Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

Stay safe Gen.

What is the logic of closing the shelter when people may need them?

Because if you tell people that the storm will arrive at 10pm, loads of people will aim to get there at 9:59pm. By closing earlier you prevent people from driving through 100mp/h winds and torrential rain.

If you turned up to a shelter at 1pm or even now you'd get in. Once the storm hits they might not be able to open the door because of the wind.

They reckon any house built before 1985 has a good chance of having the roof ripped off at the very least. It's just lucky it's making landfall so far north. If it hit Cairns it would be chaos.

It's amazing what those guys up there live with.

I'll be fine. This is like you worrying about a storm in Moscow! It's the poor !!!!!!s up there I worry about. We might get a nasty storm in a few days as a result.

lemonjelly

LydiaJ wrote: »

Oh yes, don't get me wrong, I love the feeling that it's mine. But I'd also like to end up with the thing done up. Most of the time I haven't the energy to think about it, so I don't get stressed about not having the energy to do it. Reading the two of you and jelly discussing what you'd like to do to your houses makes me wish I could make a little more progress with mine, though.

What I say I do, & what I actually do are likely to be 2 different things...:o

Generali wrote: »

I'm tired and I've got a headache. All I want is a glass of white wine and to get out of this terrible humidity and into the air con.

Did you lot hear about the cyclone about to hit northern QLD? It's a biggie in an area that's not had a big cyclone in over 50 years. It's a category 5 although I suspect that means nothing to anyone but perhaps Viva.

It's due to make landfall pretty soon I think. They closed up the cyclone shelters a few hours ago though to stop people making a last minute dash for them.

They're predicting winds of up to 300km/h or about 180mp/h. When that happens you put tape on your windows so they don't shatter when they get blown or sucked out.

Thought about you when I saw the news yesterday. How close is it to you?
I watched footage of someone taping up their windows & wondered how that would protect them!:o Cheers for explaining.

lemonjelly

Oh, thanks to NP for answering the smoking question. Much appreciated (& possibly a bit obvious!)

Generali

lemonjelly wrote: »

What I say I do, & what I actually do are likely to be 2 different things...:o


Thought about you when I saw the news yesterday. How close is it to you?
I watched footage of someone taping up their windows & wondered how that would protect them!:o Cheers for explaining.

How close? How far would be a better question!

This is going to hit the far NE tip of Aus. I live in Sydney which is most of the way down the east coast. It's about 2800km by road. That's about 1750 miles perhaps.

lemonjelly

Close enough for it to dry your laundry then?

I think sometimes, for a non globetrotter it can be difficult to comprehend how vast some other countries are.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

Did you lot hear about the cyclone about to hit northern QLD?

No

Generali wrote: »

....winds of up to 300km/h or about 180mp/h.

I'd just curl up in a ball and cry

I'm a right scaredy cat, especially for windy weather.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

What I say

I watched footage of someone taping up their windows & wondered how that would protect them!:o

It just helps to keep the broken glass together, rather than having to deal with thousands of shards/broken bits. Window will fall in and be held together with tape, rather than smashing/shattering and spraying everywhere.

purch

lemonjelly wrote: »

I think sometimes, for a non globetrotter it can be difficult to comprehend how vast some other countries are.

All we know is that the Cyclone is the size of Wales :eek:

Generali

Well Australia is about the same size as Europe with the seas filled in including the Med.

There it is, top right:



They're comparing this to Tracy and Kerry which were about 100-200km across (60-150 miles) so 11,000 - 70,000 miles^2. Wales is 20,000 miles^2.

Of course that's not just the size of the storm, just the size of the area with gale force winds. The storm as a whole will probably drop 300mm/1 ft of rain on Cooktown over the course of 2-3 hours and plenty more on Cairns and Townsville on the way down. We'll probably feel the effects in Sydney but by then it'll just be an hour or so of unusually heavy rain.

It's been downgraded to category 4:

Max mean wind: 118 - 159km/h
Max wind speed: 165 - 224km/h

As it was downgraded from a 5 it's likely to be at the upper end of that scale. A five might kill a lot of people, even in an area like that. A 4 will damage a lot of property but people should be largely ok except stupid ones.

lostinrates

I think Wales can be a plural like fish or sheep. when estimating size, or just a big fish.


I am having a morning of mixed frustration and hope.

Frustration is my silly house. Hope is that......I am told my tests are potentially preliminary for surgery. . I would be overjoyed if they went in and tried to do something.