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Excitement where I live last night. We were down at our local chiringuito (beach bar) when we heard the roar of a boat's engines.
Seconds later an big inflatable RIB with 4 big outboards fitted rammed straight into the beach. 4 guys appeared from nowhere to unload a lot of bales of 'stuff' and put them in 2 big SUVs and were gone. They left the RIB where it was. That certainly means it was cocaine (those powerful RIBs don't come cheap).
10 minutes later a couple of Guardia Civil cars turn up. Too late.
Nothing in the newspaper or socials. Saves red faces at the Guardia. Still they get to keep the RIB.

Keeping the Costa del Narcos reputation alive.
 
Channel 9 news thinks Queenslanders sleep in. Oh, and an earthquake.
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Queensland yesterday.
The strongest on-shore earthquake in 50 years rattled Queenslanders as they woke up, …
The epicentre struck around 200km north of Brisbane about 9.50am at a depth of 10km, with thousands of residents reporting they felt the quake.
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And the local news?
…
Locals in the rural Queensland town of Kilkivan, where the epicentre is located, couldn't quite believe the ferocity of the earthquake.
"Tiny town. Nothing normally happens out here.”
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arthwollipot said:
It's not going to stop.

www.abc.net.au

BOM forecasts wet spring as severe storm barrels towards nation's south

Spring is shaping up to be warm and wet for large parts of country as warm seas off WA's north-west kick a major climate driver into gear.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
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On the news this morning, snow is expected in Canberra today. (On the hills and mountains.)

So you should have some pretty views.

But also on the radio this morning, a tornado warning has been issued for Adelaide hills and metropolitan area.

Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Adelaide Region​

for TORNADOES and DESTRUCTIVE WINDS
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This is a very unusual warning for us, as tornadoes are very rare in the Adelaide metropolitan area.

I'm significantly west of the indicated track, but can report that I've been up since 4.30 am because of the strength of the wind gusts, rain and hail.

:eek:
 
Some extra info about us and tornadoes (in case anyone is interested)

From time to time, we get small 'tornadoes' typically described in the media as 'mini tornadoes'.

Maybe one or two homes lose a roof, or part of a roof.

A local football club lost their scoreboard during a match, and a few cars were tumbled around in the carpark.

Way up North, in the deserts around and above woomera, big ones form, but I've never heard of one intersecting a building.

While I was based in Woomera, someone took me out into the desert to see the tornado tracks across the landscape.

It looked like a madman, with a giant grader, had gouged loops across the gibber.

(Made me very glad it hadn't come through the village.)

Probably our most famous ones, were the set that tore the high voltage transmission line towers out of the ground, causing South Australia's major blackout.

I recall a TV interview with a grazier from the area, after the event, who said something like:

"There was a a line of thunderstorms that went from horizon to horizon, and they were just spitting out tornadoes, one after another. It looked like an invading army marching across the plain."

It's fun comparing that description with the wiki article about the event which says: "at least two tornadoes in Blyth" but, to be fair, I have no idea where the grazier was from.

On the day of the failure, South Australia experienced a violent storm reported as being a once-in-50-years event.[3] There was gale force and storm force wind across wide areas of the state. It included at least two tornadoes in the vicinity of Blyth,[4] which damaged multiple elements of critical infrastructure.[5] The state was hit by at least 80,000 lightning strikes;[6] the grid operator had not anticipated substantial lightning risks to the transmission system and therefore had taken no protective actions.[7] The wind damaged a total of 23 pylons on electricity transmission lines, including damage on three of the four interconnectors connecting the Adelaide area to the north and west of the state.
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2016 South Australian blackout - Wikipedia

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Oh for goodness sake they all pretty much look the same at that age, what does it matter which one he picked up?
 
novaphile said:
Some extra info about us and tornadoes (in case anyone is interested)

From time to time, we get small 'tornadoes' typically described in the media as 'mini tornadoes'.

Maybe one or two homes lose a roof, or part of a roof.

A local football club lost their scoreboard during a match, and a few cars were tumbled around in the carpark.

Way up North, in the deserts around and above woomera, big ones form, but I've never heard of one intersecting a building.

While I was based in Woomera, someone took me out into the desert to see the tornado tracks across the landscape.

It looked like a madman, with a giant grader, had gouged loops across the gibber.

(Made me very glad it hadn't come through the village.)

Probably our most famous ones, were the set that tore the high voltage transmission line towers out of the ground, causing South Australia's major blackout.

I recall a TV interview with a grazier from the area, after the event, who said something like:

"There was a a line of thunderstorms that went from horizon to horizon, and they were just spitting out tornadoes, one after another. It looked like an invading army marching across the plain."

It's fun comparing that description with the wiki article about the event which says: "at least two tornadoes in Blyth" but, to be fair, I have no idea where the grazier was from.




2016 South Australian blackout - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Town I used to live in in northern NSW near Lismore, had a tornado passed through it and did a LOT of damage- multiple houses were damaged or destroyed, as was one of the local churches and the local school!!!

Only a few doors down from where I used to live...
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Some of the classrooms at the school... (they had kids in them normally at that time- due to likely heavy rain and flash flooding closing some of the roads with creeks on them, school was let out early so the buses could get through before the rain hit...
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More of the school
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The church had the entire side blown out...
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In all, out of about 60 homes in the village, over a dozen were completely destroyed, and many damaged...

Video of it shot from Modanville (3 mins long)

Strangely enough, exactly a year later to the day, another hit only about 15km away!!! (but was in farmland and didnt do anything)
 
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Darat said:
Oh for goodness sake they all pretty much look the same at that age, what does it matter which one he picked up?
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:D

They can be very strict here. I dropped one of my grandsons off to a drama class, for the first time. The staff saw me, but when it came time to collect him, I had to call my daughter to get her to tell them that I was authorised to pick him up, as she hadn't notified them beforehand.
 
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