Thread: Yasi is a huge, dangerous cyclone

Originally Posted by underfoot

Holey moley ...I've never seen that black colour (the eye) on bom radar before..
good luck folks in FNQ..

Good isn't it..... how far do ya reckon I'll get on a Para-sail?

good luck up there!

Cheers
Michael

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Good isn't it..... how far do ya reckon I'll get on a Para-sail?

About Alice I reckon. Keep your head down Cliff and let's hope you can tell us what you missed on Friday.

Seriously be careful.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

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Today we are at home securing our property.

Wednesday & Thursday this week we will be battened down, Friday Saturday & Sunday will be clean up.

Originally Posted by JillB

Cliff, Yasi is due to hit your area at 4am Thurs, if not sooner, so I would not be leaving it until Thurs to batten down.

Good luck

I said that we were getting ready today, Wednesday & Thursday we will be battened down..... notice the 'ed' on the end.....

Rooted now... bring it on, we are as ready as we will ever be.

One car won't be under cover but tough, it is insured & it already has a cracked windscreen, a roo ding & a cow dig so it is due for a trip to the doctor.

Everything else is in a shed or under cover somewhere... well there is a Landrover still sitting out under a maple tree but I bet it lives & there is also a Ford 5000 tractor parked next to a container.... it'll be fine too.

Originally Posted by m2c1Iw

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Seriously be careful.

As careful as you can be 4m up a tree with a 4m pole saw (extended chainsaw) cutting branches off the tree to reduce the sail area of projectiles near the house.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

As careful as you can be 4m up a tree with a 4m pole saw (extended chainsaw) cutting branches off the tree to reduce the sail area of projectiles near the house.

Just heard they have delayed the start of the WBF so the FNQ contingent can make it.

WBF?

World Boxing Federation.
World Badminton Federation
Worldwide Backgammon federation.
Women Building Futures.
World Bridge Federation.
World Bodybuilding Federation.


Hang on.... you were talking about the World Beer Festival.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

WBF?

Hang on.... you were talking about the World Beer Festival.

Ya idgit

Whoa this thing is moving fast and is now already listed as cat 4

Best of luck to everyone in the area. Hope you all make it though ok.

We had a cat 3 heading down the coast late last week but by the time it got here it was downgraded to nothing.

Yasi is now Category 5 severe tropical cyclone, and is life threatening. They don't come any bigger than Yasi

Waiting waiting waiting..... going to cross very close to us.

Getting fairly windy now, patches of sun & a few showers of rain.

Waiting waiting waiting.....

Good luck Cliff and everyone else up there.
Cheers,
Jim

Meterology info on Yasi now limited because the BoM weather station on Willis Island, right in the path of the cyclone, was wiped out by Yasi

Wishing everyone up there, a safe passage through the storm.

My Mum and Dad, who were at Murphy's Creek during the worst of the floods, are back in Cardwell now, getting ready for Yasi.
I tried to talk them into packing up the car and heading south, but Dad is too stubborn and wont leave .
They are in the house that my Grandad built, and apparently "he built it strong enough"
I just hope that he did.