Extreme Weather
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@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
Different form of storms smashing the East coast these last couple of days.
Seven dead across a couple of states.
Tenth man confirmed dead following violent storms across country's east coast
Severe storms across Australia's east coast have now claimed the lives of ten people as the clean-up continues across several states.
100s of 1000s lost power on the Goldie and in Brisie with winds equivalent to a Cat 2 cyclone.
Fishing trip capsized with loss of life, and a 3 people lost in storm drains, in two separate incidents (including a 9yo).
Two of whom were former Qld rugby players.
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Updates ...
SEQ getting smashed again. This time north of Brissy and the Sunny Coast.
Two people struck by lightning as wild weather threatens storm-ravaged Queensland and NSW
Queenslanders are being urged to remain vigilant across the weekend, with destructive wind gusts, giant hail, heavy rainfall and flash flooding predicted.
Reports from the GC is that there's still power out to large parts from the Christmas/Boxing Day storms. As of yesterday there were still 22 traffic signals still not working, and parts of the hinterland aren't going to get power for another two weeks.
Oh, and the aliens from Independence Day have arrived:
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Where are you @booboo ?
We are in Byron right now, nothing threatening around here other than a few shirtless bogans
@mariner4life reckons infrastructure further north around Port is still fucked though
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@voodoo said in Extreme Weather:
Where are you @booboo ?
We are in Byron right now, nothing threatening around here other than a few shirtless bogans
@mariner4life reckons infrastructure further north around Port is still fucked though
Hervey Bay. Just to the north of the storm on that radar image above.
Nothing to write home about for us. 40-50mm in few hours, only the first 10-15 minutes of any intensity (BOM IFD data suggests maybe 5 year for 15 minutes). Winds were stong but not concerning. Thunder and lightning less than very very frightening. Decent bog standard summer storm. Intensity had dropped as it headed north.
Dropped the temperature 10degs though. Which was good.
Yeah, Cairns and further north copped a shitload. They'll have a fair amount of restoration to do.
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@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
So fluffybunnies are looting the devastated homes in the GC hinterland.
Unfortunately, it's routine. Some folk don't empathise with others at all - just see the world as something waiting for them to rip off. Sociopaths.
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happened here in the flooded homes too
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@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
@NTA said in Extreme Weather:
There's a case for vigilantism in suck situations.
No cops around to help protect my house?
No cops around to stop me stuffing you into a woodchipper...
Most excellent typo ...
Or predictive text based on the words he usually types?
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@Crazy-Horse said in Extreme Weather:
@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
@NTA said in Extreme Weather:
There's a case for vigilantism in suck situations.
No cops around to help protect my house?
No cops around to stop me stuffing you into a woodchipper...Most excellent typo ...
Or predictive text based on the words he usually types?
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Flooded Nottingham Rugby Club launches appeal to – literally – stay afloat
Nottingham Rugby Club have started a fundraising appeal after their stadium, pitch and clubhouse were left under water after severe flooding
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Zoom in to the water park (currently full of mud).
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So Kirraly has eventually been "named".
2nd Cyclone of the season.
Been threatening to cause all sorts of shit down our way.
Seems the authorities were quite worried (or maybe quite excited) it would head south and fuck us up over the weekend.
But seems, aside from wherever it hits the coast (Townsville as a 2 probably according to current predictions), gunner head inland and not do much
