hairy Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 I knew Australia was big but I didn't realise it was that big. Just to give you another image of the size. To drive from Perth to Adelaide (not even coast to coast) is the same as driving from London to Moscow. Best of luck to all those in Queensland.
ACF Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 I'm about 20 minutes from RooFox, so ages away from it all, but I'm shittiing myself, I've heard this could be similar to Katrina. This is going to be scary as fook. I direct you all to this. The size of it. IF you're struggling to grasp the magnitude of Tropical Cyclone Yasi, consider this: it is so large it would almost cover the United States, most of Asia and large parts of Europe. Most of the coverage about the scale of Yasi has tried to compare it with storms of the past - it's bigger than Larry, more powerful than Tracy. But just as powerful is this comparison, showing this storm is continental in size. The main bloc of the cyclone is 500km wide, while its associated activity, shown above in a colour-coding to match intensity, stretches over 2000km. The storm's scale of destruction is as shocking as it is inevitable. In the map above, the United States from Pennsylvania in the east to Nevada in the west, from Georgia in the south to Canada in the north and well into Mexico would be battered with 300km/h winds and up to one metre of rain. The economic impact would be felt around the world. This map shows the impact if the storm was attacking Asia: TC Yasi superimposed on Asia Again, the scale is unthinkable - taking in an area from Japan, the Koreas and China all the way through southeast Asia, around through India and the Himalayas and threatening large parts of central Asia. This would have billions of people directly in the path of the category 5 storm, creating a human tide of displaced cyclone "refugees". This map shows the storm over western and central Europe: TC Yasi superimposed on Europe Just as we saw in our visualisation of the Queensland floods, the whole of Britain would be overwhelmed. But this time, France and Germany would also be catastrophically affected, delivering another body blow to the European economy at the least and also disrupting the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Even the eye of Yasi is as big as a city. This next map shows the heart of the storm over New Orleans, covering Louisiana and neighbouring states. The eye itself, at 35km across, would stretch over all of the Katrina-ravaged city's centre. In the maps below, you can see Shanghai and New Zealand's north island bearing the brunt of category five. Yasi's eye over New Orleans Yasi's eye over Shanghai Yasi's eye over New Zealand These maps are merely visualisations of relative scales and are not meant to suggest storms of this level would form anywhere in the world. Instead, they illustrate an annual threat that is, if not uniquely Australian, at least so much a part of our summer that we speak of "cyclone season" as though it is on a par with "cricket season". But every so often, we are forced to confront the raw power of our country and its dangers.
ACF Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 That's scary man. What's with all the recent natural disasters hitting Australia recently? It's never been this bad before has it, well not in my lifetime that I can remember La Nina. Warmer waters = more evaporation = more water in the air = more water to come down = flooding. Also... Warmer water = more chance for cyclones.
Jon the Hat Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 A bit of wind? We get snow over here you know. And black ice. Absolute death trap....
ACF Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 A bit of wind? We get snow over here you know. And black ice. Absolute death trap.... Bushfires. Floods. Drought. Heat Stroke. Snakes. Spiders. Skin Cancer.
Jon the Hat Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Bushfires. Floods. Drought. Heat Stroke. Snakes. Spiders. Skin Cancer. I was only kidding mate. Looking nasty, I am following #TCYasi on twitter, and the people are getting pretty scared up there now. Good luck to them all.
Christoph Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Bushfires. Floods. Drought. Heat Stroke. Snakes. Spiders. Skin Cancer. Atleast you have nice weather <_<
ACF Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 I was only kidding mate. Looking nasty, I am following #TCYasi on twitter, and the people are getting pretty scared up there now. Good luck to them all. I know mate, I'm not that stupid! I was just pointing it out (: Atleast you have nice weather <_< 37 today, was in my pool all day!
Jackirius Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Bushfires. Floods. Drought. Heat Stroke. Snakes. Spiders. Skin Cancer. I'm pretty sure most people can get skin cancer. Though this is not looking good, seems to be disaster after disaster at the minute all around the world.
The Doctor Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Bushfires. Floods. Drought. Heat Stroke. Snakes. Spiders. Skin Cancer. Dealt with by floods, cancelled out by drought, cancelled out by flood, air con (or are you talking about medical strokes), Guns - kill them all, see previous, sun screen. stop whinging. In all seriousness though, if the cyclone is that big you and roo fox are going to get smashed by it soon surely?
jonthefox Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 scaled down to a size 3 at the moment... still bad.
Matt Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 I can fly for 6 or 7 hours and still be in the country, it is sizeable That kills me on the plane. That bloody map on the big screen keeps flashing the map up and you can see you are in Australia, 7 hours till destination, You go to sleep which feels like a couple of hours you wake up and its not 6 hours, 55 minutes till destination and repeat. That 7 hours feels longer than any of the journey you have already done. Anyway the Cyclone, this could effect my reletives in Queensland, more so than the floods (They live high up so the floods were no real threat to then apart form being cut off, but house wise it was safe). Hope they avoid this.
BoneDog Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Just to give you another image of the size. To drive from Perth to Adelaide (not even coast to coast) is the same as driving from London to Moscow. Best of luck to all those in Queensland. That's flippin huge. Since I read this I have looked at a map of the world on google maps and found out that Australia is as big as about 18 European countries put together from England and France right across to the Ukraine and Belarus! Not seen any news yet today but am going to have a look soon before I go to bed. My thoughts go out to all of you who have friends and relatives in the vacinity, it's horrible not being able to help them and just having to sit at home worrying and waiting.
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 2 February 2011 Author Posted 2 February 2011 That kills me on the plane. That bloody map on the big screen keeps flashing the map up and you can see you are in Australia, 7 hours till destination, You go to sleep which feels like a couple of hours you wake up and its not 6 hours, 55 minutes till destination and repeat. That 7 hours feels longer than any of the journey you have already done. Anyway the Cyclone, this could effect my reletives in Queensland, more so than the floods (They live high up so the floods were no real threat to then apart form being cut off, but house wise it was safe). Hope they avoid this. This is why when i flew from UK to England on my own all didn't bother with my tv just waked the ipod and tried to sleep. The flights are the worst part of travelling by far.
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 3 February 2011 Author Posted 3 February 2011 http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-reports/gallery-fn7rxoal-1225999244037?page=1 Cyclone Yasi fooked a few people up the a... but luckly they were well prepared and infrastructre is pretty could, if it was in a less developed country things may have been a lot worse.
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 3 February 2011 Author Posted 3 February 2011 No fatalities so far which is incredible the vision on tv last night was incredible and the reporter hating life
ACF Posted 3 February 2011 Posted 3 February 2011 Not even a serious injury. You're gunna have to do a lot better to get these Australians God.
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 3 February 2011 Author Posted 3 February 2011 Heard on the radio, about a pub landlord that had locals shelter at the pub and he reckons he made a few weeks takings in one night
Kent Posted 3 February 2011 Posted 3 February 2011 I'm in Northern Queensland at the minute (Townsville to be exact). Our internal flight yesterday from Brisbane got cancelled because Townsville airport was closed. The furthest we could get was Mackay. Our hosts had to drive 4 hours down to us and then back again. Bearing in mind this was yesterday which was the day the cyclone was going to hit, we saw 2 cars going north like us all day and a fairly steady flow of traffic going the other way. Lets just say last night was pretty rough. Power is out everywhere today (although we've got a generator) and water is being cut off tonight. Dodged a bullet though, no damage to the house or cars. Eventful start to a 3 week holiday anyway.
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 3 February 2011 Author Posted 3 February 2011 I'm in Northern Queensland at the minute (Townsville to be exact). Our internal flight yesterday from Brisbane got cancelled because Townsville airport was closed. The furthest we could get was Mackay. Our hosts had to drive 4 hours down to us and then back again. Bearing in mind this was yesterday which was the day the cyclone was going to hit, we saw 2 cars going north like us all day and a fairly steady flow of traffic going the other way. Lets just say last night was pretty rough. Power is out everywhere today (although we've got a generator) and water is being cut off tonight. Dodged a bullet though, no damage to the house or cars. Eventful start to a 3 week holiday anyway. Welcome to Australia mate Glad to hear everything is alright
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 5 February 2011 Author Posted 5 February 2011 Australia is fooked now Melbourne is flooding i had to drive home from work in the heaviest ran i have seen in a long time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Fd_lLivxo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8YKVOC0fuE&feature=related
Jackirius Posted 5 February 2011 Posted 5 February 2011 Well that's Australia ticked off my list of countries to go to too survive 2012.
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