Post by Driftpimp on Jun 9, 2007 0:06:26 GMT 10
Friday the 8th of June was the first day of our long weekend sale at work and in time honoured tradition we planned to stay open till 8pm... As some of you may know by now, Newcastle turned into the site of a natural disaster tonight due to massive flash floods and 100Km/H winds today. I knew it was going to be a bad day when on the way to work we went past a downed tree blocking half of a main rd…The afternoon started with a coal ship coming ashore at a local beach due to ~17M swells and gale force winds
Closer to home, flash floods and wind caused chaos and all but submerged several suburbs…The storm water drains at the end of the street at work were overflowing and causing huge waves of water to crash over the main road and wash cars away…
My 180 got caught in some flooding and had several inches of water in the footwells, but luckily the level didn’t get to the ECU
Some pics of what was happening around our building, with overflowing drains and sinking cars... the last 2 were with nightvision:
This next few were taken with my phone camera, so they arent very good quality, but they give an indication of the amount of dead cars at the side of the road... it was like this all the way home.
I got home at 10pm... joy
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Closer to home, flash floods and wind caused chaos and all but submerged several suburbs…The storm water drains at the end of the street at work were overflowing and causing huge waves of water to crash over the main road and wash cars away…
My 180 got caught in some flooding and had several inches of water in the footwells, but luckily the level didn’t get to the ECU
Some pics of what was happening around our building, with overflowing drains and sinking cars... the last 2 were with nightvision:
This next few were taken with my phone camera, so they arent very good quality, but they give an indication of the amount of dead cars at the side of the road... it was like this all the way home.
I got home at 10pm... joy
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