Good luck and hang onto your hat!
Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi.
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bhundu
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Felix. Is your Ham Radio Shack a seperate building up in your backyard or is this what you refer to as your house? Sorry Mate. I'm starting to worry for you.
Do you have a flat roof? What's the Emergency Plan?
Edit: We are so lucky to have people, like are at the BOM, letting us know what is going on. Still plenty of warning time left. I wonder how much time Darwin had? Surely not almost a week's worth of monitoring? To be able to evacuate with 48 hrs notice is a wonderful thing of the modern age and it's a shame that it still can't predict all of our natural disasters.
Please do take these warnings well. I hope you come back to me, and tell me your house is constructed of besser blocks with a flat roof and storm guttering. Please tell me you have an alternate place to go to tomorrow arvo if it goes CAT.5.
I'm a wanker for asking and sorry to Catman. He's been through more of these than I'd care to imagine.
Get a good night's sleep.
Do you have a flat roof? What's the Emergency Plan?
Edit: We are so lucky to have people, like are at the BOM, letting us know what is going on. Still plenty of warning time left. I wonder how much time Darwin had? Surely not almost a week's worth of monitoring? To be able to evacuate with 48 hrs notice is a wonderful thing of the modern age and it's a shame that it still can't predict all of our natural disasters.
Please do take these warnings well. I hope you come back to me, and tell me your house is constructed of besser blocks with a flat roof and storm guttering. Please tell me you have an alternate place to go to tomorrow arvo if it goes CAT.5.
I'm a wanker for asking and sorry to Catman. He's been through more of these than I'd care to imagine.
Get a good night's sleep.
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Not looking good...
http://www.visit-queensland.com.au/174/2011-0065/Cyclone_Yasi_Update.html
Batten down the hatches Felix! We're all praying for you.
http://www.visit-queensland.com.au/174/2011-0065/Cyclone_Yasi_Update.html
Batten down the hatches Felix! We're all praying for you.
Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock (020211).
G'day all, that sounds like a line from a Beatles song! The cyclone has just been upgraded to cat 5 (maximum destruction).
A horrible night with very poor sleep, yet a perfectly calm night with no wind at all. My AM radio receiver gives a clue though as storm static is now very loud on the AM brodcast band as the cyclone gets closer.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQP0005.txt Goodbye everybody (maybe)
I think I can feel some wind starting! Regards, Felix aka catman.
G'day all, that sounds like a line from a Beatles song! The cyclone has just been upgraded to cat 5 (maximum destruction).
A horrible night with very poor sleep, yet a perfectly calm night with no wind at all. My AM radio receiver gives a clue though as storm static is now very loud on the AM brodcast band as the cyclone gets closer.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQP0005.txt Goodbye everybody (maybe)
I think I can feel some wind starting! Regards, Felix aka catman.
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spideyjack
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good luck catman!
thilaseen
Super Member
Hang on to your hat Felix. This one looks like a real nasty one and I just can't get over the sheer size. Mother Nature has certainly worked overtime throughout the world this year and Queensland has really got more than its fair share. I daresay that power will be lost in many areas as I just heard that the winds are up to 295 kph and that this is the worst cyclone in living memory.
Take care and get back as soon as you're able.
Take care and get back as soon as you're able.
bhundu
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Evacuation proceedures have now ceased. Power outages have started along the coast as far south as Airlie Beach. Current estimates have Yasi crossing at 10pm (about 8 hours away). Also it is believed it will still be Cat.3 450km inland at 7am tomorrow morning.
Good luck Felix!
Good luck Felix!
G'day mate, it seems likely that the cyclone will cross the coast just North of this location of Ingham at around 10 pm tonight.
Honestly, it's terrifying! I could die tonight, but hopefully everyone will survive. Damage will be severe and widespread I suspect. Regards, Felix aka catman.
Honestly, it's terrifying! I could die tonight, but hopefully everyone will survive. Damage will be severe and widespread I suspect. Regards, Felix aka catman.
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bhundu
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Just got off the phone with one of my ambo mates. He was involved last night with the transport of the Cairns Base Hospial patients off the Hurcules aircraft arriving in Brisbane. 250 patients evacuated.
He also assured me that birds and animal no full well what is coming. They can tell a drop in pressure and get out of town real quick.
Time to get off-line now Felix.
He also assured me that birds and animal no full well what is coming. They can tell a drop in pressure and get out of town real quick.
Time to get off-line now Felix.
bhundu
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A mate in Cairns has his Harley parked inside against the front door. Has put extra roofing screws in every three inches. Been on the Jim Beam all day.
Another mate in Innisfail is on the lower floor of a two story apartment block. She has the mattress ready.
Dunk Island guests have been evacuated. Apparently staff were given an option to stay. I don't know how many have but Dunk is right in the path.
As it passed over Willis Island, it was declared a Cat.5 just before the weather station was taken away. 295km/h winds.
Everyone up there is hunkered down now. We won't really know the extent of the damage till tomorrow morning.
Latest warning was "not to be fooled by the eye". It's so big it may be calm for an hour during the eye.
This last month has been quite surreal.
Another mate in Innisfail is on the lower floor of a two story apartment block. She has the mattress ready.
Dunk Island guests have been evacuated. Apparently staff were given an option to stay. I don't know how many have but Dunk is right in the path.
As it passed over Willis Island, it was declared a Cat.5 just before the weather station was taken away. 295km/h winds.
Everyone up there is hunkered down now. We won't really know the extent of the damage till tomorrow morning.
Latest warning was "not to be fooled by the eye". It's so big it may be calm for an hour during the eye.
This last month has been quite surreal.
voltcontrol
Fizheuer Zieheuer
G'day all, the time is now 8:32 pm and it's terrifying with incredibly heavy rain squalls with very heavy winds probably gusting to 80 or 90 knots or so.
The lights have flickered once or twice and we lost power for a few seconds but it's still ok. Telephone and internet are operational.
My Ham Radio antenna masts are ok (so far), although my VHF yagi antenna has developed a fault and is now unusable, and also its short mast is looking a little bent. It's all rather scary. Landfall is expected around midnight about 60 odd kilometres north of this location. Regards, Felix (vk4fuq) aka catman.
The lights have flickered once or twice and we lost power for a few seconds but it's still ok. Telephone and internet are operational.
My Ham Radio antenna masts are ok (so far), although my VHF yagi antenna has developed a fault and is now unusable, and also its short mast is looking a little bent. It's all rather scary. Landfall is expected around midnight about 60 odd kilometres north of this location. Regards, Felix (vk4fuq) aka catman.
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Arkay
Lunatic Member
50 km is not so far from the center, for a storm of that magnitude. Prayers and wishes winging your way, Catman!
I've been through some record rainfall (heaviest since recording started here in the 1800s) a couple of years ago, and through perhaps two dozen severe typhoons (hurricanes) in five different Asian countries over the past three decades, but I don't think any of them reached 295 km/hour. That's REALLY strong, strong enough to tear roofs right off of some decently-built frame buildings, like a serious tornado. Scary, indeed. In my foolish youth, I used to get suited up in protective clothes and deliberately go out into the worst of these storms, to "feel the power" and enjoy the bizarre things that happen when nature goes berserk. After a few close scrapes and near-misses (including a high-rise plate glass window shattering atop my head, and just missing being crushed by a huge steel-framed sign, and being "flown" flag-like from a stop-sign pole, when the sign and pole were both bending so far they stayed bent), and after getting a wife who doesn't want to hear of my demise, I stopped, and hunker down like everyone else when they come. The speed with which debris flies around, and the weird directions it can head, make it virtually impossible to avoid, and the noise can be so loud and weirdly complex, like a thousand screaming banshees yodeling at different pitches into megaphones, that you can hardly hear yourself think. Sometimes you can get blown down the road like a windsurfer, just standing there in your shoes. Trees and things land near you, before you even know they're coming. All these things I've seen firsthand, at LOWER wind speeds than what is heading your way. Fun for an irresponsible young idiot, but no place for a sane adult without serious emergency responsibilities that might --just might-- justify the risks.
Remember, things can be repaired and replaced; people can't. Don't start being a hero until after the storm has passed. Until then, stay hunkered down in the most protected part of your home, away from windows and potential flying objects, and ride it out safely. If you haven't done so, you might tape "X"s onto any windows near you, to keep fragments together if a window shatters, so you don't get struck by fast-blowing glass. They'll shatter more easily when pre-stressed by winds and then struck by flying objects. Then again, at 295 kph wind pressures, the tape might just shred, too!
Keep us posted, so we won't worry too much about you. Good luck! :thmbsp:
I've been through some record rainfall (heaviest since recording started here in the 1800s) a couple of years ago, and through perhaps two dozen severe typhoons (hurricanes) in five different Asian countries over the past three decades, but I don't think any of them reached 295 km/hour. That's REALLY strong, strong enough to tear roofs right off of some decently-built frame buildings, like a serious tornado. Scary, indeed. In my foolish youth, I used to get suited up in protective clothes and deliberately go out into the worst of these storms, to "feel the power" and enjoy the bizarre things that happen when nature goes berserk. After a few close scrapes and near-misses (including a high-rise plate glass window shattering atop my head, and just missing being crushed by a huge steel-framed sign, and being "flown" flag-like from a stop-sign pole, when the sign and pole were both bending so far they stayed bent), and after getting a wife who doesn't want to hear of my demise, I stopped, and hunker down like everyone else when they come. The speed with which debris flies around, and the weird directions it can head, make it virtually impossible to avoid, and the noise can be so loud and weirdly complex, like a thousand screaming banshees yodeling at different pitches into megaphones, that you can hardly hear yourself think. Sometimes you can get blown down the road like a windsurfer, just standing there in your shoes. Trees and things land near you, before you even know they're coming. All these things I've seen firsthand, at LOWER wind speeds than what is heading your way. Fun for an irresponsible young idiot, but no place for a sane adult without serious emergency responsibilities that might --just might-- justify the risks.
Remember, things can be repaired and replaced; people can't. Don't start being a hero until after the storm has passed. Until then, stay hunkered down in the most protected part of your home, away from windows and potential flying objects, and ride it out safely. If you haven't done so, you might tape "X"s onto any windows near you, to keep fragments together if a window shatters, so you don't get struck by fast-blowing glass. They'll shatter more easily when pre-stressed by winds and then struck by flying objects. Then again, at 295 kph wind pressures, the tape might just shred, too!
Keep us posted, so we won't worry too much about you. Good luck! :thmbsp:
