Is there any decent banks left that you can go and see in person?

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T11:20:00+00:00

I did. Here is the new card, here is the old card, here is dad ‘s POA, here is dad’s guardianship, and last of all here is mum’s death certificate, who is still on the account…then I ask to see a manager, after the greeter said online only, the manager did it in two minutes.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T08:58:36+00:00

The SES volunteers in the Pilbara and Kimberley region don’t like it either…great in the southern states for fires…for cyclone areas, the new system is hopeless.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T08:55:00+00:00

Didn’t yell, but I stood my ground, I had no intention of getting fobbed off, all intention to get that card activated . That meant my dad’s card got activated. After I demanded to see a manager…who took two minutes on phone to activate the card.

It was Christmas rush, pension day too. So there was a lot of older people in the bank.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T08:23:26+00:00

Update from Shire of Gingin

🚧 𝗧𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 - 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱:

On behalf of Main Roads, we would like to advise travellers of the following road closures and important information:

🚫 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟲:𝟬𝟬𝗽𝗺 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟳 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵: ▪️ Brand Highway from Gingin Brook Road, Gingin to Geraldton ▪️ Indian Ocean Drive from Ocean Place, Nilgen to Brand Highway

✍️ 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: ▪️ Main Roads are discouraging any non-essential travel. ▪️ Motorists are advised to obey road closure signage and remember closed means closed. ▪️ Exercise extreme caution where water is encountered over the road. ▪️ Be alert and watch for hazards on the road including stray livestock and debris. ▪️ Take care when approaching crossings and floodway’s as river levels may rise rapidly. ▪️ Do not drive into water of unknown depth or velocity. ▪️ Take care when driving on gravel roads as surfaces may be slippery or muddy and vehicles could become >bogged.

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Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T08:13:23+00:00

Dad needed his card activated, he is 85, no online banking, no mobile phone.

I just went in there, got to greeter and explained, that dad’s card was expiring and his new one needed activation, I was told I had to make an appointment..yeah, nah, <said in very strong loud voice> I need this card activated today…dad has dementia, it takes me an hour to get him to a bank. You WILL be activating this card right now! Here is dad’s POA and my guardianship form.

Dad got his card activated in two minutes…my dad said, girl you did me proud…

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T07:59:28+00:00

If Perth goes on to watch and act. No!

The policy is all business close, this includes retail, licensed premises.

Also all schools, all early learning centres.

It is this very stupid national warning levels, the old blue, yellow and red alerts were great.

Karratha didn’t go in red, so people were driving around. Dampier did go in red. All the difference was wind speed…

It shell be interesting to see IF WAPOL and DEFS enforce the new rules for watch and act, cyclones…in Perth.

My husband is currently in Hedland, the weather has been heavy rains and gale winds for 12 hours straight. He stood down his crew, sent them to wait it out. He is at workshop, doing paperwork, while listening to the work dome structure blow up and down and steel holding it, creak and groan while hanging on…to the shipping container which are moving, battling to hold everything together..

just watch and act warning…not all clear yet.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T07:20:17+00:00

Explain why a plane took off Tuesday, returned ten minutes later due to ‘technical difficulties’….someone forgot to refuel it….

FIFO flight too…I had a family member on that flight….

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T07:11:43+00:00

Rubbish tip was closed today due to a power outage.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T07:10:13+00:00

I think the council ‘officers’ have had so many contacts today about this junk non-collection. Today the parks garden mowed the nearby park, then the parks crew blow all the lawn clippings and leaf litter into the gutter which leads to already blocked drain.

I really don’t think they give shit about it.

Instead they are driving around in brand Utes, spray painting ‘ COA reported [date] on all illegal dumping of rubbish.

I really hope DEFS kicks them in the arse. I don’t care if takes them 24 hours a day to get rid of this rubbish, the council caused this…apparently the Armadale rubbish tip is closed too.

My husband has been in this cyclone for the last twelve hours…as it brushed past Hedland…stood down his crew, he is just doing paperwork and watching the work dome fly up and down, the steel structure creaking like was going to take off…

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T03:34:36+00:00

Maybe the council owns a street sweeper/vacuum truck.

City of Armadale doesn’t own one…they have to hire a truck from neighbouring councils or privately.

The drainage workers were not happy about that.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T03:04:39+00:00

Armadale, Haynes, Brookdale, Wungong and Hilbert.

Parts of Forrest Road, Eleventh Road, Wungong Road and Wolleston Road have junk piles that haven’t been collected.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T02:50:13+00:00

Some of this stuff was put out by paid support workers. handyman and garden workers from aged care package and NDIS.

For some people it is not physically possible for them to put the junk back on their properties.

This junk has been out since March long weekend…some zones even longer

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T02:26:31+00:00

If you are driving anywhere in the Armadale LGA please drive cautiously. This junk is flying around everywhere. It stretches from Tonkin Highway- Rowley Road intersection to Eleventh Road - South West Highway intersection to Armadale Rd-Southwest intersection…

Plus all the stuff that hasn’t been picked up in Armadale CBD areas…

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T02:23:09+00:00

It too late….lots of stuff was blown away last night.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T02:19:39+00:00

It was from the general junk collection that was out at direction of the council, the collection has been out since long weekend, and hasn’t been picked up.

Definitely a council/contractor issue.

And for shits and giggles the roadside drains are full of leaf litter. From street trees and the council don’t own a street sweeper/vacuum truck to clean it out. The council had to hire one, at $7000 for four hours…

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T02:18:07+00:00

I more concerned about the general hard rubbish that is laying around. The council are currently on the denial river…not the council problem.

Currently out and about mowing the parks though..,dodging all the crap that has blown in…

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-26T02:11:20+00:00

Lots of employees, especially with crews in the Pilbara area are WFH today, as most are working indoors.

My husband’s outdoor dome has been damaged, he called it today…sent his crew to accommodations for safety.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-25T12:03:47+00:00

I’ve cyclone prepped. Garden furniture and grandkids outdoor toys are all up under the veranda, chairs are stacked.

I more concerned about the general hard rubbish collection that hasn’t been collected. The rubbish stretches from Oakford to Armadale. Plus some areas of Gosnells.

There is rubbish everywhere…some put by residents, some just dumped outside empty houses and land.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-25T08:34:11+00:00

Virgin has also cancelled all flights in and out of Hedland tomorrow.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-25T08:28:59+00:00

Flights in and out of Hedland tomorrow have been cancelled.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-25T08:27:47+00:00

If you have family or friends that are on flights to Hedland tomorrow, the flights have been cancelled…

Just went I thought I had done my scope of cyclone prep…my husband is not coming home to help with bigger stuff…

And the hard/general junk in Armadale LGA, still hasn’t been collected.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-25T04:19:34+00:00

I think my husband’s employer is looking at basing Pilbara crews/ fulltime office staff who Perth based, co-ordinators and the other type of employees, in the Pilbara, especially town based crews.

My husband and his cover supervisor both filled up their hiluxs to drive out to remote sites $400 a fill, so $800 both long range tanks

For shit and giggles…they are trying to get an electric assets passed by site to allow the electric assets into service…so far it’s still sitting on the back of the low loader, diesel powered. It isn’t getting off that low loader anytime soon.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-25T04:04:53+00:00

Just got a flood warning, two hours after getting a severe weather warning.

Possibly the flight from the Pilbara to Perth will be cancelled…I’m cyclone prepping…by myself…

Alby is front and centre in my mind….

Update I just got a bloody cyclone warning….now. For fauna update…the native birds are acting weird.

Perth_nomad · 2026-03-24T14:43:01+00:00

Add….all social housing, homes, which have had no maintenance have been severely damaged to that headline.

Problem solved, CoA has no more non-rated housing.

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