Cyclone Ului

[supernova1965]

This is the view from Mackay's Main Drag with the cyclone due Tommorow Morning

[Liz]

All quiet here at the moment, sounds like its gunna make landfall between both of us :scared2: :windy:

[supernova1965]

Latest maps look bad for us with the EYE just passing between Mackay and Proserpine:scared3::windy:

[Liz]

Batten down the hatches, stay behind the couch!! :scared3::help3:

[Kevnool]

Take care up there during this.

[supernova1965]

Will do gonna keep my head right down I have seen personally the after affects of Cyclone Tracey my dad took us up there to rebuild after it went through. I was 9 years old at the time.

[Baddad]

Hi Warren & Liz, :)
Cat 2 rating is not very bad but it is scary. I was in Cairns for cyclone Joy back in '90. It just stalked the area for three days.

No water , no power. At night was the worst. The house just kept shaking so much I was ready to bolt downstairs at the first cracking noise. Didn't happen and all cleared in the end.
:sadeyes:
I do not envy at all what you may be going through soon. Hopefully it will degenerate losing intensity quickly.

Take care you two.

Cheers Marty

[that_guy]

why is there so many natural disasters this is all over the world??
End of the world?

[RobF]

Hope you get through the next 24hrs safely up there guys....:( :thumbsup:

[supernova1965]

Thanks Guys our house is a strong old Queenslander nice solid walls just recently completely renevated and refoofed so should be ok will keep you all posted :thumbsup: it is now a CAT 3

[Mick]

Cat 3, hold on Warren.

[supernova1965]

Yeah I know how is the weather where you are its just starting to get gusty here and getting dark a little early

[Mick]

Yes it is getting very windy, I was just up town to pick up my boy from his girlfriends place most are listening to the warnings hardly a car on the streets now.

[Liz]

Hey Warren .... where did you find out it was a cat 3? ..... oops, yes, I see now : (

Yes, thanks all for thoughts .... nothing major here yet, Mackay copping it at the moment, by the looks.

[jjjnettie]

Stay safe everyone.

[supernova1965]

This is a Satelite image looks nasty

[Liz]

Holy moley ... youre at the bottom edge, and we are at the top edge. We are in for an interesting night :scared2: .... you guys are obviously closer at this stage.

Am huddled in my lounge with a vino and watching Dr Who . Is he gunna die tonight :sadeyes:

[that_guy]

hopefully liz's colourful sig would drive it away!

[Liz]

:lol::lol::lol: :poke:

[Bobj]

Ului will cross the coast some 50 km north west of me at about 1 AM Qld time, with central winds to 175 kmh. As I write this, winds are gusting to 75 kmh.

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/satellite.jsp?lt=wzstate&lc=qld&img=sat&ane=1&anf=1&and=1&ana=3&anb=333&anc=3&lye=1&lyf=1

And I saw the new moon...just.:thumbsup:

Cheers, Bobj.

[supernova1965]

Hi bob not sure if we have met yet I don't think so. Last I heard the winds are up to 200klmh and it might be closer to 4am

Warren Maag

[Bobj]

Good one, mate. We are fairly fortunate at Ball Bay, as the cyclone approaches the bulk of Cape Hillsborough is deflecting a great deal of wind.

Cheers, Bobj.

[Blue Skies]

Hope your telescopes are wrapped up tight, too. I'll be following its progress closely tonight from the other side of the country. Stay safe everyone! It looks like it means business.

[astroron]

Stay safe you Guys and Gals up there, I hope you come out of this well:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Arc]

I'm in the same boat as Warren, Mackay Valley.

Looks like the seeing is going to be particually poor tonight... ;)

[duncan]

Looks like the eye is heading a bit north of proserpine.

[jjjnettie]

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR223.loop.shtml

[supernova1965]

We are signing off the power is starting to go brown out here see you all tommorow morning :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

best of luck Warren

[pgc hunter]

165 kmh gusts at Creal Reef (offshore from Proserpine).

Hamilton Island at 124km/h

[pgc hunter]

Hamilton Island is Screwed:

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.94368.shtml

Latest gusts at Haypoint near Mackay (Mackay not reporting) at midnight are 107km/h.

BOM TC map shows this cyclone heading more or less straighht for Bowen, We have some friends who moved up to Bowen this January, pretty sure they're stuffed now unfortunately....

[Blue Skies]

Been following the progress live on the Weatherzone forums, which is just amazing in a way (being able to follow it so closely, I mean). Hamilton island certainly copping the worst of it right now. Good thing they evacuated nearly everyone off the islands. Reports are it will reach the mainland in the next hour. Looking nasty, its the real deal.

[pgc hunter]

202km/h gust now recorded at Hamilton Island.

Pretty sure my mates in Bowen are about to get pasted big time, which sucks as they just moved there and are in the middle of renovating their property.

[Blue Skies]

Yes they probably are. Eyewall just reaching Proserpine. Crazy temps being reported from inside the eye and people are wondering if they're true or just faulty equipment. Have to admit its been fascinating watching the progress, but the ground reports don't sound pretty.

[supernova1965]

Hi guys were are still here mackay is going to leave the distructive wind zone shortly we have kept power all night probably the only suburb to do so as we are on the Main hospital power grid and that is preserved at all costs its been pretty scary all the same the house has stood up to the storm real well and we are fine.

[jjjnettie]

Very happy to hear that Warren.

[supernova1965]

Thanks lots of trees down and flying tin that only just missed the house still very windy and lots of rain not game to go anywhere yet as conditions are still bad but I think the danger has passed. I don't know about Airlie Beach and Proserpine who got the brunt of the storm hope all are ok

[Liz]

Good to hear alls Ok Warren, and hope everyone else Ok from Bowen to Mackay.
No problems at all here :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Good to hear you guys are alright and the worst has passed. :thumbsup:

[supernova1965]

Thanks Guys

[Arc]

We have glass in our front yard from a neighbors solar hart roof heater that took flight and crashed into another neighbors house. That was a close one.

All is good here though.

[supernova1965]

Good to hear that all is well except for the water heater how is the neighbors house

[astroron]

Glad to hear you are alright warren, stay safe.

[Baddad]

Hi Liz, Warren & Arc, :)

Glad to hear ya's are practically unscathed. Cat 3 starts to get really messy. I was a little worried about you guys an' gal when I heard it went cat 3.

We were all out dining with friends till late. Hard to fathom that you lot were going through that trauma at the same time we enjoyed a night out.

Our turn will come again I suppose.

Above all its good to hear you being OK.

Cheers Marty

[Mick]

Hi,

Still no power here, we are using a small Generator at the moment. Biggest tree in the yard just missed the house, I've been cleaning up for two days that's what you get for living in a green suburb hey. We just got touched by the destructive wind zone and that was frightening, I would not like to go through a cat 5. Glad to here everyone is alright...

[supernova1965]

We just now got our power back I sure missed you guys I was getting withdrawal symptoms from not being online:(;) Here are a couple of pic's of some damage in the area

[supernova1965]

Sounds like Perth got a bit of what we copped hope all are well:thumbsup:

[Mick]

Some photos that I got in an email today of the Mackay Marina breakwater road.

[supernova1965]

Wow Mick I hadn't been out to the Harbour or seen these photo's pretty messed up out there

[Arc]

Thanks Marty,

We got power and our landlines back this afternoon. Good to be back.

Hey Warren - neighbours house is o.k. it took four of us to move the solar panel off his property and that was without the glass. Goes to show ya.

[supernova1965]

I know this is a long time after the Storm but this boat has been on the side of the road since the Cyclone and I have been meaning to take a photo of it I have no idea how it got here but I can only think that it got blown here:eyepop:

[M54]

Didn't they have flying boats in WW2?:lol:

[Arc]

Look at the fence behind the boat. There is nothing wrong with it...what does that suggest?

[Kevnool]

Looks like it cost to much to take to the local tip so they dumped her on the side of the road.
Cheers Kev.