Adelaide hottest in 70 years

[davidc4430]

here in wallaroo my temp guage is saying 44c outside, just took foo out for a quick bathroom break and it feels every bit of that!

luckily the airconditioners working well and we have had no power outages. (touch wood, head)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-25/turnbull-urges-australians-to-help-the-vulnerable-this-christm...

i do hope others are having cooler weather for christmas.

[davidc4430]

78mm rain!

now we have queensland weather, humid 87%. airconditioners just blowing air not cool.

32c at 9am, no clouds at the moment.

i expect the cricket in melbourne will get a delay when the rain gets there as i think it will.

[imastawka]

Nope.   The rainband went south out to the ocean.

Melbourne not expecting rain of any consequence, til stumps.

[twyngwyn]

Our power came back at 5.20pm yesterday - after being OUT for 40 hours....am in Adelaide metro. Will spend today emptying 2 x fridge/freezers & photographing contents for insurance claim....arrggghhhhh

[imastawka]

Insurance is gunna be a pain, Twynnie

I lost the contents of a fridge/freezer a few years back.

The photos, they liked.    But I had to individually price everything for replacement.

No on-line shopping in those days, so I had to walk the aisles of the supermarket

just writing down prices.

Hope they don't make you do that.

[myoclon1cjerk]

See if you can borrow a couple of jars of Baluga caviar and 3 kilos of Kobe strip steak to put in your fridge before you take photos, twyngwyn 😉

[twyngwyn]

yes, I've seen the pdf file they've sent me....gonna take all day, am procrastinating already 😞

[twyngwyn]

has the OP been around or is he without power too?

[imastawka]

David's down in Wallaroo.   He seeems to be ok.    He's been on-line

[lyndal1838]

When I lost the contents of a 3 month old freezer I claimed on the manufacturer.   There was an upper limit of $300 which was way under the value of the lost items (it was coming up to Christmas and I had pork, turkey rolls and other seasonal goodies).

As it was the second time this had happened.....the first time as 6 weeks after we bought it....and I had not made a claim the first time, I rang and appealed the amount.  The service man was terrific...he had been out both times and confirmed that I had lost a substantial amount of food the first time as well.   In the end I was sent a cheque for $500, which at the time was a goodly sum of money and certainly refilled the NEW freezer.

[davidc4430]

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@twyngwyn wrote:

has the OP been around or is he without power too?

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wallaroo has had not much storm, did get 65mm rain overnight but not the damaging wind adelaide got. power was off in the early hours, around 2.30am untill about 5am. had it not been for my computers battery backup alarm going off i prolly wouldnt have noticed it was off.

been pretty nice here the last 2 days, around 24c with cool sea breeze. glad the humid weathers moved on.

oh, and woke up this morning to the news our new NBN service has been switched on, i will be able to give telstras expensive wireless service the filck at last! yay!