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Thursday, May 7, 2009

There's something you dont see every day!

The weather here is more extreme than Adelaide.. snow in the Winter to heat and humidity during the Summer.

Have always loved Summer but the snow in Winter is growing on me and am beginning to appreciate Fall and Spring more so where the weather is much more milder.



From time to time we get Tornado warnings pop up and where we are they are not as large as States in Tornado Alley experience. Still they are capable of doing plenty of damage and not something I want to experience.
We were standing on our local beach during the end of Summer last year as its just down the road and a great escape from the humidity and on the news all day were warning of severe thunderstorms and possibility of tornado activity.. It didn't look to bad so we ventured down there any way.
We were down there for about twenty minutes and other people were on the beach and I was looking up at the sky as you could see the storms moving in and it is quite amazing the view of the Bay with the clouds rolling in. Anyway I didn't realise at the time and was watching the clouds spin and you could see them falling which looked pretty incredible.
Five minutes later security came down and ordered everyone off of the beach and as I was talking to him he told me what I was watching the down draft and possible beginning of a tornado and needed to go home.
We got home and I turned on the news and another five minutes had only passed and we heard how a tornado had touched down in town probably 15-20 mins drive us and had ripped the rooves of few houses and caused some structural damage. I am pretty sure what I was watching on the beach that day was the beginning of that tornado...

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