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

Jacarandas to go?

New farm parks historical and gorgeous Jacarandas are being hacked to pieces due to them being unsafe!

I hate the thought that such natural monuments to time and history have been neglected to the point where they are dying :(