Tropical Cyclone Yasi

[Baz in Oz]

Sometime in the next several hours, the largest tropical cyclone in recorded Australian history (T.C. Yasi), will hit the coast of North Queensland, Australia somewhere near the little town of Cardwell. Cardwell has been totally evacuated.
Yasi is rated at category 5 which is a high as the scale goes, with winds up to 300kmh and it has destructive winds within a diameter of 800km (500 miles). It is larger than our island state of Tasmania.
Aren't you glad you don't live in the area?

Baz

[thakshila smith]

I love these weather changes so much . Because we get non.
My mom's place use to get floods .as children they enjoyed well.
Thanks for the information.

[tucker85]

Here in Flordia we spend every summer watching the weather forcast and hoping we don't get hit by another hurricane. Good luck. I hope the damage isn't too bad and that there's no loss of life.

[trdyl]

Wish you'll well down there.

[minnieB]

The northeast coastline of Australia, the state of Queensland, will soon be battered by the incoming Cyclone Yasi. The worst flooding in over a century has already been recorded in Queensland over the past month, as the monsoon season brought unusually heavy rains, and now a Category Four storm is because of make landfall. Yasi is approximately identical in dimensions and power as Hurricane Katrina, which struggling the Gulf Coast of the United States in 2005.

[thakshila smith]

Today until now we experience a cyclone here. All the tall trees are dancing and terrible wind blowing and some parts are under floods.
I am glad we stop all the gardening and just cosy up in the drawing rooms.

[Baz in Oz]

Tropical Cyclone Yasi crossed the Queensland coastline around midnight Wednesday (AEST) in a relatively unpopulated farming (bananas, pawapws, sugar cane etc) area near Tully about 80km south of Cairns causing huge damage to buildings and crops etc and flooding.
The storm was so large (larger than the late un-lamented Katrina) it has carried many km inland and is now about 800km from the coast but fortunately it has been downgraded to Cat 1.
Amazingly, there have been no confirmed fatalities but lots of areas are still isolated.
The avoidance of loss of human life can be attributed largely to good planning and preparedness and many people were evacuated from danger areas before high winds made things too dangerous to be outdoors.

Baz

[Tindomul]

Good luck to all of you down under.