General Chat

I'm glad that your friends are safe, JoyLouise, and that their property suffered no damage

Allan, just heard from Secret Harvour. They were away in the caravan inland when they heard the storm was heading for the western areas. They decided to head further inland and hunker down until it had passed as they had plenty of supplies with them.

They arrived home last night to find no damage to their property but some of the coastal paths near them had been washed away.

She also told me that after being virus-free for ages, a sheep ship entered Fremantle and everyone onboard tested positive for covid. The crew is quarantined in a Perth hotel.

Pat, we are 160 km south of Perth near the Leschenault inlet, or estuary. This has been wild but is protected from the Indian Ocean by a narrow spit of sand hills so there has not been the same degree of inundation as in Perth where the Swan River discharges directly into the Indian Ocean.

The weather has certainly eased, the insurers have agreed to cover the cost of the most recent damage to our fence so in that regard all is well.

Ironically, the fence coming down has led to very much more interaction with our neighbours which is a totally good thing..

JoyLouise, I hope that your friends are safe and that it may just be a loss of power that prevents them from contacting them

My Yanchep friend is fine, Allan. She contacted me this morning to say that it was rainy, cold and windy but only to be expected at this time of year but she knew it was worse for those living south of Perth particularly.

Not a peep from Secret Harbour yet, I'm afraid. :-(

What's it like for you now?

Seen a picture of flooding in Perth. Be careful Allan and hope your weather will calm down.

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Thank you all :-)

No further damage that I could see except for the fence which had already been partially blown over when the previous storm hit and was therefore already in a weakened condition.

I was really worried about the roof mounted air-conditioner which again had been damaged in the last storm, but nothing further appears to have happened to it.

JoyLouise, the Mandurah/Rockingham area (Secret Harbour is situated between both cities) was affected but I don't know how badly. Unfortunately, Mandurah, whilst a very nice place, does have a reputation as a 'windy city' in times of storms.

Your friend probably didn't mention the weather as the storm didn't hit until Sunday. I think that Perth was hit around late morning/early afternoon. We copped it later in the day and the winds finally died down yesterday (Monday) evening.

One house close to use had a beautiful flame tree in their garden. Alas the tree is no more, neither is their carport :-0 There may have been damage to the house as well.

Dear Allan

Hello

Just catching up with the news.

I am very sorry to hear about your dreadful weather.

Hope you and Mrs Allan are okay and safe.

Take very gentle care of each other
Very best wishes to you both,
Elizabeth, EOS
xx

Allan ........

you very possibly do know him by name ;-)

I'll pm you

Allan so sorry to hear about this new storm, as long as you and OH are well you can build back up from there. Take care.

I did hear that the south-west area was hit hard, Allan, so I hope you find nothing more than your fence to rebuild or mend.

What an added burden that no one needed!

My friend and ex-colleague moved to Yanchep (north of Perth, as you probably know) and we keep in touch. When she rang on Saturday she barely mentioned the weather - more about our families than anything else.

I have not heard from another friend who moved to Secret Harbour, south of Perth, so I have a feeling that all is not good. She was due to come across here again this year and we were looking forward to catching up - but the virus put the kybosh on that visit.

You now have an added burden to cope with there, Allan, but I hope your property suffers no further damage and I hope that it's not too long before things get back to the 'normality' of lockdown for you and for others.

Weather still very poor, but so far only our dividing (Boundary fence) seems to have been affected.

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You never know, Sylvia :-)

WA is a very large State, covering a third of the Australian land mass, but the population is extremely sparse meaning that the chances of knowing someone is so much greater, as I know from experience ;-)

I do hope that your damage is only the boundary fence.

I though that if the storm was stretching so far, that it might well include Denmark! But it was really musing to myself, as you couldn't possibly know our friends!!!!

Not sure, Sylvia.

The original forecast was landfall at Carnarvon yesterday (Sunday) then the storm front would move North and South with the main effects in coastal areas. although we had rain throughout the day yesterday the storm hit Bunbury in the late evening and is still continuing.

Not much relief for your friends if they did go to Denmark as the storm was also forecast to reach at least Albany and possibly Esperance.

Number of homes without power is now up to 50,000 and the weather conditions are making it unsafe for any work to be undertaken on fallen power lines.

The remains of our boundary fence from the last storm were smashed last night, but as far as we can tell there has been no further damage to the house although there is still a small leak under the area that was supposed to have been fixed but nothing like the waterfall which had previously

We will contact the insurers later once the storm has passed

Good grief. that's quite the storm!

I wonder if our friends from Perth had decided to take advantage of the lifting of travel restrictions to go down to their place in Denmark.

Our news this morning (about 9 hours ago) said Carnarvon was about to get hit.

Stay safe xxx

Thanks, Gwyn, it is.

It's the result of an ex-cyclone from the Cocos Islands interacting with a series of cold fronts which are all along the coast. The rain has reached as far inland as Kalgoorlie which is about 800 kms East of Perth.

Stay safe Allan.

I hope the storm passes and leaves you no more structural damage.

It sounds as if it is affecting a wide area.

Thanks, Barbra and Maggie. :-)

OH has gone back to bed but I've still got the old chook for company :-D

We brought her in last night as the chook yard and house is not very secure. The hen is well past her laying days and her friends have all died (due to natural causes) but we keep her as a pet :-D

Good to see you posting stay safe both of you .Barbara :-)

Fingers crossed for you!

Thanks, Ann :-)

Fortunately we still have power. The last we heard was that over 18,000 homes, some in Geraldton and some in Perth had no power.

And that constant moaning wind is getting on my proverbials! :-|