Last night on the way home I was listening to the news on the radio and they were reporting on the storms that hit Sydney on Friday afternoon. “One apartment block at Hillsdale had to be evacuated after it was struck by lightning.” “Hey”, I thought “That’s the place I’ve just been fixing.” and the [...]
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Random ImageSculpture by the sea 2007 |
Today our SES unit had a training day with the Police rescue Squad and the Surf Lifesaving Association rescue helicopter. We were training on the sandstone cliffs just near the helicopter base at La Perouse, just inside the Botany Bay National Park. When the Police arrived, they discovered that their key to the gate didn’t work [...] I had an SES callout last night to secure a 3m satellite dish that had fallen on the roof of a shed. The supporting pole come up through the roof of the shed and had rusted through right at roof level. We could only walk on half o the roof of the shed, as the [...] Take four teams from two SES units, throw in 13 different scenarios over a weekend and you have Restorm ‘09. The name comes from REScue and STORM and water damage, the two main skill groups practiced on the weekend, but it also includes REST. This on Saturday night with the band “American Graffiti” entertaining the [...] I have just come back from Ballina where I was part of a contingent from the Sydney Southern Region of the State Emergency Service. We were the second task force to be dispatched to the area after strong winds and torrential rain had lashed the area over the previous week. As the rain moved down [...] I have never seen a storm warning quite like it. Normally the map on the BOM site shows an amorphous blob with smooth edges covering a large area. This time it was a thin squiggly line hugging the coast from Kurnell to Palm Beach. There was some rain and fierce lightning at our place, but nothing [...] YouTube have cut the audio from my video of the Rescue Competition due to copyright reasons it would seem. The vision is still there, but the sound has gone. To get around this problem I will host the movie on my videos page and point the You-Tube viewers there. (I originally had the video embedded on [...] I have just landed back in Sydney after three days in Brisbane cleaning up after the storms that hit during the week. We were the second contingent of NSW SES to go up. We were on a chartered Jetstar plane and the Director-General of the SES (only 18 days in the job) came along for [...] There was a severe weather warning out for strong winds in the metropolitan area tonight and I thought that I might get a call-out when the winds hit. I did get a call-out, but it was before the winds hit and in fact the storms by-passed Sydney altogether. We were called out to secure a collapsed [...] The wind yesterday was nowhere near as strong as today. Still it was enough to bring down some guttering and facia on a block of flats in Kingsford. The block was three storeys tall, but the material was stretching from the roof to the windows of the flats on the first floor. We were able [...] |
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