Just a heads up there's a storm on it's way. Now, there's no need to be scared but some of you guys will prolly die a horrible death but to the rest of us just be calm and it'll all be over soon.

It's taking its sweet f***ing time thats for sure.

some of you guys will prolly die a horrible death

our funerals will be next week

Started falling pretty hard out here at ippy.. lightning thunder etc.

Rain started dripping down inside the window (gutter overflowing).. sitting at my pc then start feeling drops... *sadface*

sooo is it going to hail or not... (time to hide the car undercover or not)

having outside parking is not very "win" at times like these

yep it's pissin down

The BOM reveals all...

hopefully the dams are getting some

Point Break 50 year style storm going down right now

No need to wash my car now :D

its directly over carseldine right now, sheets and sheets of rain, and lots of lighting, very cool. if only i didn't have an assignment to finish off.

Yay, now the several different patches of bird crap on my other car will be washed away

f***ing nothing on gc.

Looks like brisbane is on the edge of all the action from the look of that BOM chart

so does lightning ever strike cars

That was a direct hit on Kedron-Chermside.
Best lightning i seen for a while.

so does lightning ever strike cars

Definatley it does, However the body acts as a Faraday Cage, so as long as your not touching the body, you'll be okay.

There are youtube videos of a van being struck just driving on the highway.

should be plenty of melbourne players in the dams

this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUUOdO6eEZA

oh ok


haha that news show was called pulse

Decided to bust out the video camera tonight:

Ctd made me lol.

thanks cerb!@# looks awesome. Sort of glad I wasn't at the footy getting pissed on :)

I wish I had the camera out, because three hit our block and many more were quite close, it was a real light show.
To those of you who do take pictures of lightning, how do you do it?
Do you use a tripod and just take a few seconds time-lapse shots over and over, or just a quivering trigger finger?

Do you use a tripod and just take a few seconds time-lapse shots over and over

Pretty much. Tripod + long shutter + high-speed burst mode, so the shutter is open more than it's closed. Active storms are real easy - if there's a lull for any period then there's a good chance of the next strike being a nice big one, so you can preempt them to some extent.

That was f***ing insane.

I spent 4 hours driving around in a f***ed up postie van in that storm, must have been at least 15 intersections/lights that were completely out, absolute chaos.