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Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian
Feb 2^nd, 2011 at 8:05pm

The sate of Queensland over here in Oz has been knocked around with devastating floods over the past few weeks & now last night was hit with a category 5 cyclone on the northern part of Queensland & that's right where our wise friend lives in Cairns.

I sent him a PM early yesterday but he hasn't opened it yet but I guess he has been a little busy keeping his head down.

The cyclone crossed the coast around midnight last night & so far there hasn't been any reports of death or serious injury, it's still to dangerous to go outside there as the winds are still to strong, the winds during the height of the storm where around 300km/hour.

This is a huge cyclone, I have only been through one cat 5 cyclone but it was fast moving so damage was kept to a minimum, with this one only time will tell, to give you an idea how large this is here's a link to compare the size with other countries.

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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #1 - Feb 2^nd, 2011 at 8:21pm Prayers headed down under. Stick your head up Aussie, and check in, give us an address to send beer! Joe
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Melissa CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't give up! Posts: 7238 Central WI, USA Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #2 - Feb 2^nd, 2011 at 8:22pm I hope he's OK!!
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Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian
Reply #3 - Feb 2^nd, 2011 at 8:25pm

OMG

May go the grace of God and mercy of the Divine to those who stand in it's path.

That's an incomprehensible monster to me, and my husband is a meteorologist who has done many a landing forecasts and catastrophic destruction forecasts for hurricanes .... that is a monster.

Please do keep us posted Barry

We'll keep the beer cold for Brian.

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Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian
Reply #4 - Feb 2^nd, 2011 at 8:42pm

I managed to get hold of Brian on his mobile & he & Dennie are OK, the cyclone crossed the coast about 80 km to the south of them.

Here's another link showing some of the damage, it gets updated as more news comes in.
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Grandma_Sweet_Boy CH.com Alumnus Offline What Goes Around Comes Around! Posts: 4496 Georgetown,Ontario Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #5 - Feb 2^nd, 2011 at 8:47pm Glad to hear that he and his family are okay. That's one god-awful storm. Stay safe folks. Carol
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QnHeartMM CH.com Sponsor Offline I AM a Phoenix! Posts: 1783 San Diego, CA Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #6 - Feb 2^nd, 2011 at 8:48pm Wow that's just crazy! Glad to hear he's checked in ok.
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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #7 - Feb 2^nd, 2011 at 10:55pm That's a relief.....keep your head down brian! Joe
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Mike NZ CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Oxygen rocks! D3 too! Posts: 3785 Auckland, New Zealand Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #8 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 12:04am Great to hear he and his family are fine. Just hope his beer came through ok too or he'll be devastated.
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George CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Black-Billed Magpie Posts: 8126 Boise, Idaho USA Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #9 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 3:27am Good to hear that they're all right. Get back to us when you can, Brian. All the best, George
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barry_sword CH.com Alumnus Offline Mountain Biking Keeps Me Sane Posts: 3947 Bracebridge, Canada Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #10 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 6:39am Thank you for keeping us updated Barry, that cyclone is massive!!! Glad Brian & family are ok, our prayers for all those effected by this storm.
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Kevin_M CH.com Sponsor Offline withered branches grow green again. Posts: 8754 Michigan, USA Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #11 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 7:30am Good to know, thanks Barry. Bri keeps his feet on the ground pretty well, thank goodness.
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Callico CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Author of "Stranded at Romson's Lodge Posts: 4916 Aurora IL Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #12 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 1:29pm Thanks for the update Barry. Brian, you have more important things to deal with right now than us. Give an update when you can. Jerry
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Melissa CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't give up! Posts: 7238 Central WI, USA Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #13 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 7:50pm Thank goodness!! Thank you Barry for keeping us posted!
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Jackie CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Go For It!!! Posts: 5903 Goshen, IN Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #14 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:14pm Thanks for the update, Barry. Sure hope his beer supplier didn't get blown away.
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stevegeebe CH.com Alumnus Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 1687 Mandeville, LA Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #15 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 8:43pm Good. Experience tells me that beer is second behind ice...then a generator and gas...then food. Feel free to put sex behind ice and move beer back to three but you'll need the ice...then the beer. Soon it will be a vivid memory. Hang in there Brian. Steve G
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Charlie CH.com Alumnus Offline Happy to be here Posts: 18971 Jamestown, NY Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #16 - Feb 3^rd, 2011 at 11:42pm Glad to head Brian is okay. I've never seen what they're going through down there. Unbelievable. Charlie
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Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian
Reply #17 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 7:15pm

Guiseppi, I keep tellin' ya. Send beer, not Bud!!

Thanks everybody, and nice to be able to say all is well. The main guts of the blow shifted southerly at the last minute and eventually crossed in an area of much lower population density. They copped it pretty tough but almost all are still alive and few injured. Three babies were born but 16 pubs were destroyed.

I sat it out with DennyM and millions of cold beer, having ensured all her elderly neighbours were set up. I've been feeding them ever since but we just got the power back up so things are getting back to normal and there's more golden-coldies chilled almost to perfection. (It was touch-and-go for a while hoping the ice would hold.)

I don't get on at all well with sudden and severe drops in the barometer so needless to say the night was spent with Cat-5 storms inside and out.

Tonight will be dinner for just the two of us - dead sheep, all the trimmings and maybe a glass of something nice and tomorrow I'll finish everyone's clean up.

Sincere thanks for your kind thoughts and we'll be drinking a toast to you all.

Cheers and beers,

Brian down under.

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Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian
Reply #21 - Feb 8^th, 2011 at 6:15pm

Great to hear that you made it through unscathed Brian!! I've not been online for a while but had you in my thoughts quite a bit of late with all that's been going on.

Don't know what's happening in Australia lately with all the floods, cyclone, fires etc. Crazy times!

We had quite a bit of flooding down this way but thankfully we personally were not affected.

My thoughts go out to everyone who is having to deal with the clean up and loss. Very sad!!

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Charlie CH.com Alumnus Offline Happy to be here Posts: 18971 Jamestown, NY Gender:	Re: Fingers crossed for Aussie Brian Reply #22 - Feb 8^th, 2011 at 7:59pm Hope Brian stays wet....it the best meaning of that term. NBC news did several minutes tonight on the mess from Perth to Queensland....even an emotional speech from the PM. They say that the cyclone rivals Katrina in intensity. It's hard to get your mind around this thing. Hold on Brian. Charlie
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