@Izzie,
Hi Iz
It's all back to normal. Floods gone. Food on shelves. Drama over until the next cyclone or croc attack!
@hingehead,
Ahhhhhhh.... good news HH - so pleased to hear it!
Now... if we just get Victoria to cool down........
verra happy all is good with you and yours love. x
Over 500 reported cases of Dengue now. An 80 year old woman died of it this week.
A local GP says that there are around 15 different mosquito-borne viruses doing the rounds of Cairns at the moment, with Dengue being the worst. It feels like everyone's at least a little sick, headaches, itching, muscle aches, bronchial issues.
We've had a week of 'non-wet season weather' hot but not humid, lots of sun. Nice.
Please keep us posted, hinge. Looks rather onimous!
(For a minute there, reading your post, I thought that "Hamish" was a new poster & a new resident to FNQ!
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@msolga,
We're all rather blase about it - let's hope it wipes out townsville and leaves us alone !!JOKE!!!
@hingehead,
Oh Man.... another one! I guess you're used to all these weather systems but... man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dengue too......................... nasty nasty nasty.
Take care hun. x
@hingehead,
hingehead wrote:
We're all rather blase about it - let's hope it wipes out townsville and leaves us alone !!JOKE!!!
A bit tasteless! It could cause thousand of dollars worth of improvements.
Seriously though, send him down Brisvegas way. We still need a some buffer in the dams.
@Eorl,
Quote:Seriously though, send him down Brisvegas way. We still need a some buffer in the dams.
The threat map (above) is constantly updated - we're out of danger but it does look like he's on his way to brisvegas (at least Hervey Bay)!
@hingehead,
Yeah, looks that way. Yikes. Cat 5 huh. Folks in the Whitsundays should be feeling a little wary about now.
@Eorl,
Bloody hell! A cat 5 at Hayman! I hope Long Island is OK (fond memories).
@hingehead,
I think they evacuated Long and South Molle, on account of them being kinda flat. Apparently this is co-inciding with the biggest tides of the year.
@hingehead,
Quote:We're all rather blase about it - let's hope it wipes out townsville and leaves us alone !!JOKE!!!
um ... are there any Townsville A2Kers? You'd better watch your back, hinge!
I just heard, driving back home from the country this afternoon, that Hamish has been down-graded. I'm hoping that makes things a bit less nasty at your end ... & townsville's!!
@Eorl,
Quote:A bit tasteless! It could cause thousand of dollars worth of improvements
What a tasteless comment, Eorl! Wash your mouth!
@Eorl,
Eorl wrote:
Seriously though, send him down Brisvegas way. We still need a some buffer in the dams.
...and be careful what you wish for, ya frikkin' moron!
Hamish is down to a Cat 4 (only 260kmh winds!). So far he stayed away from the coastline but each community he passes is sweating on him making a sudden right turn. Let's hope he peters out as cross the coastline and drops a bunch of monsoonal rain in the brisbane catchment area.
Cairns lost all electricity for about twenty minutes tonight. Third time this year we've lost power for no reason (but at least this time I didn't have to drive home from work through dud traffic lights). Kind of like a little taste of living in a third world country.
@hingehead,
Quote:Hamish is down to a Cat 4 (only 260kmh winds!).
Only 260 kmh winds. Hey, you got off lightly!
Just being silly, hinge. You must be so sick & tired of this!
