Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to Scariest STORM Moments In Australia" video.

  1. Houses on high stilts are very common in the tropical places. Here up most of the Queensland coast and upper Northern Territory type areas. Excellent air circulation assists with living in hot humid climates. Also not bad when flood water levels ruse. If you get over 1 meter, 1000 mm , rain in one big downpour you do not even need to be on a river flood plane, just on lower ground than a large land area and you have feet deep water rushing past the house enough to wash away cars. Talking lots of rain, the Saturday news paper 23rd July, had an article in an enclosed mini magazine, dealing with one of Australia's swimming champions, that got Gold medals over past years dealing with their farm life in North NSW, on a Maccadamia farm. They are in one of the districts that has had two major floods this year and several high water times. Apparently the area normal annual rain comes to around 1300mm, this year so far total is 3000 mm. So that is 3 meters, abit over 36 inches rain fall. At one of the floods they received over 1200 mm rain overnight. That run off into the local streams and rivers was why much of LISMORE town was submerged, with major evacuation required. Yes there are tropical places with very high rain falls, even Kauai Island of the Hawaii chain from memory of my short holiday has annual rain of over 460 inches. But that rain on Lismore is a significant part in one night of not quite 10% of that annual amount, and is very nearly the normal average annual rain for the Lismore district. I personally in central Queensland had 4 in rain in 20 minutes while in the sapphire diggings region of staying in a Motel for New Years night in Emerald, nearest moderate town, some 500km inland from Rockhampton . In the morning the highway out of town was for 20km under water by between a few inches and lower sections up to near 2ft deep. Our 4WD handled the trip well, but needing later to wait 6 hrs, effectively all day, for a creek to reduce to get back to the gem diggings. Yes tropical storms get spectacular lightening, and heavy rain, occasionally hail too. Here the Hurricans are called Cyclones and being southern hemisphere rotate opposite to those in northern hemisphere.
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