Wild Weather

[simon275]

We are getting some pretty wild weather in Australia huge 40knot gusts of wind and lots of rain. Its affecting shipping of the coast as well with one ship coming up on the beach near where Bucko lives in Newcastle and a couple of others are desperately trying to get further off shore.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...6/s1946306.htm

Edit: There has also been flooding and cars getting swept of roads in country side.

[Elenril]

scary stuff. they probably get weather like this all the time over in the uk though. we're just a bunch of southern hemisphere wusses, who freeze whenever it gets below 15 degrees. on the other hand, they all faint from the heat when it gets over 20, so we're even.

It must be really inconvenient to replace ferries with buses. Instead of a short 20 minute ferry ride home, you get a 2 hour bus ride.

[GT40_GearHead]

damn, and we where talking about the lack of rain ....



be careful... i hope Bucko is ok....

[Bopher]

Got pretty weird here today too in WY. The temps been about 75-80 degrees nice weather right. All of a sudden today temp drops and we actually got snow. Nothing stuck around but weird. Even now at 3 in the morning its cold enough to wear a blanket. (Don't feel like getting up to turn the furnace back over to heat from AC.)

[simon275]

Small update 11 people are missing. A hole opened on a highway 30m across 10m deep and swallowed a car with a family in it. Also Bucko's town Newcastle is flooded.

Thankfully all other ships are safe. The one up the beach isn't leaking oil thankfully.

Parts of Sydney has lost power. I have power for the moment.

[Bopher]

Holy Moly, I hope they find those people. i wonder what is making all the weird weather... Hope everything clear up for you guys down under.

[simon275]

i wonder what is making all the weird weather...

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/nmoc/l...DCODE=IDY00050

[xRyokenx]

No wonder we haven't seen him around... prolly has no power or internet. He's probably going insane due to lack of access to the forums, lol. Hope all's not too bad down there. I'm betting with weather getting more extreme we're gonna have more hurricanes here in NC, not as bad as Florida, but we get 'em somewhat hard...

[Luke122]

i wonder what is making all the weird weather...

Al Gore knows...

Weather here has been crazy too... Calgary and Edmonton both got severe storms this week. Calgary is currently just over $10 million to cleanup, and I havent heard an estimate from Edmonton, though just outside of Edmonton (Stony Plain) was a tornado the other day also.

Mother earth is pissed off...

[xRyokenx]

ICE AGE!!!!! Run for your lives!
ROFL, just kidding. But there may be one coming... like my physics teacher said, we need a bigass volcano to throw some ash into the air, not like Mt. St. Helens, but like Krakatoa. Not exactly his words, but close enough.