To Mine is No Mind
People of Perth voted overwhelmingly to approve Plunder of resources such as massive eco destructive offshore gas fields and further wanton glutton theft of mineral ores from the most ancient slow-growth landscape in Australia.
So as this Plunder proceeded, there has been extreme Weather visiting West Australia:
Deadly bone cracking drought
Torrential storms attacking the main city of Plunder : Perth
From WA Today:
Perth wakes up to a $100m clean-up after storm of the year
March 22, 2010
The heavy rain caused a landslide at Kings Park, sending a river of mud cascading past Jacob's Ladder and down onto Mounts Bay Road, burying and crushing two cars. The landslide flooded the Adelphi and Waldorf apartment blocks with mud, causing 68 residents to be evacuated to the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre overnight.
Engineers conducted a structural assessment this morning. City of Perth chief executive Frank Edwards said Jacob's Ladder would remain closed until further notice.
Structural damage to buildings in the city "appeared to be minimal," Mr Edwards said.
Urban search and rescue squads went through the building yesterday evening, amid fears one person was missing. However, that resident was located.
Major flooding was recorded on major roads throughout the city, including Marmion Avenue, the Mitchell Freeway, the Mt Lawley subway, Wanneroo Road and Pinjar Road.
Insurers swamped
The RAC has called on members making insurance claims to be patient.
WA's largest home and motor insurer said it had received 6000 claims today, with a value of more than $10 million.
RAC spokesman Glen Walker said early indications were that the damage could rival the storm of May 2005 - which was one of the worst to hit the State.
Mr Walker said fixing homes with structural damage was a priority and the RAC was doing everything it could to help members.
SGIO operations manager Sandra Robinson said the insurer had allocated builders to most badly damaged homes of its customers.
"SGIO will look to help co-ordinate emergency accommodation, where necessary, and we will coordinate builders and tradespeople to help our customers repair damage to their homes," she said.
HBF pleaded with members to email, rather than phone, despite doubling the number of call-takers, "to give those with urgent claims the chance to be helped first", general insurance general manager Steve Hollows said.
The insurer expected to make record payouts for repairs to car windscreens and home windows, and its nominated glazing suppliers were already operating at full capacity.
It encouraged members to locate their own supplier and arrange for repairs to broken windows and windscreens themselves, rather than wait until lodging a claim.
Building advisory service Archicentre said water-damaged buildings could take months to dry out.
"The natural tendency for people to renovate and redecorate as quickly as possible can lead to mould growth and the work having to be repeated," state manager Brad Cook said.
Westpac and St George banks have announced relief packages for customers affected by the storm, including deferring home loan repayments.
Hospitals, airports hit
Homes have been destroyed, with commercial property and infrastructure also damaged after the severe hail storm and 35mm of rain hit the city about 4pm yesterday.
Two storm fronts battered the northern suburbs before heading south towards the city.
An SES spokesman urged people with damage to their homes to call the helpline 132 500 only if the damage was so great they could not fix it themselves. Calls for assistance would be placed in a queue depending on their urgency.
Western Power is urging people to only ring 13 13 51 to report dangerous situations, with the organisation inundated with calls about power outages.
Planes were stranded at both Perth airports after the deluge caused parts of the terminal roof to collapse. Perth Airport and Qantas have confirmed that international and domestic flights returned to normal this morning.
The SES has had reports of structural damage to several major hospitals and aged care facilities, including Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and elective surgery has been cancelled at all hospitals today as a precaution.
Four hospitals are still on Code Yellow (internal emergency) - Royal Perth, SCGH, Swan Districts and Hollywood.
Health Department state coordinator Andy Robertson said most problems with hospitals had been fixed, with elective surgery to resume tomorrow, including at RPH and SCGH.
Schools closed
Several schools will remain closed tomorrow, among them Brookman Primary, years 8-11 at Duncraig Senior High, Lynwood Senior High, Heathridge Primary, kindergarten and pre-primary at Hollywood Primary, Mindarie Senior College, North Perth Primary, years 8-10 at Perth Modern School, Ocean Reef Senior High, Quinns Rocks Primary, Shenton and Tuart Colleges and Tuart Hill Primary.
Heathridge, Hollywood, Lynwood, Ocean Reef, Quinns Rocks, Shenton, and Tuart College will all remain closed for the rest of the week.
All the above schools were closed today, as was John XXIII College.
Eighty per cent of Shenton College classrooms were flooded and 70 per cent of Ocean Reef SHS had flooded, while ceilings have also collapsed there.
One of the libraries at the University of Western Australia was flooded, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars damage. Windows at historic Winthrop Hall were also blown out by the storm, and the University's theatre venues suffered extensive damage.
Parliament has not been spared from the storm either, with the Legislative Council committee office put out of action.Weather warnings
The storm that hit yesterday was one of the biggest in Perth for many years, with wind gusts of more than 120kmh and 40.2mm of rain falling in the Bureau of Meteorology's Mt Lawley rain gauge in the 24 hours since 9am yesterday.
Of that, 23.4mm fell in the 30 minutes after 5pm yesterday.
Other areas were even worse hit. Wanneroo received 62.8mm - about four times its average March rainfall - while Jarrahdale got 57.2mm, Gosnells 53mm, Anketell 48.8mm, Swanbourne 48mm and Perth Airport 41mm, including 19.8mm in seven minutes from 5.05pm yesterday.
The rainfall at the airport was the highest recorded there on a March day since records commenced in 1944.
Mr Bergin said it was a "very significant and rare storm, the worst we've seen in 16 years".
Cool air in the upper atmosphere drifted over WA during the end of the weekend, enhancing a surface trough that was already firing storms through the interior.
The rain has not given an expected much needed boost to the parched state's water supplies, with Water Corporation general manager of customer service Ashley Vincent saying that little had fallen in the dams supplying Perth.
However, the power cuts had led to breakdowns in pumps at some sewage stations, Corporation spokesman Phil Kneebone told Radio 6PR.
Perth had received a meagre 0.2mm of rainfall in the year to yesterday, and no significant rain had fallen in the city for 122 days.
The average rainfall for March is 21mm, but with the most recent downpour, Perth now has about its average amount for the first three months of the year.
- WA Today 22 March 2010
March 22, 2010
The heavy rain caused a landslide at Kings Park, sending a river of mud cascading past Jacob's Ladder and down onto Mounts Bay Road, burying and crushing two cars. The landslide flooded the Adelphi and Waldorf apartment blocks with mud, causing 68 residents to be evacuated to the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre overnight.
Engineers conducted a structural assessment this morning. City of Perth chief executive Frank Edwards said Jacob's Ladder would remain closed until further notice.
Structural damage to buildings in the city "appeared to be minimal," Mr Edwards said.
Urban search and rescue squads went through the building yesterday evening, amid fears one person was missing. However, that resident was located.
Major flooding was recorded on major roads throughout the city, including Marmion Avenue, the Mitchell Freeway, the Mt Lawley subway, Wanneroo Road and Pinjar Road.
Insurers swamped
The RAC has called on members making insurance claims to be patient.
WA's largest home and motor insurer said it had received 6000 claims today, with a value of more than $10 million.
RAC spokesman Glen Walker said early indications were that the damage could rival the storm of May 2005 - which was one of the worst to hit the State.
Mr Walker said fixing homes with structural damage was a priority and the RAC was doing everything it could to help members.
SGIO operations manager Sandra Robinson said the insurer had allocated builders to most badly damaged homes of its customers.
"SGIO will look to help co-ordinate emergency accommodation, where necessary, and we will coordinate builders and tradespeople to help our customers repair damage to their homes," she said.
HBF pleaded with members to email, rather than phone, despite doubling the number of call-takers, "to give those with urgent claims the chance to be helped first", general insurance general manager Steve Hollows said.
The insurer expected to make record payouts for repairs to car windscreens and home windows, and its nominated glazing suppliers were already operating at full capacity.
It encouraged members to locate their own supplier and arrange for repairs to broken windows and windscreens themselves, rather than wait until lodging a claim.
Building advisory service Archicentre said water-damaged buildings could take months to dry out.
"The natural tendency for people to renovate and redecorate as quickly as possible can lead to mould growth and the work having to be repeated," state manager Brad Cook said.
Westpac and St George banks have announced relief packages for customers affected by the storm, including deferring home loan repayments.
Hospitals, airports hit
Homes have been destroyed, with commercial property and infrastructure also damaged after the severe hail storm and 35mm of rain hit the city about 4pm yesterday.
Two storm fronts battered the northern suburbs before heading south towards the city.
An SES spokesman urged people with damage to their homes to call the helpline 132 500 only if the damage was so great they could not fix it themselves. Calls for assistance would be placed in a queue depending on their urgency.
Western Power is urging people to only ring 13 13 51 to report dangerous situations, with the organisation inundated with calls about power outages.
Planes were stranded at both Perth airports after the deluge caused parts of the terminal roof to collapse. Perth Airport and Qantas have confirmed that international and domestic flights returned to normal this morning.
The SES has had reports of structural damage to several major hospitals and aged care facilities, including Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and elective surgery has been cancelled at all hospitals today as a precaution.
Four hospitals are still on Code Yellow (internal emergency) - Royal Perth, SCGH, Swan Districts and Hollywood.
Health Department state coordinator Andy Robertson said most problems with hospitals had been fixed, with elective surgery to resume tomorrow, including at RPH and SCGH.
Schools closed
Several schools will remain closed tomorrow, among them Brookman Primary, years 8-11 at Duncraig Senior High, Lynwood Senior High, Heathridge Primary, kindergarten and pre-primary at Hollywood Primary, Mindarie Senior College, North Perth Primary, years 8-10 at Perth Modern School, Ocean Reef Senior High, Quinns Rocks Primary, Shenton and Tuart Colleges and Tuart Hill Primary.
Heathridge, Hollywood, Lynwood, Ocean Reef, Quinns Rocks, Shenton, and Tuart College will all remain closed for the rest of the week.
All the above schools were closed today, as was John XXIII College.
Eighty per cent of Shenton College classrooms were flooded and 70 per cent of Ocean Reef SHS had flooded, while ceilings have also collapsed there.
One of the libraries at the University of Western Australia was flooded, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars damage. Windows at historic Winthrop Hall were also blown out by the storm, and the University's theatre venues suffered extensive damage.
Parliament has not been spared from the storm either, with the Legislative Council committee office put out of action.Weather warnings
The storm that hit yesterday was one of the biggest in Perth for many years, with wind gusts of more than 120kmh and 40.2mm of rain falling in the Bureau of Meteorology's Mt Lawley rain gauge in the 24 hours since 9am yesterday.
Of that, 23.4mm fell in the 30 minutes after 5pm yesterday.
Other areas were even worse hit. Wanneroo received 62.8mm - about four times its average March rainfall - while Jarrahdale got 57.2mm, Gosnells 53mm, Anketell 48.8mm, Swanbourne 48mm and Perth Airport 41mm, including 19.8mm in seven minutes from 5.05pm yesterday.
The rainfall at the airport was the highest recorded there on a March day since records commenced in 1944.
Mr Bergin said it was a "very significant and rare storm, the worst we've seen in 16 years".
Cool air in the upper atmosphere drifted over WA during the end of the weekend, enhancing a surface trough that was already firing storms through the interior.
The rain has not given an expected much needed boost to the parched state's water supplies, with Water Corporation general manager of customer service Ashley Vincent saying that little had fallen in the dams supplying Perth.
However, the power cuts had led to breakdowns in pumps at some sewage stations, Corporation spokesman Phil Kneebone told Radio 6PR.
Perth had received a meagre 0.2mm of rainfall in the year to yesterday, and no significant rain had fallen in the city for 122 days.
The average rainfall for March is 21mm, but with the most recent downpour, Perth now has about its average amount for the first three months of the year.
- WA Today 22 March 2010
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