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Re: Cyclone Yasi
Reply #195 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:09am

mavisdavis wrote on 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.

Now, when another 'said' category 5 comes in, one like Tracy, noone will bother panicking.

Very mean, I was so looking forward to ...

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I think I may have been a storm chaser in a past life.

Year after year I would visit my father who lives on the Sunshine coast QLD....really hoping I would get to see one.

My father was a shocker, he used to egg me on, would say "Yep, it's definitely going to hit this year, we are about due for one"....the bastard.

Note: Maroochydoor is too far south for cyclones.

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Reply #196 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:25am

We must bare in mind that people lost roofs and there will be a fair bit of structural damage to houses, but they will be covered by insurance, or should be. Poor Anna Bligh will be crying in her porridge this morning, no added excuse for her disaster tax. No Anna we are not donating to your wardrobe fund, although wearing that hard hat hasn't done much for your hair....nah maybe it just needs a good shampoo....if you can drag yourself away from the tv cameras.

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Reply #197 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:27am

mavisdavis wrote on 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.

Oh yeah, Ms Dreary...the ABC 'advertised' Bligh - in much the same way that they've advertised emergency and donations hotlines and internet sites - not to mention the antics of: protestors and dictators in the ME, Africa and Asis and rescuers and citizens in Oz, NZ, Chile, Brazil, etc.

FFS, get over yourselves!

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Reply #198 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:32am

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:25am:

We must bare in mind that people lost roofs and there will be a fair bit of structural damage to houses, but they will be covered by insurance, or should be. Poor Anna Bligh will be crying in her porridge this morning, no added excuse for her disaster tax. No Anna we are not donating to your wardrobe fund, although wearing that hard hat hasn't done much for your hair....nah maybe it just needs a good shampoo....if you can drag yourself away from the tv cameras.

Spot on!!

.... This is exactly what's it's all about... the flood appeal had lost it's 'appeal' you see.

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Boo cry sigh, poor Anna Bligh.

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Ex Dame Pansi Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 24168	Re: Cyclone Yasi Reply #199 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:34am People just arrived home from the evacuation centre to find channel 7 ripping their roof off lol
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Reply #200 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:36am

Mellie and Pansi - what in the hell did you want to see, people dead, homes and business reduced to matchsticks ? You are a pair of sicko's.

South of Cairns sugar and banana plantations have been wiped out, "oh damn prices will go up" you say - What about the poor banana and sugar farmers whose livelihoods has been wiped out ? many for the second time in six years. As yet we don't know how many people have had extensive damage to their homes.

I know I have thanked the Lord for the fact that the damage has not been as devastating as predicted.

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mellie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8142 Sydney Gender:	Re: Cyclone Yasi Reply #201 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:36am Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:34am: People just arrived home from the evacuation centre to find channel 7 ripping their roof off lol I just read your message, when Mel Doyle came across on TV, fluffing her hotel room pillows...Classic!!!
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Reply #202 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:39am

nichy wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:36am:

Mellie and Pansi - what in the hell did you want to see, people dead, homes and business reduced to matchsticks ? You are a pair of sicko's.

South of Cairns sugar and banana plantations have been wiped out, "oh damn prices will go up" you say - What about the poor banana and sugar farmers whose livelihoods has been wiped out ? many for the second time in six years. As yet we don't know how many people have had extensive damage to their homes.

I know I have thanked the Lord for the fact that the damage has not been as devastating as predicted.

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Mellie and Pansi - what in the hell did you want to see

The truth would have been nice, I don't think anyone likes to be made a fool of, this or feel compelled to worry about a potential extinction level catastrophe in the name of ratings and political opportunism.

It's unsettling, insults our intelligence.

I was really worried about those people on Palm Island, and this government has made fools of us all.

Roll Eyes

AGAIN!!!

Even the RAAF are laughing at us , (it was more or less a training exercise for them).....I felt so stupid when I called my friend anxious this morning, he was amused that I had actually concerned myself over a fluffy marshmallow full of tic-tacs...and enough so that I stayed up half the night worrying for nothing.

Ok, better to be safe than sorry, I agree, but there was no need to beat it up that much..jeeeze!

And what's more insulting, they are still at it...check Sunrise out on chan 7!!!

Unbelievable!

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JC Denton Gold Member Offline Posts: 5520 Gender:	Re: Cyclone Yasi Reply #203 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:42am I'll be in the U.S for the next three weeks (waiting for plane in Sydney airport right now) so I hope I'll be able to keep up with the news about the hurricane over there since I won't have internet access much. Everybody in NQLD stay safe.
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Reply #204 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:44am

nichy wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:36am:

Mellie and Pansi - what in the hell did you want to see, people dead, homes and business reduced to matchsticks ? You are a pair of sicko's.

South of Cairns sugar and banana plantations have been wiped out, "oh damn prices will go up" you say - What about the poor banana and sugar farmers whose livelihoods has been wiped out ? many for the second time in six years. As yet we don't know how many people have had extensive damage to their homes.

I know I have thanked the Lord for the fact that the damage has not been as devastating as predicted.

I said there was NO STORY which is a good thing. I'm laughing at the stupid media trying to make a story out of nothing.

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Reply #205 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:46am

JC Denton wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:42am:

I'll be in the U.S for the next three weeks (waiting for plane in Sydney airport right now) so I hope I'll be able to keep up with the news about the hurricane over there since I won't have internet access much. Everybody in NQLD stay safe.

Did your visa get cancelled again?

Or has FD levitated you to a senior forum position off-shore we aren't privy to?

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Reply #206 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:47am

mellie wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:39am:

nichy wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:36am:

Mellie and Pansi - what in the hell did you want to see, people dead, homes and business reduced to matchsticks ? You are a pair of sicko's.

South of Cairns sugar and banana plantations have been wiped out, "oh damn prices will go up" you say - What about the poor banana and sugar farmers whose livelihoods has been wiped out ? many for the second time in six years. As yet we don't know how many people have had extensive damage to their homes.

I know I have thanked the Lord for the fact that the damage has not been as devastating as predicted.

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Mellie and Pansi - what in the hell did you want to see

The truth would have been nice, I don't think anyone likes to be made a fool of, this or feel compelled to worry about a potential extinction level catastrophe in the name of ratings and political opportunism.

It's unsettling, insults our intelligence.

I was really worried about those people on Palm Island, and this government has made fools of us all.

Roll Eyes

Can you imagine if the Bureau of Meteorology had not issued the warnings and the Government and other authorities had not acted upon them, the loss of life that possibly would have occurred ?

The fact that you swallow the sensationalism wallowed in by the likes of Doyle, Koch, Stefanovic and Wilkinson and their colleagues is your own problem, if you'd have logged onto BOM you would have seen that medias' figures were somewhat exaggerated.

Yes I too had a restless night wondering how the people up North were faring, but I have been very thankful that I need not have worried so much.

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mellie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8142 Sydney Gender:	Re: Cyclone Yasi Reply #207 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:48am Note: My friend didn't ridicule me as such, or even laugh, (not out loud anyway)..but I could tell he was slightly amused over my overt-concern! I actually called to find out if he knew something about Palm Island.
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 41804 Gender:	Re: Cyclone Yasi Reply #208 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:50am I heard 90 % of building s in tulley are severley damaged
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Reply #209 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:51am

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:44am:

nichy wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:36am:

Mellie and Pansi - what in the hell did you want to see, people dead, homes and business reduced to matchsticks ? You are a pair of sicko's.

South of Cairns sugar and banana plantations have been wiped out, "oh damn prices will go up" you say - What about the poor banana and sugar farmers whose livelihoods has been wiped out ? many for the second time in six years. As yet we don't know how many people have had extensive damage to their homes.

I know I have thanked the Lord for the fact that the damage has not been as devastating as predicted.

I said there was NO STORY which is a good thing. I'm laughing at the stupid media trying to make a story out of nothing.

Oh, so there is NO STORY in the fact that many farmers have lost their plantations for the second time in six years, that peoples homes and businesses have been severely damaged, that there will be flooding in some areas over the next few days ? Of course that's not your problem is it.

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