Wild Weather.

[ZOOTECH]

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So glad that you and family made it through the worst of it; it's time for regrouping, and rebuilding now.
This should be easy now that the calm has followed the storm.

[NeoMatrix]

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Cyclone Marcia update
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Some of the suburbs around us have electrical power supply restored, after 3 days. I believe it is only backup transformers though.
One suburb overloaded their backup transformer an it exploded.

The heat and humidity is unbearable; I usually don't mind when it's hot, but this is horrible humid heat. It's around 34 degC calm and still and 100% humidity.
The night time is terrible for sleep. Pitch black dark and no airconditioning or fans. The plus side of being dark is that you can see the milky-way stars in clear full glory, as there is no city light haze.

The small township of Marmor down the coast from us has been flattened entirely; according to 3rd hand media reports.
For the Aussies, I have no reports coming from the northeast coastal area as we have no regular power or radio as yet.


Ok people( I was going to say fella's) I'm posting this from another suburb with full power, I'll try and keep you up todate.

I hope I get a ship load more work out of this.... Turn a negative situation into a positive in the very least......

I can't click thanks for everyone here on the thread because the internet connection is tooooooo sloooowwww.... The CTN web page update is forbidding...

Neo....

[blackcat4866]

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We're all glad here that you didn't take too much damage personally, and no injuries. It'll be a while before everything gets back to normal. Keep us posted when you can. =^..^=

[Tonerbomb]

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We're all glad here that you didn't take too much damage personally, and no injuries. It'll be a while before everything gets back to normal. Keep us posted when you can. =^..^=

x2!!!!!!!!!!

[fixthecopier]

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Glad to hear everything is OK. Careful though, having rode out many hurricanes, you have to be aware that the bad weather dislodges many annoying insects that are now very angry. I have been stung many times the day after by yellow jackets. Bet you have a lot of nasty critters down there, and I bet they are pissed.

[Lagonda]

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Glad to hear everything is OK. Careful though, having rode out many hurricanes, you have to be aware that the bad weather dislodges many annoying insects that are now very angry. I have been stung many times the day after by yellow jackets. Bet you have a lot of nasty critters down there, and I bet they are pissed.

You got that one right Fixa,the mozzies will be breeding in all the puddles of stagnant water lying around and they carry a couple of nasty viruses, Dengue fever and Ross River fever. Mrs Lagonda got Ross River fever over 25 years ago and is still suffering from it.

[NeoMatrix]

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We're in luck, our suburb was on the short list for electricity repairs.
We had power restored after four days. Things should settle down to normal from here on.
There is still a massive clean up to be done. The military have sent working groups in to the area to assit with the clean up.

Really strange weather. Two days before the cyclone started we had a 5.2 earth quake in the country about 300 km south west from here. If you make a line on the map where the earth quake hit, through Rockhampton an out to sea were the cyclone started north east , you will find the path line the cyclone followed as it intensified rapid toward the quake area. The cyclone that hit here was the most rapid forming intensive cyclone on record. No cyclone has ever intensified so quick in such a short amount of time.
What makes this event even more strange is we generally don't get earth quakes in Australia, especially in this area. We might get small ground subsiding tremors after flood waters dry out but never earth quakes, or any where near a 5.2 magnitude.

[NeoMatrix]

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You got that one right Fixa,the mozzies will be breeding in all the puddles of stagnant water lying around and they carry a couple of nasty viruses, Dengue fever and Ross River fever. Mrs Lagonda got Ross River fever over 25 years ago and is still suffering from it.

Re. Ross River virus.
This story was taken from the local paper.
An elderly gent who worked alone on a cattle property was struck down with ross river fever. He had cattle in the yards an was unable to feed and water them for days. Still over come by fever exhuastion he forced himself out of bed to feed and water his cattle. While in the round yard one of the cattle crush him against the electric fence, he was unable to move for some minutes, an his body took multiple jolts from the high voltage electric fence.

The following morning he awoke feeling much better. He told an other friend who was suffering from Ross river for months to try the electric fence as a cure. He did an was feeling much better.
They both told their story to the local media an it was printed in the local paper.

[Lagonda]

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..........The following morning he awoke feeling much better. He told an other friend who was suffering from Ross river for months to try the electric fence as a cure. He did an was feeling much better. ...........

I'll suggest to Mrs Lagonda that I can cure all her ills by wiring her up to a charge corona but I don't think she'll be too enthusiastic about it!

[NeoMatrix]

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I'll suggest to Mrs Lagonda that I can cure all her ills by wiring her up to a charge corona but I don't think she'll be too enthusiastic about it!

Hahahaha, yeah...
Wired for sound by Cliff Richards. Wire her up and listen to the screams....

Here's a thought : Put the positive wire on yourself an the negative wire on Mrs Lagonda an let the sparks fly, it could be a whole new love life experience.

No skip that!, I can picture the news headlines now. "Man an wife had a shocking love life..."

[Lagonda]

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Hahahaha, yeah...
Wired for sound by Cliff Richards. Wire her up and listen to the screams....

Here's a thought : Put the positive wire on yourself an the negative wire on Mrs Lagonda an let the sparks fly, it could be a whole new love life experience.

No skip that!, I can picture the news headlines now. "Man an wife had a shocking love life..."

Judging by her usual attitude to my advances she's more likely to have me charged with 'Assault with Battery"

[NeoMatrix]

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Judging by her usual attitude to my advances she's more likely to have me charged with 'Assault with Battery"

Understand totally. The court case transcript would probably read "Guilty thereof : charging ass-ault with battery.".......

How do you plead... "one more time with the plaintiff in these handcuffs thanks your honour."

... whipping for the crime should be mandatory ...

[Phrag]

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Crazy weather. I live in Gladstone, about 1 hour 30 minute drive from Rockhampton, where the Eye passed directly over. We've had regular storms worse than Marcia. It barely touched us compared to Rockhampton/Yeppoon. The closest it got to us was about 60KM west of us.

It's apparently the furthest south a Cat 5 has ever made landfall.

[fixthecopier]

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On the subject of nasty critters, I found this pic titled "This is how Australians prevent their electrical meter from being read"

[fixthecopier]

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And speaking of crazy weather, it was 62 on Sunday and today they just canceled work because of snow. There is only about an inch on the ground and it is sleeting now. I know this funny to folks who live up north, but keep in mind our roads rarely get treated and nobody owns snow tires. A large percentage of the people in ditches or accidents have northern plates on their car, because they want to get out and show us Southerners how it's done.

remember, this was my state last year...






And just to show we are consistent, the place this was taken, Raleigh, has so far reported over 1,000 wrecks this morning.