{"id":29,"date":"2011-02-21T16:26:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T06:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2011-02-21T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T06:26:31","slug":"major-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Major Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a hot, humid weekend, another gorgeous-looking and sunny morning greeted us after an uncomfortably sultry night. Then I read the weather forecast: Severe storms with torrential rain and even hail expected for Brisbane &#8220;between 3 and 5pm&#8221;. Generally, the weather forecast here is awesome. So, when they issue a severe weather warning, with a time attached, it is very likely that this will happen, no matter how sunny the morning. Sure enough, and right on time, at around 3pm the sunshine became hazy before disappearing altogether.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/storm_approaching.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32\" title=\"Storm approaching\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/storm_approaching.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/storm_approaching.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/storm_approaching-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The storm approaches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The clouds got darker and darker.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/ominous_clouds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31\" title=\"Ominous Clouds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/ominous_clouds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/ominous_clouds.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/ominous_clouds-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The clouds were looking distinctly ominous<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then, a howling gale with rain, thunder and lightning. The works. Sadly I did not manage to get a lightning strike on a photo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/howling_gale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30\" title=\"Howling Gale\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/howling_gale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/howling_gale.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/howling_gale-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the heavy rain, the CBD has all but disappeared.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The balcony is three meters in depth and fully-covered. And I had cleaned the deck earlier today. I needn&#8217;t have bothered. The rain got very nearly all the way to the door.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/wet_balcony.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33\" title=\"Wet Balcony\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/wet_balcony.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/wet_balcony.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/wet_balcony-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The covered balcony is no match for the rain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At least I have not seen any of the hail that was forecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a hot, humid weekend, another gorgeous-looking and sunny morning greeted us after an uncomfortably sultry night. Then I read the weather forecast: Severe storms with torrential rain and even hail expected for Brisbane &#8220;between 3 and 5pm&#8221;. Generally, the weather forecast here is awesome. So, when they issue a severe weather warning, with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=29\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Major Storm<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brisbane","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}