Mafia_boy you are such a scaremonger, it was no where near as bad as expected because it turned away from Cairns and only hit small coastal towns. No one died and all that was lost was a few Banana's and some boats. You're making it sound like it was Hiroshima.
Seriously Casio, I might sound like a scaremonger but you sound like an absolute
and actually some things that are banned by AUP by making those comments and should stick to commentating on your little (and it is little compared to what's happened here) Melbourne flood.
So only a few bananas and some boats were lost huh?? Here's some happy snaps and feel free to take your comments back after you see them because this is more than just a few bananas and next time, show some intelligence.
Center of Tully, QLD.
Mission Beach (ground zero for the cyclone!)
The Castaway Resort @ Mission Beach.
Butler Street in Tully.
Black Street in Tully.
More Tully carnage.
Also, no one has died YET. They can't get into Cardwell which had around 100 people who stayed behind and can't be contacted. Not to mention things like the roof being torn off the evacuation centre in Innisfail and 1/2 the buildings in town, Willis Islands cyclone-proof weather station being destroyed, the FACT that it was so dangerous for rescue teams to go and evacuate people who called to be saved and telling them, "tough luck, you're on your own, but we'll call you to see how you're holding up!"....*sarcasm* but yeah, it's only a few banana's.
See, unlike you, I actually stayed up through the night to monitor the events that were unfolding between Cairns and Townsville and had TV, radio and internet all focused on the cyclone and various reports from the BOM so I had as much info as I could to show how bad it was getting here.
Casio
Really? So these which happened in the last 10 years don't count.
Cyclone Laurence
Cyclone Hamish
Cyclone George
Cyclone Rosita
Cyclone Ingrid
etc.
All category 4 and below Casio.
Oh and we'll forget about Cyclone Monica, which was arguably the strongest cyclone in history.
Now that cyclone was one that only destroyed trees as that was the only thing it could touch since it landed right on the tip of Cape York and Thursday Island, but feel free to compare that to something which has destroyed infrastructure and caused a minimum of $1b damage to just the banana & sugar crops alone. Also from wiki:
Little damage was recorded in Queensland, despite Cyclone Monica being a Category 3 cyclone, as the storm impacted a sparsely populated region of the Cape York peninsula
So your point is invalid and you fail again.....it skimmed QLD, re-intensified in the Gulf of Carpentaria and then hit the NT so when it first hit landfall it wasn't a Category 5, it was a Cat 3. Not to mention it's been 24hrs here and Yasi is still a Cat 1 cyclone at Mt.Isa. Monica couldn't even keep it's strength in that time after hitting the NT and turned into a tropical depression, so Yasi is a more destructive cyclone than Monica aswell as lasting for a greater duration.
So yeah, Yasi is the first in the last 93 years.
Yes it is, but feel free to argue with the meterologists and historians that reported those things.
It doesn't matter where you are, it's all in a higher power's hands whether you're going to still be on this Earth in the morning or not if you're in those areas.
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