Showing posts with label Rain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rain. Show all posts
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Monday, November 1, 2010
It's Raining, It's Pouring, It's Flooding!
A Sunday drive up through the hills and in to Yarra Glen presented us with this lovely sight, unfortunately for race goers there will be no action at this track come Melbourne Cup day (Tuesday).
That is by no means a small fence for the Yarra Glen racecourse that the water is hiding!
And the road through to Healesville shut off due to flooding
On the last day of October Victoria experienced some 55mm in the city, whilst the Yarra Valley got around 80mm in less than 24hours causing streams, creeks and dams to burst their banks and spill out.
This rainfall was around half of the rainfall Victoria received for the month.
After taking a few detours we made it through.
Here is a picture taken last week of the creek, next to a photo from yesterday.
And a shot of the Healesville Racecourse, not quite as submerged as Yarra Glen, but impressive nonetheless
That is by no means a small fence for the Yarra Glen racecourse that the water is hiding!
And the road through to Healesville shut off due to flooding
On the last day of October Victoria experienced some 55mm in the city, whilst the Yarra Valley got around 80mm in less than 24hours causing streams, creeks and dams to burst their banks and spill out.
This rainfall was around half of the rainfall Victoria received for the month.
After taking a few detours we made it through.
Here is a picture taken last week of the creek, next to a photo from yesterday.
And a shot of the Healesville Racecourse, not quite as submerged as Yarra Glen, but impressive nonetheless
Monday, March 8, 2010
Storm Terrorises Melbourne
WOW, what a show nature put on for us on Saturday 06th March 2010. With plenty of warnings of a wet and wild weekend ahead no one quite expected what nature had in store for us.
A lovely sunny mid 20's degree morning soon turned into hail storm's and flash flooding in a matter of minutes.
Hail bigger than golf balls fell on the City causing damage in the millions, Etihad Stadium level 2 was shut down as the NAB Cup Semi Final was delayed over half an hour, shops were floody and streets were turned into rivers.
As usual some crazies take things to a new level with a bit of street kayaking.
Punters at Flemington Racecourse found some unusual ways to deflect the hail as the last two races of the day were postponed to the next meet.
No idea if someone is still sitting in this car, but it was well and truly taking in water.
Some parts of Melbourne looked like it had been snowed on rather than hailed
The cleanup now takes place with insurance claims expected to be in the Millions, they are expecting it to be the largest event claim in Victoria's history.
We spent the morning at home in Sunshine doing a bit of gardening, pruning trees, roses and cutting back the hedge. The sky turned dark in a matter of minutes and no sooner had we packed up and it was raining, not just raining but thunderous storms pelting down some water drops. At home we suffered a bit of water damage to the toilet as the gutters failed to handle the amount of water getting thrown at them and they overflowed both out and in and got into the walls and light fixture, not a great deal of damage luckily.
Unlike a few km's down the road where the hail started to drop and seemed to get larger as the storm moved across the city.
More storms and rain was expected for Sunday and Monday, whilst we have had some rain and winds it has been nothing compared to Saturdays.
So for Sebastian this was his first big storm and one we wont forget in a hurry, neither will Amare and Farley as they shivered on the couch with thunder cracking down around them.
A lovely sunny mid 20's degree morning soon turned into hail storm's and flash flooding in a matter of minutes.
Hail bigger than golf balls fell on the City causing damage in the millions, Etihad Stadium level 2 was shut down as the NAB Cup Semi Final was delayed over half an hour, shops were floody and streets were turned into rivers.
As usual some crazies take things to a new level with a bit of street kayaking.
Punters at Flemington Racecourse found some unusual ways to deflect the hail as the last two races of the day were postponed to the next meet.
No idea if someone is still sitting in this car, but it was well and truly taking in water.
Some parts of Melbourne looked like it had been snowed on rather than hailed
The cleanup now takes place with insurance claims expected to be in the Millions, they are expecting it to be the largest event claim in Victoria's history.
We spent the morning at home in Sunshine doing a bit of gardening, pruning trees, roses and cutting back the hedge. The sky turned dark in a matter of minutes and no sooner had we packed up and it was raining, not just raining but thunderous storms pelting down some water drops. At home we suffered a bit of water damage to the toilet as the gutters failed to handle the amount of water getting thrown at them and they overflowed both out and in and got into the walls and light fixture, not a great deal of damage luckily.
Unlike a few km's down the road where the hail started to drop and seemed to get larger as the storm moved across the city.
More storms and rain was expected for Sunday and Monday, whilst we have had some rain and winds it has been nothing compared to Saturdays.
So for Sebastian this was his first big storm and one we wont forget in a hurry, neither will Amare and Farley as they shivered on the couch with thunder cracking down around them.
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