Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to Tornado near Bathurst?" video.

  1. A lot of the destruction is due to the structures and even trees are not by design resistant to this type of strong swirling wind. Not clse to comperable to the tornados of central USA. The sheds and roofs could suffer serious damage even in extra strong winds. Far north has cyclones (hurricanes) but down here in mid and southern areas rare. Cyclones regularly cause severe damages, among worst was Darwin was almost completely leveled by Cyclone Tracy, right on Christmas Day back in latter 1900s. . There are past instances for tornado damages, for example back in early to mid 1900s Brighton area in Melbourne suffered much damage from a largish tornado. Strong Earth quakes are also rare as Australia is middling of a large continental plate, but is also moving northwards at near 7cm per year, pushing into Indonesia and New Guinea. Apparently in far distant future liable to collide with China, and finally Alaska, but that is not our concern as we are so far gone by then, as dinosaurs are from us. The movement does build stresses that do release over time, and in fact there are low level shocks all the time. Occasionally stronger ones lime Newcastle in NSW, causing severe damage and from memory 19 deaths, or Mekering WA, causing damage. Last week in Melbourne is the only strong one I have experienced here in 60yrs. I was on Youtube when I was strongly shaken in bed. Some items tumbling down to floor from my booksheld, and a few items toppled around the house and yard. In the past the worst was a barely sensed shake, enough to wobble wardrobe doors or shake reflection in mirror or other glass surface while almost no or none sensed motion. We were fortunate that the centre of quake was not under Melbourne, but under mountains well into country some 90 to 100km away from main population. Even the nearby to epicentre country towns had .minimal damage
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  2. Yes, very unusual in Australia. While dust devils, rotating air masses are quite common, this level of wind rotation truely a tornado creating extensive damage is not so common. In fact almost as rare as the recent stronger earth quake in Victoria I do not know if in all the recent viewing you have looked at more 4WD travels on Fraser Island. There are plenty of bogged vehicle videos. One that I just looked at, is now 1yr old, is "ANOTHER DAY AT NGKALA FRASER ISLAND" which is typical at this location at 18min long not excessi e there are plenty even longer videos. My 1994 travel there, previously described was different terrain now much changed, but still a serious challenge. Some just breeze through, others seem destined to fail.
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