Today's front taken from outside Ikea around 2-55pm

Today's front taken from outside Ikea around 2-55pm

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The front

Sat, 2011-01-29 17:04

looked ominous. just like the hail storm last year, but it skirted past Ikea with only a short blast. Looked like it was more coastal than inland?

 

Poor quality pic taken on my phone.

 

I wouldn't have wanted to be on the boat when that went through.

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Ahh ikea, the front knew you

Sat, 2011-01-29 17:12

Ahh ikea, the front knew you were suffering enough anyway.

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madness in there

Sat, 2011-01-29 17:14

thankfully I was on my own so it was a quick in and out.

I think next time I go there it willbe a week day to avoid the crowds.

 

Here is another pic from the escalator on the way out.

 

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Winters day

Sat, 2011-01-29 17:05

Looks like a lovely winters day except its in the middle of summer. The front looks very threatening

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glad we came in early this

Sat, 2011-01-29 17:31

glad we came in early this afternoon! vomited 3 times in 3 drifts, just from the swell. im usually a strong stomach aswell!

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There was no swell??

Sat, 2011-01-29 20:33

There was no swell??

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 It was actually pretty lumpy

Sat, 2011-01-29 21:24

 It was actually pretty lumpy out there today despite the lack of wind.

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yeah, and being in a small

Sun, 2011-01-30 12:40

yeah, and being in a small boat dosnt help much either!

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Our front drive was flooding in 15 mins

Sat, 2011-01-29 17:36

I took a bunch of pics, but cannot find camera cable.  In Beckenham around 3pm.

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Looked vicous..

Sat, 2011-01-29 18:37

Spent some time packing away outdoor settings and tieing everything down.But nothing came of it out beldon way.

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We wewre out offshore from

Sat, 2011-01-29 18:41

We were out offshore from mindarie when it come through. It was travelling extremely fast, lots of lightning but not a lot of rain.

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out running the front

Sat, 2011-01-29 18:53

Hah we went to rotto today to beat the heat, the front started coming in around 2pm { man it looked awesome over the water } and without any radar info we made a quick decision to make a dash for home seeing as sundays weather was looking crap, we left about 3 pm just as it hit the island and as Pgreen said man did it move fast we were trying to out run it and had rain pouring in from behind soaking the dash { we have a 7.5m plate ally with a decent size cab } ...visability was down to maybe 20m ??? 

Funny thing was it pasted that quick it was over before you new it and the winds and seas dropped off to about 5kn as we got closer to freo !!!!

cheers fishfish...

 

 

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we were the same today

Sat, 2011-01-29 20:30

was out 55ks from rocko and noticed a bit of a change in the whether around 2.00 so thought we had better head back in , the closer we got the darker it was getting  and 25 ks to go and we had lightnig cracking

infront and to the north and very heavy rain but the seas and wind were still ok  but only lasted ten minutes and then passed just in time to sweet my ass off back at the ramp with all the steam rising of the concrete

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Great pics Andy, there were

Mon, 2011-01-31 11:10

Great pics Andy, there were some wicked shots on Perthnow that people sent in.

We were driving down Rowe Hwy when it hit and the rain was fierce.  We probably had 20m visibility if we were lucky...

 

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It looked heaps worst when

Mon, 2011-01-31 20:31

It looked heaps worst when your fishing the shelf out of Cervantees .Fastest moving storm ive ever encountered and hopefully the last .ill post some up close and personal picks when i get my camera back as one of my crew wants to get a big photo done.I know there was a boat out of Lancilen that got into a bit of trouble.