This bitch is going to be nasty. 500km wide apparently.
Currently cat4, expected to go cat5 when hits coast.
Expected to be similar to Katrina.
WTF is going on in this world?
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This bitch is going to be nasty. 500km wide apparently.
Currently cat4, expected to go cat5 when hits coast.
Expected to be similar to Katrina.
WTF is going on in this world? -
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did it hit?Comment -
10pm tonight aest (6 hours away). It looks huge on the satelite.Originally posted by jjgold
Storm surges of up to 7m on top of a high tide. Scary shit. There is not going to be much left of qld after yasi and the floods.
(Reuters) - Australia's Cyclone Yasi, with winds of up to 300 km (186 miles) per hour, is so powerful it could blow apart even "cyclone proof" houses, engineers said on Wednesday.
Yasi is headed for major towns and cities along the northeast coast. It is believed to be the strongest ever to hit Australia, surpassing Cyclone Tracy which largely destroyed the northern city of Darwin in 1974.
"Once you get to extreme cases, you are in uncharted ground and the test data I have got I would not trust it if I had to live there myself," said Dr Robert Leicester, a researcher with the government's national scientific research body.
Leicester, of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, has studied the impact of Australia's two previous worst cyclones, Tracy and Cyclone Larry in 2006.
"Of the cyclones up to now since Tracy, you have not really had a direct hit on places with a lot of housing," he said.
Building standards have been tightened significantly since Tracy killed 71 people and destroyed about 70 percent of the northern city of Darwin.
But they may be no match for cyclones the size of Yasi. Standards are already being reviewed because of worries that cyclones are getting stronger and moving further south.Comment -
didn't know Australia got hit by cyclones..Comment -
Holy shit...that's some nasty stuff!Comment -
Oops, thread title is wrong, it is actually cyclone Yasi, not lasi lolComment -
Shari be safe.Comment -
Waves as high as 12 metres are predicted to hit the north Queensland coast as the storm surge caused by Cyclone Yasi combines with a high tide.
The surge has put tens of thousands of oceanfront and low-lying homes in Cairns and Townsville at risk of inundation, as well as both cities' CBDs.
Meanwhile, state disaster co-ordinator Ian Stewart said the town of Cardwell could experience a storm surge of 6.5 to 7 metres above the normal high tide.Comment -
Windows will explode, roofs will lift and homes on stumps may simply fall over and crumble when category five Cyclone Yasi crosses the coast, experts say.
Meanwhile, older homes and buildings may "fall over like a house of cards" under the destructive 300km/h winds.Comment -
QLD premier Anna Bligh has done such a good job with the floods and now this...she deserves a medalComment -
jj dosen't live in qld?Originally posted by Deuce
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I'm in Victoria which is the Southeast coast thankfully. Usually I bitch about the weather here in Melbourne but after what our poor friends in QLD have gone through since Xmas, I swear I'll never bitch about the weather again while we're here. Just fukking awful.Originally posted by DeuceComment -
Just watching the news, some interesting statements:
2000km from end to end
going to destroy the great barrier reef (one of the seven wonders of the world) as it heads inland
apparently has the force of an atomic bomb
cyclone tracey was 1/10 of the size of cyclone tracy
twice as strong as cyclone larry
it is so large it would almost cover the US! http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/spe...-1225998850720
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is this going down right now?Comment -
Yes. 7.25pm now. Supposed to hit land around midnight.Originally posted by iifold
Let's hope the media are over-stating it, at least a little bit..Comment -
about to hit land in about 2.5-4 hours, yet you see nothing about it on yank channels such as cnn and fox news.Originally posted by iifoldComment -
wow.
i was gonna make a joke about getting some tubes at burlegih heads, but this sounds serious!blog '09-'10: 37-16: +$31,900
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That's about the hit straight on!
BAIL!!!!blog '09-'10: 37-16: +$31,900
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Yeah, I was looking for some coverage.. but found none..Originally posted by lonesomeloser
Makes you wonder..Comment -
Yeah, this would be one of those times it'd be great for our weather people to be dead wrong. I was in Fiji when Cyclone Gene hit and that was bad enough - I have literally never been so scared in my life. The fact that Yasi makes Gene look like a rain shower is so hard to even fathom.Originally posted by OptionalComment -
yeah probably just a little squall but media using scare and drama tacticsOriginally posted by Optional
probaby fake satelite pictures to
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Shows how relevant they think aus is.Originally posted by iifold
We are only supposed to be one of usa best allies, but they are to concerned about their foreign policy and stirring things up in the middle east.Comment -
Our Media is a fukkin joke..
If this hurricane was headed for Haiti there would be non stop coverage and celebrities raising money left and right already..Comment -
yep, and if it happened in the usa aus would be sending all types of support.Originally posted by iifold
Instead obama will be more concerned about securing construction contracts for US companies to rebuild the disaster zone after the chaos.
With all the storms and other crap, does anybody else starting to think that there is some kind of weather manipulation warfare going on in the world these days?Comment -
usa press totally racist, sickens me, they are all clownsOriginally posted by iifold
if haiti was white folk there would be zero coverage, except maybe some clown weatherman saying we got a windy one in haiti
same with the buffoons in HollywoodComment -
9.5 metre waves currently hitting townsville
time to yasi hits land: 2hr 15 min
she is slowing down in movement, which means it is getting more powerful
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Australia is a large country. Cairns is nearly 2000km from Brisbane, so here we'll see little effect.
The tropical north of Australia gets a lot of Cyclones between December and April.
The Brisbane floods of 74 were caused by massive amounts of rain from Tropical cyclone Wanda.
Sadly, it looks like the eye will hit Innisfail, which was devastated by Cyclone Larry in 2006.
While Yasi may not reach wind speeds experienced by Tracey in 74, it is much bigger in size.
Most TC lose intensity when they hit land, but Yasi looks like it is going to hang around and may still be a Cat 2 when it reaches towns 700km inland.
While TC tend to have a mind of their own, all the weather people have been amazed that this one has followed all the prediction models.
As Premier Bligh said - Qld is not quite sure who we pissed off, but be are paying for it now.
BtBComment -
All the best Queenslanders.
I have some good friends who live in Townsville. That is about 250km (150 miles) south of where the storm is expected to be worst but they are hunkered down with friends who live further inland.Comment -
looks like it turned out to be a wimpy storm!Comment -
WHAT???? I demand an explanation. I'm all worked up after reading this shit, expecting something like Hurr. Katrina and it turns out to be a thunderstorm?Originally posted by lonesomeloser
Loney, I want answers pal.Comment -
What happened??
Did it hit?Comment
