Damn good storm up here last night, trees, powerlines down and just got the internet working again. All that was missing was the rain, got 2.5mm but haven't seen wind like that around this for many years. The buildup to it was something I never seen before, took the 2 boys up to a local hill to watch it come in and had a little lightning and a nice rollcloud but the real noticeable feature was a cloud in front of the storm at ground level that I actually thought was smoke, but was obviously dust and associated crap, but really had a dirty smoke look to it. Got home and as soon as I got out of the car you could hear a roar progressively getting closer, then you started to see that "black smoke" but the roar was like a train on it's tracks getting closer and very different from that sound you get from heavy rain or hail or even a gusty wind. I knew this wasn't going to be a normal storm outflow and after telling the wife to come out for a look and after being amazed by the sound it hit I promptly told her to get her and the kids inside with me standing in close proximity of the back door but I wasn't going inside for this lol, I wanted to feel this baby...
. I could hardly see anything though with the amount of dust and crap flying around so should have put the sunnies on and I was sure we were going to lose something but thankfully nothing and not a lot of damage around the area from the looks, apart from powerlines and a couple of fences I could see, but you know where to come if you want firewood..
All in all was a pretty freaky storm and won't forget that roar for a long time.
Rhino.