WOW! that is scary!, It would give you one huge fright!Mosaic: Those pics makes me want to swear (in German).. I hope the damage is only one material stuff, and there haven't been any lives lost...
I found a video of a supply ship being hit by a wave this afternoon at the North Sea: Wave hitting Volstad Supplier (warning: Strong language used in the video..)
Parts of Melbourne certainly had a white Christmas, we just got black dark menacing skies with huge sky to ground lightening and buckets and buckets of pounding rain. It has been calm here in my part of Melbourne todayDaimona, I hope you all survive the winds intact. We have storms and cyclones (watching from a safe distance at my mother's home at the moment) but at least the weather isn't life-threateningly cold on even a calm day.
So you had a white Christmas, Mosaic! What bad luck for those affected. Hope all is calm now!
Gosh I must watch the news, storms must be hitting the North of Melbourne, maybe our rain clouds decided to scud off to the other side of melb & dump their mess there.Well, hopes aren't quite enough. Just saw on the TV news, more flash flooding in Melbourne. A woman had to swim over fences and carports when her car was suddenly submerged and half a metre deep water crashing through someone's dining room window.
Daimona, I hope you all survive the winds intact. We have storms and cyclones (watching from a safe distance at my mother's home at the moment) but at least the weather isn't life-threateningly cold on even a calm day.
I saw some footage of the storm on the news last night, it is a ferocious one that is for sure, glad things are calming down.I added some more pictures to my post above.
The weather is much calmer now, but several areas still suffer from the damage and after effects. Large areas are still without electricity and telecommunication, and apart from the direct damages the wind and waves caused, indirect causes like land slides etc are common. At least one person is dead because he couldn't get to hospital in time as the roads were blocked and phone lines were down (no mobile network either, so we're praying that there are no need for emergency calls for those areas untill it is back).