Yasi? She-ite

Well the worst is over.
At first it was reasonably quiet but as darkness fell the cyclonic winds intensified.
Next door had a lot of trees in the yard which sheltered the house but my biggest concern was the fact we have already had a lot of rain and the ground was sodden.

All was going well until a little after 9pm when the power went out.
I had taped the windows, checked all the torches and had a radio which went all night hooked up to a car battery.
The wind became a roar like a jet aircraft hovering overhead about 11pm as top speed of about 160kph was reached. This went on for 3 hours and we could hear debris hitting the house, some louder than others.

About 2 pm we could hear the roar quieting down and we all slept.

I arose at 6am and it was still blowing about 75kph with gusts up to 100kph.
Miraculously, the house, cars and shed are all intact. My fence and clothesline are crushed by trees from next door.
Tree debris is everywhere.

family is all safe, power is out but have generator and most creature comforts.

Great to hear that you're safe. It must have been quite an experience.

Glad you are O.K.

Glad you're ok! My parents live a little north from you just outside Cairns and they told a similar story - looks initially like everyone is ok but the towns in between them and you took a battering!

Good to hear Oz .... Townsville was on the BBC news this morning!

Glad to here everything is ok with you and your family mate. We were a bit worried over here.

Reckon thats a bit of a result. Any danger of a repeat performance?

Glad your all safe. Hopefully that's the end of it.

Same from as me as everyone else has said - property/cars/sheds can be fixed but your family cant

Very glad to hear you all ok - what a story to tell the grandkids!!!

Yep good to hear from you Ozzie, and lets hope thats it for this year

On the drive home I was just thinking " I wonder how Ozzie is getting on" . glad things were not to bad

Glad all are safe as Monkey says Family top the list

Good luck with the clean up

tux wrote:Reckon thats a bit of a result. Any danger of a repeat performance?

all the time.
our 'wet' season always has cyclones. plural, the forecasters are saying seven this year.
i think we have had 4 so far.

Gulp!

Just to give you an idea of the immense size of this thing here is a pic of the cyclone on a map of europe to scale.