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Thraxas
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Posted: 1st Feb 2011 22:00 Edited at: 1st Feb 2011 22:10
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Just wondered if any of the other forum members are living in North Queensland and are preparing for this cyclone to hit.



It's apparently one of the biggest, if not the biggest, cyclones to hit Australia. It's about 500km(300 miles) across.

We are expecting to lose power for a few days, but luckily live far enough from the coast that we don't have to evacuate our house as the storm surge shouldn't flood our place (roughly circled in red).



Also we're not living where the most powerful part of the cyclone will hit but are still expecting high destructive winds.

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Just an interesting, at least I thought so, piece of infrmation from the news. In 2 days this cyclone will produce enough energy, that if it could be harnessed, would be able to power the world for a year.

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Posted: 1st Feb 2011 22:28
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Ouch, you guys get the best weather ever.

Hope you guys make it ok, and that your buildings there don't suffer too much damage. If it were here we'd lose half the tiles off our roofs.
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The worst Pennsylvania really has is the snow and ice storms. Not to mention the near 0 temperatures nearly all winter.

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Posted: 1st Feb 2011 22:32
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its alot easier to battle the cold then high speed air throwing all your **** in the back yard at your house.

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Really? How about when trees explode and your roof collapses on you because of the weight of the ice and the snow?

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Posted: 1st Feb 2011 22:37 Edited at: 1st Feb 2011 22:37
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thats why you scrape the snow off your roof if it is more then 6 inches.

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Right, then you can get frostbite. Or, more fun, you can slip and fall off your roof. If you insist it's so easy, then you should have NO issues securing your property from wind damage.

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Posted: 1st Feb 2011 22:45
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To counter frostbit, wear thermals and heavy jackets with carbon hand warmers and foot warmers.

To counter slipping, secure yourself to the chimney (which you should have if your in a consistent winter environment.)

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...You DO realize most houses in PA don't have chimney's? Again, if you live on an island that is prone to cyclones, you would THINK you would advisably secure your possessions.

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Posted: 1st Feb 2011 23:20
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Almost every picture i saw of pennsylvania homes had a chimney on it dude.

And my argument isnt about cyclones, and yes you would think so, but if its powerful enough, the only thing keeping your possessions safe is a pole rooted 20 feet in the ground.

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Posted: 1st Feb 2011 23:22
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Quote: "...You DO realize most houses in PA don't have chimney's"


You don't have chimneys there? What happens in cold (ie. snow) weather, you just use (expensive) gas/oil/electric heating instead?
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Posted: 1st Feb 2011 23:56
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^ this

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Quote: "You don't have chimneys there? What happens in cold (ie. snow) weather, you just use (expensive) gas/oil/electric heating instead?"


If you live in the city like I do, you don't have houses with chimney's you have apartments in which normally gas and electricity is included in the rent. Regardless, you still get roof cave-ins from the weight of the snow.

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Posted: 2nd Feb 2011 00:09
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It's not so much the securing of possessions. Everyone around here has moved everything inside and secured things that can't be brought inside. But when you have winds that are over 300kmh (186mph) you can have your roof blown off, trees blown over etc. These are not things that you can secure yourself. Our windows are all taped up in the hopes that if something smashes into them they won't shatter all over the inside of the house.

Also as we live on the coast the cyclone is bringing the sea water with it when it hits land. In Cairns it is predicted that the water will rise 10 meters (32 feet) above the normal high tide and dragged inland (almost like a mini tsunami). That's going to put your whole house underwater. Here we are predicted to see water rising about 4 meters above the normal high tide.

It's already predicted that the power will be lost for at least 3 days.

It's only 9am here and the cyclone is predicted to hit around midnight but the winds have already picked up.

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Posted: 2nd Feb 2011 00:24
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Well that's not depressing or anything.


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Posted: 2nd Feb 2011 00:26
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Good luck thraxas. Hope you and everyone will get through it with minimal problems.

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Yeah, sounds bad. Hopefully it doesn't cause too much damage. If anything can destroy buildings, 300 mile cyclones are a likely canidate.


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Oh damn this is the cyclone u left me a message about.

Good luck matt. Keep me posted about it if u can.

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My family live south Queensland, so they will be safe.
I hope you can get through without any injury or property damage.

I have a feeling that Queensland is going to have a bad year with storms.


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Hope you come out all right Thrax.

I am in Melbourne, and don't have any relatives anywhere near the cyclone. Still feel bad for QLD though. So much bad weather.

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I am in melbourne aswell, but I love the area around Cairns (mainly port douglas), well good luck tonight.


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Quote: "The worst Pennsylvania really has is the snow and ice storms."

A fellow Pennsylvanian? I don't have chimney here but I got some ice to cancel school

"So hold your head up high and know, it's not the end of the road"
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2011 01:24
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Hope you guys are all okay Thraxas, and hopefully not too much damage.


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Posted: 8th Feb 2011 07:50
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In case anyone is interested (and even if you're not ) I thought I let you know all about me and cyclone Yasi. I wasn't in the worst part of the storm but it was still an absolute monster.

We got away with no damage to our house. A few of our trees from the garden were uprooted and blown over, one of which took half the fence with it. We had power cables in front of our house and our fence gate went on a little holiday to who knows where.

Power was restored to our place today (Tuesday) after being lost on Wednesday last week. I have never been without electricity for that long in my life and it's not that much fun. It also made me think about how much I take for granted on a daily basis. Hot water, hot food etc. It also made me think about Steve's intro to this month's newsletter in particular "I hadn't realised until today that everything that everybody knew about the war was always 2 or 3 days old, and was only available if newspapers were getting distributed." as a lot of information about what was happening was coming a day or so after, apart from what we could gather on the radio, but lots of the radio information was just about where we live.

It was a pretty terrifying experience and not one I'd like to go through again. But all is good

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I'm near Melbourne but my uncle lives in Townsville. He's okay too. Glad to hear you made it out okay

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An average stereotype of a youtuber said he hopes we drown. Nice too see some support for people suffering.

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Quote: "A fellow Pennsylvanian? I don't have chimney here but I got some ice to cancel school"


Yep. Right know it's bitter cold out, temperatures are expected to be 2 degrees tomorrow, with a windchill of -9.

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When I lived in FL, we got a lot of hurricane warnings. Once we got the outskirt winds of one and it bent a tree over! Thank God we were never hit full-on by one.

Thraxas, hope you get out o.k.
I will pray for you that you'll be ok and your house will be ok. Are you evacuating the area?

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Chances are they aren't. Honestly, America tends to evacuate while other countries simply ride it out. Maybe it's because they've been exposed to it as a culture much longer and know the procedures. Last year during the big Eastern blizzard, they wanted us to evacuate until the storm was over. Funny. It got bad, and we literally had the National Guard patrolling the streets and helping people. What's odd, is they were armed, I don't see what the risk of a snow storm is, I suppose if there is looting.

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Quote: "We got away with no damage to our house. A few of our trees from the garden were uprooted and blown over, one of which took half the fence with it. We had power cables in front of our house and our fence gate went on a little holiday to who knows where. "


Glad to hear you are okay. We woke up this morning and found a gate in our back yard. Cathy was wondering where it came from- I will let her know it is probably yours.

Quote: "I have never been without electricity for that long in my life and it's not that much fun. It also made me think about how much I take for granted on a daily basis. Hot water, hot food etc."


Joking aside, you are right in that it does make you think about things like that. I've put in 15 years with military SAR and I can tell you as the rescuer even we are grateful for what we have. Some of our deployments have been to some nasty places- nasty meaning there was once a town or city that was just bustling with life and activity, and then there was nothing but chaos and devastation. Been in everything from tornadoes to floods and fire, have seen a lot of destruction, but on the flip side I've seen a lot of determined people to not be beat by natural disasters.

Quote: "It got bad, and we literally had the National Guard patrolling the streets and helping people. What's odd, is they were armed, I don't see what the risk of a snow storm is, I suppose if there is looting."


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Yowza Thraxas! Glad to hear you're okay! Here's a beer for enduring that, on the house:

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Quote: "Chances are they aren't."

Wrong.
We arent FORCED to evacuate.
But we are strongly urged too. And we were, before it hit the coast.
And military has been deployed here too. For a while infact.
Don't know if you've been hearing, due to all the snow on your roof that seems to be such a problem, but a very large part of QLD was lost to flooding not 2 weeks ago. We have lost billions in many different areas, and unlike a few caved in roofs from snow, which could be fixed in a matter of weeks, we (Australia) are likely to never fully recover from all of this. Even if we could, it would be decades.
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:\ dang. Hope everyone's doing alright.

[sending my regards from california - not a recent picture but I was down there yesterday and that's exactly what it looked like xD]

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I hope everyone is okay. I'm happy that I live down in Tasmania. Not a lot happens here besides some cold weather and a bit of rain.

I believe there are some videos on YouTube about the recent floods.

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