Storm photos

johnboy 3 February 2011 3 February 2011 3

Storm over gungahlin

Readers have been sending in photos from last night’s storm which was certainly a humdinger for those of us at the Carillon.

Feel free to send them in images@the-riotact.com .

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far_northact 7:21 pm 03 Feb 11

I had spent the afternoon telling my kids about what Far Nth Qld was going through, with the cyclone. This massive storm sent the kids into meltdown, thinking a cyclone was arriving.
Cool pics though 🙂

Paul0075 6:07 pm 03 Feb 11

Amazing photos! Love a good storm, but not some of the stuff we’ve seen up north…

Gungahlin Al 2:18 pm 03 Feb 11

Apologies for the low res pic – was just the phone and was getting dark quickly.

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