Well, we had a lot of rain.....a LOT of rain! Not just rain, but wind, and a thunderstorm that lasted hours and hours!! We don't get a lot of extreme weather here in Tassie. We don't get a lot of hail, or snow, hurricanes, tsunamis, thunderstorms...... or huge amounts of rain.. We are generally pretty moderate in the extreme weather department.....except for yesterday............
The clean-up from Hobart's worst storm in decades is underway, with the total damage bill estimated to run into many millions of dollars.
The extreme weather event, combining heavy rains, wild winds and thunderstorms, had cars being swept down the main streets in Hobart! Not something you would ever expected to have seen!
It is only the fifth time since 1893 that Hobart had recorded more than 100mm of rain in a day. Mount Wellington recorded 236 millimetres. We are normally pretty impressed if we get 30ml! 150ml of water falling out of the sky is something most of us have never had to cope with! We were lucky. Our old house coped well, nothing flooded , nothing overflowed , we just got a little soggy and our little Rivulet became a raging torrent!
That is all.........
Definitely one of the lucky ones!
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