A mate is senior in his SES unit and they’ve been flagged, day in, day out, for 2 weeks or so now. It’s a volunteer organisation so they’re blowing hard at the moment. Having a 2 day response time to a destroyed roof is shit, and they’re ridiculously under-resourced. The whole emergency services structure needs re-examination.
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You have my sympathy, I’ve just had my 4th roof damage issue in 12 months today, all from the same huge gum next door that the council refuses to let anyone touch.
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I guess they need to wait for someone to be seriously injured for it to come down…idiots
gum trees are the fucking devil. The biggest joy of moving is to get away from the giant gum that’s shattered our solar, destroyed our fence, cracked tiles in the roof etc. because the neighbor can’t give a flying fuck. Claims she regularly trims it, despite us never seeing anyone touch it, but then produces reports that it was maintained by some dodgy fucker on days that my wife was literally at home all day…
Asshole.
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Fucked day to be your first day out on the beat in your new role…as a postie.
Great day to go to the movies after lunch though.
Well the change has arrived here. Down to 25 also. Lovely. Hopefully no accompanying damage.
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If you’d told me at lunch time today that I’d be wearing a jumper by tea time I would have said you’re mad.
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Just to compound my misery, my aircon quit on me at 2pm, the house is still hot now.
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I’ll confirm, but there may also be lightning
Storm hit hard when I was on the M1. That is the heaviest rain I have drove in. It was impossible to overtake trucks because their wash reduced visibility to nothing. Had to pull over.
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lightning confirmed
This is something I’m noticing with the storms this year. While there’s been the usual gusts of winds and a bit of hail, it’s the intensity of the rain that appears to be more severe than normal.
I was heading to Brisbane the other week and hit the heaviest rain I’ve ever driven in. The sealed part of the road is at best 1 1/2 cars wide and the verge is red dirt that goes down to the open drain.
I wanted to pull over but was worried that my car would slide off the road either during the storm or when I took off again so battled on doing no more than 30km/h.
It went from that to no rain at all with no gradual easing of the rain and my wipers went from full on to full off in one go.
We then had a storm roll through here a couple of weeks ago at 9am that, if I was driving, would have been very similar.
There is definite climate change going on. I feel Sydney’s climate is becoming more tropical. Temperatures are consistently around that thirty mark at the moment with record humidity.
When I was younger (forty years ago) you used to get a run of days above forty degrees and then days in the lower twenties. It has been a while since we have had a run of higher or lower temperatures. Now it has seemed to have evened out, but hotter on average.
Our February to April rain storms have also increased and the intensity of those storms is definitely bigger.
On the flip side, when I moved to the Central Coast twenty five years ago, you used to get many winter nights below zero degrees. I don’t think we have had one the last three winters.
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Just got back from Thredbo. Got hammered in the heat a couple of times. 39 one day on the Snowy.
Snow predicted this coming weekend. True madness.