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Fine here now (35 km east of the CBD), though a bit further out there's been a major power outage with a tree fall taking out a pole cross bar as well as the usual cable damage, and it's a longish repair going on. I gather that the Princes Freeway has been cut (about half way from the CBD to Skippy town), as well as the Tullamarine Freeway.

It was a wild night where I am with pouring rain and high winds most of the night. Not comfortable as we're one of only 3 of the 60 or so properties in this street with the original tall eucalypts still remaining, so we're rather exposed. This much sudden rain after a dry spell, plus the wind, isn't good news for tree stability, but we made it through the night OK.

Over the 25 years I've been here, the very first thing every new owner has done when houses have changed hands is demolish the trees. Why they haven't just purchased elsewhere, if that's how they feel, is beyond me :-( Of course we've also inherited everyone else's possums along the way!
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simon bennett said:
Mike, Skip et al... are you guys ok? Weather here is windy and very
weird. Yesterday I was sweltering... today I've the heater on and a
woollen jumper.

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not much to report from my neck of the woods except losing power for about 8 or so hours. I slept like a baby as usually ;P

David
 
simon bennett said:
Mike, Skip et al... are you guys ok? Weather here is windy and very
weird. Yesterday I was sweltering... today I've the heater on and a
woollen jumper.
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Hi Simon

I was fine today as I had a day off work... husband who was working at the golf got turned back as our entire area was cut off from the city,and from geelong and Ballarat for that matter. Eventually he headed off again when things subsided and despite going through numerous flooded roads (one 2foot deep) he eventually got to the other side of the city to work....five hours after he first left! I'm only hoping the return journey doesn't see more rain and more delays.

My excitement happened last night though. I had to go to work to help conduct a staff induction so drove into the city in horrific conditions. For those who are unaware, Melbourne had over 24 hours of non stop rain...a record rainfall in a 24 hour period too.The high winds did not help one bit. I thought when I left to come home at 10pm, things would be settled, but it was worse. The freeway was totally under water in parts and from the amount of rain being driven across the road by pounding wind, you couldn't see what was just wet road or actually flooding! I was down to 40km before the Westgate Bridge and I was actually passing other cars!!!. The bridge was a nightmare with sheets of rain being driven across the bridge by the wind..hitting the side of my car like a pound of thunder. I could barely see and the wipers struggled to keep up with the rain. Off the bridge and for another 10km at 80kph, I managed fairly well. I was driving in the middle of a four lane freeway when with a gust of wind and a large woosh my driver's side wiper arm just disappeared off the windscreen! It's dark, it's pelting down, there are cars on either side of me,and I can't see a damn thing!!! I eventually got myself over to the emergency lane. A few other cars were in the same predicament and not being prepared to wait literally hours for assistance, I drove the car slowly up the freeway emergency lane with my hazard lights on...trying to see a few feet in front of me with no wipers.

I actually drove another 10km home like this..I don't know how I did it..but I did. On checking the car this morning, the wiper arm had come loose, the wind had torn it up and over the side of the car. It was repairable so that was a bonus, but I will never, ever go out in such weather again if I can help it.

I will post some photos shortly of the river at the end of our street. It's causing quite a focal point with the locals after all the rain.

Cheers Ko.

PS Skippy is fine. I chatted to her on MSN this morning. I think she had a very soggy garden and no power during the night but she was okay.
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Well, well, well, what a night that was, it just did not let up raining did it, my front yard was flooded up to the front door, but thank goodness the water several inches deep did not come inside the house.

Going to work was a different story, I started driving to work, the road next to mine is over 3klm long .... got about half way down it and I see all these "CAUTION WATER OVER ROAD" signs.

They really should have read "CAUTION BRAND NEW RIVER HAS ARRIVED IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD!"

Well lucky for me there were these two guys with gum boots on walking along that flooded stretch of the road, so I could see the depth of the water......... one's got a camera in his hands the other is stupid enough to be walking right where the cars are trying to cross.

.......now comes my turn to cross, I move to the centre of the road and drive over the White Lines in the centre......now you'd think the man walking would get out of the way wouldn't ya? :)

Nope.......he decides he's gonna bend down and check his boots as I drive past and throw up a wall of water hehehe:)

He was probably swearing at me as I drove passed for all I know :)

Never saw one paddock with a dry dam in it on the way to work, and boy there was water laying everywhere, roads completely blocked off, land and rock slides down the Great Ocean Road near Apollo Bay.

Fingers crossed the weather man is wrong and we don't get more of the same tomorrow.

Skippy (Australia)
simon bennett said:
Mike, Skip et al... are you guys ok? Weather here is windy and very
weird. Yesterday I was sweltering... today I've the heater on and a
woollen jumper.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/02/03/0302_albertpier_gallery__550x352.jpg
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