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Cyclone Yasi in OZ

scedd

scedd

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This will be the biggest cyclone in the recorded history of OZ.
It is expected to grow to Cat 5 as it hits the warmer water on the Great Barrier Reef.
It will hit Cairns about 8.00 pm tonight with winds to 279kmh and a 6m surge on the high tide.
They have already evacuated the city centre and ordered 30,000 people out of there homes.
My son, partner & granddaughter were ordered out at 11.00pm last night, so they packed the car and headed to our house, 1650km's south.
They should be here about 3.00pm.
The predictions are that Yasi's size will keep the cyclone active till Mount Isa, which is 1200km's inland. This is unheard of as they usually turn to rain depressions within a few hours.
There are lots of Mustang owners up that way and i hope all are safe. I hope everyone is safe, even chebby owners, but there will be a high death rate with this one, that is almost guaranteed.
The government and military here learnt a lot from Katrina, so that will help.
This picture is at 5.30 am this morning, 1/2 an hour ago.


yasi2.jpg
 
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I saw your post last night about Yasi. That is one major storm, I hope that everyone in Oz is safe. You have been getting hammered this year with the floods and now this.

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Do you want us to send GWB down there to coordinate the cleanup?
 
She is getting bigger.
Here is a comparison from yesterday.

yasi4.png


Now she has grown and the expectations are that she will be 850km wide,
100km through the eye,
measured wind speed at the edge of the eye was 385kmh.
Will hit right on high tide about 10pm tonight with a 6 metre wave surge.

Heres a great pic out of the local paper

yasi3.jpg
 
Somebody is smiling down on us.
Yazi slowed and missed the high tide, then crossed south of Cairns City over some small towns at midnight.
No loss of life, a lot of houses destroyed, a lot of infrastructure damage, 2/3 of Australias Banana crop gone, but it could have been a lot worse.
It has been downgraded to a Cat 3 and is heading inland, where it will strike Mt Isa as a Cat 1 about 8.00pm tonight.
Any normal cyclone would have downgraded to a rain depression within 3 hours, so this is still a powerful monster.
They reckon it will make it as far as Ayers Rock in the centre of OZ.
Upside is there is no damage to our house in Cairns and we have the pleasure of our granddaghter for a whole week.
They dont want her to do another 20 hour drive, so the son will head off on the weekend to drive back and Isabella and mum will fly home later in the week.
 
Glad to hear things didn't get as bad as expected. Now the rebuild. Great time to spoil the granddaughter.....
 
Hows this for a headline -

Queensland - The only place in the world where instead of a death toll in a natural disaster, the population GROWS by 3!



3 babies born last night during the Cyclone.
 
Different for sure.....wonder if they will be named along the lines of the weather....
 
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