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Kimberly Zanetti
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I KNOW that Austrailia is a HUGE place but I've just heard about a huge terrible cyclone that has slammed into Queensland. Touch base with us and let us know that you are all okay...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/03/19/international/i164907S43.DTL

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Kimberly Zanetti Purcell
www.amethystProductivity.com
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Mark Stokes
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I am down south of australia no where near the cyclone. Maybe bushie and Ian can give us an update as they are in the state of queensland

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Mark Stokes
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John Jordan
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G'day Kimberly,

Thanks for your thoughts but here in Sydney it was a beautiful Autumn day, about 76F. As a matter of fact I was in the City picking up my itinerary and tickets for the forthcoming three Letterhead Meets.

John

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Aussie John
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Jon Butterworth
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Just watching on the 6 o'clock news.

Category 5 cyclone hit northern Queensland coast with winds up to 300 kph around the Cairns/Innisfail area. Worst storm in 75 years. Widespread devestation, 50% of Innisfail flattened, but fortunately the tide was out so storm surge was not bad. No deaths.

90% of Australia's tropical fruit crops gone. Vast areas of sugar cane too.

This area is well north of Ian, Sarge, Bloke and myself in South East Queensland. We are about 2 days drive away. Here we only have had strong winds. Only had to cancel some outside jobs.

There are some Oz Heads in that area but no news yet of their plight.

Another cyclone is out in the Coral Sea and appears to be headed the same way!

Say a few prayers for our friends up there.

Edited to note:

Tropical Cyclones are the equivalent of your hurricanes and rated on the same scale. Cat5 is nasty!

Queensland is BIG ... 5 times the size of Texas, but most of the population lives on the coast and most of those in the South Eastern Corner.

[ March 20, 2006, 03:26 AM: Message edited by: Jon Butterworth ]

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david drane
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Well John, I am a bit closer than you and there has been no wind or rain on the Sunshine Coast. We have had a very warm, and comfortable day so I can't understand where the wind came from up there on the Downs.

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Ax and Pete Bedgoode (sp? sorry Pete) are the only folks I know through here that are up that way.
I spoke to a couple I know outside Cairns tonight (in an area noted for Au's highest rainfall) and they reckon that for them it passed fairly quickly which means that although the wind speeds were high, it was all over in short order.
Innisfail looks like it copped a hiding though, I can't get through to a mate of mine that is a refrig mechanic up there

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Ian Stewart-Koster
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It was a mess on the news tonight- but all about 1800 km north of here.
Bernie with the BSA motorbike is from Innisfail where the worst of it was supposed to be. I always seem to forget his surname until I admit I forgot it, then I remember- it's Morrison or Morrissey.

We're still in dire drought here and would dearly love some of that water being rained down up there.

Hope Pete & Suze are OK, and also John the fantastic mural painter from Townsville.

edited to add we've had amazing winds today- from the east, with a strength & consistency I've not seen before in the 15 years we've been here. They've brought the windmills back to life, which is nice!

[ March 20, 2006, 07:24 AM: Message edited by: Ian Stewart-Koster ]

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sarge
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Hi
Sarge here... like Jon said we are waaaaaay south of the storm, his answer covers it all, no weather problems here....
thanks for asking Kimberly

[ March 20, 2006, 07:23 AM: Message edited by: sarge ]

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Just saw the news and Kim beat me to it...glad you all are checking in...what a relief...How about Gail and Devo?

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Where are Gail and Dave?
I sure miss them participating here.

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making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus

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we've been watching the news round the clock.

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Deb Fowler

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Gail & Devo are in Harvey Bay are 4 hours drive north of us. Still over 1500km south of the damage zone.

Even Philip John in Townsville won't be getting much more than winds and rain.

You got wind too Ian? Dave must live in a hollow or something. 30-40 knot gusts here. Far too strong to go erecting 30' x 10' banners. Otherwise you might see the headlines: "Son and daughter last seen sailing past Ayers rock" [Smile]

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g'day everyone

Cairns is the same distance (flight time) from my place as NZ is from Oz... 2hrs 20mins,
the centre of Hurricane Larry was about an hour south of Cairns.

So for us it was pretty much watch it on TV and check the Sat pics to see how our friends were doing up there.

We are getting some winds and just had just a few showers yesterday with not much more than that.

But of course once the storm hits land it lessens in force dramaticaly, thank heavens, especially for the folk in it's path.

I remember the fella that won the airbrushed fridge at Bedge's meeting in Cairns came from the area most damaged... I hope he is ok [Frown]

It's was all good for us actually because the pr**k that owns the land behind us
(can you tell I don't like him much?)
did a heap of burning off last weekend and so we had ash and smoke everywhere

We actually had to leave the house on Saturday once the wind changed, because we couldn't breath without it burning, and our eyes were stinging so badly. But in comparison to the folk up north... we can't complain

The rain has helped a lot with the smoke and so has the wind... blown it all off shore, which again for us is great

The next hurricane is just a little further south,
it will be interesting to see where it lands... they tell me that it will be hitting Fraser Is tomorrow sometime

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so the short answer is that yes we are all fine for the time being, thanks for asking
[Smile]

cheers
gail

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