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21-03-2010, 12:43 AM | #31 | ||
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Looks like Airlie Beach, Hamilton and Hayman Islands are right in line for it
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21-03-2010, 01:27 AM | #32 | ||
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Stay safe everyone in the area.
Been through cyclones before don't want to do it again. |
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21-03-2010, 08:52 AM | #33 | ||
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Looks like my end of mackay faired ok can only see 1 tree down. my eldeest lad lost his roller door off his carport other than that ok
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21-03-2010, 09:17 AM | #34 | ||
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Mackay @131 mm of rain, please send to Melbourne, pretty please!
Hope all is well up there. |
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21-03-2010, 09:40 AM | #35 | ||
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Well after being told that Townsville woud get gale force winds, , we got NOTHING. Thats a good thing though but it makes us wonder does the media really know whats going on ?
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21-03-2010, 10:17 AM | #36 | ||
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looking at the radar its gunna get a bit wet around here ,quite windy here still in the bar .
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21-03-2010, 11:17 AM | #37 | |||
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And still raining. : |
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21-03-2010, 11:59 AM | #38 | ||
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we got bugger all in ayr,got a bit windy and not much rain
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21-03-2010, 01:05 PM | #39 | ||
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I am in Dysart at the moment, little wind last night and been raining consistantly all morning.
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21-03-2010, 06:25 PM | #40 | ||
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We've survived fine here,no damage but wow the house was shaking in that wind.
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21-03-2010, 07:25 PM | #41 | ||
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Just gusty here last night. Heaps of rain today though basically non stop hard and soft. How'd you fare CEDRIC?
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23-03-2010, 09:52 AM | #42 | ||
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Update from Mackay. I actually slept through it. Wife stayed up and panicked a bit. Still lots of people up here with no power. We lost it 9.30 pm Saturday. Heaps of powerline damage from trees and flying debri. Noone seriously hurt which is good. Mainly tree damage. The parks up here look like a cyclone went through . Have just gotten the power on to the main st of Airlie Beach from what i`ve heard. Backpackers up there have been doing it pretty tuff. Had no access to eftpos or banks so have had no money to buy food apparently.
Massive powerline damge in the Whitsunday area so i can`t see a lot of those people getting power for a while, especially those out of town. Mackay has sold out of generators and there are people even driving to Rocky to buy them. I am kind of enjoying having no power. It`s most i`ve seen my kid in ages : Only lost one palm frond. Hope everyone else is fine. |
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23-03-2010, 07:44 PM | #43 | ||
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yeah we got through it, we went to emerald lol, got back and the town was bad, but not overly bad, fella next door his huge **** tree fell down on road, one on corner fell down, but we were fine and we have a termite infested tree in backyard and a huge one out front
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24-03-2010, 07:28 PM | #44 | ||
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no real damage here. went for a quick walk in the eye, it lasted for about an hour, couldn't see stars like i thought you would be able to. just got power on half an hour ago
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24-03-2010, 08:51 PM | #45 | ||
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One of the guys who works for me got home today from Airlie, they sat on the lee side of their house on the deck watching it coming across, and he also mentioned how when the eye crossed the sky was as clear as day then the other side of the wall came through. They had to drive to Bowen the next day to get food as everywhere else had sold out.
There's some good vids on youtube of hurricanes in the US, where a CAT 4 storm has hit with 250km winds, then they walk out into the sunny eye of the storm where it's dead calm then they retreat again as the other side comes through |
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24-03-2010, 09:50 PM | #46 | |||
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Thats how the guys in Rocky died apparently in the late 40's when we had a cyclone through. Went out in the eye up on the roof fixing and then bang blown off.
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25-03-2010, 08:37 PM | #47 | ||
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25-03-2010, 08:42 PM | #48 | ||
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Thanks for the pics mate.
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26-03-2010, 02:10 PM | #49 | ||
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the whole thing was a bit strange as my father and his new family live in fiji ,so we both had cyclones at the same time ...they are all well and my old mans house had no damage ,unlike many houses in his village ,but they had some crazy tidal swells that lapped their floor he said .
hopefully that marks the end of another storm season ...untill next year
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