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spida


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Drove from Norseman to Woorlba Camp 50 km past Balladonia on Tuesday. An attractive camp I stayed at in July. WELL - what a mess. There had been a mini typhoon through the camp on Monday night. Tree uprooted which missed the loo by inches, and branches down everywhere. Not a tree in sight that didnt have some damage or had been uprooted.  A motorhome lady and I managed to drag a tree out of the way so we could get to the camping areas. I wondered if anyone was back there during the storm - maybe not as the track out was blocked. Odd thing was it seemed such an isolated hit. Still trees around the emergency phone 100m up the road and only one on the ground over the road.

 

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WOW spida, I stayed at that site, can't believe the devastation., lucky no one was stuck there.

Glad it didn't happen back in September - cheers Fran  



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Gday...

Ain't nature wonderful. So powerful and shows us how insignificant we ultimately are. cry

Interesting, if that tree had come down a cuppla metres further to the left it would have been right in the sh!t

Cheers - John



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Wow - it is strange sometimes how some areas cop wind or fire and not others. We were in Tasmania when they had fires 2012/13, and the town of Dunally was a prime example of just that - four houses in a row burnt to the ground, the fifth not touched, then three or four more gone - amazing!

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I have heard that there were couple of vans there that night. Must have been out the front as the tracks were blocked off but how scary would that be - imagine the noise! The 'chimney ' on the loo and a sign were both bent as well - and not from being hit by the tree.
Actually Rocky - maybe if the tree had hit the loo they may have cleaned it when they fixed it LOL. Amazing 'miss' all the same! And the 2 concrete picnic tables sitting there with not a mark on them.

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