This is Gonna Be a Big One

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    • February 1, 2011 at 12:10 pm #3842
      ROB
      Keymaster

      ETA Thursday morning.
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    • February 1, 2011 at 2:14 pm #12905
      flipflop
      Member

      @ROB wrote:

      ETA Thursday morning.
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      Saw that earlier, I’d be loading up the ute and heading for Broome mate :shock:

    • February 1, 2011 at 11:26 pm #12903
      ROB
      Keymaster

      Was upgraded to category 5 last night. This will almost certainly be both the largest and most powerful cyclone that Australia has ever seen.

      I am safe enough down here in Sydney, but I wouldn’t like to be between Cairns and Mackay. They have already evacuated Cairns hospital (and that ain’t small). After the floods and now this, my home state is copping a hell of a battering this year.

    • February 2, 2011 at 7:10 am #12904
      flipflop
      Member

      The missus has elderly relatives in Brisbane, in a suburb right on the coast, I’ll check with her mum to see what their plans are. That looks like a right fucking shocker on the TV

    • February 2, 2011 at 9:28 am #12906
      Lee Ridley
      Keymaster

      Rob,

      Can you haul your arse up there lively, and get us a story?
      Some pics and a bit of video might be nice, too.

      Traffic should be easy enough; it’ll all be going in the opposite direction.

      :wink:

    • February 2, 2011 at 9:55 am #12907
      ROB
      Keymaster

      Which suburb mate? My dad is down at Manly.

      Unfortunately Lee, if I jumped in the car and left now, I would be in cairns some time on Saturday. ;)

    • February 2, 2011 at 2:32 pm #12908
      flipflop
      Member

      Birkdale

    • February 2, 2011 at 4:54 pm #12911
      DrDave
      Participant

      A teenage daughter of one our friends from Hondo is in Townsville. She’s hanging in there for the moment, I’m sure facebook will have plenty of pics as soon as she gets the chance to put them up. It’s a bruiser of a storm though, that’s for sure.

    • February 2, 2011 at 10:41 pm #12909
      ROB
      Keymaster

      @Lee – sorry mate – accidentally deleted a post of yours.

      Would it be possible to average 60mph in a straight line between London and Ukraine? Curious, cos there’s no way you could do that with Sydn to Cairns.


      @Flipflop       – that’s right next door.

    • February 2, 2011 at 11:29 pm #12910
      Lee Ridley
      Keymaster

      1500 miles by road, I wrote. Not in a straight line.
      :mrgreen:

    • February 3, 2011 at 12:18 am #12912
      DrDave
      Participant

      Rob if you use The Force I bet you could make it.

      Text from my gal out of Townsville “I’m alive” I’m betting she’s actually never been MORE alive.

    • February 3, 2011 at 9:52 am #12913
      flipflop
      Member

      So, it’s landed. What’s happening?

    • February 3, 2011 at 10:06 am #12914
      Orion
      Member

      Everything is smashed the bananas and cane is gone. Heard a story of a farmer staying in the middle of the field in his dozer, with his dog.
      The second link should have the video with the 72 year old and dog, it’s the Tully video.

      http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3129326.htm

      http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/video.aspx#c1fd2e7c-df4b-46aa-a667-d4c0dcf15251

    • February 3, 2011 at 12:41 pm #12902
      ROB
      Keymaster

      Not a single fatality so far. Fucking amazing.

      But one town, they haven’t been able to get to yet.

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