the sydney thunderstorm of 1999?

Question

how long did it take to have the whole of sydney back to normal after the thunderstorm in 1999 on 14th april

Answer 1

I remember this storm. It only effected the coastal suburbs and where I was, we only had heavy rain, no hail.

When I go to work I looked out of the offices buildings on those suburbs and say a sea a tarpaulins covering the holes in rooves.

My colleague, from Russian mind you, was complaining the hail stones in her back yard was knee deep, after 20 minutes of hail. Something she never saw in russian.

Now as this was the build up to the Olympics with the associated building boom. This meant that, even with builders coming from other cities, there was a shortage of builders in Sydney at that time, and that shortage continued until after September 2000, which also resulted in a building boom, as many people had put off building work until after the Olympics, meaning that the availability of cost of builders remained high.

Basically it took years to fix the damage, with work still going on a couple years after the hail storm.

Measuring this is quite hard, because much of the damage was private properties, rather than public infrastructure. This means much of the work was done dependent on money and interest.

Answer 2

Years. because it wasn't just a thunderstorm.

It was a hailstorm that damaged thousands of homes. Some hailstones were the size of oranges and bigger.

Blue tarpaulins on roofs were common place around the suburbs of Sydney for months afterwards.

The word normal ? People can cope with adverse situations
such as a hailstorm but suffer greatly afterwards financially and emotionally.

I experienced an earlier hailstorm in my suburb of sydney in late 80's where my bedrooms windows were broken by hailstones and cars in the street had broken windsheilds.
That storm is still with me whenever dark clouds come over.
and it wasn't as bad as the one in 1999.

I now live 400kms away from Sydney - 6hrs by car