Gabes, are you safe?

Foxnhound8 · Post by **Foxnhound8** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:09 am

Is that cyclone headed your way!?????

foxnhound

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:27 am

I was wondering the same thing as I was dealing with a very icy area this morning. Thought it was bad and then thought of all our Oz friends and wondered why I was feeling bad. They are in my prayers.

Love and be safe, Maggie

Post by **tex** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:34 pm

I believe that Lyn lives closer to where that storm is passing, than Gabes or Liz.

Tex

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:36 pm

no probs here in the T-bar, we are probably the area queensland that is least affected.
thank you soo much for your concern.

queensland is a big state, the core of the cyclone is 2000km (1240m) away from me, the closest towns that will still have strong winds and lots of rain is about 1000km (620m) away.

some towns west of here (about and hour or two hour drive) that have endured two major floods in the last 6 weeks, may get flooding again when the the high rainfalls of the cyclone flow down the river systems

I have seen on the news what people in North America and Canada are dealing with this winter, i am trying to figure out how businesses survive with this amount impact of the weather over there.

Stay safe everyone

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:33 pm

HI Gabes,

So glad to hear that all is fine.

We are definitely taking a hit here in this country but snow can melt away and you have way more weather issues to deal with. It has been tough getting to work the past couple of weeks but making it work for me. Today with the ice was way worse than snow.

Stay safe.

Love, Maggie

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:55 pm

Tex
Lyn is about 1400kms south of us, she is enduring heat waves at the moment

Post by **tex** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:15 pm

Gabes,

Well I'll be a . . . You're right!

Why was I thinking that Canberra was in Queensland, rather than in NSW?

Sorry about that.

Good thing I wasn't planning a trip there, 'cause I would have had a pretty tough time finding it.

Tex

harma · Post by **harma** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:30 pm

When I read all those messages here about the weather, what I nice boring country I am in now, no snow, no blizzards, no storms, no fluuds, no extreme heats or extreme colds.

Glad this storm or fluud will pass you this time Gabes. Although I missed this one, the same with the extreme snow in the US, that happens when you do not watch tele, I guess.

Bifcus16 · Post by **Bifcus16** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:51 pm

We were watching it on TV last night. It was eery watching the heavy storm develop up north and then the TV loses it's satellite signal and we get our own (very much smaller) storm due to the remnants of Cyclone Anthony (last weeks cyclone)! No issues here, of course, except a few trees down etc.

Lots of people we know seem to have family in Townsville (one of the affected areas). They have all been very nervous as they couldn't phone their families to check....

Looks like people have been very lucky with no loss of life reported yet.

To get an idea how big this thing was compared to europe or the US have a look here:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/quee ... 5998806916

Lyn

harvest_table · Post by **harvest_table** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:29 pm

Wow, that's huge! Glad you all are safe and sending good thoughts your way.

Love,

Joanna

Linda in BC · Post by **Linda in BC** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:36 am

Yes, Lyn, thanks for posting that! Glad you and Gabes are Ok. So big! Ugh! You know I always say, "Better the devil you know, than the one you don't!" I guess we get used to what we have to live with and although I can handle -40 degree temperatures, metres of snow, grizzly bears, and being hundreds of miles from civilization alone at night, I sure get really yukky feeling when I just think about tarantulas, scorpians, tornadoes, and hurricanes!

Linda