massive wind and rain storm

[kindlekitten]

Power has been out for about 6 hours now. Trees and limbs are everywhere. Driving is risky

[Lin2412]

Stay safe

[Lynx-lynx]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

Power has been out for about 6 hours now. Trees and limbs are everywhere. Driving is risky

What an extraordinary adverse weather coincidence!! We also have had severe lightning and rain strikes in the greater Sydney area over the past week or more. They've occurred every afternoon/early evening as if we were in the monsoonal tropics.

Lots of damage, power lines down, people struck by lightening, roofs off houses and buildings and flash flooding etc.

[kindlekitten]

Power's on now for me at least. I think about 75k are still dark. At the height of the storm about 150k were out. Ours came on about 12 hours after losing it. Lots of damage and accidents. A tree went down on a propane tank at one of the tribal casinos. That started a huge fire.

Have to go walk the fence line shortly to see what other damages there might be

[trichobezoar]

'Hope your home hasn't experienced damage, KindleKitten! *sending warm thoughts your way*

[kindlekitten]

Just had a few fence breaks to fix!

[trichobezoar]

That's good to hear. At least it wasn't grave...

[cromag]

I saw some of the reports on TV. Glad to hear you seem to be okay.

[Lynx-lynx]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

Just had a few fence breaks to fix!

Good to hear that you and yours are okay.

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On a funny peculiar sense of humour note .... a woman was peeling potatoes at her kitchen sink (in Sydney) the other evening when she was struck by lightening! Her husband reported that she was holding a potato peeler at the time and he thinks that the lightening was deflected by a metal downpipe through the flyscreen and kitchen window. I tell you what, if you ever needed an excuse never to peel the spuds again you've just found it lol.

Also I'd be buying some lottery tickets if I were her, because she's doing fine, she just got mildly burnt and had minor shock, but didn't require hospitalisation.

[kindlekitten]

I was hit by a random bolt that was heading through the open window towards the fire place. I had a cat on my lap and he was ready to nose kiss me but it arced between us. The poor cat didn't disk to me for 2 weeks.

Believe it or not that was the. ..

..... wait for it. .......

Fourth time I've been hit

[Freehunter]

Hope you're not trying to pass Melvin Roberts or Roy Sullivan.

[kindlekitten]

Have no idea who they are
Trust me. It's a situation you're not terribly jazzed about feeling again

[crich70]

Sounds like you have been very lucky kindlekitten. I've never been hit by lightning but I've heard it can cause a lot of damage (if not kill outright). We haven't had any such weather here but it is fogged over this morning.

[kindlekitten]

I'm quite often amazed that I wake up alive!

[Freehunter]

Roy Sullivan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Sullivan

Between 1942 and 1977, Sullivan was hit by lightning on seven different occasions and survived all of them....Sullivan is recognized by Guinness World Records as the person struck by lightning more recorded times than any other human being.

Melvin Roberts http://abcnews.go.com/US/lightning-s...ry?id=24748682

A South Carolina man who says he's been struck by lightning ten times compares the feeling to being zapped inside a microwave.