Re: General Discussions
Reply #1819 –
Anyone else effected adversely by those ferocious winds yesterday! We were lucky (in West Gippsland) to not lose power... though I was waiting for the lights to go out! However, internet is not much better than dial-up at present!
Thought of you, David (DJC) when reports of 6 power towers being blown over in the Greater Geelong region tripped Loy Yang A!
As a humourous aside, I was outside with our dog (Doberman) when the wind and thunder hit hard... her hackles went up as she barked at the skies but when the rain came she ducked for cover!
We copped the wind gusts but the Bellarine didn’t have power outages.
As often happens, the rain cells passed to our north and south and we only got 0.5mm of rain when a decent soaking is sorely needed.
Some folk are still without power and it seems that they will be for some time. The six towers on the Mooroobool-Sydenham line will take a while to replace.
The cost of such widespread outages, both in terms of infrastructure and cost to families, industry and primary producers must give cause to revisit underground powerlines, particularly when similar weather events are now quite common.
Our hounds slept through the storm. The horse can be spooked by wind noise but he just turned his butt to the wind and continued chomping grass.
The neighbours’ vineyard has been copping a pounding from the wind and they are constantly repairing the bird netting. I imagine their workload grew significantly.
Interestingly, even with Loy Yang and one of the largest wind farms off line, we still had too much power for the network and had to power shed. The weak link is our vulnerable transmission and distribution infrastructure.
Here’s hoping folk get their power back soon … and governments starting thinking about weather proofing the system.