Cookster

A question to all the weather watchers out there.....
I have a friend that has to get back to Mt Isa. He is planning to leave at 2am tomorrow morning and drive straight through as he usually does. What do you recon his chances are if getting there. Sorry know it's abit of a strange question...,, but thought I'd ask opinions on be

EvannTel

I reckon he;d be mad to try it. If that weather comes in faster than predicted he could get stranded miles from anywhere.

moneypenny20

I reckon he'd be totally irresponsible to try it. He may have to get back but presumably he wants to get back alive and no trip is that important.

BigH68

Mount Isa is still looking like coping a 1 cat cyclone....he must be out his friggin tree and obviously doesnt listen to warnings.......no travel in the cyclone region

Pollyana

He'd be mad to even try.
People are being advised NOT to travel at present, and there's a reasonable chance that even if he gets part way he will find roads closed en route. Mt Isa is looking at a Cat 1 at least.
Why are so many people being so complacent about this cyclone? Do they seriously have a deathwish or what?

Kapri

I'd say that's pretty unanimous!
Tell him to stay put. The emergency services will have enough to deal with.

Bernieboy

Oh i dont know,i think he should go for it,THE CRAZY B'STARD

Pollyana

Long as he doesn't expect the emergency sevrvices to bail him out. Couldn't believe the number of people last night who had ignored early advice to evacuate, then in the middle of the night erxpected the police to go out and help them leave their homes in the middle of a Cat 5 cyclone.

Cookster

Cheers for the replies... Update...
He set off at 6pm last night and has just arrived 20 hours later.
Totally agree with everyone that he was pretty mad to try it but couldnt talk him out of it... as Bernie put it.... crazy bastard!!!!!

Hino

So he drove on public roads in bad weather for "20 hours".

Good to hear that your mate survived the trip though had he managed to collect a "Darwin Award" it wouldn't have broken my heart.

I'm more than relieved that everyone else who was unfortunate enough to be sharing the highway with "the crazy bastard" at the time, did the same.

Cookster

Blar blar blar, yer yer yer!!!!

Pollyana

Glad he made it, though I think he was lucky that Yasi decayed to a Low quicker than expected or he could've been airborne for part of it!

Kapri

Could be a viable new form of transport...get to your destination in quarter of the time