Topic: cyclone Alfred

[dave500]

dont know if this makes news overseas but we have a cyclone heading our way on the eastern side of Australia,Brisbane and southern regions will be hit,it might make land as a cat 1 or 2 most likely our thursday afternoon or friday,im on holidays till next monday but all garbage collections and tipping facilities have been shut down,we got our generator fired up etc,see what happens.

[Tracksnblades1]

Be Safe my Aussie friend…

This sinner will say a prayer for Australia…

[dave500]

im keen to fly a kite with a key on the end!

[jaytee-nz]

My son was in Brisbane for his job (he works for an Aus. company but is based in NZ) and he flew home this morning. Think he escaped just in time!
Watch out for the flying rubbish bin lids Dave !

[newday777]

im keen to fly a kite with a key on the end!

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OK Mr Ben. Let's see what you get!
Hoping you get through this well.....
My dad used to tell the story about his boat ride back from Japan after the end of his duty as a Marine in WWII(he'd been from Tarawa to Okinawa), going through a huge Typhoon. He said the waves were lots taller than the ship he was on.

[Kelly E]

My buddy Barnacle Bill works on the large container ships. He's told me stories about having to mop footprints off the walls after going through cyclones and typhoons. The ship rolls so far over that they have to walk up on the wall back to the floor and up the opposite wall as it rolls. He's also hit a wave so large it flattened the first 5 rows of containers.

[Don R]

 My kids and their friends, Captains orders, batten down the hatches.

[dave500]

thanks Don that song cheers me up!,its thursday morning here now,its going to make land friday afternoon or saturday morning?bloody windy today but bright blue skies!I hope its a scam,if this link works Im just south of the bullseye cross hairs near Hinze dam.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR663.loop.shtml

[spotty]

thanks Don that song cheers me up!,its thursday morning here now,its going to make land friday afternoon or saturday morning?bloody windy today but bright blue skies!I hope its a scam,if this link works Im just south of the bullseye cross hairs near Hinze dam.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR663.loop.shtml

i really hope Hinze dam was named after the infamous Russ Hinze, seems appropriate that you'd name a dam after a big damp wobbly fcucker that indirectly or otherwise caused the death of many people

[dave500]

yep you got it!

was named in honour of local pioneers Carl and Johanna Hinze (grandparents of Russ Hinze) who lived in the valley that was flooded by the dam

[scottly]

Interesting web site, Dave, which lead me to this:
http://www.bom.gov.au/state-of-the-climate/

[ofreen]

[Stev-o]

dont know if this makes news overseas but we have a cyclone heading our way...

Have not heard...good luck Mate and be sure to let us know how it goes.

[dave500]

its approaching slower now,should make land about 5/7 am tomorrow and hopefully drop to a cat 1,been windy overnight and steady rain non stop so far.

[spotty]

this girl also does a load of stuff on either insta or fb as 'bush barbie' , sadly shes not a real reporter

[ofreen]

Nice wheels though.

[dave500]

yeah I better check the alignment?,its windy but not fully hit here yet,this tree just up the road from me fell on our feed wires but power is still on,its been reported but no repair work unless say wires over road will be looked at until the main event is over,gonna get more windy yet so i hatched a plan to stop beer getting blown away.

[Stev-o]

...gonna get more windy yet so i hatched a plan to stop beer getting blown away.

Good plan!  Hope you dont lose power for too long Dave, dont want your beer to get warm!!

[dave500]

well it fizzed out just like I thought it would,powers been out for 10 hours though,gennys running all we need,have internet but cell phone no service,if i drive up to the end of the street itll work though.

[Stev-o]

well it fizzed out just like I thought it would,powers been out for 10 hours though,gennys running all we need,have internet but cell phone no service,if i drive up to the end of the street itll work though.

Good to hear, Dave