Big Blue Storm Sunday 16th Nov

Yesterday afternoon (Sunday 16th November) we had a phenomenally large blue storm rip through the south east of Queensland. Areas from the Gold Coast to the Sunshine Coast were blown apart with the worst areas hit including Ferny Hills, Everton and The Gap, with Canungra having BOM reports of a tornado which is really not surprising when you see the footage of rotating blue clouds and high winds and hailstones.



I was at home with the kids on an extremely HOT day - due mainly to the high humidity. After Jessi got sunburnt having breakfast out the back at 9am we decided the UV was too high for us to be out in it. At about 3-pm we went outside to rejig the chicken pen and this is when we sat out the back and watched the "mothership" roll over.

TV Newsroom Floods - Severe Storms, 16 November, 2008

YouTube playlist of footage from this storm.(15 plus videos compiled into a playlist)

News galleries | Storms ravage southeast | News.com.au
(This next image made it to the storm gallery)

Gustfront moments later and its getting dark here

The radar image just as it passed over us...


Kaetys Picasaweb Gallery of this event


Map of the damaged areas























Marty Pouwelse Storm Pics & Storm Report



David Finlay's images for the storm

froz posted this footage of the Seven NEWS storm experience

The other day whilst I was out taking the twins to daycare my partner Darren took some amazing photos of a pair of Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos, I am posting them now so I do not forget!

Settling in

Well, the move is done. We still have a garage full of "stuff" we are yet to sort through but we are in! We had a good move if its possible thanks to help from my client Brisk Transport who's wonderful boys helped us move and Box N Go who provided amazing moving containers so we didn't have to pack and move everything on the last day!

We are settling into our new house nicely and discovering how lucky we are to have gotten this house. Living on the Esplanade although we aren't "on the waterfront" as such we are just 200m or so from the waterfront section with beautiful grassy areas and fishing spots. We all walk or ride our bikes daily along this section which leads to a brand new bike path which connects us to Bribie Island and also Turners Camp beach/park.

Ali and Angus (two of our best friends) came over last week and we all rode down to Turners Camp and the boys had a great time, concluding at Turners where we stopped walked along the beach and saw oyster shells under the tree there. On further investigation and reading of the monument we discovered that there are oyster leases just off the beach! Talk about a good fishing spot!!

Just down the creek from us Darren saw a fish skeleton at a local groyne. (click to see) The red thing in the pic is a keyring for scale.

For the first time in at least 12 months I actually feel inspired to paint, mosaic or create! Yay lets hope it lasts!! :)

more soon...