Recent entries
- Weekend Break Wine Awards 2011
- Ela blows into Bruin
- Ela Carte's Morsels
- Ela Carte's Morsels
- Ela Carte's Morsels
- Ela gets amongst the Brambles and Vines
- Ela rugs up at Scarf
- Brothels searched for Bung case
- RSS Syndicate this blog (XML)
What we're talking about
- NW on Win A Lexus with The Rumour File That common sense has become very uncommon! more
- Ela Carte on Ela Carte's Morsels Hi Gail,I think you must mean Noir, which is at 175 Swan St Richmond - www.noirrestaurant.com.au.And yes, it was absolutely ... more
- peter on Win A Lexus with The Rumour File RE YOUR RUMOUR FILE ALL THIS MONEY MR DOYLE IS SPENDING ON SWANSTON ST I THINK RUMOUR USED TO BE FACT THAT SWANSTON ST IS A ... more
- Nicholas on 3AW Online Community HUGE GARAGE SALE!Everything is absolutely cheap29 Greensted Grove, Roxburgh Park8:00 - 4:00 more
- Jaime on Ask Bob Hart a food question Hi Bob,I've been getting extra organised this year and have already started making my Christmas puddings for family and ... more
- Marty Cogger on Streaming 3AW with Mac and iPhone Please tell me why no android app,does apple own the world.No all the the people in the world have to own anything apple. more
- Caroline on 3AW Online Community Choir of Hope & Inspiration â?? Joy to the World concertWed 7th December Christmas Concert - 7:30pm, St Michaelâ??s Uniting ... more
- gail creighton on Ela Carte's Morsels Morning Ela I was wondering if you could advise the restaurant that you were discussing with Ross and John on Friday morning ... more
- Nina on 3AW Online Community Garage Sale - 16 Wilsons Road Doncaser this Saturday 26th November starting at 8.00am. Vintage homewares, manchester, ... more
- Mim and Millie on Mikayla Francis not forgotten We love and miss our cheeky little princess. Will be sending you love and messages on Sunday.XXX more
- Anonymous on BLOG: Eastlink speed camera I'm glad to see I'm not alone on this. I received a fine yesterday for the Wellington Rd underpass, when I know for a fact ... more
- Sandra Pemberton on 3AW Online Community Garage sale, Saturday 5th November from 8am, 9 Shenfield Avenue Chelsea- while you're at the beach today pop in and have a ... more
- liberty1 on Do Not Fit A Smart Meter! Smart meters are a part of the United Nations Agenda 21 plan. Everyone here will know about Agenda 21 indirectly, it is also ... more
- olive on Do Not Fit A Smart Meter! Because we have a granny flat,there would be 2 smart meters on the wall directly behind our bedhead. Does anyone know how ... more
- Mich Smith on Do Not Fit A Smart Meter! Our block of units had smart meters installed without consent and with no prior notification either. My partner bought an ... more
- Gillian Horvath on 3AW Online Community SALES BONANZA : Fundraiser for the Drysdale Bowling & Croquet Club, Collins St, Drysdale : Sunday 6th November : 10am to ... more
- Graham Ferguson on Streaming 3AW with Mac and iPhone another vote for an android app more
- Dianne on 3AW Online Community Sandy Point Wind FestivalCup Weekend Saturday 30 October and Sunday 31 October.Sandy Point is approx 2 hours from Melbourne ... more
- lola on Smart meter rollout continues I just listened to the Energy Minister Michael O'Brien say that we all pay for the SM whether we have it installed or not! ... more
- Sue Mittermair on Do Not Fit A Smart Meter! Say no to Smart Metres. An enquiry to suspend is needed now. Power prices will go up. Everyone I know who has a smart metre ... more
One dead and flooding after storms
Image of Cobden pools
A teenager is dead and thousands of people are without power after a night of foul weather - the worst to hit Victoria since the hailstorm in March.
A 19-year-old Gembrook man died when he crashed into a fallen tree in Gembrook Road, Pakenham Upper, south-east of Melbourne, at the height of the the wild storm about 5am today. He is Victoria's 200th road fatality this year.
Email your pictures to photos@3aw.com.au
A road sign flies through in Moama. Picture: Jenna Natalizio
And emergency crews are working to restore power to more than 1800 homes in storm-lashed areas across the state.
About 200 SES volunteers in Melbourne were on high alert last night as the cold front crept eastwards towards the city while around 150 more worked to repair damage caused earlier in the day.
The SES had taken about 200 calls by 7pm in the state's west and mid-west after heavy rains and strong winds created havoc there yesterday.
Bob Napier in Port Fairy. Picture: Angela Milne
Port Fairy, Warrnambool, Camperdown and Cobden were the worst-hit areas, with the SES saying the region received an average 80 millimetres of rainfall between midnight and 6pm and parts of the Otways recording falls of up to 120 millimetres.
Residents had to be evacuated when a Port Fairy caravan park flooded after the Moyne River burst its banks about 2.30pm as winds of up to 135 km/h thrashed the region.
Trees were blown over, houses were damaged by flying debris and some suffered minor flooding while one house in Cobden had its roof blown off.
A house is under water in Warrnambool. Picture: Angela Milne
The front lashed Ballarat and Ararat about 5pm, where SES crews scrambled to repair buildings and clear roads of fallen trees.
The wild weather was expected to hit Melbourne's west about 11pm last night and continue easterly south of the Great Dividing Range before hitting Gippsland around dawn.
Gusts of up to 110 km/h were expected in exposed areas and the Bureau of Meteorology last night warned Melburnians to prepare for between 20 and 30 millimetres of rain in the early hours of today.
The rain-bearing trough was also blamed for a tornado that hit Moama on the Victoria/NSW border on Tuesday afternoon and tore the roof off at least one house and sucked trees into the sky. Leading Senior Constable Allan Foskett told The Age he saw a large black cloud and heard an enormous roar before debris, including a tree, was shot up to 30 metres in the air.
An image sent to 3AW of the Whittlesea footy ground
http://www.theage.com.au/
Blog comments
-
David, at least you're consistent~! Quoting from Sceptic's Monthly again? So now you're not a money hungry Liberal (when it's convenient), but now switched sides to support Labor. Geeze, don't they come out of the woodwork around election time~! David, how much do they pay you for the garbage you produce? According to David, 97% of reputable scientists are wrong, but obviously David is right. David, the difference is that those same scientists actually put their real name & credibility on the line, unlike little irrelevant nobodies like you. David is getting a laugh? Congratulations David, I'm sure those many thousands buried in mud slides & drowning as a direct result of massive flooding in China & Pakistan, plus the other 170 that died in the bushfires are equally amused~! You really are one sick, twisted individual~! So according to David, the conclusions from the Bushfire Royal Commission are also wrong, and he would know being an expert fire fighter & tree hugger? Yes David, and don't forget to take your medication.
Lenny Monday 18 October, 2010 - 8:28 AM -
is victoria still getting a desalination plant after all this rain ? one does wonder
col Tuesday 17 August, 2010 - 8:00 AM -
Wrong again, Lenny, I'm not a Liberal but I was getting a laugh about you until I started feeling sorry for you. I can just imagine you cowering inside all day with curtains closed, waiting for Armageddon to occur. When the ash settles on the Black Saturday fires we will see that the reason the fires were so fierce and we lost so many lives was that we have had years of bush and undergrowth that has been allowed to build up and we have had a huge number of city & suburban people movimg to the bush & building & living up against forested areas of mainly Eucalypts. Councils & government haven't allowed burning off and have enforced ill informed planning permits. Bushfires are something I know about Lenny, I was involved in fighting fires in Ash Wednesday and my property survived the Grampians fires because of good management which included lots of the right trees that don't go off like a bomb in a fire. Come outside, Lenny, and enjoy the variations of Nature. You'll be ok, the bogey man won't get you today at least!
David Friday 13 August, 2010 - 3:47 PM -
Yes Peter, we know your Liberal Party inspired theories on GW, anything goes as long as it doesn't interrupt Company Profits for the Liberal Party, particularly COAL MINING~! Perhaps you should consider applying for a job as a Political Commentator on 3AW? I'm sure you'd fit in well with the other convenient memories~!
Lenny Friday 13 August, 2010 - 1:47 PM -
The funny thing about the global warming argument is if i'm wrong ( i am not ) nothing drastic has happened and we all survive, if the non-believers are wrong (they are ) we are screwed.
Cheryl Friday 13 August, 2010 - 12:21 PM -
Peter, you're typical moronic Liberal Party denier~! Should have gone nuclear? Yeah right, and your mother should have gone to an abortionist~! Run away sonny~!
Lenny Thursday 12 August, 2010 - 10:22 PM
