches down all over the block and fences crushed. No damaged to vehicles, no injuries, so all good. Just a lot of chainsawing and fence repairs. Update: just walked the boundary and the fences aren't as bad as first thought. Small (50mm) branches over one section, no breakage, the worst is a 300 mm white box branch near the bore that took out 6 sections of wire fence. Guess I know what I am doing today. Plenty of fire wood in the future. 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typ9xx Posted 21December, 2018 Report Share Posted 21December, 2018 Here's the sky at Chatswood just before it hit. No hail in the area, just a butt load of water and lighting...OMG the lightning! Love a good thundery (when you're on the ground ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeM Posted 21December, 2018 Report Share Posted 21December, 2018 13 minutes ago, Typ9xx said: Here's the sky at Chatswood just before it hit. No hail in the area, just a butt load of water and lighting...OMG the lightning! Love a good thundery (when you're on the ground ). That looks like a scene from the Independence Day movie 😳 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstone Posted 22December, 2018 Report Share Posted 22December, 2018 We will be experiencing a little turbulence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominicxu1 Posted 22December, 2018 Report Share Posted 22December, 2018 Stuck in traffic at Wooloomooloo on the way home from work, the F6 got pounded by hail, could only sit there and listen to it. Insurance claim lodged yesterday, I think I'll be waiting a while for any repairs. Dominic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edgy Posted 22December, 2018 Report Share Posted 22December, 2018 On 21/12/2018 at 18:49, tazzieman said: the gods must be angry. Or “The Gods Must Be Crazy” ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakroo Posted 22December, 2018 Report Share Posted 22December, 2018 We had a number of trees and branches down on our property. We lost power for about 24 hours. Our main fridge along with a TV and PVR died. No cars were injured. Relatively unscathed compared to the ridge to the east of us which is Dural, Glenorie and into the Sydney northwestern suburbs who copped it again from the prior weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZ930 Posted 22December, 2018 Report Share Posted 22December, 2018 Map of Lighning strikes from 5pm on 20/12/2018 plus 6 hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzieman Posted 23December, 2018 Report Share Posted 23December, 2018 14 hours ago, edgy said: Or “The Gods Must Be Crazy” ... crazy is angry's ugly cousin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzieman Posted 14March, 2019 Report Share Posted 14March, 2019 "Giant hailstones about to hit Sydney" You guys are really pissing the gods off! And Sydney was voted the 10th worst city in the world today. WTF? It used to be OK to visit, I spent many a tourist $ there in the past. Now , like the Gold Coast , we avoid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donR Posted 14March, 2019 Report Share Posted 14March, 2019 No hailstones in our area in Willoughby but a nice light and sound show! I took a look at flight radar last night and was amazed at the amount of flights doing circles in holding patterns and being diverted. No doubt some were running low on fuel by that time and took priority. Saw one plane from Canberra heading to Sydney flying around for about 2 hours then went straight back to Canberra. Noticed planes still landing near midnight to get through the back log past the curfew. Not a great afternoon/evening for travelers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tips Posted 15March, 2019 Report Share Posted 15March, 2019 My daughter works for a football club in Ryde and they got smashed with the hail and had lightening strike the pitch, fortunately they had moved inside. I have been trying to get a small parking ding in the door done by paintless dent guys as I prepare my Macan for sale. Of the very few that return a message or call the feedback is they are not taking on new work. Those that have shops as well as vans have taken the vans off the road and using the teams in the workshop to get through the volume of work. Looks like a lot of people/dealers still getting stuff sorted since December and last nights storm is not going to help the situation. Looks like I’ll be selling the car with a small ding in the door 😞 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeM Posted 15March, 2019 Report Share Posted 15March, 2019 From Tom's Instagram page 😳 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstone Posted 15March, 2019 Report Share Posted 15March, 2019 Looks like a glacier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edgy Posted 15March, 2019 Report Share Posted 15March, 2019 20 hours ago, tazzieman said: And Sydney was voted the 10th worst city in the world today. Good, I hope we get 1st place soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troubleshooter Posted 15March, 2019 Report Share Posted 15March, 2019 2 hours ago, LeeM said: From Tom's Instagram page 😳 Freakin amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzieman Posted 15March, 2019 Report Share Posted 15March, 2019 9 minutes ago, Troubleshooter said: Freakin amazing! pic from Nov 2015. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted 15March, 2019 Report Share Posted 15March, 2019 22 hours ago, tazzieman said: "Giant hailstones about to hit Sydney" You guys are really pissing the gods off! And Sydney was voted the 10th worst city in the world today. WTF? It used to be OK to visit, I spent many a tourist $ there in the past. Now , like the Gold Coast , we avoid. 10th worst city in the world ,,This certainly dose not surprise me Cost of living is just out of control ..city,s infrastructure and road net work are totally inadequate to cope with the city,s population ..All you do is pay pay and pay I had to drive to the north shore today and it cost me $41 dollars just in tolls ,,,,,,it really has gotten beyond a Joke when you have to pay that on top of rego CTP and your insurance just to move around the city Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzieman Posted 15March, 2019 Report Share Posted 15March, 2019 4 minutes ago, Raven said: I had to drive to the north shore today and it cost me $41 dollars just in tolls ,,,,,,it really has gotten beyond a Joke when you have to pay that on top of rego CTP and your insurance just to move around the city Move to Byron. But not to Hobart! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troubleshooter Posted 15March, 2019 Report Share Posted 15March, 2019 13 minutes ago, tazzieman said: pic from Nov 2015. Still freakin amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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