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pwhodges:


My informant's comment was: "Cooktown will probably be wiped from the face of the earth"!  I have a friend in Cooktown...

Barmymoo:
I sincerely hope that currently you have a friend not in Cooktown :/

pwhodges:
He is a lifeguard, and so might in a general way be one of those on the front line, as it were.

Akima:
The Cape York Peninsula is in the front line for cyclones (our equivalent of hurricanes or typhoons) generally, and Cooktown has been hammered by cyclones more than once. Up to roughly the 1970s, settlements up there were small and fairly "frontier", but steady development for the tourist industry has put larger populations in the firing line. And we are assured by the CSIRO that tropical storms are becoming larger and more frequent...

Fingers crossed for your friend, and everyone else up there.

cesium133:
Shit. Should've put my car in the parking garage. I can hear from the lab the sound of hail hitting the building, so it must be big...

edit -- just went upstairs and looked outside. The hail was smaller than I expected. The bigger pieces were about 1 cm in diameter.

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