An ill wind

[Grumpy John]

We had some pretty wild winds in our part of the world this morning. All of these photo's were taken within 100 metres of my house.

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3. That's my house in the background.


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[Isac]

Looks like you had a bit of wind mate. Good photos of the aftermath. Have you considered photographic journalism?
Glad that you weren't hit John. Looks like there's a big clean up and plenty of repairs coming up. We saw it on the news and it looked awful.

[Grumpy John]

Plenty of firewood for next year if anyone wants it. Hopefully the council replace the fallen trees with something more suitable for a suburban streetscape.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day GJ

That's a hellova wind storm matey - to split a large tree down the middle suggests a twister / whirlwind / sort of gust
ps- in the Canberra bushfires of 20 yrs ago, we had similar tree-felling (but burned as well) and the CSIRO estimated that to fell trees of that size & weight, the 'twister' was about 300km/h x about a 50m centre

Phil

[Grumpy John]

Looking closely at the split tree you can see that it was not very healthy. I will get some closer shots later today to show you.

[wigz]

Interesting shots John. Very glad you didn't get any damage. You seem to be getting more than your share of wild weather down there.

[HansE]

Lucky to not be taking pictures like this of your own place. Much better an interested bystander making pictures.