15 April 2009

Windy and dusty

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The ACT Emergency Services Agency has posted the following note:

    Strong winds and dust

    The ACT State Emergency Service (ACT SES) and the ACT Fire Brigade are responding to calls for assistance as a result of the current strong winds and dust storm.

    The call outs are for fallen trees in various suburbs across the city including Yarralumla, Garren, Florey, Chifley and Lyons.

    Residents requiring assistance should ring the ACT SES on 132 500.

    The ACT Ambulance Service also urges people with breathing difficulties to remain indoors for the afternoon and call 000 if an ambulance is required.

UPDATED: Not sure if it’s related but RiotACT’s internet connection appears to be suffering in the wild weather too. Apologies for any inconvenience.

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well, in phillip, the power went out for about a minute. was pretty handy… not. very hard to explain something to a client when the phone is working, but the screen is black… Though they were patient, and let me phone them back when power was restored…

Hells_Bells748:48 am 16 Apr 09

Windy.. Was it ever!

Three of my kids went to walk a friend home yesterday in Evatt. As they left our street and onto an alleyway close to home, just metres before them a whopping tree crashed down in front of them. I never did go have that ‘promised’ look (was my bday yesterday, slipped my mind lol) and when my boyfriend arrived home from the shop run this morning, he made comment on “You oughta see this tree that’s fallen in the alleyway, it’s f**king huge”

Poor kids! Or should I say Damn lucky kids!

pug206gti said :

Our work internet died for a while this afternoon apparently related to the storm. We’re with Grapevine somehow, if that’s any use in saying why it failed.

for some reason grapevine is particuarly vulnerable in anything but calm weather – whenever there is a major storm with lightning I can guarantee that I lose my connection for a few hours. delicate little souls!

I was driving around and wondered what it was, as I couldn’t smell smoke, gum trees belong in the bush, oops this is the bush capital

Sounds like you deserve an extra scoop of ice cream tonight Danman.

Cheers Sepi – Favourited – Looks like I was coming home on the 39 to 63km WNW winds, which is on my nose the whole way home…Of course that is (I assume) at the airport – but still gives a general snapshot of Gunghalin. Probably dispatched a few extra calories too 🙂

Every day I get Sou’easters on the way to work and nor westers on the way home….. Good fun if I lived southside

bigfeet said :

You can come back in now. Apparantly it’s a bit windy and dusty out there.

Not wrong, I went to work in a crisp gleaming white shirt and came home looking like I’d been working in a sewer.

BerraBoy68 said :

C’mon bigfeet, keep up. You should know I meant to have written ‘bigred’ not ‘bigfeet’. Do I have to clarify and correct everything I write?! Sheesh…

*edges towards door, slowly… slightly embarrassed…*

Sorry, my mistake. You are right, I should have known that. You can come back in now. Apparantly it’s a bit windy and dusty out there.

Our work internet died for a while this afternoon apparently related to the storm. We’re with Grapevine somehow, if that’s any use in saying why it failed.

bigfeet said :

Huh? Where did that come from? When have I ever questioned the integrity of the boys in blue?

Waits expectantly for vg

C’mon bigfeet, keep up. You should know I meant to have written ‘bigred’ not ‘bigfeet’. Do I have to clarify and correct everything I write?! Sheesh…

*edges towards door, slowly… slightly embarrassed…*

BerraBoy68 said :

VY- good thing you didn’t merge points a) and c) otherwise you’d have to add: d)read bigfeet’s response concerning lack of police integrity.

Huh? Where did that come from? When have I ever questioned the integrity of the boys in blue?

I watched a group of happy magpies playing with/in the wind this arvo. It was as if they were competing with each other. One would fly up very high and then get whooshed around and float down on the wind. Then another would do the same.

It was as if they were at a magpie version of a drug addled rave.

chewy14 said :

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

I was walking through Kingston at lunchtime and a small stick blew down from a tree and nearly hit me. I figured I would:
a) Call 000
b) Write to the government demanding help and/or compensation and
c) Bitch about it on the internet.

This is a tradgedy waiting to happen.
I think it’s time to chop down all trees to prevent a child being hit by one of these deadly missiles.

chewy14 said :

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

I was walking through Kingston at lunchtime and a small stick blew down from a tree and nearly hit me. I figured I would:
a) Call 000
b) Write to the government demanding help and/or compensation and
c) Bitch about it on the internet.

This is a tradgedy waiting to happen.
I think it’s time to chop down all trees to prevent a child being hit by one of these deadly missiles.

There is already a charity to rid the world of flying debris. Maybe we should hop on board.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/morning_show_host_starts_charity

Bloody hell, took me 30 minutes on my 16km commute to get home – mostly westerly with s/westerly gusts – anyone any idea of the windspeed – I had real trouble getting the pushie over 15km/h – was almost like riding home with the brakes half on… and a puncture to boot 🙂

Although the tree might have been rrot which is why it fell over.

“root” no rrot. Damned windy weather fingers…

GottaLoveCanberra said :

A serious question here though, there’s a medium sized tree down near my place in Bonython, on Govt Land and hasn’t damaged anything at all, am I supposed to report it at all?

Or should I just leaf it alone….heh, sorry couldn’t resist thought it wood be a good one!

I sure you could ‘rrot’out some assistance. After all the Gov’t has ‘Branches’ of its shopfront all over town. I hope you didn’t love the tree to much, as you might ‘pine’ for it.

GottaLoveCanberra5:26 pm 15 Apr 09

A serious question here though, there’s a medium sized tree down near my place in Bonython, on Govt Land and hasn’t damaged anything at all, am I supposed to report it at all?

Or should I just leaf it alone….heh, sorry couldn’t resist thought it wood be a good one!

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

I was walking through Kingston at lunchtime and a small stick blew down from a tree and nearly hit me. I figured I would:
a) Call 000
b) Write to the government demanding help and/or compensation and
c) Bitch about it on the internet.

But what if the stick blew off a passing government truck whose load was uncovered, struck you in your remaining good eye and blinded you. You might do all three.

Holden Caulfield5:07 pm 15 Apr 09

I guess I should have cut back on those baked beans this morning.

I never voted for trees. Why should my tax dollars go to them?

chewy14 said :

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

I was walking through Kingston at lunchtime and a small stick blew down from a tree and nearly hit me. I figured I would:
a) Call 000
b) Write to the government demanding help and/or compensation and
c) Bitch about it on the internet.

This is a tradgedy waiting to happen.
I think it’s time to chop down all trees to prevent a child being hit by one of these deadly missiles.

yeah i got hit by a leaf, its time for the trees to go ! 😉

My connection in swinging in and out too. I thought there would be a discussion about the dust but it took me a half hour to get here. Here’s hoping it doesn’t rain or everything will be filthy again. I live on the slopes of Mt. Taylor and I can’t see past the next hill into Tuggers.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

I was walking through Kingston at lunchtime and a small stick blew down from a tree and nearly hit me. I figured I would:
a) Call 000
b) Write to the government demanding help and/or compensation and
c) Bitch about it on the internet.

VY- good thing you didn’t merge points a) and c) otherwise you’d have to add: d)read bigfeet’s response concerning lack of police integrity.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

I was walking through Kingston at lunchtime and a small stick blew down from a tree and nearly hit me. I figured I would:
a) Call 000
b) Write to the government demanding help and/or compensation and
c) Bitch about it on the internet.

This is a tradgedy waiting to happen.
I think it’s time to chop down all trees to prevent a child being hit by one of these deadly missiles.

They shut down the road near the new Health building in Woden for a little while as they were trying to secure the stuff on the roof. Apparently wind speeds were over 120KM/H up there.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy3:54 pm 15 Apr 09

I was walking through Kingston at lunchtime and a small stick blew down from a tree and nearly hit me. I figured I would:
a) Call 000
b) Write to the government demanding help and/or compensation and
c) Bitch about it on the internet.

I was out Fairbairn way today and it was interesting watching the aicraft try to land with those insane crosswinds. One of the Tiger aircraft had a bit of a hairy landing.

That’s the arboretum blowing around.

Pommy bastard3:35 pm 15 Apr 09

Damn near blew me upright on my way into work. Which wouldn’t have been too bad, had I not been taking a roundabout, at speed, on my motorbike!

I ‘aint looking forward to the journey home neither

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