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hello Bouganville batten down the hatches
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BOUGAINVILLE
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Hi,
It is me and we are still alive with power and roof. It is very hectic outside and I hope it stays that way, outside and not inside.
Have been amazed that the power hasn't gone out by now. Midnight is the when the eye is due to pass over.
Here the wind is lashing around outside and the whistling and howling.
Let's see what it looks like as day breaks.
I need all of the luck that I can get.
Hope that I still have a family, a house and roof tomorrow as well as my beloved collection.
Cheers,
BOUGAINVILLE
It is me and we are still alive with power and roof. It is very hectic outside and I hope it stays that way, outside and not inside.
Have been amazed that the power hasn't gone out by now. Midnight is the when the eye is due to pass over.
Here the wind is lashing around outside and the whistling and howling.
Let's see what it looks like as day breaks.
I need all of the luck that I can get.
Hope that I still have a family, a house and roof tomorrow as well as my beloved collection.
Cheers,
BOUGAINVILLE
paul the grenade
Well-Known Member
Sounds a bit grim. Hope all goes well.
Cheers, Paul.
Cheers, Paul.
BOUGAINVILLE
Well-Known Member
Hi all,
We made it through the cyclone safely. Our house stood up to it and once more Daryl didn't end up with my collection flying past.
Spent all of today with cane knife and chainsaw in hand cleaning up the mess in our back yard. We will be without power for many weeks to come as the main transmission lines were knocked out. Fortunately we have generator for freezer etc.
The poor guys about 50 to 100 kilometers outh of us copped the eye and in Tully and Mission Beach as well as Cardwell it is not a pretty picture. Massive destruction.
Many thanks for all of your kind thoughts.
Cheers,
Robert
We made it through the cyclone safely. Our house stood up to it and once more Daryl didn't end up with my collection flying past.
Spent all of today with cane knife and chainsaw in hand cleaning up the mess in our back yard. We will be without power for many weeks to come as the main transmission lines were knocked out. Fortunately we have generator for freezer etc.
The poor guys about 50 to 100 kilometers outh of us copped the eye and in Tully and Mission Beach as well as Cardwell it is not a pretty picture. Massive destruction.
Many thanks for all of your kind thoughts.
Cheers,
Robert
25thapril
Well-Known Member
G'day Robert glad to hear your OK we have just got our power back on spent a few hours out looking for Japanese ordnance in the surrounding area found none so assumed you survived ! We only lost afew trees etc around our area so all is good
Regards Daryl
PS If you need any green ants let me know those bastards just don't blow away!!!
Regards Daryl
PS If you need any green ants let me know those bastards just don't blow away!!!
Glad to hear you're ok in Oz. Horrendous weather you've had and I saw a news article about midwest USA too - 2 feet of snow in a day over a 1,200 mile stretch would totally cover the UK. For those in Oz did you get advice to put loose stuff inside buildings and lash down what you couldn't fit inside buildings? We had to do that in Belize as the hurricane season approached - hard work but necessary.
BOUGAINVILLE
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We got fantastic advice and warnings in the lead up to the Cyclone. Everyone was well prepared days beforehand. It was only 5 years since we were hit by another catagory 5 cyclone so it was all quite fresh in the memory and that helped ensure that everybody took it seriously. The shops and businesses were close 1 1/2 days in advance as people prepared themselves.
Just 60 or so kilometres down the road from us 1 in 3 houses were destroyed. In this area all vegetation was denuded and just the the bare branches standing if they weren't broken.
With us it was mainly the vegetation that got the knocking around and it flatened the bananas and tickled up the sugar crop. Due to no bananas in production there will be a huge unemployment problem locally as Bananas and Sugar is the backbone of the local economy.
We might take a drive down to Tully tomorrow so see the damage and maybe take a few photos.
Cheers,
Robert
Just 60 or so kilometres down the road from us 1 in 3 houses were destroyed. In this area all vegetation was denuded and just the the bare branches standing if they weren't broken.
With us it was mainly the vegetation that got the knocking around and it flatened the bananas and tickled up the sugar crop. Due to no bananas in production there will be a huge unemployment problem locally as Bananas and Sugar is the backbone of the local economy.
We might take a drive down to Tully tomorrow so see the damage and maybe take a few photos.
Cheers,
Robert