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There have been mass evacuations, pets included, and a lockdown of the roads in anticipation. I believe all coastal hospitals have been emptied too. 7 metre coastal water rises above the high-tide mark are being expected. Aeroplanes have all left that part of the state.
They say most cyclones (hurricanes to you in north America) are 150-220 km diameter, but this is around 1000 km across.
Catgeory 5 is as bad as the ratings get. We can only pray they're wrong...in terms of windspeed, area, and devastation ability, they're saying it's comparable with Katrina.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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All movement on 1000km of coastline has ceased due already high winds. All the Category 5 shelters are full and I'm afraid many more people will be caught out despite the early warnings.
Talked to our son and grand daughters just now. They are 100 km inland of Townsville and have battened down the hatches expecting Category 3 storm by the time it hits them tonight.
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This website news of it shows it in a different perspective-pretty big...
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Jon, we will be praying for all of you, it looks about as bad as it could possibly get. Find the best place to hide out. Bill
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Jon I've been thinking of you, I'm relieved your not in the path of the worst of it. Will be praying for you and your family. Please keep us posted and check in when you can. A:)
Edited to add: It's now roughly a little short of a quarter of the way across the continent and still categorised as a category 1 (lowest) cyclone. That is unprecedented
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170 mph winds, at least they all got out; the aftermath has to be the worst part, am following your post, Bushie, didn't see it. My prayers are with you and your beautiful country, your families and your lives.
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They're saying one fatality- a poor fellow died from carbon moonoxide poisoning after running his diesel generator in a closed room all night while sleeping-or some similar story. The truth will unfold eventually, but diesel fumes are a different thing from petrol fumes.
I know of many people, my brother-in-law & hisd family who went about 250 km west & stayed in a motel there for two days to be out of range of the eye. That worked for them-and many others who following on the footsteps of the flooding, took to heart the message to evacuate fast.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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