daunted

Thinking of you all

Bix

Short strong bursts here too now Trish.

Beedubya

I just saw this on the news, short strong bursts of wind and then nothing as it all dies down.

PLEASE PLEASE take care you guys and don't be heroes, just stay safe OK?

lesleys

One thing that I was told by a hurricane survivor in Hawaii - they all lay on the floor in their safe room and put a mattress over them (at an angle I think) to shelter from falling/flying objects.

Expat Kiwi

Good luck to all you people up north for the next 24 hours or so. Hope you all hunker down and manage to sit it out as best you can .

Take care.

We've got the news on in the background for updates but the twitter hashtags #TCYasi and #Yasi are good for keeping an eye on things as they happen.

Great to see the Aussie sense of humour shining through all of this

asprilla

Anna Bligh is talking about the possibility of a catastrophic failure of the electricity supply in FNQ ... and the possibility of an extended period with no power.

geeandtee

Good luck all.

My thoughts are with you.

xxxxxxxx

Bix

There goes me poached eggs.

Pollyana

TROPICAL CYCLONE ADVICE NUMBER 21
Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane
Issued at 8:50pm EST on Wednesday the 2nd of February 2011

A Cyclone WARNING is current for coastal and island communities from Cape
Flattery to Sarina, extending west across the tropical interior to the Northern
Territory border.

At 9:00 pm EST Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi, Category 5 was estimated to be 145 kilometres east southeast of Cairns and 110 kilometres east of Innisfail and moving west southwest at 25 kilometres per hour.

THE VERY DESTRUCTIVE CORE OF CYCLONE YASI WILL CROSS THE COAST NEAR INNISFAIL CLOSE TO MIDNIGHT, WITH A DANGEROUS STORM TIDE AND BATTERING WAVES SOUTH OF THE CYCLONE CENTRE.

Tropical Cyclone Yasi, CATEGORY 5, will continue to move in a west-southwesterly direction and is expected to cross the coast near Innisfail close to midnight.

Coastal residents between Cairns and Ayr are specifically warned of an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SEA LEVEL RISE [i.e. storm tide] as the cyclone approaches, crosses the coast and moves inland.

Higher than normal tides will exceed the high water mark with damaging waves and flooding in low lying areas in remaining warning areas to the south of Ayr.

VERY DESTRUCTIVE winds with gusts up to 290 km/h are expected to develop between Cairns and Ingham during the next few hours as the cyclone approaches. These VERY DESTRUCTIVE winds will extend inland to the nearby ranges including the Atherton Tablelands.

Due to the large size of the cyclone, people in the path of the VERY DESTRUCTIVE WINDS are likely to experience these conditions for about 3 to 4 hours.

DESTRUCTIVE winds with gusts in excess of 125 km/h between Cape Tribulation and Ayr are expected to spread inland overnight.

DAMAGING WINDS with gusts to 90 km/hr are occurring in remaining coastal areas between Cape Flattery and Sarina, and are forecast to spread inland and west to Mt Isa during Thursday.

Winds are forecast to gradually ease about the east coast during Thursday
morning as the cyclone moves inland.

FLOODING RAINS will develop from Cooktown to Sarina tonight and gradually extend inland.

Pollyana

Hey do you want a job here? Keep the humour coming, its what's gonna get people through the night

Pollyana

Cairns 256 radar

iamthecreaturefromuranus

It's raining harder than that in Canberra. !

Bix

Won't be here long now.
Electric regularly cutting out.

Wind getting stronger all the time.

Bix

Do you know there's some silly bugga outside doing a pied piper act.

Or maybe it's the wind whistling.

P2L

Kia Kaha to all of you in Queensland