Bad Weather South Australia

brickies · Guru

Bad Weather South Australia

HunnyBunny · Senior Member

On the back of the rain & flooding we have already had, this is not looking good! The attached pic was taken above the Newell hwy near Forbes N.S.W

higginsstormchasing.com/monster-low-heading-south-east-aus/

-- Edited by HunnyBunny on Wednesday 28th of September 2016 02:04:47 PM

meetoo · Guru

This morning I saw a poptop van traveling the opposite way with the front left corner of the poptop roof lifted about 18 inches. They were in an 80 kph zone heading into substantial stong headwinds. I was stuck in a line of traffic with a walled centre strip so no way to turn to catch up and warn them. I hope someone flagged them over. Just a few minutes later the storm front hit with huge gusts and pouring rain. I Just got back home again yesterday and I hope those who are out in this coming storm keep safe and well.

Cheers, John.

brickies · Guru

I will do whatever I have to stay away from bad weather , The internet is your best friend when on the road

meetoo · Guru

Well there goes the power. Southern suburbs of Adelaide has lost power.

Fantastic to have a caravan parked out front. Only been home one day and it looks like we'll be back cooking/eating in there tonight.

Cheers, John.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Not only there, meetoo, looks like some real bad s..t come'n across southern NSW and VIC very very soon. Batten down the hatches everyone, I have.

Hewy54 · Senior Member

Power was out across the state for several hours and is still out in some regional areas.

beiffe · Guru

People on the road should have the warning apps on their phone.
There are a few of the apps that I use
Emergency AUS
Emergency+

Each state has their fire app
NSW Fires near Me
VIC Fire ready
SA CF
Bushfire Rural
National Bushfires

AlertSA is one in SA
Melbourne Victoria Alert _VIC ALERT
EWN Early Warning network sends updates to your phone and email when there is warninngs for your designated area.

Weather Apps
WillyWeather
Morecast weather and radar app
Weather Australia
Aussie Weather Radar

Firstaid red cross

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

Yep I heard the smelters are going to cost millions to get back working again due to not closing down properly! Just what they need ! I worked in elect supply, maintance industry in NSW . You always have two types of supply for emergencies or cut out maintenance . Seems saving money and making it for the shareholders is more important !! Tell that to the guys at Wyalla .

Dickodownunder · Guru

Aus-Kiwi wrote:
Yep I heard the smelters are going to cost millions to get back working again due to not closing down properly! Just what they need ! I worked in elect supply, maintance industry in NSW . You always have two types of supply for emergencies or cut out maintenance . Seems saving money and making it for the shareholders is more important !! Tell that to the guys at Wyalla .

Yes you are correct A K.

It is all good to feel fuzzy and warm inside because we as a state have the highest renewable energy figures.

But, SA has no base load power so when the transmission line from Victoria goes "down" we have no power.

Renewable energy is great as most of us know but if you are going to produce wind and solar power then you need some way to store it.

It offers no power security at all to rely on the grid from Victoria.

The last thing we wanted in SA was more costs to the Whyalla steel works. The cost to business in this state has been massive.

We are sitting on an enormous resource at Roxby Downs but have a state full of political retards who have no forsight or balls to harness this for power.

And yes, to the OP we have had some bad weather in SA biggrin

C00P · Senior Member

Use of renewables had nothing to do with this failure.
Take out 3 of the four main transmission lines in any grid and see if the rest of the system remains operational.
Most would struggle.
Vic got cut off to ensure the downed transmission lines in SA didn't drag the entire national system down.
SA's grid needs a review, for sure, to isolate major faults to smaller areas, but that's got nothing to do with use of renewables.

However, SA's use of renewables (and other states as they ramp it up) will require more access to energy storage systems, whether they be stored heat, pumped storage, or batteries, in order to smooth out the variability of renewable energy sources. The failures back in July taught that lesson.

C00P

-- Edited by C00P on Friday 30th of September 2016 10:32:50 PM

beiffe · Guru

I worked at the Smelters when we had the BIG STRIKE we needed to have to bring the company to their knees LOL.
When the union decided to go back to work the company would only take the people they wanted as all the furnaces had cooled etc and it took ages for a NEW NORMAL work force to return as they slowly took on people as they were needed. Many left and lots did not get recalled.
After a very short time ALL the trade jobs were subcontracted out and only a few tradesman were taken into shift work the rest just got kicked out.
Not sure how long the furnaces were down but if the bottom cooled then it will be dig them out then re-brick, reheat and cured the brickwork before starting up. Takes months of work. They considered closing down permanently
last time be interesting to see their reaction this time if it is that bad even though I think just a couple of days may not result in a cooling down that would result in a full rebuild so will be interesting to see what happens. Will contact a few people at the coal face and see what they saw.