Rosie wrote on Feb 19
th, 2015 at 9:50am:
I'm on the Fraser Coast and I went to town for the papers and the car park at Woollies was full to brimming over with shoppers frightened they will run out of essentials. It's not the first time a cyclone has come this way and it won't be the last so I always have my fridge and freezer stocked with a few extras to tide us over in case of an emergency.
It's a miserable day here and raining but the wind isn't all that bad at the moment. All being well it will be all over by this time tomorrow and we will be wondering what all the fuss was about. All fingers and toes crossed
The time we had a flood in Rockhampton back in 2013, and perhaps before that in 2011, we had people going in to buy up all the bread and milk. Because apparently, that's what Rockhamptonites eat and drink as a staple diet. Heard that people have already taken the powdered milk, too, and supplies are out. Tonight, I'm going to a screening of Jupiter Ascending, and I'll probably exit the cinema to be greeted by heavy or moderate rainfall.
They have upgraded the cyclone crossing the coast to a category 4 system. I find that doubtful, but it should be a fairly weak category 3 at most. I see no reason why it should intensify in the region where we seem to see a downgrading a favourable cyclonic conditions. Either way, it's going to be my first cyclone that I have directly experienced.
The path of the cyclone seems to have moved north to cross well north of St Lawrence (north of Yeppoon). And since that is the likely case, we might be able to get up to 400mm of rain in this town over the next 2 days. Surely, that will help our annual rainfall totals and make up for the lack of rain we had from the start of the year. Maybe the depression will stall over this town, and save the Saturday's world cup game in Brisbane.
I slept for 12 hours last night, and only got up an hour ago. Typically, humid summer days allows me to sleep through a few hours longer.
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