Cbdave...are you safe from Cyclone Oma?

[notsmokinjo]

I worried about you with the floods and I knew they were North Qld so you would be safe....but reports down here are Oma is heading south not north ....hope you are safe.

 

 

[Doreensfree]

Hoping your safe and sound Dave .!!!

[jillar]

Stay safe!

[Sazerac]

[notsmokinjo]

Cat 3 as it travels through Fiji...but seriously QLD has copped enough shit this season. Don't need anymore rain events. 

 

Predictions overnight are saying should miss us...but big swells and king tides expected.

[Cbdave]

G’day 

It’s not expected to make landfall so we are pretty safe. Everyone’s hoping that it will brush past and dump some rain on us in the south east. It’s pretty dry

It’s had a big effect on the swells they are huge! The surfers at Surfers paradise are loving it but you average Terry the tourist is spewing as the beaches are closed.

Me I was off to Bribie Island camping in a coupla weeks but a mate who lives up there said forget it ......the erosions pretty bad. Give it a few weeks and the sand will be back.... natures good at healing itself.

C

 

[Cbdave]

Gday

 https://www.visitbrisbane.com.au/information/articles/destinations/bribie-island?sc_lang=en-au 

Bribie is an hour Nth of us. So within 2 hours I can drive there, drive up the beach set up camp and have a line in and probably finished the first beer.

[notsmokinjo]

I've been to Bribie, it's beautiful.

 

Good to hear it's not as bad as the southern media was saying....hope you mob down south cop some of the wet stuff.

Edited February 19, 2019 by notsmokinjo

[Cbdave]

G’day 

Well, cyclones are like that. It’s changed direction again! A real possibility to cross the coast. And by the weekend

Its a cat 3 Now the longer it stays at sea the stronger it gets once it crosses land it losses its intensity. So bring it on now! before it gets to strong. 

We could do with the rain and definitly needs to be cooler we haven’t a day under 30C or a night under 20C for some 40 days now.

[Sazerac]

Queensland prepares  stay safe y'all.

[Sazerac]

Well now you have Trevor !

Cyclone Trevor

 

Stay safe all our beautiful nicotine free creatures down under @Cbdave, @notsmokinjo

Edited March 19, 2019 by Sazerac

[notsmokinjo]

I'll be fine....Dave might be in for some rough weather.

[Cbdave]

Gday

To give you some idea of distance here. It’s 1500 km from Brisbane to Melbourne where Jo lives. Cape York where the cyclone is, 2200 km from Brisbane.

Our Hope is that the cyclone will pass though the Cape York to get to sea again in the Gulf of Capentaria where it will gain strength ( and rain) then cross the coast and loss strength and become a “low system” again and head south through western Qld and into nth west NSW. 

South west Qld didn’t get those flooding rains like the Nth in fact it hasn’t rained there in 8 years. Hard to believe but that’s the reality of living in a country of droughts and flooding rains.

C

[notsmokinjo]

And for our American friends who still use the size of King Henry's foot to measure things...Dave lives 932miles from me and the cyclone is 1367miles from him (Dave and the cyclone are in the same state though)

[Sazerac]

 

Help me to remember your towns.

 

Edited March 20, 2019 by Sazerac

[notsmokinjo]

Ok nearest town for me Melbourne, in the smallest mainland state, bottom right hand side....then CBdave is Brisbane (or BrisVegas) which is kind of the widest part of mainland Australia on the right side (east coast) ..... The cyclone called Trev is hanging round the top at the big pointy bit. 

[Doreensfree]

My daughter lives in Canberra the Capital....

[Reciprocity]

It sounds like Canada. Visitors don't understand that it takes 8 days of driving 10 hours a day in a car to cross the country from east to west (7,098 km). 

 

[Doreensfree]

I think its a 8 hr drive from Canberra to Melbourne ..I'm sure Jo will tell me if it's longer...

[notsmokinjo]

28 minutes ago, reciprocity said:

It sounds like Canada. Visitors don't understand that it takes 8 days of driving 10 hours a day in a car to cross the country from east to west (7,098 km). 

 

 

Yeah cept instead of ice and snow in the middle of our country we have dessert and a giant rock and no real mountains to speak of and add distance... so Gold coast to Carnavron about 5,100km.... and 54hrs of driving time. Don't worry Reci we get the distance thing.... an you guys have Quebec... we have South Australia..... you guys have New Foundland .... We have Tassie....twinning yet opposite.

[notsmokinjo]

About 8 hours is on the money @Doreensfree .... just depends which way you got and where you stop... lots of good wineries between Canberra and Melbourne .... and how could you not stop at the Ettamooga Pub..... and then you could come through Kelly County, stoping at Glenrowan.... or Gundagai and the dog on the tucker box..... so much to see which way will you come.... lol.

 

Depends which way ya drive... but between 660km  & 730km.... just depends if you go the flat way or the bumpy mountain way.

Edited March 20, 2019 by notsmokinjo

[Doreensfree]

Sounds like a good trip ( hic )

Better double that time ...only green tea for Nicky ...ill have her share ...

[Sazerac]

I love this book and read it many years ago,  don't know about the movie

but, the book, Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson,

is v. beautiful and gave me a sense of the beauty and vastness of Australia.

 

 

Edited March 20, 2019 by Sazerac

[Doreensfree]

The first time I visited Australia ...O.M.G....I couldn't believe the size of this country....you can be on a plane for hours....

It takes me 30 minutes to fly from London to Liverpool ....how small are we...

 

[jillar]

6 hours ago, notsmokinjo said:

in the middle of our country we have dessert and a giant rock

 

You have dessert in the middle of your country? That's a long drive just for your after dinner treat! lol

Edited March 20, 2019 by jillar