Our Turn! Severe weather warning for Melbourne

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Mar 7th 2010, 6:24 am

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Pollyana

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Re: Our Turn! Severe weather warning for Melbourne

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Originally Posted by IndieG

But am sure not as chaotic as in a city with 14 million people

But the way the whole city rallied to help those affected was simply amazing and so very heartening. Complete strangers providing food and shelter to all those that needed it. I've never been so proud of that city than I was on that day

Pretty chaotic - lots of rivers up there which rise very fast and flood whole communities before they have have time to react. Then its more difficult afterwards to get response and recovery teams in because of the limited road access to some areas. Same as Mackay a few years back - 620mm+ in 6 hours, have a look for posts by Framac at the time.

The sheer enormity of the destruction that an Australian storm can cause never ceases to amaze me.

Mar 8th 2010, 8:02 am

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Re: Our Turn! Severe weather warning for Melbourne

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Originally Posted by Geelong Gent

We had 2 windows broken and the garden looks like a typhoons been through it. Think the scene in predator when they stop firing. Now we know why you need a 4wd on Armadale high street

I have just returned from Helping Malvern SES unit, they still have a backlog of over 200 calls. I have never seen so many damaged buildings in my life, mainly plastic skylights being blown to bits.

There were units from NSW, Whittlesea, Hastings, Sorrento and Narre Warren and we didn't make a dent in the amount of jobs. Knox still have 1500 outstanding.