[OT] Cold !!! Hot and Wet

[James McDonald]

On 3 February 2011 08:48, Keith Antoine <kantoine at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>  On 2/3/2011 6:46 AM, James McDonald wrote:
>
> It's been 111F here several days this month. Cyclone Yasi has just
> destroyed much of far north Queensland. That's just after much of the state
> was flooded
>
> North Korea has had the most consecutive days of sub zero temps since the
> 1940s
>
> How about this weather we are having lately.
> On 03/02/2011 7:35 AM, "Bruce Marshall" <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
>
>
> Well the damage from cyclone Yasi is nowhere near as bad as expected from a
> cyclone of that size and power. However lets face it its still very early in
> the piece
> and some places such as Mission Beach, Tully, Lucinda, Cardwell and
> Babinda, where the eye went over we do not have any pictures as yet. It
> seems
>
I had my honeymoon at Mission Beach and two days later Cyclone Larry damaged
the resort and forced them to rebuild now (less than 5 years later) they
have to rebuild again. Poor sods.

> like there
> has not been any loss of life.  Waht I would like to know is 'what is it
> that Queensland has done to deserve Flood and Cyclones (2)'. Maybe we have
> upset the GODS.
> From what we can tell down in Brisbane the worst hit is the Banana and Cane
> sugar industry. The cost to resources Rail, Road etc with flood and now this
> is
> well over the 20billion mark.
>

Yes driving from Innisfail to Cains and it's just farm after farm of Bananas
and Cane...  Poor farmers they have to contend with so much.



> I must also acknowledge the huge cost of weather in both the US and Uk. I
> am so glad we are in temps above 30C but the humidity is a bit of a killer
> at 80%.
>

Yes the UK had massive floods and unseasonal Snow causing havoc.


> I think I have a leak.
>
> Val and I lost the roof off the house 2 years ago and went through the
> depressed stages, so I feel for all the folks who have been traumatised with
> the huge floods
> and now the cyclones. We have been told that the cyclone season ends in
> April..................... we just wait.
>

I'm glad Australia has good cyclonic building regs (roofs trusses tied into
the foundations)... But 295km/h winds will probably rip the tin off roofs no
matter how well tied down the frame is... sheesh.


> To Man-wai and Vu Pham: Kung Hei Fat Choy. How the hell are you, no
> invasions on as yet in the 'yellow sub' ? As for Lonni its just as well I
> can still remember to spell
> at 77. I must admit that this list is rather barren since I was last
> around, but I dwell in the past nowadays when we used to get 100+ emails a
> day.
>
>
>
> Luck to all in the US with the coming freeze
>
> Skippy
>
>
> --
> Keith Antoine AKA 'Skippy'
> Practising Geriatric retired Electronics Engineer with Brain in mini storage.Sometime Landscape Photographer myqueensland.net
> Time is a myth invented by humans to tell the passing of events
> however they are an illusion.
>
>
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