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Re: Cyclone Yasi
Reply #180 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 5:29am

Ok, is it just me, or is anyone else here feeling as though a Killer-cyclone Cat 5 Yasi, was a bit of a media storm in a teacup?

No reports of deaths, or even injuries, just superficial bad-storm damage, ....where's the mass-devastation, where's the super-storm annihilation?

Now they are telling us we may never know the 'true' force of cyclone Yasi, due to broken equipment?

Gimmy a break!

Roll Eyes

With Cyclone Katrinas death toll having stood at 1836 which included the total number of direct and indirect deaths...(quite a few elderly people had heart attacks too)... you mean to tell me, noone has reported a single injury during this Cat 5 cyclone yet?

Sounds like a Cat 3.5, 4 at most....for best part of QLD anyway...great news, but do we feel a bit had?

It is afterall rating season, and chan 7 never fail to disappoint with some sort of 'disaster'... Wink

The only ones (potential cyclone victims) yet to be accounted for are those who live on Palm Island.

Our media are really sucking the life out of this... get this, people enduring the full velocity were able to surf the web last night, though ironically, weren't able to upload any clips onto Youtube.

Have any of you seen the live footage from Cyclone Tracy?

Ok, houses are built to withstand cyclones better these days, but trees aren't.

I have been watching Tracy footage, and have to say... it's rather interesting.

Roll Eyes

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mellie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8142 Sydney Gender:	Re: Cyclone Yasi Reply #181 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 5:46am Looks like Chan 7 are frantically driving around looking for Dorothy and Toto, a devastated garden perhaps? Ok, it's early hours,(I realise this)... but I think it's time Mel and Kochie turned the studio fans off don't you?
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Re: Cyclone Yasi
Reply #182 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 6:01am

mellie wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 5:29am:

Ok, is it just me, or is anyone else here feeling as though a Killer-cyclone Cat 5 Yasi, was a bit of a media storm in a teacup?

No reports of deaths, or even injuries, just superficial bad-storm damage, ....where's the mass-devastation, where's the super-storm annihilation?

We ALL feel for you, in your moment of severe disappointment

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Reply #183 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 6:13am

Residents of Palm Island are bunkered down in homes and four evacuation centres waiting for Cyclone Yasi to strike, the island's mayor says.

Alf Lacey said it was misleading of a former mayor to suggest that Palm Island and its population of around 3500 had been neglected.

Mr Blackley said Palm Island, which lies off Queensland's coast, north of Townsville, had not been evacuated and accused authorities of ignoring its people.

Mr Lacey said while he agreed with former mayor Rob Blackley that the community needed a new, cyclone-rated town hall to use as a central evacuation centre, the mixed messages coming from the island were unnecessary.

"We've been planning for these events of many years," Mr Lacey, who is also chairman of the Local Disaster Management Group, said.

"We planned before Cyclone Anthony (which crossed into north Queensland on January 30) when it was predicted.

"Palm certainly is in safe hands and everything is in order," Mr Lacey told AAP.

"Evacuation centres are open if people are not feeling safe at home.

"I certainly don't need panic buttons being pushed because it will just turn that situation into a more worser situation than what it is.

"Giving those wrong messages out to the wider public is probably not useful when you're trying to unite the community around an event like this."

Mr Lacey said the island's homes were adequate to survive the cyclone.

"Some may lose roofs, we don't know until it happens," he said.

"There's a very strong wind blowing here at the moment, the streets are deserted, so everyone has heeded the advice we've given out."

Local council phones are staffed for those unsure of their safety, Mr Lacey said.

Some people flew out or left the island by boat, but

there was no need for a mass evacuation, he said.

A strong presence of Queensland government health and school staff had remained, Mr Lacey said.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/palm-island-ready-for-yasi-mayor-s...

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Reply #184 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 6:15am

buzzanddidj wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 6:01am:

mellie wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 5:29am:

Ok, is it just me, or is anyone else here feeling as though a Killer-cyclone Cat 5 Yasi, was a bit of a media storm in a teacup?

No reports of deaths, or even injuries, just superficial bad-storm damage, ....where's the mass-devastation, where's the super-storm annihilation?

We ALL feel for you, in your moment of severe disappointment

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Reply #185 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 6:17am

Get ready everyone....wait for the big food price hike, (they probably jumped in tractors and mowed down their own banana plantations) Grin

.....and hurry everyone, start donating AGAIN, to not the flood appeal, but the new improved 'YASI ground zero' to save Blighs neck appeal, ... Roll Eyes

The streets are as clean as a whistle, a few branches here and there, though after cyclone Tracy hit, cars were lifted and thrown way down the street and into the ocean, yet during this mini-gust, we had families actually taking refuge in their light plastic modern cars?

Ha ha ha Grin

Now we know why they weren't too worried about evacuating Palm Island....this being a televised mainland 'charity' production after all.

Grin

Palm Islanders wouldn't be inclined to donate much, so what would be the point of appealing to them?

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Tracy killed 71 people, caused $837 million in damage (1974 AUD) and destroyed more than 70 percent of Darwin's buildings, including 80 percent of houses.Tracy left more than 41,000 out of the 47,000 inhabitants of the city homeless prior to landfall and required the evacuation of over 30,000 people. Most of Darwin's population was evacuated to Adelaide, Whyalla, Alice Springs and Sydney, and many never returned to the city. After the storm passed, the city was rebuilt using more modern materials and updated building techniques. Bruce Stannard of The Age stated that Cyclone Tracy was a "disaster of the first magnitude ... without parallel in Australia's history."

Cyclone Tracy 1974

Uprooted trees?

I just saw footage on chan 7 of a spindly little palm tree laying on the foot path.
Grin

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Oh, hang on, this is the part where they now take credit for no lives having been lost in the face of an EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT!!

My street looked worse after a nasty hail storm we had a couple of months ago, of which I slept through.

Ground zero, eat your heart out..

Oh look, the channel 7 car just found a telegraph poll with a slight lean.... Grin

They are embarrassing themselves now, time to close the curtain.

They are interviewing a resident,(victim of disaster)... and she just advised she fell asleep through it....

Grin

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Reply #186 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 6:18am

Amadd wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 6:15am:

buzzanddidj wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 6:01am:

mellie wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 5:29am:

Ok, is it just me, or is anyone else here feeling as though a Killer-cyclone Cat 5 Yasi, was a bit of a media storm in a teacup?

No reports of deaths, or even injuries, just superficial bad-storm damage, ....where's the mass-devastation, where's the super-storm annihilation?

We ALL feel for you, in your moment of severe disappointment

We should be able to sue for false advertising.i

I knew you would understand Amadd.... Wink

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mellie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8142 Sydney Gender:	Re: Cyclone Yasi Reply #187 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 6:35am Stuff Gillard, and her "Australia's biggest ever cyclone'..... see, Rudds a QLD man, had he been in power, he wouldn't have embarrassed himself like this...lol But I'm sure he would have cried instead. The little girl who cried wolf.
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Reply #188 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 7:06am

mellie wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 6:18am:

Amadd wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 6:15am:

buzzanddidj wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 6:01am:

mellie wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 5:29am:

Ok, is it just me, or is anyone else here feeling as though a Killer-cyclone Cat 5 Yasi, was a bit of a media storm in a teacup?

No reports of deaths, or even injuries, just superficial bad-storm damage, ....where's the mass-devastation, where's the super-storm annihilation?

We ALL feel for you, in your moment of severe disappointment

We should be able to sue for false advertising.i

I knew you would understand Amadd.... Wink

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mellie its time to calm down.. we had a scary storm in Canberra last night I got a good size pool of water inside to clean up... and it would have been nothing like what they would have experianced..the rain is one thing... but that wind is something else.. unless you have lived it we shouldnt have these opinions.. on what force was involved..we werent there

Innisfail has been hit badly again by the sound of things.. they must have a bit of a wind tunnel effect there..my friends in Townsville are okay and thats to be very much thankful for..

I would rather govt erred on the side of safety than the other way around..perhaps if they hadnt moved so many there would have been deaths and injury.. have you thought of that?..

give credit where its due I say and if everyone has come out of this alive.. thank god and the govt..we have to work together through this mellie..you know it could be your turn next, mother nature is very fickle.

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Reply #189 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 7:18am

Ok, I just spoke to a friend, a Raffie...he was watching the radar equipment at the RAAF base last night, all night, (I should have bloody called him then) and advised the following....

Apparently, it was a Cat 5, but a very wide spread (not dense) system which downgraded very quickly as soon as it hit the coast.

He described these cells within the cyclone itself, (he called them bullets)..whereby small tiny cyclones form inside a larger cyclone itself, so you get sporadic small pockets of damage in some places, not MASS (cyclone Tracy type) concentrated mass destruction.

He then humoured it a little, and said it was good practice for the boys anyway, because they had to set up portable hospitals at Townsville and Darwin yesterday, (they are still up there ) and whilst he has them on standby as a precaution, they knew the whole time it was not going to be another Tracy.

He said there's quite a bit of vegetation damage, but we all knew this anyway, and advised they aren't planning on sending anymore boys up yet, to assist with cleaning up, not at this stage anyway, but said this could change.

So...the media well and truly sensationalised it, as did Gillard and Bligh... perhaps for the better, because like he said, you cant pin-point where these 'bullets' hit, but to say it was going to be catastrophic, bigger than Tracy even, the biggest cyclone we have ever had was a bit of a gag.

A beat up!

Better to be safe than sorry, and yes, I am glad it didn't hit too hard (Like they warned)...am just a bit annoyed that I stayed up and worried about them for nothing most of the night.

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Reply #190 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 7:20am

Cods, I'm calm... too calm damn it...*grumbles*

Wink

I had no idea little cyclones inside of wispy larger (non-dense) cyclones existed before I spoke to him today... fascinating!

You learn something every day.

Great for the media, because on radar, they look catastrophic, unless you know what you are looking at, because they are so wide spread.

Think of it as a wispy marshmallow whirly swirly storm cell with lots of little compact mini-cyclones travelling inside it.

Excuse my infantile speak, but I'm not as clever as he with this sort of thing.

Perhaps the name was originally Yatzi, (not Yasi) because like the dice game, you just dont know which way the dice will roll.... or where they will land... lol

(No, he didn't say this, I made the Yatzy bit up myself...it's how I imagined it when he described it to me).

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Reply #191 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 7:52am

The media are looking, looking, looking for some drama, seems like there's not much to be had. So it's time to move onto the farmers, cane farmers had their crops ruined, so what's new, every season is a bad one, too dry, too wet, too windy, lower sugar content.....ho hum Then we move onto the banana farmers, it'll take a year to recover from this yada yada banana's $9.99 a kilo for a couple of weeks, no buyers? ok we'll sell them off for $1.99 a kilo.....now we did have some drama that is filling the spaces....baby born what a miracle. Why don't they admit that there's no news (bloody good thing too) and move on?

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Reply #192 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 7:55am

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 7:52am:

The media are looking, looking, looking for some drama, seems like there's not much to be had. So it's time to move onto the farmers, cane farmers had their crops ruined, so what's new, every season is a bad one, too dry, too wet, too windy, lower sugar content.....ho hum Then we move onto the banana farmers, it'll take a year to recover from this yada yada banana's $9.99 a kilo for a couple of weeks, no buyers? ok we'll sell them off for $1.99 a kilo.....now we did have some drama that is filling the spaces....baby born what a miracle. Why don't they admit that there's no news (bloody good thing too) and move on?

Yup, same old hum-drum... I stayed up half the night for nothing....lol

But again, I am really glad they are ok.. I was particularly worried about those on Palm Island, because their ex-Mayor (a bit of a nutter by the sounds of it) had strapped himself to his two-story house's stairwell..... hmmm in readiness for this CATASTROPHIC cyclone.

Admittedly, this made me just a wee bit nervous. Grin

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mellie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8142 Sydney Gender:	Re: Cyclone Yasi Reply #193 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:02am It's hilarious, chan 7 keep showing different angles of the same ram-sacked house....lol (like we cant tell it's the same house) They must be feeling deeply disappointed! I'll bet Gillards having a good old laugh at us all. Biatch!
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Reply #194 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:03am

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 7:52am:

The media are looking, looking, looking for some drama, seems like there's not much to be had. So it's time to move onto the farmers, cane farmers had their crops ruined, so what's new, every season is a bad one, too dry, too wet, too windy, lower sugar content.....ho hum Then we move onto the banana farmers, it'll take a year to recover from this yada yada banana's $9.99 a kilo for a couple of weeks, no buyers? ok we'll sell them off for $1.99 a kilo.....now we did have some drama that is filling the spaces....baby born what a miracle. Why don't they admit that there's no news (bloody good thing too) and move on?

Dusgusting sensationalism on the ABC News Channel. Completely useless as a source of information. Yesterday, they displayed constant text advertisements for Premier Anna Bligh, running across the bottom of the tv screen.

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