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Severe cyclone Lasi bearing down on QLD

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Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
did it hit?
10pm tonight aest (6 hours away). It looks huge on the satelite.

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.
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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.
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