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Gizmo Admin Group  Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5078 |
Thought I would share these pictures from the BOM ( www.bom.gov.au ). 
I expect this is a extremely rare event, two cat 4 cyclones about to cross the Australian coast within a few hours of each other. Hope those in their paths are prepared and safe. Going to be a tough 24 hours. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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Prime_8 Regular Member  Joined: 07/12/2014 Location: CanadaPosts: 51 |
holy shmack ! crazy . Old coder, and bodger of things that may spark. |
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BobD Guru  Joined: 07/12/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 935 |
The cyclone LAM in the Northern Territory has come ashore as a 4. The other cyclone, Marcia is not quite on land yet and is slightly more east than predicted yesterday. It is now a 5 and very dangerous. The current predicted track will mean that the TBS members around Toowoomba will be less in the "firing line". Apart from the wind, some people are going to get very wet. It may break a bit of the drought around southern Queensland. Track them here http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/ and here http://www.bom.gov.au/products/national_radar_sat.loop.shtml |
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rustyrod Senior Member  Joined: 08/11/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 121 |
Some time ago I found a site with all the recorded cyclones on it dating back many years. It was amazing where they went and ended up. If I recall some went into NSW. My weather data shows 56kph gust yesterday. It recorded 77kph during the recent Brisbane wild storm. My wind Gennys survived that. A few years back I had a gap at the top of the graph where the wind speed went off the chart and came back down. I was not home at the time. My plaster and chip board home shakes a bit. So do I. I wish I had a storm shelter. Always Thinking |
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| norcold Guru Joined: 06/02/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 670 |
Yeah, memory recalls somewhere I read, about two over a century ago, one came from the Coral Sea and one from the gulf they met up near Cooktown. Totally wrote Cooktown out and sunk a fleet of Pearl Diver ships in Princess Charlotte Bay. Subsequent loss of life was and still is the largest Australia has suffered from a natural disaster. Without the sophisticated gear we have now, radar etc imagine the threat to human life these two would have caused. Marcia is unusual in another way, she made landfall and instead of heading west, is following the coast. Not good for those in its path nor for the pastoralist out west who could do with the rain such a system carries. Regardless Marcia formed and surprised BOM, who normally predict these systems fairly early. We come from the land downunder. Vic |
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raymond thomson Newbie  Joined: 19/09/2013 Location: AustraliaPosts: 36 |
Thanks for the good wishes. We can't believe that Bundaberg was spared both the preceding rainfall and the cyclone. Apart from a bit of wind and just 70mm we sat and waited for the event that never happened, unlike many friends North, South and West of us. Had a cruise booked out of Brisbane on Saturday but by Friday am it was impossible to get there, and then Friday evening it got cancelled anyway. It would have been a bit lumpy out there anyway. Anyway, the Burnett is in flood again and just waiting on the water to come down from Gayndah. Cheers raymond |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5078 |
I see Biloela has lost all communications. I suspect we can blame Telstra for that. When I worked for them ( back in the Telecom days ) all sites ( radio, exchange, etc ) had a 48v battery bank big enough to run the site for a couple of days, and the major sites ( town exchanges, radio repeaters ) had a backup diesel generator on site with fuel for a couple of weeks. Plus there were portable generators that could be towed to the outlying small exchanges and used to charge the batteries. So in theory, so long as there was a supply of diesel, the network would continue running when there was a long term power outage. But that was back in the day when it was government owned. These days its all about profit margins, share holders and efficiency, stuff the end user. Spare backup generators, big battery banks and enough servicemen to service the network are too expensive. This is one reason I refuse to ever own shares in a company. Some photos of the cyclones aftermath on the ABC site... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-20/tropical-cyclone-marci a/6162504 The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| domwild Guru Joined: 16/12/2005 Location: AustraliaPosts: 873 |
Exmouth at the top of WA: US Navy base, their houses are concrete blocks and are definitely cyclone proof, in the front are two fire hydrants, one US and one Aussie. The houses for the locals were probably built by the PWD and are on stilts and would fly away like the ones in Darwin did. Proves the American tax payer has unlimited funds to pay for those block houses. Pity I never saw the biggest diesels in the southern hemisphere to supply power for the Omega LF navigation system for the subs. Standing under the aerials holding a neon tube will light it up during transmissions. Now that the subs use laser gyros I wonder if that station is still running. Just rambling on! Taxation as a means of achieving prosperity is like a man standing inside a bucket trying to lift himself up. Winston Churchill |
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