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March 8, 2009 at 1:13 pm #2168488
Fires down south, Floods to the north and now Tropical Cyclone Hamish
Lockedby rob miners · about 15 years, 1 month ago
Australians on the east coast are taking a battering this year.
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtmlhttp://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=37333
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March 8, 2009 at 2:24 pm #2773497
yeesh
by seanferd · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Fires down south, Floods to the north and now Tropical Cyclone Hamish
Looking pretty rough, that.
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March 8, 2009 at 2:33 pm #2773496
At the moment
by rob miners · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to yeesh
it is 350K to the north east and heading south east. Wind gusts up to 240Kph. I don’t mind it heading southeast at all.
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March 8, 2009 at 2:34 pm #2773495
Do please
by boxfiddler · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Fires down south, Floods to the north and now Tropical Cyclone Hamish
batten down the hatches.
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March 8, 2009 at 3:16 pm #2773485
The hatches are battend down
by rob miners · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Do please
and any missiles have been secured.
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March 8, 2009 at 2:40 pm #2773494
It is nice and sunny here :D
by w2ktechman · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Fires down south, Floods to the north and now Tropical Cyclone Hamish
sucks to be there :0
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March 8, 2009 at 3:18 pm #2773481
Overcast and light drizzle here
by rob miners · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to It is nice and sunny here :D
it’s still warm though 23C. The damn thing has slown down to 7Kph but still heading east.
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March 8, 2009 at 3:05 pm #2773488
Tie yourself (and yours) down
by nicknielsen · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Fires down south, Floods to the north and now Tropical Cyclone Hamish
May the storm continue southeast and bear eastward from there…
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March 8, 2009 at 3:13 pm #2773487
All tied down
by rob miners · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Tie yourself (and yours) down
and we will be OK so long as it keeps heading east.
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March 8, 2009 at 4:09 pm #2773475
Update
by rob miners · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Fires down south, Floods to the north and now Tropical Cyclone Hamish
at the moment the Cylone is not expected to make landfall. That is good news but the coastline will still take a battering with strong winds and heavy seas.
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March 8, 2009 at 5:39 pm #2773463
Wimp you don’t know how good things are
by hal 9000 · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Update
For instance the Surfing Competition on the Gold Coast has got a major kick along they now have some surf to play with. The Location had to be moved because there was no surf now that are back at the Home Beach and having fun in some decent sized waves.
As for the Cyclone not making Landfall it’s way too early to begin guessing and if the Weather For casters says one thing I expect the opposite to happen they have a history of being unreliable in these things and Hamish is anything but a [b]Normal[/b] Cyclone.
In 1974 we had a similar Cyclone to Hamish and it left Brisbane underwater by a large amount. Places that where normally High & Dry where under 30 feet of water and those areas close to the River where invisible with lots of [b]White Water.[/b]
Personally I don’t care to have that repeated it wasn’t much fun at all and AU Day was defiantly the Pits with the Flood peaking on that day. Only good point though is that I’m no longer in the SES so if things get really bad I will not be slaving my guts out this time. I can just crawl into my bed and not come out for the duration. 🙂
However I do like the way that the media is covering the fires in Victoria after that bad Saturday they where making out that the danger had now passed when if anything it was just as dangerous and as people where now used to having the fires close they where getting apathetic so the possibility of considerably more deaths was actually greater than what had happened previously. There will be a major Fire Danger in Victoria till they get a lot of rain so perhaps we should have a word to the guy upstairs and get Hamish sent down to Victoria where what it’s caring is really needed.
Last time I went to Mackay I was stuck there for 3 weeks as the roads where underwater and closed. As I went through Prosperine I got concerned as the water was close to the road and when it’s 2.00 AM and you see that you just know that you have a problem. As I was by then so close to Mackay I just pressed on as if I had of tried getting home I most likely would have been stuck on the side of the road some where unable to move.
That wasn’t much fun at all as I destroyed 3 new tires on the way back home and blew a AC Line so I was sitting stuck on the side of the road waiting for the Police to wave that side through the water with several clapped out new Tires which had burst the Side walls from all the broken up roads and No AC in 35 Degree Heat with 100% Humidity where we had to stop.
You just knew that things had been very wet when you saw Flowering Water Lilly’s growing on the side of the road in areas that where normally Dry and Brown from a lack of rain. :^0
Col
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March 8, 2009 at 8:04 pm #2773444
Scummy Relayed a message to tell you
by w2ktechman · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Wimp you don’t know how good things are
unfortunately, request denied! Only because the HAL unit is not completely begging yet!!!
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March 8, 2009 at 9:14 pm #2773436
You’ll get plenty of surfing in
by rob miners · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Wimp you don’t know how good things are
if thats what you want to do.
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March 9, 2009 at 2:20 am #2773403
Probably, more likely to hit you Col!!!
by computercookie · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Wimp you don’t know how good things are
That won’t be good because if it does it will flood here, just like ’74.
Rob will probably miss it!!!!
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March 9, 2009 at 11:24 am #2771501
My hopes are that you and yours will be ok
by dadspad · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Fires down south, Floods to the north and now Tropical Cyclone Hamish
Here, whe call them Hurricanes, and is well known that more deaths are from flooding that the wind damage. Not that the wind is not scary!! :0
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March 9, 2009 at 1:08 pm #2771445
It’s still heading
by rob miners · about 15 years, 1 month ago
In reply to My hopes are that you and yours will be ok
south east along the coastline.
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