Brisbane storm (Cyclone) from hell! 16th November 2008

[riteasrain]

" and I think the flagpole's next" .... have to love aussie humour :-)

[smackc4]

@riteasrain ;-)

[smackc4]

;-)

[smackc4]

@riteasrain ...Just telling it like it was ;-)

[PajseR14]

Hes very dangerous.

[smackc4]

@PajseR14 Who is? Me or the storm? :o

[MrHooky1]

I didnt get effected troughout the storm(probably another place in brisbane)

[smackc4]

@MrHooky1 This storm was 2 years ago.

[MrHooky1]

@smackc4 I know :P

[Cpc66blaineCp]

I remember I was left at home and I was only 10 i called my sisters boyfriend up to come a protect me bc everything was going everywhere and i didnt kno wut to do.

[smackc4]

@Cpc66blaineCp Yeah she was a bad storm alright! :O

[yamahonkawazuki]

@smackc4 love the commentary. y'all know how to describe thigns perfectly.

[smackc4]

@yamahonkawazuki ;-)

[keagzta]

It wasnt a cyclone, cyclones develop over water and take a few days to develop. this was a supercell with a microburst. supercell's can develop very quickly. still, it had the same wind speed as a cyclone.

[smackc4]

@keagzta I stand corrected.

All of that description wouldn't fit in the title ;P

[smackc4]

...This was the storm that wiped out many houses not 10 kms from here :(

[Jacintalee24]

never seen hail in a cyclone :| weird

[Cpc66blaineCp]

@Jacintalee24 most of the cyclones do have hail its one of the warnings/

[aus2045]

That does look like a cyclone, I saw a few big cyclones like this when I lived in Melbourne.

[strucker7777]

@aus2045, umm no you didnt. I live in Melbourne however i have lived in Darwin for 15 years of my life. I can assure you you have not seen a cyclone in Melbourne. for one the Weather patterns in below the brisbane line as a rule do not create cyclones. While melbourne does get big storms i can Assure you they are not Cyclones, having lived threw quite a few myself.

[BuBBlez12334455]

Weather problems? Need to evaquate? Why evaquate when you could just MOVE? Bundy: The town that never gets cyclones, tornados, hurricanes and REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY bad storms ;D

[Jacintalee24]

No But Bundy has a bad hospital and a bad array of doctors that kill you doing useless unnecessary surgery

[Stain91]

Great video mate, I was stuck at work in Warner for the whole bloody storm...periodically emerging to stop trolleys from hitting my car. Power was out at 5, I was stuc kthere do sweet fuck all until 9.

[stephenwx2]

definitely not a cyclone rather a Supercell storm and there was an MCS (large thunderstorm complex) at one stage it wasn't a large scale tropical low by a long shot if it was it would have been hundreds of kilometres larger.

Awesome footage of some of those brutal storms that Brisbane copped as a stormchaser watching from a distance it was pure beauty.

[bullsbutt]

it wasn't a hurricane, it was a supercell, an extremely large and dangerous thunderstorm.

[jamesnuutinen]

oh and i have to say this is the best storm video ive seen yet haha " holy Moses!" did u end up finding your shade cloth??

[jamesnuutinen]

suddenly came up lmao, where was ya when it was building up? XD was a big one by the looks

[Jerram89]

Good to see the Colours survived.

[nazzanator]

Gah! U were standing next to the ladder! haha. Actually, I was standing next to a ladder when the storm hit our place - I was like "OH SHIT!" then ran away from it haha.

[glazinq]

Not a tornado but a hurricane

[smackc4]

That WOULD be the correct classification (but with intensity far above Cat 2 IN certain areas). I have yet to hear it referred to 'officially' tho, as anything other than a "storm", but many people would agree this was NO mere storm!

[smackc4]

Thanks but I think I'll pass on that! LOL

[smackc4]

NO, but are the same essential thing as a 'Hurricane', except in the southern hemisphere, they rotate (when viewed from above) CLOCKWISE, whereas in the northern hemisphere, they rotate (when viewed from above) ANTI-CLOCKWISE.

[hellocrunch]

where was this storm videoed? my dad lives in cornubia was the storm there??

[smackc4]

I video'd this on the south West side of Brisbane. I don't know of any effects on Cornubia, sorry.

[davidlee110]

greeting from America

[smackc4]

Really?

My mum used to work there many years ago now...

[sugardaddymatty]

Mate it was so heavy sails at the Gabba got ripped of the roof..

[Lanibear84]

bloody ripper of a video by the way!!! good work!

[smackc4]

Thanks! :-)

[Lanibear84]

Not a cyclone, although almost as powerful. A line of severe thunderstorms all connected into a supercell storm which does rotate (can lead to a tornado).

[smackc4]

The places that were hit hard, saw much more than Category 2 cyclone.

[bluehachiroku]

and our Flag? It survived?

[adh158]

Any time the Union Jack gets pissed on is a good time I beleive!

[bluehachiroku]

I'm wasting my time even typing this.

[smackc4]

Why's that??

[bluehachiroku]

Sorry mate, I meant to reply to ahd158. He I suspect thought our flag was the Union Jack..and he was happy for our flag to be pissed on.Hence my comment of not wasting my time to reply to his lame comment.

Great vid and good onya for showing the flag I say !

[smackc4]

Ah I see.

Cheers & thanks for clarifying.

Yes, it took all of my restraint to NOT come back to his comment, I assure you!

[smackc4]

Yes; albeit a slight tattering at the one out the front - one at rear is fine tho :-)

[jasco83]

Great commentary! Did your flag withstand the storm?

[smackc4]

Cheers!

Yes; all survived; AS Aussies do! :-)

[DriftMafia]

"Hopefully if these big trees snap, they wont be aiming my way"  lolZZ!

[smackc4]

WELL!!!??? ;-)

[aus2045]

Awesome Cyclone that.

[Rusldalovemusl]

Ah mother nature, she is nice then sometimes nasty. Good to see the flag and us assies survived. I absolutely love storms and feel some affinity with it all as I think you must for 'standing out in it', I would too but dont take ya chances mate. Appreciate from afar and marvel at it's insanity ;)

[smackc4]

You're very welcome.

Yes, we ARE a country of survivers & as usual, are the first to help others out - including complete strangers - as happens with any disaster.

Yeah I love storms, always have, but even more so am I appreciative of them since being caught in a 30knot storm whilst out sailing one night years ago!!!

[Tanru2000]

Is it flag ettiquette to bring a flag in under such circumstances?

[smackc4]

...Probably, but the one at the front of the house is a permanent fixture & I wasn't about to go on the roof to try and unattach it! :O

[smackc4]

CORRECTION: I sought a reminder from my sailing mate; it must've been a cyclone as (from above) it was swirling clockwise.

A Hurricane/Typhoon (same thing different name) in northern hemisphere rotates anticlockwise, (seen from above).

[smackc4]

The more I see, the more I think THIS was at least for a while, a Tornado also!

We had no power at home for 34 and 1/2 hours after it.  It's rained pretty well non-stop ever since the storm' and in fact is raining quite heavilly again now ~11pm Tuesday

[smackc4]

As per my commentary on the video - just before storm hit, I was looking at clouds and noticed they were swirling around an epi-centre. It looked quite cyclone like to me! My Mrs said last night that it may have been a tornado but for some reason, they never want to admit to them here. When she was a little girl, living in our very own 'tornado alley' IN Brisbane; we had a tornado and she tells me that it took months for the officials to publically admit it WAS a tornado!

[1968garfield]

Hehehe!

[sixarea]

I found your shade cloth in Acacia Ridge.

[smackc4]

hahaha...Bet there's been a LOT of used shadecloth for sale at Cash Convertors of late! ;)

[budgiebreder]

that storm was big! i was there by fluke! i live 3 hrs away in lismore nsw and was there getting a formal dress we turned around after watching it get worse and went back to the shop with undercover parking!(we were headed back to my sis's place (middle of city)(btw it was 15 min trip and we wouldn't have made it. built up real quick!) mum my sis and i split up and at least 10 families got their cars undercover coz we'd warned them or the danger-storm and that sucker was swirling like mad!

[niftynev66]

damn steve,,,, im impressed....maybe you should have got the boat out and took it for a cruise.

[smackc4]

I was out in it, running the bilge pump which was underwater at the stern as the cover had given way to the weight of the pool of water it collected rather quickly!

[1968garfield]

Great video.

[smackc4]

Thanks.

...'The Gap' by the way, which had the most media exposure, where houses were destroyed in a few seconds, is about 10km line of sight to where we live. Bloody thing must've woven itself just in between us.

[1968garfield]

Where is this footage taken? My parents are on Payne Rd The Gap. They are lucky to dodge the most of it. We went over after the storm and it was mass destruction from Samford Rd, down Settlement and up Payne Rd to there place. We had to play dodgems! (Dogem tree, dogem power line, dogem people!)

[smackc4]

Bellbowrie

[1968garfield]

WOW! It was wide spread hey?

[smackc4]

...MASSIVELY so!

Started around the Gold Coast hinterland (i.e., Mount Tambourine way) and headed in a very broad mass N/E but inland from the coastline, and finally lost most of it's 'oomph' just before reaching Caboolture :O

[1968garfield]

We live at Kallangur, and the wind was nothing compared to what I have seen on here! We had rain, no hail. I took some footage and posted it on here, of the storm just before it hit Kallangur. I knew we would miss most of it. I have a friend at work who still has no power at Morayfield! They got it pretty bad out there too.