After Sydney was hit by two "worst in a lifetime" storms in one week in February, Melbourne got hit shortly after, and now Perth has had their turn! The Insurance Council of Australia has declared the Perth storms a "general insurance catastrophe", and Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett said the storm had caused "well over $100 million damage".
Something in the climate is changing, surely!
An interesting detail came out in the news reports. Mr Barnett said that since the last major storm in 1994 about half of Perth's power lines had been put underground, which would aid the cleanup effort this time around. At Mt Lawley 23mm fell in 30 minutes. Wanneroo received a total of 63mm - about four times its average March rainfall.
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