Cyclone Debbie..

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  1. willair

    willair Well-Known Member Premium Member

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    Very soon, as in a couple of days?

    I've bought up all the bananas in the north at 33c a kilo and will sell at $10.00kg after the storm. Banana's are in short supply after a cyclone. I'm looking for somewhere to store 30 tonnes of bananas. Cold and dark location required.
     
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    Good luck to all those who are in potentially life threatening areas of the incoming cyclone.

    pinkboy
     
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    Good luck pinkboy! Looks like Mackay is going to be in the firing line if she keeps heading south south west and the way the bom keeps adjusting her path south :(
     
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    Yep, people going to lose their homes it seems.

    Best wishes to all our north Queensland members.
     
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    Friends in Mackay have evacuated.
    If there is the predicted storm surge there it will affect a lot of people.
    Marg
     
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    Mackay Regional Council has alerted 25,000 residents in low lying areas of Mackay to evacuate immediately due to the cyclone predicted to cross at the same time as a 5.9m king tide here (9am tomorrow), because possibly an extra 2.5m storm surge and 400mm of rain predicted.

    We are all bunkered in as I live right on the coast (high tide comes up to my block), but I luckily am 12m above that. We will feel full gale force winds here.

    While we have a few idiots cheering the cyclone on, Im pretty concerned and predict loss of life and $millions in property damage from here to Ayr. I don't know of anyone who makes fun of bushfires, so I don't see the lighter side of cyclones either. They are pretty scary if you're not used to it. Your house shakes like an earthquake for 12hrs, not 12 seconds - and then there is the wind and water threats like flying debris and storm surge.

    Ill hopefully have enough battery charge to still stay on PC throughout the night. Losing the power sucks, but inevitable.

    Stay safe those in the firing line!

    pinkboy
     
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    Good luck @pinkboy and to any other forum members up that way.
    We have friends in Ayr district who are likely to be impacted.

    To the moderators who cleaned up this thread a big thank you. I could not come to responding yesterday to the posters who disrespected those in the path an event with the potential to take lives by making light of it. To trivialise a natural disaster anywhere in the world but especially affecting our own........#*&!@% really? :mad:
     
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    Best wishes to you @pinkboy & also your family/friends & local community.
    I hope you all get through unscathed.
    Cheers.
     
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    We know a few from Tsnv and further north. They're out of harms way.
     
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    Thinking of you @pinkboy I have been in Cairns when a cyclone came through, a very small one and I was petrified.
    Wishing our NQ members best wishes and good luck
     
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    Stay safe all! Looks nasty on the map.
     
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    We're donning hardhats and having cyclonic beers in your honor over here in Darwin.

    Wishing you guys the best of luck.
     
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    Stay safe PB. Thinking of those affected.
     
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    Whoa! Hectic that's why i suggested soft drinks. Not sure what's being going on here.

    It's so much worse that they come at night, hard to sleep or relax without being able to see and just hear the wind etc
    Are you facing a bigger risk with storm surges?
    We were in Gladstone for Marcia, the night it came i won't forget or the day after. It was eerily still, we weren't affected as it swung north but you could feel some crazy **** happened. We were in a unit on the water but still you don't know how things will go.

    Movie night with the kids and try and keep them relaxed to sleep and get through the night
     
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    The only experience of cyclones was when I was living in Hong Kong long time ago. Hardly ever maximum signal in all the years I lived there. Already I know how strong the winds and rain are. And those winds were already shielded by lots of high rises.

    With Debbie going up to 220Km/h, it is definitely no laughing matter. It is definitely maximum strength winds. Good luck and hope everyone is safe, esp @pinkboy and family/friends.
     
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    Have a close girlfriend who went through Tracy in Darwin, in the basement with hubby, toddler and five week old baby ... the stories are quite horrific ... so I am hoping the best for all of you in Queensland, and that you come out relatively unscathed.

    Keep us posted.

    xx
     
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    Hope you are okay.
    Fingers crossed for those in Mackay, Bowen, Hamilton Island etc.
    Nothing worse than losing power then phone, water supply and internet and not knowing what's happening. The sound of the wind in a cyclone is something you don't forget.

    Hopefully not too many people will lose their roof.
    And have a generator.
     
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    Best wishes folks, fingers are crossed for you all.. Debbie's current trajectory see her crossing just north of Seaforth.. Cat4 would be scary enough during the day.. I sure wouldn't be sleeping tonight.

    I think we're going to see some loss of life tomorrow morning. I hope I'm wrong, but some people have no idea. I read somewhere that some Tasmanian travellers have tied their campervan to a tree!!!! FFS!!! I hope they're far enough North to miss it...
     
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    I read somewhere that houses built pre 1985 aren't expected to survive, at the moment the winds are going to be pushing 200km/h by the morning...
    I think it is set to hit the coast at about 10am local time. Looks like everyone is well prepared. Let's hope there is only a financial toll
     

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