Comments on: Bunbury Tornado blogging

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:51:45 +0000

Ke?
the picture here is of the crane that feel on the ABC Centre on Witenoon St, I was at the post office that moring at about 7:30 and saw it with my own eyes!

By: ashlee

ashlee — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 02:41:55 +0000

hey i live in bunbury and none of the pictures ‘supposedly’ taken look anything like bunbury or its surrounds i think tim is right in the fact its chinese whispers in pictures form.these pictures look like stills from a movie or from america.whoever took these photos are obviously trying to spread panic and its a pathetic thing to do.

By: findlayosborn.com » Blog Archive » Short but oh so sweet

findlayosborn.com » Blog Archive » Short but oh so sweet — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:30:42 +0000

[...] 23 degrees when I flew out and Bunbury was gray, drenched with rain and recovering from a Tornado when I arrived home! Still the past ten days for me have been an amazing [...]

By: meri

meri — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:54:26 +0000

i hope ur ok……….lyl

By: mazza

mazza — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 04:32:26 +0000

i lived in bunbury when the tornado hit it is called a cock eyed bob it was terrifying because i was at home when it hit my mum sister and i rushed to the lounge room and we thought we were going to die,it sounded like a big jet plane crashing down to our house and i felt helpless because i couldnt see what i was doing becausec the power went out so i reached for the torch all shatking with fear. so these people that were terrified i feel what you feel.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:01:41 +0000

Hi,

I received an email three days after this blog was posted with photos of a tornado near Bunbury WA.

Here they are… http://www.froling.com.au/bunbury

A month later a relly in Melbourne sends me identical photos of “Cyclone Ingrid” (which didn’t get south of Kununurra, back in March)

Is this Bunbury countryside in the pics? Great photos of a storm anyway. Might be Chinese Whispers in picture form. :-)

By: site admin

site admin — Fri, 27 May 2005 14:53:15 +0000

Keshia,
was speaking to someone in Busselton the day it all happened, they were saying that the storm was bad down there, I told them it was worse here and they didn’t believe me :-)
Bizarre to think that we apparently live in “Tornado Alley”

By: Keshia

Keshia — Fri, 27 May 2005 05:33:01 +0000

Hi,
I live in busselton (a little over 30 mins drive from bunbury), that day i was at TAFE and i only found out that bunbury had been hit by a tornado when i arrived home later that evening. I was completely shocked! i thought australia was safe from all that. I mean we get cyclones up north and we get some strong storms, but i never thought tornados will hit australia!
Im happy to hear that no one was majorly hurt, and i believe no one had died. I saw the pictures of the aftermath and it is shocking.
I spent last weekend in perth, I drove up the back way (which goes thought armidale, gosnells, harvey etc). Armidale had gotten hit aswell and it was just a mess driving up. trees uprooted, roofs missing.
I was reading the sunday times i think while in perth and it had a little article about the tornados. Apparently WA has had 35 or 36 tornados in the past 6 years. Which i was completly shocked at because i had no idea. Also it said Mandurah is WA’s tornado alley.
Even Saturdays storm had a tornado (waterspout).
whats this world coming too? tornados, earthquakes, ice melting, tsunamis..I really think that earthquake/tsunami really messed up this world. We are getting strange weather not just natural disasters.

By: writing_here

writing_here — Mon, 16 May 2005 16:08:54 +0000

I’ve only been in two Tornado Watches, one in SW Virginia and one in North Texas, here in the US, so I can only imagine the terror of actually getting hit by one. I never knew they were a problem down under.

By: John

John — Mon, 16 May 2005 12:27:53 +0000

When I lived in Glendalough, Perth, we were faced with a massive cyclone heading down the coast towards us. It was set to hit land at Fremantle and travel up the Swan river before devastating Perth. Naturally, my family had taken the little train service to Fremantle to spend Saturday afternoon in the flea market. They were uncontactable and our only car was in the dock. When the air turned orange I was frantic. But they turned up later, asking what all the fuss was about. The cyclone had turned inland further north. But it was a nasty experience.

I hope you’re all OK down there in Bunbury.

By: david

david — Mon, 16 May 2005 11:38:01 +0000

Wow — glad you’re OK…tornadoes are amazing.