A home has been completely flattened by a freak Tornado, the young father inside knocked out by a flying brick. Updated May 19, 2003 15:43:00 Photo: A tornado has ripped through Bendigo. "I watched it pass over me and it took out the shed and the rear fence and I watched it go up and over the hill and still had flashes of lightning in it. She was very upset, no roof left on her house at all, no garage. "It really comes back to self-help being the most important aspect of dealing with emergency situations like these, with the deluge of rain that we had, there's no way we can attend to all the tasks in that short period of time," he said. "On top of that we have lots of trees down across houses and roofs and roads and cars, lots of flash flooding and power lines down," Mr Poulton said.
(ABC TV) Photo: A tornado has damaged dozens of homes in Bendigo…
Eaglehawk resident Shane Chester said his wife and children, including a five-day-old baby, were showered with glass when a window in their house was blown in during the tornado. "My wife was saying the window was starting to shake and then it just exploded into the house," Mr Chester told Melbourne radio station 3AW. Robyn Dalton was at her parents' home when the storm hit, she told ABC radio their house was intact but nearby fences were down and cars had been crushed by fallen trees. A 20-odd-foot (six metre) beam came up in the air and just speared down through the carport." Bendigo hit by mini-tornado. 22 of the deaths occurred at the Guadalupe Hall where a group had gathered for a children's graduation ceremony. "[I was] extremely frightened, almost to the stage where I couldn't move," Mr Chester said.
About 400 tornadoes were reported during the first 10 days of May, more than 500 were reported during the entire month. Tornado number 9 touched down 2 miles southwest of Saragosa in Reeves County, and moved northeastward for 3 miles. "It is up to the property owner to do the best they can with their local resources. California Gully resident Daryl Waters said it was remarkable nobody had been hurt, given the extensive damage to property in the area. It was amazing. Australia has them, too, the worst probably being in Brighton on February 2, 1918, causing widespread destruction. It will have to be demolished for sure," Mr Waters told ABC Radio.
SES crews would begin assessing damage at first light this morning and begin the clean up effort which is expected to last well into tomorrow. Wind speeds ranged from 130 km/h to 150 km/h at the core of the storm. The Life and Death of Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer - Duration: 38:47. "Another 45 to 50 houses sustained varying degrees of damage." Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size. It's in pieces. 1/2 mile wide as it crossed over Saragosa, the F4 tornado destroyed more than 80% of the town, killed 30 residents and injured 121.
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May 19, 2003 — 10.00am . "There were great lengths of timber beams.
"You could see a lot of debris going past, sheets of iron and small pieces of timber and that, and the next minute you could hear the roof creaking and cracking," he said.Shane Chester took refuge in his car, after being mesmerised by the approaching tornado. Resident Alan Jensen, whose home was badly damaged in the severe storm, described it as "a very frightening experience". In fact, around May 1 through July 1 was the most active time of the year in tornadoes. "There was big chunks of metal and wood and things flying through the air, it was actually just like something out of a movie," Ms Dalton said. "We had significant outages for quite some time which made it difficult, basically we couldn't see what the damage was.
Mr Poulton said the "horrific" conditions, which were largely confined to the Californian Gully area of Bendigo, were unprecedented in the area. "I just opened the door to go and shut the gate and I could just see all the neighbours' tiles on their roof flying in the air," Mr Wilkinson told ABC Radio. "We've got an elderly lady next door in her late 70s. "The storm struck last night, with winds of more than 130 kilometres an hour.California Gully was the worst-affected area, with between eight and 10 homes torn apart and 45 to 50 others incurring structural damage.Resident Alan Jenson was inside his home when the tornado struck. The storm, which hit Bendigo, 140km north-west of Melbourne, just after 5pm (AEST) yesterday, unroofed several houses, uprooted trees and brought down power lines. Bendigo tornado clean-up continues. The city of Bendigo is located in Victoria, a southeastern state in Australia.