Photo gallery showing some of the damage, including the damage at Tully and Cardwell.
Queensland preparing for another disaster
- Thread starter PlainSimpleJoel
- Start date
^ Seen many of those photos. Looks like a bomb it is (as the media has said)
Also report of a death in Cardwell, and 2 people missing.
Also report of a death in Cardwell, and 2 people missing.
I believe that the guy who died was killed by breathing the fumes from a generator he was using while sheltering from the cyclone.
All the bananas are now destroyed AGAIN.
I wonder if they will cave and import them for a few months or if we will just have to pay 12.00 a kilo like after Cyclone Larry.
I wonder if they will cave and import them for a few months or if we will just have to pay 12.00 a kilo like after Cyclone Larry.
I won't usually pay more than $3.99 a kilo for bananas. In the months following Larry I only bought one solitary banana - I bought that because I was a little depressed and thought that buying a banana as a treat might cheer me up. At that stage bananas were $12.99 a kilo - I can't remember how much my banana cost but I think it was somewhere between $2.00-2.50.
I am more concerned about the price sugar is going to reach. I don't normally use sugar myself (I use artificial sweeteners) but I buy sugar for my son.
I am more concerned about the price sugar is going to reach. I don't normally use sugar myself (I use artificial sweeteners) but I buy sugar for my son.
I made myself buy bananas because they were the same cost for one banana as a packet of chips or timtams. So when I was tempted to buy some crap I would go and buy a banana and think how much better it tasted now that it was expensive.
Sugar, hadn't thought of that. I bought a 2kg bag a year ago and I'm still not done with it so I guess that one isn't going to be a pressing concern.
Sugar, hadn't thought of that. I bought a 2kg bag a year ago and I'm still not done with it so I guess that one isn't going to be a pressing concern.
With bananas, I'll probably still buy them, or buy another fruit instead. Depends on where imported bananas come from.
Don't really eat that much sugar.
Also tonight I heard there was some flooding in Melbourne. I'm quite sure it hasn't effected my sister, as she lives in the Coburg area.
Don't really eat that much sugar.
Also tonight I heard there was some flooding in Melbourne. I'm quite sure it hasn't effected my sister, as she lives in the Coburg area.
There is more flooding in the inner and west as I understand it, Coburg could be flooded a bit.
It was torrential here and as the builder was taking a bit of a break on fixing the roof it is raining inside heavily. Yeah. You need an umbrella to go to the toilet.
"Oh you won't need these tarps, I'll be back in a day.." <---builder last seen a week ago.
It was torrential here and as the builder was taking a bit of a break on fixing the roof it is raining inside heavily. Yeah. You need an umbrella to go to the toilet.
"Oh you won't need these tarps, I'll be back in a day.." <---builder last seen a week ago.
I can say first-hand there's flooding in the west.
Bananas are up to $6+ in local supermarkets already, so I dread to think how high they'll go in a few weeks. Lucky it's summer and there's still a decent variety of fruit available, both in supermarkets and on the trees at my house.
Bananas are up to $6+ in local supermarkets already, so I dread to think how high they'll go in a few weeks. Lucky it's summer and there's still a decent variety of fruit available, both in supermarkets and on the trees at my house.
There's no way I'd be getting on that train since the chance of it stopping and being stuck waiting for replacement buses is about 90%.
The flooding in Melbourne on Friday was amazing. I've never seen anything like it. Here in Burwood every road was flooded - you couldn't get anywhere. I had to crawl along all the way out to Rowville to find a way onto the freeway. Alas I drove straight into an invisible lake and now there is a very good chance that my car has been destroyed. I am not a happy lad today 
Sorry to hear about your car. Did you have to go out in it, or could you have stayed put or were you caught unawares?
Meanwhile, as floods are still causing havoc in parts of eastern Australia, at least 35 houses have been lost in bushfires in Western Australia.
Meanwhile, as floods are still causing havoc in parts of eastern Australia, at least 35 houses have been lost in bushfires in Western Australia.
A mixture of all of those. I didn't go straight home after work, I hung around a bit at the uni down the road and left just as it started raining. It got pretty hairy early on, roads all over the place were getting washed out but rather than returning to the office of the top of a nice hill I decided to press my luck and try to find a way home. The more dead ends I hit the more determined I was to 'beat' the storm. So I was crowing pretty loudly as I turned onto the Eastlink on ramp.
Had I gone straight home from work, or had the sense to return to the office or pull into a shopping centre, chances are I would have my car right now. But there's no point in moaning and 'what if'ing, I have to deal with the consequences .. right now that means waiting to hear from the mechanic whether there is any chance that she can be saved.
Had I gone straight home from work, or had the sense to return to the office or pull into a shopping centre, chances are I would have my car right now. But there's no point in moaning and 'what if'ing, I have to deal with the consequences .. right now that means waiting to hear from the mechanic whether there is any chance that she can be saved.
What's that saying about pride coming before a fall? I think I understand what it means now
^^ I hope they can save your car.
And I wish all these disasters would the hell stop already.
And I wish all these disasters would the hell stop already.
Nah mate, she's gone. Needs a new engine.
This is a great opportunity - I'll replace the upholstery, improve the sound system, give her a new paint job .. she'll be a whole new car in a year or so.
This is a great opportunity - I'll replace the upholstery, improve the sound system, give her a new paint job .. she'll be a whole new car in a year or so.
Switch
Captain
This is what you get for not living in Adelaide.
But Adelaide often has bad heatwaves, and bushfires as well.
