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Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 2:57 pm
by Sunboost
I did. Farking ODing.

Hurstbridge Line: Buses are being organized to replace train services between Greensborough Station and Hurstbridge Station to due to fallen trees along the line.

Belgrave and Lilydale lines: There are currently no train services between Camberwell Station and Box Hill Station due to a fallen tree, passengers are advised to catch tram route 75. Buses are being only being organized to replace train services between Box Hill station and Ringwood station.

Alamien Line: Buses are replacing train services between Camberwell station and Alamien station due to loss of power.

Frankston Line: Due to significant storm damage at Mentone Station Buses are replacing train services between Cheltenham station and Frankston station.

Road Closures: Some lanes on the Westgate Bridge are currently closed due to the extreme weather. There are also road closures on the Western Ring Road. Please attempt to take alternative routes home.





Due to extreme weather conditions please allow delays on all other lines/roads due to safety precautions.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch public transport in to w

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:00 pm
by Dansedgli
Sucks to be on public transport atm.

Hooray for motorbike. If the wind dies down Ill even be able to ride it in straight line.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch public transport in to w

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:00 pm
by Gunns
This has to happen the one day I drive into work and take the weatgate!

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch public transport in to w

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:01 pm
by [Sterling]
i got detoured 3 times going home today due to tree's and power line's down

there's a train that goes to frankston :shock:

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch public transport in to w

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:16 pm
by Eb Barbie
kester94EF wrote:there's a train that goes to frankston :shock:


Yep and a whole station there too! :shock: :shock: Lol

Apparently a house in mornington caught on fire after a power line falling on it. Out of all of the days to park under a tree, I picked today to. So I went and moved my car before just incase. :)

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch public transport in to w

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:19 pm
by Sunboost
Eb Barbie wrote:
kester94EF wrote:there's a train that goes to frankston :shock:


Yep and a whole station there too! :shock: :shock: Lol

Apparently a house in mornington caught on fire after a power line falling on it. Out of all of the days to park under a tree, I picked today to. So I went and moved my car before just incase. :)

I drove past a number of carparks at Mooroolbark station that were empty when the rest was all tightly packed. I was all WTFing and thinking I was lucky then remembered the weather warnings for today and looked up - massive fk off gum trees.

I parked away from them,.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch public transport in to w

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:39 pm
by nommic
Dansedgli wrote:Hooray for motorbike. If the wind dies down Ill even be able to ride it in straight line.

On the way home I saw a guy on a CBR leaning into the wind.

If I could feel my car being unbalanced by the wind, must've been "fun" on a bike.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:49 pm
by spope
Windy weather is interesting.
Our neighbours tree has managed to punch a big hole in our fence and deposit itself on our driveway. A tad inconvenient. It's all good though, they already rang their insurance company. :)

PT blows. Working in the suburbs FTW. Been there done that. That's some pretty major delays. All our delivery drivers were all messed up today cause they stopped vans from going over the westgate.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 4:01 pm
by smokin ef
you should have seen the dust storm we got here in mildura!!!
we were chillin on the roof at the job site 2day and we were watchin it roll in... it was crazy, then the big **** off dust cloud hit... then it was a mad scramble 2 get off the roof before i was blown off... at the worst stage i couldnt even see the sun it was that thick!! anyway thats my story :mrgreen:

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 4:07 pm
by Stengord
Public transport sucks
So do trees

I remember back in june we ended up having a coal freighter, big **** off boat, beach itself...
Top shit

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 4:17 pm
by braiden
We here in Ballarat copped that dust as well as rain. I happened to walk outside and discover my car looking like I had just been bush bashing in it.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 4:37 pm
by Dansedgli
Im home. wind wasnt that bad, Ive ridden in worse.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch public transport in to w

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 5:35 pm
by Adumb
Sundeep wrote:
Eb Barbie wrote:
kester94EF wrote:there's a train that goes to frankston :shock:


Yep and a whole station there too! :shock: :shock: Lol

Apparently a house in mornington caught on fire after a power line falling on it. Out of all of the days to park under a tree, I picked today to. So I went and moved my car before just incase. :)

I drove past a number of carparks at Mooroolbark station that were empty when the rest was all tightly packed. I was all WTFing and thinking I was lucky then remembered the weather warnings for today and looked up - massive fk off gum trees.

I parked away from them,.


My old man parked in a different spot away from the trees, and managed to get a big **** off gum tree right smack bang down the middle of his less than 6 month old Aurion, pretty fucky nasty! Cars on either side were untouched lol

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 6:16 pm
by G3R3N
There was about a 3 or 4km stretch where traffic lights were off entirely. lol it was pretty funny trying to watch people negotiate intersections among themselves at 5pm in Bundoora. There were cops at some, not at others.
All the way from Lower Heidelberg rd to almost Whitehorse rd, no traffic lights.
And 2 of my mates ended up in Hospital cos they stacked their cars, fkn idiots

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 6:19 pm
by old_mate
up here they were telling stories of melbournians getting lifted off their feet and shit due to the wind. I lol'd

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 6:22 pm
by Dansedgli
I saw this bitch fly past my window at work and took a snap.

Image

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 7:16 pm
by Jake
abcisfun wrote:Public transport sucks
So do trees

I remember back in june we ended up having a coal freighter, big **** off boat, beach itself...
Top shit


Yeah I watched that get towed off the beach, Im from newcastle also ;)

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 8:32 pm
by Damo
Yeah the wind was pretty hektic. Took my dogs for a walk this arvo and every few meters the were trying to pickup massive sticks. Saw on the news a brick wall blew over and fell on little old lady and killed her :(

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 8:38 pm
by [Sterling]
Damo wrote:Yeah the wind was pretty hektic. Took my dogs for a walk this arvo and every few meters the were trying to pickup massive sticks. Saw on the news a brick wall blew over and fell on little old lady and killed her :(

yeh thats gota suck, poor ladie.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 2nd, 2008, 11:08 pm
by Frost
Weather was shit today but this is my story attending funeral in melb

Miss Train - Good thing me thinks as we replaced by bus's (I live in Albury NSW)

Drive to Melb, Get to Mobil at toolarook, dont even get out of the on ramp and to 80km/h and get pulled over "Randomly" But the copper was having some standing issues in the wind.

Get to Melb, Sydney road fked with road works :(

Get to Preston, was ok

Get back to cemetry wind gets right up, Priest ends up on his ass, nearly in the same hole as the coffin.

Decide to drive to North Fitzroy for wake, my old man gets taken out by a van 2secs behind me, hes ok, just a dint. No Lights on Niclson Rd. Van had NFI what to do without Red, Yellow, Green Lights

Decide to drive to Eltham, All traffic lights ok until Doncaster. Just get past Doncaster shopping center, slow down for major intersection where BMW is turning right, it just starts to turn and a kid in a VX Calais ploughs into it, I would say 50-60KM an hour, Calais fukd so BMW, sorry no pics. I was gunna stop but there was already 10 people out of cars by the time I got over the shock.

Get to Eltham, all ok there, but decide to come back to Albury, go to go across to Diamond Creek but there is a train in the middle of the crossing not moving, so I turn left, to realise that there is at least 3 trains not moving, had to do a massive detour to the bottom of the Wring Road, and the cops are down there, Cops yelled at me for not going fast enough through intersection :S

Oh Fun day.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2008, 7:02 am
by LTDHO
I always drive in.

It didn't take that much longer than usual.

It sucks to all on public transport.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2008, 7:21 am
by EDFalcon
My gate at the top of my driveway ended up in the middle of my street (30m). I got dragged when i tried to pull it back to the backyard. On the way to work I was looking at a cop who parked his car on a downed fence to stop it blowing onto ferntree gully road then looked up to see a big gum tree branch flying towards me. Missed it, cop came over to see if i was ok and we dragged it off the road. My work lost the supports they had layed for solar panels off the roof as well.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2008, 7:34 am
by Eb Barbie
Driving home everything was a mess! Traffic lights were out almost all the way from Mt Eliza to Langwarrin. (Thats alot of traffic lights!) Cops were patroling 2 of the biggest intersections which lead on/off the freeway but the others werent patrolled at all and were crazy and so dangerous!

Got home to neighbours garage tin roof flapping around and neighbour 2 doors up had their gum tree fall on their fence. Lucky their dog stayed put.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2008, 7:43 am
by fordbaby
the weather was so crazy yesterday. we got sent home from work because we got damage done to our business. we had no power for about 8 hours, there were tress everywhere, i couldnt get down some streets due to trees fallin, i mean huge trees. well we finally got rid of the tree out the front of my house too.

im glad i dont have far to travel for work, let alone get public transport

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2008, 7:59 am
by Sunboost
I got home close to 8pm :P

Would've been later if a cousin didn't give me a lift from Box Hill.

Trams are the most useless form of transport in Australia.

Frost mang your stories are almost too hectic to believe most of the time.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2008, 8:03 am
by Frost
Sundeep wrote:Frost mang your stories are almost too hectic to believe most of the time.


I tell it how it is.

I dont have much luck with police

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2008, 9:27 am
by EBOOST
yeah my gun tree in the backyard fell down due to the wind.
luckily it didnt fall on anything so no damage other than the gum tree.
cheers josh.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2008, 9:45 am
by Bomber
EBOOST wrote:yeah my gun tree in the backyard fell down due to the wind.


dude where can i get me one of these gun trees they sound pretty cool!!!

Not much to tell down this way a few random trees down here and there sounded like some one was throwing rocks at the windows tho :D

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2008, 12:17 pm
by Gunns
Bomber wrote:sounded like some one was throwing rocks at the windows tho :D


Sorry that was me

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2008, 1:45 pm
by 91eb40
I did...but not for work. I went into the city at around 5pm, and it wasn't so bad. Still daytime though. On the way back though, there was a stranded taxi crossed over the middle lane of Princess Hwy near Caufield station, and all of the power for that station was out. I lucked out, I was home for the majority of the storm. I did see heaps of powerlines and fallen trees today though.

Although today on the drive back home from Ringwood, some idiot cockface in a black E-Series was too busy speeding and sliding in the rain behind me, and when I was waiting for the traffic to clear so I can turn into my road, the retard slams on his brakes and nearly rear-ends me (with his horn blaring), screams profanities, and proceeds to drive on the grass next to me to continue screaming at me.

He had 3 children in the backseat too. :x I really hate people like that -seemed like the type that tried to take advantage of me just 'cause I'm still on L plates. So many idiots on the road in wet weather... :(

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2008, 2:04 pm
by Steady
It was awesome for me, north bound western ringy was empty, cause no cnt was coming across the westgate :D
Got a mad run home.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2008, 2:06 pm
by Kyle the ED4LTR
neotheone wrote:I really hate people like that -seemed like the type that tried to take advantage of me just 'cause I'm still on L plates. So many idiots on the road in wet weather... :(


Yeh they piss me off, mum wouldnt let me drive yesterday, was paranoid bout the weather.

Re: Melbourne's Weather - Did you catch PT in to work?

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2008, 3:56 pm
by naz0
It took me 2 hours and 45 mins to get from Oakleigh to Campbellfield, it was chaos!