[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Reece

If you heard on the news we had rather a nasty storm here in South Australia less than a week ago. We had a small tornado go through our place, was the most frightening thing I've ever been through. I was caught outside when it hit, all I could do was cringe against the wall and pray!! The roar was deafening a mixture of wind, breaking tree branches, and various items breaking/falling apart!! We were without power, phones etc for over 24 hours, rather isolated here. I was amazed that an antenna mounted on 2" water pipe bent, the mast head broke off. Some of the roof iron was torn off the verandah, one tree was blown over with the roots now in the air with a large clump of soil, naturally it had to fall on a fence!!
My wife's poor garden built under a tree is badly damaged but the tree is smashed. We had 3 antennas up, all have been bent over.
Could have been a lot worse though, at least the house is ok.
It's gonna take a while to clean up the mess and repair the damage!
This is the first time a cyclone has hit the SA coast, IIRC 22 electricity towers were flattened. Crazy weather!!

Glad you and your wife and house made it through okay. Tornado's can be a scary thing. One of the oddest things I have ever seen was a water spout.

Originally Posted by Kptlt. Neuerburg

It looks like my family and myself are going to be in the thick of it being to the north of West Palm Beach. We're as prepared as we can be and this is going to be our first experience with a hurricane. I got called into work today and it was a madhouse with lots of people getting last minute supplies like water, batteries, bread and so on. The store ran out of water within one hour or so of getting another nine pallets in and more are expected tonight or really early tomorrow morning.

It was reported it had weakened a bit as it was moving along. Hoping you and your family and everyone else in that area will remain safe and that the hurricane turns East as they say it will.