Crazy hail storm in perth
Mar 23rd 2010 | 3:51 pm
#16
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Re: Crazy hail storm in perth
That was foresight! Glad you're okay though.My husband was caught in traffic during the worst of it. At one point, a bolt of lightning hit the ground a a couple of hundred meters from him. He said everyone in their cars looked around like, "how do we get the heck out of here?"
Mar 23rd 2010 | 4:49 pm
#17
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Yup...although my 5 year old wanted to play with the hailstones in the back garden...the first "snowballs" she'd seen in 12 months...
Mar 24th 2010 | 1:43 pm
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Re: Crazy hail storm in perth
We lost power at home for 24 hours - I guess we were more fortunate than some. Office lost power for the evening but was back the next day 
Will forever remember driving through rivers of rain water on Leach Highway, avoiding fallen trees and abandoned cars.
Western Power set up a twitter account for updates which I found useful. Shame the information on it was often not correct. It kept showing my suburb as without power and gave an unknown restoration time but in fact power had been restored. The next day they were still reporting my suburb as without power.
Did you all remember to submit your claims for the $80 extended outage payment?
Will forever remember driving through rivers of rain water on Leach Highway, avoiding fallen trees and abandoned cars.
Western Power set up a twitter account for updates which I found useful. Shame the information on it was often not correct. It kept showing my suburb as without power and gave an unknown restoration time but in fact power had been restored. The next day they were still reporting my suburb as without power.
Did you all remember to submit your claims for the $80 extended outage payment?
Mar 24th 2010 | 2:48 pm
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Re: Crazy hail storm in perth
We lost power at home for 24 hours - I guess we were more fortunate than some. Office lost power for the evening but was back the next day
Will forever remember driving through rivers of rain water on Leach Highway, avoiding fallen trees and abandoned cars.
Western Power set up a twitter account for updates which I found useful. Shame the information on it was often not correct. It kept showing my suburb as without power and gave an unknown restoration time but in fact power had been restored. The next day they were still reporting my suburb as without power.
Did you all remember to submit your claims for the $80 extended outage payment?
Will forever remember driving through rivers of rain water on Leach Highway, avoiding fallen trees and abandoned cars.
Western Power set up a twitter account for updates which I found useful. Shame the information on it was often not correct. It kept showing my suburb as without power and gave an unknown restoration time but in fact power had been restored. The next day they were still reporting my suburb as without power.
Did you all remember to submit your claims for the $80 extended outage payment?
Nice they do that though...
Mar 24th 2010 | 4:07 pm
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Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 28,998
Re: Crazy hail storm in perth
We lost power at home for 24 hours - I guess we were more fortunate than some. Office lost power for the evening but was back the next day
Will forever remember driving through rivers of rain water on Leach Highway, avoiding fallen trees and abandoned cars.
Western Power set up a twitter account for updates which I found useful. Shame the information on it was often not correct. It kept showing my suburb as without power and gave an unknown restoration time but in fact power had been restored. The next day they were still reporting my suburb as without power.
Did you all remember to submit your claims for the $80 extended outage payment?
Will forever remember driving through rivers of rain water on Leach Highway, avoiding fallen trees and abandoned cars.
Western Power set up a twitter account for updates which I found useful. Shame the information on it was often not correct. It kept showing my suburb as without power and gave an unknown restoration time but in fact power had been restored. The next day they were still reporting my suburb as without power.
Did you all remember to submit your claims for the $80 extended outage payment?
Mar 24th 2010 | 5:17 pm
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Re: Crazy hail storm in perth
Maybe so but I found it confusing. The information is probably more useful from a corporate point of view to guage the time to final resolution for each of the affected suburbs. Still, I'm not complaining rather I'm happy to be 'connected' again (surprising how much we rely on electricity).
