12-28-2011, 03:11 PM
A White Christmas for Melbourne in Summer
Merry Christmas Day from Melbourne's Weather.
Melbourne had a storm cell sweep across my part of the city, with damaging hail, ranging in size from small marbles to billiard balls in size, followed by heavy downpours of rain, resulting in flash flooding, ceilings collapsing, roads flooding, cars damaged by hail, lightning and thunder. Suburbs not far from me got 92mm [almost 4 inches] of rain and 76mm [3 inches] of rain in about an hour, the city only registered 35mm [1 1/2 inches].
I escaped the worst of the damage with only wet carpet in part of the lounge from the gutters overflowing 3 or 4 times and the water flowing back in to the house via the eaves lining and down through the window frame. A bit of work with fans, a dehumidifier and towels and things are ok. I guess it also shows just how much experience with flooding and rain soaked carpets at work that I didnt panic or complain, I just started the clean up.
Compared to how others have been hit, I got off lightly. I have also been cleaning out the gutters and doing 'commando gardening' choping down over grown trees and bushes.
Oh, and Santa brought me a portable gasless mig welder, a portable welding table and my son got me a book on welding. How did he know?
Mark
Merry Christmas Day from Melbourne's Weather.
Melbourne had a storm cell sweep across my part of the city, with damaging hail, ranging in size from small marbles to billiard balls in size, followed by heavy downpours of rain, resulting in flash flooding, ceilings collapsing, roads flooding, cars damaged by hail, lightning and thunder. Suburbs not far from me got 92mm [almost 4 inches] of rain and 76mm [3 inches] of rain in about an hour, the city only registered 35mm [1 1/2 inches].
I escaped the worst of the damage with only wet carpet in part of the lounge from the gutters overflowing 3 or 4 times and the water flowing back in to the house via the eaves lining and down through the window frame. A bit of work with fans, a dehumidifier and towels and things are ok. I guess it also shows just how much experience with flooding and rain soaked carpets at work that I didnt panic or complain, I just started the clean up.
Compared to how others have been hit, I got off lightly. I have also been cleaning out the gutters and doing 'commando gardening' choping down over grown trees and bushes.
Oh, and Santa brought me a portable gasless mig welder, a portable welding table and my son got me a book on welding. How did he know?
Mark
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