General Chat

A cyclone..........

http://weather.9news.com.au/satellite/qld

The size of the thing!!!!!! Scary.

More info....... the Bureau of Meteorology....... http://www.bom.gov.au/

Look at the maps for NT NSW & Qld.......see the cyclones!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqeb94-0wbs

Enjoy :-)

I posted this on SueMaid's thread too...

There are TWO possible cyclones, one north of NT & one east of Qld.

You can see more on the Bureau of Meteorology website -

http://www.bom.gov.au/

To get an idea of how big they are, the UK would easily fit into the State of Victoria.

back in 1976, we drove up to Cairns, with a cyclone barrelling in from each side of the peninsula




I don't envy you one little bit :-(

I DO HOPE EVERYBODY KEEPS SAFE XX :-D :-D

There hasn't been a cyclone in this neck of the woods for 20 years, but we get the tailend of what hits Qld.

I feel so sorry for people in the north of Qld (the pointy bit), they will be hammered from east & west. There's a cyclone threatening Darwin (a nasty one) and one off the coast of Qld......... hate to think what will happen if the two cyclones meet.

Hope everyone stays safe xx

LS


that was the situation that was threatening when we drove up there in March 1976


It was hairy!


we got into some flooded areas around Emerald and Ruby ....... but then one of them petered out, and so it turned out not to be as bad as the warnings had said.

The last big storm we had here battered the coast. Loads of rain in the hills, which washed down the rivers....... at the end of it the storm there was no sand left on the beach (see my pic on the left, as it normally looks).

As well as that, some cattle were washed away into the river ...... and two cows ended up on what was left of the beach!

So far today, a bit breezy & a couple of showers, the sky is grey.

I have to go out this afternoon. No point in taking a brolly, I'll end up flying like Mary Poppins.

whoa...... what happened?

My last post took a while to get to the board............. then I got....... Sorry, an error has occurrred.

I'm amazed it was posted.

Who is messing about.... again?? :-0

oh ...... I get that quite regularly!!



When you get the Error message ................ just click on the back button

That takes you back to your post


Click on another page on the thread, then click on the page you were on ..........


the post almost always has appeared




it's a GR glitch that crops up regularly


Just do NOT be tempted to hit submit again and again and again .......... that's how you get multiple postings of the same message :-)

The back button didn't take me back to the thread.

It just sat there, displaying the error message.

I got out and came back in.

It's bucketing down.......... and I just looked at the awb website....... there's a great big wet blob heading our way... and I'm going out in 2 minutes.

Where did I put my water wings?

It's getting closer

The school children were sent home early.......... and

All the local schools will be closed tomorrow.

If I don't post for a couple of days, it means the power is out... or we've been blown away.

Must find a good book and a torch.

:-)

Oh take care, batten down the hatches and be safe.

Lizxx

I said to DH that we didn't have much meat in the freezer, so if the shops close (if the power goes off) we won't have much.

He responded............ yes we do, there's a freezer full of muffins.

:-(

Let them eat cake! :-D :-D

Stay safe, Scozz :-)

ty Allan

Looks like you're getting lots of rain too........ without a cyclone

It's getting a bit wet & wooly out there :-(

Have you tied down or moved anything else in the garden which might fly off? You must be worried about that fig tree :-0

Any garden ornaments we have are very heavy... Henry the Gargoyle would weigh about 80kg :-D The stone circle will be fine....... about 1/4 of each stone is buried. Not joking, I really do have a stone circle. I might go out now and move a few light weight things on the back porch.

I am worried about the dead fig tree, but there's nothing we can do about it. I'm relying on Karma to make it fall into the neighbour's garden........ serve him right for poisoning it.

In "normal" weather we can hear the ocean, like white noise..... whooshing in the background........ tonight we can hear the ocean crashing!

Friends of ours are on a cruise, somewhere between NZ & Oz...... I hope they're nowhere near the storms.

Tomorrow will be "interesting".

Keep safe, LS xx