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Old 19-03-2006, 01:26 PM   #1
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Is due to hit Cairns / Innisfail 7:00 am tommorrow, i was just speaking to family up there, thery ИИИИting themself, catagory 3 now but will be 4 by the morning, good luck NQ residents, i hope you come through ok.

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Old 19-03-2006, 01:32 PM   #2
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Yeah, i am about to go and put the cyclone baracing up at work. My car is in an open carport too, so still thinking what to do with it.
Could be the REAL DEAL this time!!!!!
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Old 19-03-2006, 01:47 PM   #3
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Yeah, i am about to go and put the cyclone baracing up at work. My car is in an open carport too, so still thinking what to do with it.
Could be the REAL DEAL this time!!!!!
Look after that XD mate, hope you all get through the cyclone ok..

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Old 19-03-2006, 02:40 PM   #5
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Old 19-03-2006, 02:46 PM   #6
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Old 19-03-2006, 02:47 PM   #7
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Here is the Townsville 512km Radar
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Old 19-03-2006, 03:05 PM   #8
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No offence to those but stay up there!

We dont need it on the goldy down here
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Old 19-03-2006, 03:14 PM   #9
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We are in Townsvile, ,

For all residents from Cairns to Mackay, there is about a 1 in 16 Chance of it hitting us !. If a cyclone is Typically 50km wide, and it has a target range of 800Km, , who knows....

We are lucky, in a low concrete block house, in surburbia, with no BIG trees right next to the house.

Very rarely does a cyclone come to the coast and then track north, so I am guessing Ingham - Cardwell, which is about 150km north of us !

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Old 19-03-2006, 05:22 PM   #11
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Just watching my neighbours clearing their yards of potential flying debris. I'm in Townsville, probably wont hit us. but the winds will still be pretty fierce..Hope everyone up north fairs ok...
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Old 19-03-2006, 05:52 PM   #12
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damn thats harsh..still people can choose to live in other places

as larry emnder (sp?) would say..."price is wrong ИИИИИИ"
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Old 19-03-2006, 08:54 PM   #13
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ИИИИ guys i mite be in some trouble, i live in townsville and my car is being exported up from brisbane on monday, dammit
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hahaha, since when me and my family left 4 years ago, FNQ hasnt had any cyclones hit, I'm back for 1 month, and there's a cyclone! How amazing is that! Spooky huh! I also tipped 7/7 for the NRL this week, and tipped the Broncos to win by 4 in the margain game, i might win a prize! Things are spooky :lookedat:
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hahaha, since when me and my family left 4 years ago, FNQ hasnt had any cyclones hit, I'm back for 1 month, and there's a cyclone! How amazing is that! Spooky huh! I also tipped 7/7 for the NRL this week, and tipped the Broncos to win by 4 in the margain game, i might win a prize! Things are spooky :lookedat:
So its your fault. I just returned to Melb after my 2 week go working up there, changed over with another guy who is not looking forward to dodging a cyclone
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Old 19-03-2006, 10:45 PM   #19
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Batten down the hatches guys...hope all come through safe and sound...have a couple of mates in Townsville and MacKay....who have never been through a cyclone before.

They came from The Alice...all born and bred there and only moved two years ago.
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Old 19-03-2006, 11:58 PM   #20
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All I know is that I have previously seen fully grown palm trees bend and touch the ground !....... Thats Wind !

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Update on Larry

175km East of Innisfail
Heading West at 25kph
Expected to cross coast between 7am and 9am Monday morning
Central pressure 925hpa!!!
Max wind gusts 280kph


Everyone up there will be in my prayers tonight.
Best of luck to you all, stay safe and be careful.

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An Australian Katrina!

I read about the cyclone on another forum and we were all wondering who decided to name the city "Townsville."

But seriously... good luck guys!
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This is gonna suck big time, i'm in Cairns, we have 2 cars and only 1 carport. luckily my car is under it :P

This will be the first cyclone i've ben in, they said there will be surges 2 metres above normal high-tide level, and my house is 2 metres above normal sea level! i spent this afternoon moving all my friends stuff upstairs with him cause his house is only 1 metre above sea level we think.

Hopefully it won't be that bad
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Hi guys, im in Townsville and ive been throught a cat 5 so im lookin at gettin some sleep. But hope everyone get throught it alright and see you on the other side.
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Goodluck to everyone in the area... shouldn't have to deal with thing's like this, but i guess it's part of life.

Stay safe!
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Old 20-03-2006, 10:21 AM   #26
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Townsville was named after the guy who landed here, , Robert Towns !

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9:45am - Anyone up there got any updates?
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Good luck guys. I’ve been through 1 or 2 cat 5’s and 3 cat 4’s in a tidal surge area myself. An interesting experience to say the least. Hope everyone up there keeps safe!!
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Sunrise has been showing pics and relaying what people up that way have been saying to family and friends elsewhere..

One resident said she had lived through Tracy and this is not quite as bad, where others have reported it as absolutely terrifying.
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Townville is just gettin a little wind and rain. North is in a spot all the army is call in or on stand by. My old boy had to help with the blackhawks yesterday. But we dont know the full extent of up north yet. One of mums friend that lives in insfail went throught trace with mum have not hear anything from them yet. Just gettin a big shower here in tville.
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