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Trumpy:
"if my eyesight isn't playing tricks on me, that pole in the second picture (2nd pole back) is in the middle of the foot-path (side-walk).
In that same pic, on the nearer pole, that's actually someone's mailbox hanging off the top 11kV wires. "

Good eyes there Trumpy!

Tiger:
"That last photo could be photo-shopped,"
I've seen that at least 20 times on Storm Stories, so, I agree with Larry that it's real.

Ian A.


[This message has been edited by Theelectrikid (edited 05-29-2005).]

Just as a little note,
If you've ever heard me mention Corrugated iron roofing materials, there's some of it wrapped around the base of that pole in the 3rd pic.
It's used quite widely here as a roofing material on houses and all sorts of other buildings.
Having this sort of thing flying around in high winds, is just another good reason to take cover.
Also, it may look rather damp in this town, the West Coast of New Zealand has the highest annual rainfall in the world, with upwards of 1000mm falling per year.
2-300mm have been known to fall in one day.

I am very familiar with tornado damage. Have seen too much of things like that over the years. The photo of the 2x4 in a tire could be taken at any of several tornado damage sites. Power lines down with poles is various stages of destruction is only one of the reasons I think that all power lines and services should be underground. I have seen straw driven into wood poles and the straw is not broken. Tornadoes can and do do a lot freakish things. No construction above ground will stop a tornado's destruction if the building is hit.
Trumpy good luck with the repairs, test every thing, have had stuff that looked ok fail because of hidden damage during the times I was involved with tornado damage.

Amazing photos Trumpy, even more amazing was that nobody was killed in the Greymouth tornado.

Tornadoes are a very rare occurence in NZ, which makes it all the more shocking when they do hit.

If that tornado could snap those concrete poles then the 4 x 2 in the tyre could be feasible.

I am now questioning my decision to build a second storey on my house, and wondering how difficult it would be to dig me a basement !

Hey, where are all the mobile homes at?

I thought tornados regularly seek and destroy mobile home parks.
Well, it seems that way here in the US anyway.

Now if that did happen in the US, Our government would probably only consider that tire a federal disaster site.


Dnk.......

Here in the land of Oz (Kansas) it is now tornado season, so I can sympathize Trumpy. We test our sirens every week on Tuesdays at 10 am. Whenever someone moves in from a non-afficted area we have to explain why we do that

Trumpy, since corrugated iron is a popular building material in NZ, are your houses like the Aussie ones that you can jack-up and move? I saw a docu. once where they had these timberframe houses for sale in a 'used-house lot'- select your home and we deliver it to your site. (These are full size houses, not 'mobiles' in the accepted sense).
If so dnk, there's your answer!
Alan