Here I am stuck at home due to a massive blizzard, and at the same time Cyclone Yasi is about to make landfall in Queensland, Australia, which has already been ravaged earlier by huge floods.

http://www.brisbanetimes....1acgp.html

Yasi is the biggest hurricane/typhoon/cyclone expected to hit land since Huricane Katrina hit just outside of New Orleans on August 29, 2005. It is packing sustained winds of 295 km/hr (~175 mph) near the eye wall and is expected to reach landfall with a storm surge of 7 meters (~22 feet).

i know... on the news they said... don't bother packing... just run!!!!

..... it does not look good for them!!!

damn. those poor aussie's. if any aussie guys,esp those who look like heath or hutch,wanna come live with me my door is open....

Awful! Heard about this on the news, such a huge disaster.

Holy cow...

it's moving towards Cairns now.....

i saw the footage... it's wild!!!!

no report of any dead... which is great!!!

I read about this last month. Be safe Queensland!!!

Ummmm.....that is about 1/3 the size of Australia!

Timmy84 said:

I read about this last month. Be safe Queensland!!!

r u confused with the floods they had???? cause this is just happening NOW!!!!

so how did u read about it last month???????

physco185 said:

Timmy84 said:

I read about this last month. Be safe Queensland!!!

r u confused with the floods they had???? cause this is just happening NOW!!!!

so how did u read about it last month???????

I knew about the floods last month.

But they said more was coming. That's why I said that.

Timmy84 said:

physco185 said:

r u confused with the floods they had???? cause this is just happening NOW!!!!

so how did u read about it last month???????

I knew about the floods last month.

But they said more was coming. That's why I said that.

oh - fare enough

when i read more is coming... i think other things

Does anyone know how close Zombiekitten lives to Queensland? Has anyone heard from her today?

I know there are other Aussies on the org and I hope they are all safe.

Hopes that Australia makes it out of this in one piece... and big prayers to our Aussies on the ORG; stay safe guys!

Elle85n09 said:

Does anyone know how close Zombiekitten lives to Queensland? Has anyone heard from her today?

I know there are other Aussies on the org and I hope they are all safe.

ZK lives in Melbourne, Victoria. It's probably about 2000 kms away or more from the cyclone area. I doubt she's on holiday up in North Queensland because they've been talking about this cyclone coming for more than a week. Victoria has been going through bad flooding but I believe it's more regional. They're also moving into extreme heat, so forest fires are probably on the horizon for Victoria (and are currently happening, I think in Western Australia.) I swear, this countries weather is no joke!

I live on the Gold Coast in South East Queensland and apart from the ocean swell being quite heavy, we've been unaffected. Thoughts and prayers with people up near Cairns and Townsville. No reports of deaths and injuries at this stage.

mynameisnotsusan said:

Elle85n09 said:

Does anyone know how close Zombiekitten lives to Queensland? Has anyone heard from her today?

I know there are other Aussies on the org and I hope they are all safe.

ZK lives in Melbourne, Victoria. It's probably about 2000 kms away or more from the cyclone area. I doubt she's on holiday up in North Queensland because they've been talking about this cyclone coming for more than a week. Victoria has been going through bad flooding but I believe it's more regional. They're also moving into extreme heat, so forest fires are probably on the horizon for Victoria (and are currently happening, I think in Western Australia.) I swear, this countries weather is no joke!

I live on the Gold Coast in South East Queensland and apart from the ocean swell being quite heavy, we've been unaffected. Thoughts and prayers with people up near Cairns and Townsville. No reports of deaths and injuries at this stage.

I got taken on a surprise anniversary trip to Cairns/Port Douglas/Cape Trib last November

But no, I'm like 20 hours drive from the worst flooding

(although the flooding in my own state has been pretty bad too - from the air on a flight from Mildura, I was watching the ground the whole way home and the ground was sparkling from all the water)

I'm 35 hours drive from the cyclone.

My parents live in East Gippsland and that's on fire at the moment. This is 4 hours from me.

this photo was taken by my primary school friend taking a beach holiday, but they can't return home at the moment, since the fire is blocking the highway!

Glad to know you both are safe. I was concerned.

Elle85n09 said:

Glad to know you both are safe. I was concerned.

Thank you!!!

Hopefully there aren't any volcanoes here I don't know about! Or fault lines

Really terrible

Damned I'm going blind! I just reread your post and saw that your parents are living in an area that has fires?? I trust they could get out if they were in immediate danger. Hope all of this is over for you soon. Take care of you and yours.

Elle85n09 said:

Damned I'm going blind! I just reread your post and saw that your parents are living in an area that has fires?? I trust they could get out if they were in immediate danger. Hope all of this is over for you soon. Take care of you and yours.

My parents are currently on holidays in Tasmania

@ ZombieKitten, glad you and your parents are not in the area of danger.

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Timmy84 said:

@ ZombieKitten, glad you and your parents are not in the area of danger.

thank you

ZombieKitten said:

Elle85n09 said:

Glad to know you both are safe. I was concerned.

Thank you!!!

Hopefully there aren't any volcanoes here I don't know about! Or fault lines

Newcastle has a tiny fault line.

News update.....it's looking good. Two missing (so far). No dead (so far). People heeded the warning and bunkered down, most got out. Thousands and thousands have lost their homes, though. Some of these poor bastards only got hit by cyclone Larry five years ago!!!!

If anyone is trying to reach people don't worry, most communications are still out but the SES looks like it's done a fantastic job warning everyone in time.

Well done to Queenlanders.

ZK, enjoy your fires ours will probably hit soon. We've been 35C all bloody week! It's dry as a desert up here at the moment.

connorhawke said:

ZombieKitten said:

Thank you!!!

Hopefully there aren't any volcanoes here I don't know about! Or fault lines

Newcastle has a tiny fault line.

News update.....it's looking good. Two missing (so far). No dead (so far). People heeded the warning and bunkered down, most got out. Thousands and thousands have lost their homes, though. Some of these poor bastards only got hit by cyclone Larry five years ago!!!!

If anyone is trying to reach people don't worry, most communications are still out but the SES looks like it's done a fantastic job warning everyone in time.

Well done to Queenlanders.

ZK, enjoy your fires ours will probably hit soon. We've been 35C all bloody week! It's dry as a desert up here at the moment.

connorhawke said:

ZombieKitten said:

Thank you!!!

Hopefully there aren't any volcanoes here I don't know about! Or fault lines

Newcastle has a tiny fault line.

News update.....it's looking good. Two missing (so far). No dead (so far). People heeded the warning and bunkered down, most got out. Thousands and thousands have lost their homes, though. Some of these poor bastards only got hit by cyclone Larry five years ago!!!!

If anyone is trying to reach people don't worry, most communications are still out but the SES looks like it's done a fantastic job warning everyone in time.

Well done to Queenlanders.

ZK, enjoy your fires ours will probably hit soon. We've been 35C all bloody week! It's dry as a desert up here at the moment.

for a speedy rebuild

XxAxX said:

for a speedy rebuild. maybie it was caused by birds flapping their wings

Dear, I don't think that's possible.