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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #50 on: 19 Jan 2011, 07:45 »

Jesus. Some places, shit's gone completely under. It's really scary to look at that and ask myself, "What the fuck where'd the freeway g--- OHHHHHHHH"
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #51 on: 01 Feb 2011, 17:48 »

So Mother Nature doesn't like Queensland very much this year.
A Katrina-esque cyclone is due to hit this evening. :(

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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #52 on: 01 Feb 2011, 18:29 »

Poor old QLD really is copping it!  :(  It's crazy!  Lucky I am very far inland!
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #53 on: 01 Feb 2011, 19:56 »

Just saw this news article - I don't know if it is visible to outside viewers though.

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/floodrelief/how-cyclone-yasi-compares-around-the-world/story-fn7ik2te-1225998762870


This is the cyclone superimposed over a map of the US.


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IF you're struggling to grasp the magnitude of Tropical Cyclone Yasi, consider this: it is so large it would almost cover the United States, most of Asia and large parts of Europe.
Most of the coverage about the scale of Yasi has tried to compare it with storms of the past - it's bigger than Larry, more powerful than Tracy.
But just as powerful is this comparison, showing this storm is continental in size.  The main bloc of the cyclone is 500km wide, while its associated activity, shown above in a colour-coding to match intensity, stretches over 2000km.
The storm's scale of destruction is as shocking as it is inevitable.  In the map above, the United States from Pennsylvania in the east to Nevada in the west, from Georgia in the south to Canada in the north and well into Mexico would be battered with 300km/h winds and up to one metre of rain.
The economic impact would be felt around the world.

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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #54 on: 01 Feb 2011, 19:58 »

Actually, we have something like that going on right now. It's called a major blizzard. Most of the Midwestern US is shut down right now.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #55 on: 01 Feb 2011, 19:59 »

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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #56 on: 01 Feb 2011, 20:02 »

Actually, our storm looks fairly paltry beside Australia's:  US Blizzard
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #57 on: 01 Feb 2011, 20:34 »

Actually, we have something like that going on right now. It's called a major blizzard. Most of the Midwestern US is shut down right now.

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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #58 on: 01 Feb 2011, 20:55 »

Whoa, chill.

There's a big difference between what we're going through and what AUS is going through.

We knew about this storm well in advance, and we just have to wait to dig it out.

Aussies are going to have to keep from floating away completely after they're soaked.

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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #59 on: 01 Feb 2011, 21:04 »

I think the main difference is that everything will be relatively okay once the snow's gone.
Once the cyclone's gone, everything will be GONE. The Premier is saying that people will die. Australia has not had a storm this bad in living memory. It's all pretty terrifying, even if it is in another part of the country. I pretty much want to cry looking at these images.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #60 on: 01 Feb 2011, 21:17 »

Maybe now people will understand why the levy they want to put into place is a good thing. Queensland's infrastructure is going to be so fucked on multiple levels, they will need all the help they can get.

God knows I would be happy to give money to the government to help them fund all the new roads and sewage systems and drains and important things. NSW is pretty damn close to being on fire a lot though, so who knows what is going to happen.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #61 on: 01 Feb 2011, 21:21 »

By the end of the year I predict Australia will be gone all together.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #62 on: 01 Feb 2011, 21:24 »

Actually, we have something like that going on right now. It's called a major blizzard. Most of the Midwestern US is shut down right now.

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anyway australians, don't die! that cyclone looks angry.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #63 on: 01 Feb 2011, 22:03 »

Goddamn it guys, could you not have gotten all the horrible weather out of the way before I'm about to move to your godforsaken country?

Best of luck to all the Queenslanders! Hopefully my family there makes it though ok.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #64 on: 01 Feb 2011, 23:57 »

Sometimes, I am truly thankful to live in New South Wales.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #65 on: 02 Feb 2011, 00:57 »

Oh sure, thankful during the crazy cyclones and flooding but when State of Origin comes around.... :D

Oh giant cyclone, can't you just go away and not kill any one?  Queensland is pretty tired and our emergency crews are already a bit over it! kthx
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #66 on: 02 Feb 2011, 06:24 »

For those of you who think I don't care about the flooding:

The main street of my little hamlet, taken in late May of 2008.



That same street, taken about a month later, after numerous rainstorms had raised the lake level.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #67 on: 02 Feb 2011, 08:07 »

Actually, we have something like that going on right now. It's called a major blizzard. Most of the Midwestern US is shut down right now.

Oh so it's like Canada normally.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #68 on: 02 Feb 2011, 12:36 »

Good news, guys. Yasi got downgraded to a Category 3 (from 5) this morning. Unfortuanetly, it crossed the coast line at midnight when it was still a category 5 causing extensive damage to anumber of coastal communities.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/weakening-yasi-continues-to-wreak-devastation-20110201-1acgp.html

tl;dr. Still fraking huge just less destructive.

EDIT: jwhouk, I don't think you quite understand the scale of the flash flooding that many Australians just experienced.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #69 on: 02 Feb 2011, 13:28 »

Good news, guys. Yasi got downgraded to a Category 3 (from 5) this morning. Unfortuanetly, it crossed the coast line at midnight when it was still a category 5 causing extensive damage to a number of coastal communities.
Tropical rotating storms always weaken after they cross the coast, but poor old Queensland really didn't need another dose of this after the recent floods. Roll on the national "I've got you, mate" levy.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #70 on: 04 Feb 2011, 01:56 »

Hey guys, just in case any of you haven't quite got a handle yet on just how fucking enormous Yasi is, I was checking the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's rain radar online to see if I might be able to go out any time tonight all the way down here in Melbourne without getting soaked, and, well:

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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #71 on: 04 Feb 2011, 02:19 »

Can I just mention that the Southwest of WA is the best part of the country?
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #72 on: 04 Feb 2011, 11:49 »

EDIT: jwhouk, I don't think you quite understand the scale of the flash flooding that many Australians just experienced.

I just know that when you've got clouds over 85% of the country, it ain't good.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #73 on: 04 Feb 2011, 12:46 »

You know it's a lot of water when they start measuring it in Sydarbs an hour.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #74 on: 04 Feb 2011, 16:39 »

Hey guys, just in case any of you haven't quite got a handle yet on just how fucking enormous Yasi is, I was checking the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's rain radar online to see if I might be able to go out any time tonight all the way down here in Melbourne without getting soaked, and, well:



To be fair, I believe most of the rain down in Victoria was caused by ex-cyclone Anthony.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #75 on: 04 Feb 2011, 18:20 »

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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #76 on: 04 Feb 2011, 20:23 »

So all that rain last night in Melbourne from Yasi or Anthony or whoever the hell caused it was kind of a big deal. Not where I am fortunately, my part of town isn't called Clifton Hill for nothing, but oh hey look, this is a photo from last night of a train station I sometimes go to when I'm going to see an old film at a nifty Art Deco cinema in St. Kilda:



That canal there in the middle? That's the train line.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #77 on: 04 Feb 2011, 21:28 »

Okay so in the last few weeks we've had Brisbane, the third-largest city in Australia, flood, and now we've had Melbourne, the second-largest, also flood . . .

Hey there, Sydney!
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #78 on: 04 Feb 2011, 23:54 »

That is an utterly bizarre and also awesome photo! (even though the situation is rather shitty)
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« Reply #79 on: 05 Feb 2011, 00:06 »

Okay so in the last few weeks we've had Brisbane, the third-largest city in Australia, flood, and now we've had Melbourne, the second-largest, also flood . . .

Hey there, Sydney!

I am on the third floor of our building, so I would be fine, but it would be crazy to be stuck in my house because everywhere had flooded. I kinda want it to happen except for all the damage that will happen to everywhere.
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« Reply #80 on: 05 Feb 2011, 00:14 »

Yeah if you could have the flooding without the damage they could be a lot of fun.
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« Reply #81 on: 05 Feb 2011, 03:00 »

Okay so in the last few weeks we've had Brisbane, the third-largest city in Australia, flood, and now we've had Melbourne, the second-largest, also flood . . .

Hey there, Sydney!

I'm on the south head, I'll be completely cut-off from the jungo.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #82 on: 05 Feb 2011, 20:39 »

Further to yesterday's floods, here's a photodump.

There's a creek called Merri Creek near my house. It drains much of Melbourne's inner north and flows into the Yarra, the river which flows through Melbourne. Normally it looks like this:







This weekend, though, it's more like this:















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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #83 on: 06 Feb 2011, 13:49 »

I feel like this should now be called "Australia: Under Water and on Fire?"

Did we have anyone from Perth apart from Dovey?
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #84 on: 06 Feb 2011, 13:54 »

(Psst, Jodie, two posts above mine)
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #85 on: 06 Feb 2011, 13:59 »

Oh!  There are more!  I hope you and your friends and families are ok Mctaggart!

And also Dovey's friends and families, he is safe in the snow.  Also the first 2 times I tired to type safe there I put sage.  I guess he is also sage.
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« Reply #86 on: 06 Feb 2011, 15:52 »

I am totally sage. And really it'd be a mistake to read the Perth bushfires as being part as the other smitings Australia's been having, Perth catches fire every year.

And my family are fine, they've been in Adelaide for most of this stuff, which as far as I know has suffered no further punishment besides having to be Adelaide.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #87 on: 06 Feb 2011, 15:57 »

I'm not convinced that Adelaide requires further punishment. I mean...it's Adelaide.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #88 on: 06 Feb 2011, 16:18 »

Don't let that fool you, they're drinking the best wine in the country and eating the best fresh produce over there. Oh yeah, Adelaide's living large.
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« Reply #89 on: 06 Feb 2011, 19:30 »

More proof that Adelaide is awesome. So far nothing bad has happened to us this year.

However some of Australia is now on fire. Great. Fires and floods and wind. :(
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« Reply #90 on: 06 Feb 2011, 20:47 »

My part of Perth is absolutely fine. I have a few friends who live around there and they're all ok too.

Dovey, this is closer to civilisation and much bigger than the fires we normally get. It's in and around the Kelmscott/Roleystone area and so far apparently ~60 homes have been destroyed or damaged. It's difficult to bring under control because of the winds from what remains of cyclone Yasi and the fact that there are more fires to the north and further southeast and the various fire fighting services have all had to split their focus. They also can't really get reinforcements from other areas because they're mostly on fire too.

It's not to the same scale as Queensland's disasters but it's still serious.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #91 on: 06 Feb 2011, 20:51 »

Wait so it's Yasi-related again?

Fuck you, Yasi.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #92 on: 06 Feb 2011, 21:04 »

What, exactly, did you guys DO to tick off God and/or Mother Nature?
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« Reply #93 on: 06 Feb 2011, 21:05 »

We had two AFL grand finals, I think. That pissed a lot of people off.
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« Reply #94 on: 06 Feb 2011, 21:29 »

We had two AFL grand finals and in the end Collingwood won.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #95 on: 07 Feb 2011, 10:07 »

Wait so it's Yasi-related again?

Fuck you, Yasi.

Yasi also caused the heatwave in and around Sydney.
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Re: Australia: Under Water?
« Reply #96 on: 09 Feb 2011, 03:13 »

More proof that Adelaide is awesome. So far nothing bad has happened to us this year.
Actually, it's proof that nothing happens in Adelaide. Ever.  :-D
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