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yeah... stupid me thought i could walk down the road to get lunch before it hit... i got halfway there and the heavens opened up.... it was someone had opened some floodgates somewhere.... i got drenched, and then hailed on... fun fun!

LOTS of rain in a short time.... High street was completely covered from one side to the other in water about 10cm deep at one stage, and it was flowing like niagra falls (was difficult to walk across)

so now i'm sitting here at work in the aircon, soaked to the bone, and freezing my ass off!

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I just got home from dalby now and in the last hour I saw 3 accidents, left my business card at 2 of them...

All three were caused by people drivng in the wet as they do in the dry. All three were due to the back end of the vechicle slipping out, 2 ended up into powerpoles and the other one just into another car.

I also missed a dog by about 40cm's on the centenery highway at 100kph, it decided to go for a run in the rain. The car in front of me about 100m in front suddenlly merged to the left lane, which then exposed the dog to me and so i honked and half merged as there was a car next to me. I missed him by less than a half a metre.

My heart jumped, im sure that dog would have been hit by one of the cars behind me, i fell sad now...

People drive like idiots in the weather, 2 of the accidents i saw were small trucks and the other was a ute, all un-loaded hence why they lost their back ends round corners...

I have only ever seen like 3 accidents happen before my eyes, now today i saw another 3 all in a hour... WOW...

:O walking home get upsolutely soaked and as soon as i got iin the rain stopped

but sad to here about the dog and yeah will probasbly cause another acident not to mention get killed animals on any roads are dangerous let alot i highway in the rain :S

  • 1 month later...

Haha.

Ages ago when outside sizzlers on aerodrome road flooded we took my first car which was a Daewoo Cielo through it. We had water over the bonnet and almost stalled in the deepest section which was about 20cm over my knees.

Todays storm was crap but at least the water tank is almost filled again.

  • 1 month later...

Bureau of Meteorology

Queensland Regional Office

The Standard Emergency Warning Signal should NOT be used with this message.

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING - SOUTHEAST QUEENSLAND

for LARGE HAILSTONES, DAMAGING WIND, VERY HEAVY RAINFALL and FLASH FLOODING

For people in parts of the

Southeast Coast and

Eastern Darling Downs & Granite Belt Forecast Districts.

Issued at 3:58 PM Tuesday, 30 January 2007.

At 3:55 PM , Bureau of Meteorology weather radar detected severe thunderstorms near Toogoolawah, the area southwest of Esk, and the area east of Warwick. These thunderstorms are generally slow moving. Severe thunderstorms are forecast to affect northern Lake Wivenhoe by 4:25 PM and Esk, southern Lake Wivenhoe and Cunninghams Gap by 4:55 PM .

Large hailstones, damaging winds, very heavy rainfall and flash flooding are possible.

A more general severe thunderstorm warning is also current for parts of the Wide Bay & Burnett, Darling Downs & Granite Belt and Southeast Coast Forecast Districts.

The Emergency Management Queensland advises that people should:

* Move your car under cover or away from trees.

* Secure loose outdoor items.

* Avoid driving, walking or riding through flood waters.

* Seek shelter, preferably indoors and never under trees.

* Avoid using the telephone during a thunderstorm.

* Beware of fallen trees and powerlines.

* For emergency assistance contact the SES in your local government area, listed in the White Pages under either State Emergency Service or your local council.

The next warning is due to be issued by 4:55 PM.

This warning is also available through TV and Radio broadcasts, the Bureau's website at www.bom.gov.au or call 1300 659 219. The Bureau and Emergency Management Queensland would appreciate this warning being broadcast regularly.

haha i woke up just as it started raining and made a mad dash downstairs to make sure all my shit was covered up (car disassembled doing rb30 under the back porch) incase rain started to blow in.. ended up bringing the head back to bed with me :stupid: nothings too good for my baby

Yer had one of those 'cant f**king get to sleep' nights last night and I heard the thunder. I wish it would rain, cause its SO FCUKING HOT
  • 2 months later...

bah its a baby its nothing most of it has petered off into just rain it will be cancelled fairly soon i say

Cheers

A

Edit: You can see by looking at this

http://info.energex.com.au/tracker/asp/lightningtracker.asp

:P

I know there is no warning up, but going by the thunder, lighting and rain thats at my place atm, Id say there is a bit of a decent storm coming over. Around the browns plains area. Could be fairly full on. Not much wind tho.

I doubt anyone's going to die but I sure as hell don't want my GTR out in the hail & I'm sure there's a few more people that would share that view..........

This storm came right over the top of me & yes it did have hail with it

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