Alfred
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The '47ers
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People really are stupid
I was thinking that when you posted about the stripped stores.
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That's really tough Mark, we got our power back on after 15hrs. Could be, because we are close to two major Hospitals I suspect.
ManlyTragic
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wasn't a problem personally I buy bulk 'Who Gives a Crap', but every Woolies, IGA and Spar I or my family went too had empty shelves of dunny roll and later almost everything
Idiot rescue day...
manly al
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Obviously still caused major disruption and problems but think Sth East Qld and Nth N S W seriously dogged a bullet if Alfred hit the coastal area anywhere there or just inland as a Cat 2 system .
Cyclones can still develop into close to Cat 5 systems as far south as the Rocky area on past indications ,, so a Cat 2 with Alfred could have been a distinct possibility hitting the coast .
Anyway , not to downplay the serious effects of this event but again , could have been much worse
Cyclones can sure be weird creatures ,
Recall with Cyclone Debbie in 2017 , crossed the coast in the Whitsundays close to a Cat 5 , still a Cat 2 for a while going south down inland Queensland , crossed somewhere north of Brisbane out to sea as a low pressure system apparently , then ended up giving the Nth Island of New Zealand a bit of a hard time .
Another cyclone once went down and up the Qld coast , across the top end , down the W A coast and finished up around Antarctica
Cyclones can still develop into close to Cat 5 systems as far south as the Rocky area on past indications ,, so a Cat 2 with Alfred could have been a distinct possibility hitting the coast .
Anyway , not to downplay the serious effects of this event but again , could have been much worse
Cyclones can sure be weird creatures ,
Recall with Cyclone Debbie in 2017 , crossed the coast in the Whitsundays close to a Cat 5 , still a Cat 2 for a while going south down inland Queensland , crossed somewhere north of Brisbane out to sea as a low pressure system apparently , then ended up giving the Nth Island of New Zealand a bit of a hard time .
Another cyclone once went down and up the Qld coast , across the top end , down the W A coast and finished up around Antarctica
Finally , we have power.
5 days + a few hours.
Great work Energex , what a job they’ve had ( still have )
The cyclone crossed straight over us , it hit Straddie , and the eye came right over us ( in the midst of the wind it went completely silent , for 20 minutes ( it was weird ).
Then it immediately turned north.
Was tracking as a 2 until it hit Straddie , then went back to a 1.
We lost power just as I was watching on Windy.com.
Stradbroke is probably 8kms as the crow flies from us.
I cannot imagine what a Cat 4 or 5 must be like
The '47ers
Your resident two-headed Queenslander
I would've put a hook in him and claimed it as a catch!
The '47ers
Your resident two-headed Queenslander
It is good how they deploy the Energex crews from all over the state to help out.
The '47ers
Your resident two-headed Queenslander
Hopefully the bills will teach them a hard lesson!
Rackets
Doin' the eagle rock 🦅
The thought did cross my mind 🤣
I can't tell you through experience what a category 4 or 5 is like, however, one of my closest friends lived in Darwin when Tracy hit in 1974 and explained it as being absolutely terrifying and an experience he hopes he never has to live through again. They all sheltered in a bathroom on the bottom floor of their home and after Tracy had passed, they exited their home to see all the houses on the other side of the street 'gone', completely demolished, and yet their side of the street was relatively unscathed. Crazy!
We were at boarding school together and he asked me if I was interested in going to Darwin with him over the Easter Holidays in 1975 to help with some maintenance in Darwin, building Creche's for the children and just general repair stuff. Being a country boy (farm), I was pretty handy with a welder and building fences and that sort of crap, so I agreed. What I saw when I arrived absolutely horrified me, it was like you would imagine Hiroshima to be like after the atomic bomb. Absolutely devastating.
We were at boarding school together and he asked me if I was interested in going to Darwin with him over the Easter Holidays in 1975 to help with some maintenance in Darwin, building Creche's for the children and just general repair stuff. Being a country boy (farm), I was pretty handy with a welder and building fences and that sort of crap, so I agreed. What I saw when I arrived absolutely horrified me, it was like you would imagine Hiroshima to be like after the atomic bomb. Absolutely devastating.
double hoops
First Grader
Did the mermaid get a hole in one?It's alright everyone...
Cyclone recovery complete!!!
(I remember when that thing was just a plain white ball #dinosaur)
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