you live in Cairn? That doesnt seem so bad i mean that gotta be off the path right? lemme look at that map again here..... oh... damn.... good luck man
First the floods and now this...surely this is one of the worst ever year for weather related disasters in Australia for some time. Best of luck, hopefully recovery effort will proceed as soon as possible, and keep us in touch.
Best of luck man. If you do lose everything, may I suggest moving to Canada? Starting next month we are going to have ass backwards internet just like you guys do, so you should feel right at home!
Seriously though, keep safe and I wish you luck. Stuff like that is bad news and I hope everyone gets out safe.
Hey everyone thanks for your comments. I am completely fine, the cyclone turned and missed my city and hit several towns south of it. Nobody was directly killed by the cyclone, which was the biggest storm Australia has ever had in recent generations. If it did hit I would be homeless. The houses in those towns are completely obliterated so I would definitely be homeless right now if it hit Cairns. Now the community will suffer indirect deaths from the cyclone; such as farmers committing suicide (they lost all their crops just as they were recovering from last year), a man used a generator indoors (fumes killed him), relationships being destroyed over financial stress resulting in mums and dads committing suicide. Terrible stuff of-course, hopefully the many volunteers, emergency services, army, and charities will manage to keep the deaths down.
Okay let me talk about myself again and be attention seeking: I wasn't scared, and I doubt you would be either, what did scare me was when I went and checked on a family member at their house to see that they were okay and her vicious dog with a mental problem (abused by former owner as pup), is extremely dangerous and I had to walk around it and pretend not to notice (if it thinks you notice it attacks).
Word out to the US population struggling with their biggest storm ever, (according to the news). Good luck to those that live in Japan near that volcano. For Cairo, I wish you all peace.
We have copped floods in the south now too, Melbourne and Victoria have been getting heaps of rain from the tail-end of the cyclone and a whole heap of suburbs have been flooded over the weekend.
Cyclone Yasi didn't seem to hit as hard as a lot of "experts" were saying though...
My prayers and thoughts are with our Northern neighbours; Australia has been copping it hard, especially since the drought was here for so long, and now that the drought has broken with floods, etc, I think some people may be praying for the drought to come back!
Glad to hear you're safe. We've had some pretty crazy blizzards in the US this year. Nothing as devastating as what's happening down under, but still some intense shit.
@Tsoglani: I feel for you man, in Cairns we have dodged some big bullets and you guys down south keep on getting punished by our country's cruel weather. I hope there isn't any more natural disasters for a long time (not likely). I think there might be another cyclone on Valentines day :|
@Delta_Ass: There is, I don't pay insurance yet, but I think it is part of the normal home insurance. We have good agencies in our country and they have lost billions over the past month, hopefully they don't fold when their balances hit negative, because they are going to be really handy again probably soon
@FlyingRat: Thanks @Everyones_A_Critic: Thanks to you two .
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