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Porsche924boy · Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 252 Location: Ohio

stay safe
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D Hook · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 3158 Location: Omaha, NE

Five inches on the ground; ten more on the way. First day of spring.

My neighbor goes to Arizona every winter. He just got back a week ago and we now will have the largest snow fall of the year.

I'll take the snow over hurricanes any day!
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seanski44 · Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 532 Location: Nottingham UK

steeny · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:55 am Post subject:

seems innisfail is completely ####. got hit real hard as a cat 5 cyclone. sustained 200kph winds, peaks to 290. at least a week before electricity is returned.

gee, i hope none of you like bananas, they're gonna get real expensive for the next few months.

glad to hear townsville missed most of it ozzie.
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numbbers · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:10 am Post subject:

Well, I hope your government does better than ours did with Katrina. anything you need down there?
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Ozzie · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject:

Heard some reports from the Telstra guys here and yep, Innisfail is KAPUT!
Luckily no reports of deaths yet.
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Keaton · Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 261 Location: 85202

Ozzie · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject:

Oh shit - round 2!
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65004.shtml
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Peter_in_AU · Joined: 29 Jul 2001 Posts: 2745 Location: Sydney, Australia

keep your head down and watch out for those crocs.

Ah, the occasional price for tropical living. Still, I'd rather be hot than cold.
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timstar92404 · Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 2075 Location: richmond BC

australia is tropical ? seriously I don't know.

I thought australia is a desert climate so hot and dry.
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Llamaguy · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 711 Location: Indiana

I think it's just the center that is a desert. The edges are more 'normal'. For reference, LOTRs were shot in New Zealand that's not too far away.

It really sucks that the first day of spring is a snow day! but I guess this winter has been more like spring anyways.
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Ozzie · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject:

Australia has a variety of climates from almost arctic (Tasmania Hobart 42deg) to tropical nth Queensland and nthn Territory (Darwin 12deg)
Check out your own latitude.
I'm at 19deg below the equator.
The tropic of capricorn and cancer is at 23deg (I think)
Florida is 24deg above the equator
Hawaii is at 19deg.
The red centre is mostly desert and most of the population lives on the coast.
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helowrench · Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 44 Location: Dallas

Good luck Ozzie,
We here in Dallas just got rain dumped on us over the weekend, I am glad I live in a high spot as rain rates approached 2" (5cm) per hour several times. Sat 3.5" rain Sun 8.8". 2 day total 12.28"

All I could do was stand in the garage and watch everything flood.

At least the resevoirs are finally back up to normal, we had been in a drought since september and our yearly total just now reached 16" (half of that in one day).

Rob

Ozzie · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:58 am Post subject:

helowrench · Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 44 Location: Dallas

I spent 3 years on the coast in Louisiana and I completely understand what heavy, heavy rain is like. there the water table was only 3"-5" below ground level and on most if not all spring, and summer days at 3:00 it would rain about 2" in under 45 minutes. absolutely insane, locals didn't even bat an eye at it, but then they all had webbed feet too.

Rob