Queensland Nightmare

[Guest001]

If Queensland takes this cyclone hit (as it probably will) it's a big stick to the "lucky Country", and I hope all you people move out of it's way, to try to face this storm is a lottery. I was in Darwin (Australia) during cyclone Tracy, a very similar intensity to the beast about to strike. By tomorrow morning it will be hell on earth!

Good luck "M"

[Hellfighter]

one smile from mermite that storm will go for Japan real fast!

i think M will be ok,
i have faith in him, after all he's a old style god like Odin and Thor.

mermite i know you have a safe place! but all your m8t's down there are hopping mad, they like their women back! no need for you to taken them into that safe zone of your's!

[MERMITE]

Many thanks for your concern guys, as of 2 hours ago, I've been informed that many of us are gonna be a victim of mandatory evacuation, 'cept me as someone's gotta edit the news the cameras bring in, and this Cyclone Yasi, is gonna be a big one, I've already put the claim in for my boat...lol

see if I can post a map....done?

I just spent 2 weeks helping the victims of the great flood now it's OUR turn and baby it's big.

Please note we call hurcainnes .. cyclones here, more like your twisters really, worst part...if you survive, is cleaning out all the sand, from apartments 200 feet up and five miles inland, I got the camera men here now and they are fitting divers belts for extra weight....more to come


"M":

[dave61]

Hoping all you guys down there in the land of AC/DC (my favorite rock band) are doing okay.

Batten down the hatches and stay safe !

[MERMITE]

24 hours later:

I spent the night in a bath tub at work, my workmates found my 1st stash of beer, it went in less than a minute, but bought back some good footage, I arouse to see cars and big palm trees zipping past below me, like you see in the movies about twisters, the office girls stayed at work it's safer than home, I've concern for those in public evac. shelters as many are but school halls half underground, once the 'storm' has passed we always get a huge tide, like many in Hurricaine Katrina ..you can be trapped and drowned in those shelters ..real quick.
Our Goverment has got to do something about all this roofing iron floating about, it should not come off so easily, you can't see it either, or very well then wa...mm, ya head comes off, real nasty!
My family's gone to Alice for a Casino weekend, and I think I can still see my launch
about 5 miles away at her moorings,...UPSIDE DOWN, ...she's been like that before, I just hope I put the old laptop in a secure place, it's got all my and others MAPS on it...Grrr!
As the eye washed over us I sped home, I had about 60 minutes I reckon, and did it on a 'borrowed BMX bike, that took 20 minutes, to find the house like last time covered in SAND, and the house is on piles 10-15 feet of the ground, but it's OK.

We wonder if the SAR/police will go thru all the houses and mark them with graffitti like info as they did in Baton Rouge with Katrina??

Now the storm has passed, the cameras are looking for the heros of this story, but we've been thru this before, so lets clean up and get on with our lives...

"M"

ps they didn't find the other 3 beer caches ...lol



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Forecast

Thursday: NE 25/33 knots, easing to 20/25 knots in the evening. Seas: 3 metres in open waters, abating to 2.2 metres in the evening. Swell: E/NE 4/6 metres, easing to 3/4 metres by evening. Rain areas and thunderstorms.

Friday: E/NE 15/20 knots, becoming SE/NE 10/15 knots during the afternoon and evening and still reaching 15/20 knots at times. Seas: 1.7 metres in open waters. Swell: E/NE 2/3 metres in open waters, abating. Rain areas and thunderstorms.

Outlook Saturday: SE/NE 10/15 knots.

Outlook Sunday: E/NE 10/15 knots.