Storm Preparation

CaptainNate · Postby **CaptainNate** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 7:22 pm

So as the storm season starts in QLD, I do not have undercover parking for the beastie.

Then I realised....I have a tiny car!

Fits nice and snug under the back patio! Why? Because Mx5

Has anyone else got strange storm preparation techniques?

Postby **NitroDann** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 7:47 pm

A blanket, OR westfield

Dann

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 8:01 pm

Move State?

zero00 · Postby **zero00** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 9:13 pm

SuperCheap - hail cover around $230 but don't try to get it back in the bag it came in! I have it rolled up in the garage but 3 into 2 doesn't go! the 86 and one of the MX5's live inside but I can get the hailcover on within 2 mins and clipped up underneath

Daytime that car is undercover in a 4 level carpark a couple of minutes from the Railway Station - no charge and owned by the Council and I'm first in at 5am!

I'm having a shade erected in front of the garage that can be removed - just attachments above the garage door and 2 posts sunk into the garden - clip - clip - done!

Four nights now of severe storms and rainfall? try 3mm on one and 0.5mm on another!

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 9:24 pm

bruce wrote:Move State?

I lol'd.

project.r.racing · Postby **project.r.racing** » Thu Nov 14, 2013 9:12 am

zero00 wrote:Four nights now of severe storms and rainfall? try 3mm on one and 0.5mm on another!

3 nights of so called storms. And still not enough rain to activate my waterpump in my tank. 7 weks of empty water tank and counting.

CaptainNate · Postby **CaptainNate** » Thu Nov 14, 2013 12:10 pm

project.r.racing wrote:
zero00 wrote:Four nights now of severe storms and rainfall? try 3mm on one and 0.5mm on another!
3 nights of so called storms. And still not enough rain to activate my waterpump in my tank. 7 weks of empty water tank and counting.

Yep! A bit pathetic really. We got a tiny bit of hail in the west Tuesday night.

I understand the need for warnings, but what they're doing is turning the situation in to a 'boy who cried wolf'. People will stop listening the day the big one hits.

We have had lots of ground lightning and thunder, but hardly any rain.

Still don't want to risk it.

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CaptainNate · Postby **CaptainNate** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 3:01 pm

We got 9.2mm last night! I had to empty some water from the pool so it didn't overflow.

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Postby **Okibi** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 7:17 pm

Springbrook Qld 45 mins ago

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:14 pm

CaptainNate wrote:Yep! A bit pathetic really. We got a tiny bit of hail in the west Tuesday night.
I understand the need for warnings, but what they're doing is turning the situation in to a 'boy who cried wolf'. People will stop listening the day the big one hits.

Maybe try becoming a meteorologist to understand the science. They're damned if they warn and damned if they don't. It is a very inexact science and it is subject to the unpredictable laws of nature. I always found the BOM forecasts for winds and weather at various altitudes and locations for flying within Australia quite accurate overall.

CaptainNate · Postby **CaptainNate** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 7:32 am

JBT wrote:Maybe try becoming a meteorologist to understand the science. They're damned if they warn and damned if they don't. It is a very inexact science and it is subject to the unpredictable laws of nature. I always found the BOM forecasts for winds and weather at various altitudes and locations for flying within Australia quite accurate overall.

Im actually quite fascinated about meteorology. I have my own little weather station on the roof and I try and keep track of all the stats. I understand why they send out the alerts. Its just disappointing when my suburb never gets hit. I left the mx out during the 'big' one the other night. I was kicking myself in bed - but still not strong enough for any damage.

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PhilM · Postby **PhilM** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:06 am

Captain N - is your weather station rain accurate - I have an old Nylex wedge rain gauge and its readings collate with weather reports but the weather station is about 60% of the rain gauge reading?

project.r.racing · Postby **project.r.racing** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 11:18 am

Depends on where in SEQLD you are. In Beerwah 50km north of Brisbane. Every day this week has been projected for storms. Worse we got was 10 minutes of hard rain. Came down straight, not sideways like a storm.

Nate did bring up a good point that warnings after warnings with no actual weather to accompany the warnings means people start ignoring the warnings.

But it's a damned if you do, and damned if you don't scenerio. I think the BOM now just err on the side of caution after we had a freak out of nowhere storm 9 months ago that got alot of media attention.

After 5 months of zero rain. I guess people get excited when someone tells them it's gonna rain. And it doesn't. Some regions in the last few days have actually seen some decent rain and more.