In the Aftermath of the Perth Storm

In the aftermath this morning, where lots of traffic lights were out, I was impressed with the calm and patience of drivers heading into work, allowing traffic to flow at failed traffic lights. The traffic would flow in one direction, till some drivers reckoned that they'd had a good go, and would stop and let traffic in the other direction have a go for a while. All it took as patience and a smile. As well as at failed lights, quite a few working lights were taken over by police pointsmen to speed up the flow (traffic lights aren't the smartest of things).
Drove past the Audi dealership in Osborne Park this morn, and it was sad to see a whole yard of new Audis with serious hail dings. Didn't get the chance to look, but Barbagallo's, across the road would similarly have had a few damaged Astons, Range Rovers, etc. Serious stuff.
There were still a few stranded cars around the place, where the owners had abandoned them from the night before.
And power looks like being out for a while in some places. Had my hair cut this arvo, and poor barber Tony was still working without power, but the adjacent supermarket and shopping centre was closed. The move to put in underground power thru the metro area some years back has paid its dividends, but it doesn't help when lightning destroys a substation, as happened in a couple of places.
Gerry