{"id":22,"date":"2014-11-28T08:17:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T08:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2014-11-28T08:20:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T08:20:22","slug":"storm-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/storm-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Brisbane copped one of the worst storms in living memory, comparable, it has been said, to the 1985 hail storm in its destructive ferocity. \u00a0I recall the 1985 storm with great clarity.<\/p>\n<p>I was working at ABC Television, in the old ABC studios at Toowong. \u00a0Ironically I was broadcasting the warning messages on air while the great storm front rolled in from the east. \u00a0It was a wall of green air that looked terrible. \u00a0And when it arrived, it was like being inside a drum as the hail hammered on the roof.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Toowong-ABC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23\" src=\"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Toowong-ABC-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Toowong ABC\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Toowong-ABC-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Toowong-ABC-399x300.jpg 399w, http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Toowong-ABC.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The car park was behind the building, right on the water, and my car resembled a golf ball it was so pitted with the apple sized hail stones raining down on it. \u00a0The hail looked like snow, so much of it fell. \u00a0And my home, which back then was in Bardon, was saturated throughout as I had left the windows open to keep the place cool while I was at work.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday in Brisbane was a repeat of that destruction.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Windscreen smashes as hail pounds Brisbane\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4XJmSnEJNiA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am in awe of the effort we see by emergency services personnel who risk their lives to help people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Brisbane copped one of the worst storms in living memory, comparable, it has been said, to the 1985 hail storm in its destructive ferocity. \u00a0I recall the 1985 storm with great clarity. I was working at ABC Television, in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/storm-front\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YXnC-m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kurrajongfarm.com.au\/ablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}