good news about the toe mel..as for the reef  I love mother nature.. she has done this so many times and its still there..how negative of all the experts.  10 yrs to recover wheres their spirit..they put a man on the moon for gods sakes.as you say pansi a lot of SES up Nth Qld.. whats happening in Vic though?..

I can see the price of fruit and veg and wheat and corn going through the roof..thats what we will be paying for for a long.long time

I think some wil get back to the old fashioned way of cooking.maybe not a bad thing.when I think what my mum did with the rations!!!!!!

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Feb 6^th, 2011 at 6:47am:




dodgy times pansi... Qld is stilladvertising for funds.. so its a bit hard for Vic to put up a fund raising especially with the levy... Vic is mostly about water.. flooding.. not like Qld they had it all at the same time..a bit different I am thinking..

not putting Bligh down but all I have seen so far is words and more words..

I have heard of people rorting the system.. and that can only happen through bad managment in my book..

if we dont want people to take advantage then this whole business of the funds.. needs to be carefully policed..words like "Low Lifes" from swan dont cut it with me..come up with something that wont let that happen...

those people still living in tempory accommodation in Vic from the fires of 2 years ago need to be getting a bit of attention I would think, I would hope.

About time! Smart people of Tully.



Tully Heads and Tully closed to public as distressed cyclone victims seek privacy

POLICE in north Queensland have closed off cyclone-ravaged Tully Heads and Tully to the public following a request for privacy by distressed locals.

A Mission Beach local's rant at senior politicians has highlighted the frustration of Queensland residents.

A Mission Beach local's rant at senior politicians has highlighted the frustration of Queensland residents.

Police say residents returning to their damaged homes wanted to be left alone to begin the clean up in the wake of Cyclone Yasi.

The seaside towns were among the hardest hit when the category five Cyclone Yasi slammed into the coast late on Wednesday night.

Police say the entire area of Tully Heads and Tully have been closed and the locals will wear marked wrist bands to gain access.

The media have also been asked to respect the privacy of the local population.

The seaside township of Tully Heads has been all but annihilated by a Yasi-generated storm surge.

Some homes have been washed away while only a shell remains of others in streets clogged with debris.

Today's Sunday Mail reports the devastation wrought by Cyclone Yasi will add at least $2 billion to Queensland's natural disaster damage bill.

And there could be yet further heartache for Queenslanders on the horizon.

Weather watchers were last night keeping an eye on an ominous-looking swirling mass of cloud in the South Pacific.

The cloud mass was forming west of Fiji where Cyclone Yasi originated and will be monitored by the weather bureau in coming days.

Senior forecaster Brett Harrison said it was likely Queensland would see more wild weather until the end of April.

"The cyclone season is certainly still going," he said.

"Normally in the Coral Sea we see four but this year the seasonal outlook indicated we could see five to six cyclones."

Mr Harrison said Queensland had experienced four already: Tasha, Anthony, Zelia and Yasi.

Long-range weather forecaster Ken Ring said Queenslanders should brace for more cyclones throughout this month and next.

"The season is far from over," he said. "Don't rush in and do too much maintenance or rebuilding until more settled conditions arrive in April. Keep your survival packs stocked and close at hand."

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/floodrelief/tully-heads-and-tully-closed-to-public-as-distressed-cyclone-victims-seek-privacy/story-fn7ik2te-1226000842577#ixzz1D7w9RnRW

pansi I hope someone gets the idea to build more cyclone proof buildings up there..cyclones are'ntnew after all, and some are more violent than others.. but they should build with the worst in mind

not sure about crops a bit harder to protect them

cods wrote on Feb 6^th, 2011 at 8:55am:



I used to give to the Salvo's too until someone that I know did some work at one of their centres, they had six full time paid employees doing very little work, the coffee runs being the top priority for the day. The elderly volunteers did all the hard jobs.

I do some investigations, if the charity has a CEO, I don't give because I don't like to pay for his/her bonus.

I love animals, both wild and domestic so I give the actual food to the local pound, then I know that the animals get it, and I give to the wildlife foundation after the natural disasters.

It is getting hard to support the needy when you know they don't get the benefits.....bloody greed!

mellie wrote on Feb 6^th, 2011 at 5:56pm:

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lol....is the ses and the sign language bloke there?

noomeister....do you mean Bligh is actually doing her job, what she's paid very well to do? She is a media whore and most of her tired old rhetoric is bullshite, the people are saying there are no hundreds of helpers in their area, the LACK of volunteers seems to be their concern. She overstated the Queensland spirit, but the spirit level is pretty low.

She saw it happen in Brisbane and she didn't have the common sense to work out that these areas are a bit more difficult for people to get to so there wouldn't be the same response.

<<not as if your known for rushing things pansi..lol >>

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Alright cods, no need to get personal, I'm not as young as I used to be.....ha ha only joking.

We are a bit on the slow side up north, but what's Victoria's excuse?

Anyway, the roads that were washed away and potholed in the flood have been fixed in my town.......threw a shovel load of road surface mix in and whammo! all better........until it rains again and gets washed away. Not just slow but slack.

Who's tears were the more convincing cods, Anna's or Julia's? I'm sure I saw something on Q&A about Julia being a bit on the hard side and what do you know, the very next day she gets all soft and weepy, it was far too staged for my liking.  They really do take us for fools.