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Bunbury Storm - the real deal!

Old May 19th 2005, 5:09 am
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OK, so I feel like a prat for posting those Texas storm photos, it's amazing I've received them again in the mail from someone else today.

Anyway, these are the real deal, Bunbury WA NOT Texas:

http://britishexpats.com/photopost/s...00&ppuser=3885
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Old May 19th 2005, 5:31 am
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Originally Posted by renth
OK, so I feel like a prat for posting those Texas storm photos, it's amazing I've received them again in the mail from someone else today.

Anyway, these are the real deal, Bunbury WA NOT Texas:

http://britishexpats.com/photopost/s...00&ppuser=3885
Ah, don't worry about it, lol! Still laughing though, sorry
Could've happened to anyone(if it was another place, and I knew less about what had happened, I would've posted them too).

These pics are pretty 'amazing' too. THat piece of corrugated iron wrapped around that pole!
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Default Re: Bunbury Storm - the real deal!

Originally Posted by renth
OK, so I feel like a prat for posting those Texas storm photos, it's amazing I've received them again in the mail from someone else today.

Anyway, these are the real deal, Bunbury WA NOT Texas:

http://britishexpats.com/photopost/s...00&ppuser=3885

Don't feel like a prat, the eeejit who started the email is the prat.

Scary to think that tornadoes a lot smaller than those in the Texas pictures can cause this much damage.

I should think that Tony has got some aswell, would be interesting to see.

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Default Re: Bunbury Storm - the real deal!

Yes, we have no Tornados - Merimbula.

Tornado near Coonabarabran 2005 Jan 20 - well researched, pictures

Tornadoes - mixed Aus & US
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Thanks renth, great photos!!!
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Oooh, wow....

He he, weren't you and I the ones who said that tornadoes aren't really in Aus, lol! Now, we're both finding info in places (I found one that hit Fremantle in 1999)

We don't get Tornadoes here
Australians are funny about tornadoes. Most of us have a strong belief that they don't occur here. It's hard to shake. Sure, we have violent thunderstorms. Hailstones as big as cricket balls. Violent winds that blow down trees over wide areas. But no tornadoes. They only occur in America -- like in the movie Twister. In America but not here.

We get tropical cyclones. They call them hurricanes in America. Everybody here who's old enough remembers when Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin on Christmas Eve in 1974. But suggest that winds from a violent thunderstorm that destroy property or take lives might be a tornado, and everyone talks about damaging wind gusts or mini-cyclones. Never tornadoes.

We have dust devils. They're know locally as willy-willies. Most of us who have driven out in the Bush during a summer drought have seen them. Columns of swirling dust being sucked high into the clear blue sky. My brother even ran into one, once. He says it was cool inside. Plenty of people have seen water spouts descending from storms out to sea. But tornadoes? No. We don't get tornadoes here.

I grew up with this belief too. A year or so ago, I learnt otherwise.
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Oooh, wow....

He he, weren't you and I the ones who said that tornadoes aren't really in Aus, lol! Now, we're both finding info in places (I found one that hit Fremantle in 1999)
They do occur but nothing on the scale or with the frequency or track lengths as in humid sub-tropical climates.
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