TruemorsOver the last week, Brisbane has suffered massive damage due to massive storms. As such, I've been moved to occasional shift work to help map the damage for the various emergency departments.
However, last night things got a little bit more exciting as I volunteered to help remove a tree from the road (so that the Lord Mayor could get out of a car park) after a short, but very violent storm hit the CBD.
It was an awesome storm, actually. We were watching it from inside our building, and the rain was so thick you could swim through it. The wind was so strong that lamp posts were bending, trees were snapping in two before our eyes, and the Seven Eleven's front window just blew right in! Wowsers!
So last night was a nice change from usual work, and it was made nicer by up being fed like kings.
But, it looks like the party I had planned for Saturday may have to be cancelled, as I might be working a 1pm-9pm shift. Damn.
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Storms
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at 15:29 on November 20th, 2008
I was working late mapping the disaster areas for council, when I volunteered to help clear a tree from Roma St, that fell during the violent 7pm storms on Thursday night.
This is one of the council workers I went out with, and an SES member cutting the tree into smaller pieces so we could move it from the road.
The winds that caused this tree to fall were so powerful, that lamp posts were shaking, windows were being blown in, and I saw a tree outside my office snap in two and blow down the street.
There are more storms predicted for Saturday.