Queensland is flooding 09/01/2011 and is not cruise related

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I am so glad that so far there has been no reports of any one dieing.

Tully residents reveal horror of cyclone's wrath

 

 

As Cyclone Yasi tore through the small north Queensland town of Tully, Pat Brauer and her husband huddled together in their bathroom, petrified at the storm’s menacing roar.

‘‘The noise it was like a train coming, it was absolutely frightening,’’ she said.

‘‘It was just unbelievable when the windows popped.

 

 

full story and dvd and Photo's at

 

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/tully-residents-reveal-horror-of-cyclones-wrath-20110203-1ae48.html?from=smh_sb

 

 

 

 

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Tully 'totally devasted'

The north Queensland town of Tully is a scene of mass devastation with roofs torn from houses and power poles knocked over.

Cassowary Coast councillor Ross Sorbello said the roof had been torn from his mother's house, where he was waiting out the storm, and local properties had suffered similar damage.

"We are talking about a pretty strong brick house that was built in the 70s, so god help us in the morning when we look at some of the older places," he said.

Mr Sorbello ventured outside briefly during the eye of the storm to assess the damage and said the streets were strewn with debris while power poles had been knocked over.

"It is just a scene of mass devastation," he said.

"(Cyclone) Larry was a boy compared to this."

He said the eye was yet to finish passing over the town, meaning more damage was on its way as the winds ramped up again.

 

 

full story at

 

 

http://www.dailymercury.com.au/story/2011/02/03/tully-a-scene-of-mass-devastation-yasi-cyclone/

 

 

 

 

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Witnesses in Tully reveal Cyclone Yasi's wrath

 

As Cyclone Yasi tore through the small north Queensland town of Tully, Pat Brauer and her husband huddled together in their bathroom, petrified at the storm’s menacing roar.

 

 

‘‘The noise it was like a train coming, it was absolutely frightening,’’ she said.

 

‘‘It was just unbelievable when the windows popped.

 

‘‘Larry and all the other cyclones, they were nothing compared to this.’’

Tully has been decimated by last night's cyclone, with a local councillor estimating up to half the town's homes have lost their roofs.

 

 

full story and phot's at

 

 

http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/news/national/national/general/witnesses-in-tully-reveal-cyclone-yasis-wrath/2065604.aspx

 

 

 

 

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Queensland takes stock of damage

A trail of destruction was emerging across the far north of Queensland this morning after the biggest cyclone in living memory crossed the coast at midnight local time.

Cyclone Yasi, a category 5 system, passed directly over Mission Beach, a small coastal community of about 1,000, 90miles (160km) south of Cairns.

There were no reports of deaths or serious injuries across the state.

Local resident Raymond Bosnich said many of the buildings in the town had been affected. "I think every house has got some sort of damage," he told Australian television. "Garages and garden sheds have been tossed around. There's definitely damage on every property," he said. There was also extensive damage to vegetation.

"Most of the trees in the area have been stripped. You'd think a fire had run through it," said Bosnich.

Local residents in Mission Beach reported a strange half-hour in the calm eye of the storm, when they popped outside with torches, checked up on neighbours and gazed at the momentarily clear sky.

"It's the strangest thing to go outside and see the stars and there is no wind for half an hour," said Attie Willy of Coral Sea Kayaking, who took shelter in a neighbour's house 150m from the beach to avoid the worst of the storm surges.

full story at

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/03/cyclone-yasi-queensland-damage

 

 

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Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi crossed the Queensland coast about midnight Wednesday 3 February and is moving inland.

Gale force winds, flooding rain and storm surges impacted coastal communities in the storms path.

 

Cyclone and flooding warnings have been issued by the Bureau of Meteorology for areas at risk from Tropical Cyclone Yasi as it moves inland.

http://www.qld.gov.au/cyclone/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Air and sea search for missing boatie

 

Police will conduct a sea and air search of Port Hinchinbrook tomorrow in the hope of locating a man who has been missing since moving his boat before Cyclone Yasi struck.

Another man remains missing in the Innisfail area.

A police spokesman said the man in Port Hinchinbrook had failed to contact associates, adding that the missing person report was lodged from Canada.

‘‘He said he was moving his vessel into the mangroves to be safe from the storm surge,’’ the police spokesman said.

‘‘Since that time we haven’t heard from him.

‘‘We cant get into that area by foot.

 

full story at and photo's

 

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/weather/air-and-sea-search-for-missing-boatie-20110201-1acgp.html

 

 

 

 

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Cardwell man feared dead after going missing on his yacht during Cyclone Yasi has turned up alive - sailing back into Port Hinchinbrook today.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/

 

 

Queensland

 

 

Cyclone Yasi: Destruction by the numbers

 

QUEENSLAND may have dodged the full extent of Yasi's wrath but this snapshot of the damage shows the recovery will be long.

 

http://www.couriermail.com.au/

 

Cyclone power cut could kill millions of prawns

 

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201102/s3129655.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lots of photo's dunk island cardwell eg.

 

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/gallery-e6frer9f-1225999233037?page=1

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how big was this cyclone?

 

huge

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Ruralco Queensland Flood Appeal

 

Ruralco Holdings Limited (ASX:RHL) has issued the following statement in response to the Queensland floods.

As the scale of the devastation caused by the Queensland floods is evaluated over coming weeks, Ruralco

Holdings Limited has pledged its support to affected communities with a donation of $50,000 to the Aussie

Helpers and Aussie Helpers Children’s Fund to assist them with their work providing counselling services to affected families.

Ruralco’s Managing Director, John Maher, said the level of the devastation caused by the floods was

staggering and the impact of the disaster would be felt by communities across Queensland for a considerable time.

” The tragic loss of lives and the destruction of property and infrastructure have shattered communities and

our thoughts are with all those affected as they come to terms with the aftermath of this disaster.”

To this end, Ruralco has strengthened its alliance with Aussie Helpers and Aussie Helpers Children’s Fund

 

 

full story at

 

http://kyliewalsh.com.au/2011/02/ruralco-queensland-flood-appeal/

 

 

 

 

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More storms, floods tipped for Qld

 

 

QUEENSLANDERS should brace for more ferocious storms and floods in the wake of Cyclone Yasi, climate researchers say.

Warmer temperatures are expected to produce more intense torrential downpours, particularly in the state's tropical north.

"For Queensland, this is likely to spell storms and floods of increasing ferocity over a greater part of the state," The Climate Institute says in a fact sheet released today.

The think tank's chief executive John Connor is calling for urgent measures to arrest global warming as north Queensland recovers from the category five cyclone.

"Sadly, Australia must prepare for more of these types of catastrophic events and even greater extremes as climate change drives more frequent and more intense wild weather," he said.

Last year tied with 2005 as the warmest on record.

The January floods in Queensland and the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria have been linked with warmer conditions brought on by carbon emissions.

Record hot spells in central Australia are also symptomatic of global warming, the institute says.

A fortnight of temperatures above 40 degrees at Yulara, near Uluru, during January has been cited as an example of extreme weather.

 

 

http://www.cqnews.com.au/story/2011/02/04/more-storms-floods-tipped-for-queensland/

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Weary residents begin cyclone clean-up

 

Torrential rain is hampering recovery efforts in the cyclone-devastated town of Cardwell in far north Queensland.

The buildings on Cardwell's beachfront have been shredded, while windows are shattered and shop signs are flapping in the wind.

The Bruce Highway, which runs along what is left of the beachfront, has been cracked in half and washed into the ocean.

About a metre of beach sand has replaced it and recovery crews are using four-wheel-drives to get through.

Huge dead trees up to a metre across are lying like skeletons next to the road.

Police are doorknocking to check if residents are OK, but the streets are mostly quiet as locals try to work out where to start the clean-up.

The Cassowary Coast Regional Council is preparing to open evacuation centres in Mission Beach and Cardwell for people who have lost their homes.

Mayor Bill Shannon says there are about 100 people still in evacuation centres across the region and that figure is likely to go up.

 

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/04/3130498.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Two men found, couple now missing

TWO men reported missing near Cardwell in north Queensland have turned up safe and well, but police now have concerns about the thereabouts of a married couple after Cyclone Yasi.

 

Police say the man and woman, whose vessel reportedly capsized and sank during the cyclone in Port Hinchinbrook harbour, have been reported missing.

They are hopeful the pair are safe, but police say their search is being hampered by communication problems in the area.

One of the males reported missing after he had not been seen or heard of after moving his yacht to avoid Yasi sailed into the marina at Port Hinchinbrook today.

A second man, who was reported missing from Kennedy, north of the coastal town of Cardwell, has made contact with police.

Police say both men are safe and well.

 

 

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/floodrelief/two-men-found-couple-now-missing/story-fn7ik2te-1226000432686#ixzz1CzL6bnSR

 

 

 

 

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Cyclone leaves warzone in wake

 

 

WRECKAGE left in the wake of Cyclone Yasi left Australians waking up today to scenes that looked like a warzone.

 

Smashed yachts lay stacked like matchwood near a marina, while some homes were reduced to rubble by the conditions.

It meant rescuers had to battle to get to areas worst hit by the 180-mile an hour winds, although some have struggled to get through because of road closures.

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3391361/Cyclone-leaves-warzone-in-wake.html

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Ground zero: the view from the sky after Yasi

 

 

FROM the air, the battle scars from cyclone Yasi are awe-inspiring.

At Cardwell – ground zero for the Category 5 storm – the Bruce Highway is virtually unrecognisable, buried underneath sand pushed up from the beach by the massive storm surge.

 

The national highway is now terrain better suited to dune buggies.

 

To the south of the town, at Port Hinchinbrook, the raging sea has also left its mark, sweeping up dozens of multi-million dollar yachts and catamarans and depositing them, like toys, on top of each other to the north-western corner of the marina.

 

At least two mansions had large vessels smashed into them, pontoons and all. One waterfront building, now minus a roof, gave us a clear view down into the living room, with a large plasma TV still up against the wall, rain pouring in.

 

As our helicopter soared above the town’s wreckage, a solitary boatie had made his way out to his capsized mega-yacht, standing on top of it, at an apparent loss as to what to do next.

 

In the beachside hamlet of Tully Heads, just south of Mission Beach, it appeared as if giants had played a soccer match through it.

 

full story and Photo's and dvd at

 

http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/02/04/147885_cyclone.html

 

 

 

 

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Cyclone Yasi The Big Clean Up.

 

 

The military is moving in to assist in the clean-up after Cyclone Yasi, with 500 troops already in place and a further 3500 ready to go.

The rugby ground at the cyclone-ravaged town of Tully has been transformed into an impromptu military base, with a communications centre, tents littering the surrounds and soldiers sleeping in the stands.

 

full story at

 

http://magsx2.wordpress.com/

 

 

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Do you agree with the decision to release 25 per cent of the dam's water now?

 

The equivalent of a year's supply of drinking water will be released from southeast Queensland's Wivenhoe Dam with further heavy rain forecast for the flooded region.

The dam's role in last month's flooding of Brisbane remains controversial, with some critics claiming that earlier releases of water would have stopped the inundation of up to 20,000 properties.

It is one of the topics to be probed by a commission of inquiry this year.

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From next weekend, 25 per cent of the dam's water will be released slowly over nine days, adjusted with rainfall and the tides.

Announcing the massive release today, authorities stressed no homes or farms would be flooded.

Natural Resources Minister Stephen Robertson said the 290,000 megalitre release was needed to make space in the dam to mitigate any further flooding, with heavy rain forecast until April.

 

 

full story at

 

 

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/weather/dam-release-wont-flood-brisbane-minister-20110213-1arrf.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It has been amazing how fast Brisbane and most other area's have cleaned up and power put back on, but there are thousands and thousands more still waiting to get power back on to the house or buildings because

 

of insurance companies.

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As Brisbane picks itself up from the flooding, Melbourne prepares for more.

February 14th, 2011

 

The severity of the recent flooding across Australia has shocked and dumbfounded many across the world. While its people are not unused to extreme natural disasters such as extensive forest fires, their strength and resolve have been tested mercilessly yet again by this unexpected tragedy.

Brisbane has been the worst hit area so far and the events continue to haunt their efforts to rebuild their lives.

Everyone is now familiar with the inspirational story of Jordan Rice, the 13 year old boy scared of water, swept away with his mother by strong currents after he begged rescuers to save his younger brother first. There are currently 30 people confirmed dead and many more still missing. The first burials took place in January as the survivors struggled to come to terms with what has happened. One minute people were sat watching television, within half an hour they were knocking holes through their roofs to escape the torrent of water.

Many people’s homes have been irreparably damaged by the flooding or in some cases, washed away completely. At the time of writing, approximately 14,972 homes and businesses are completely swamped and 18,025 partially flooded. Many Australian insurers have been hesitant to pay out, pointing the finger at consumers for not having the necessary cover. The Insurance council of Australia’s general manager of risk Karl Sullivan says, ‘unfortunately a lot of people don’t make the effort to understand what the risks are that they’re facing’. Not only must the weary people contend with somehow paying for the damage, the amount of debris and rotting vegetation left behind has been described as staggering.

 

 

full story at

 

http://www.coach-trips.org.uk/destinations/as-brisbane-picks-itself-up-from-the-flooding-melbourne-prepares-for-more/

 

 

 

 

 

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Lockyer Valley spared more floods

 

Brisbane News.Net

Monday 14th February, 2011 (Source: News.com.au)

The weather bureau issued a severe weather warning for the Lockyer Valley on Monday afternoon, saying a storm had developed in the Beaudesert area, southwest of Brisbane and was tracking towards the valley.Residents were bracing for heavy rain and flash floods but Queensland's Bureau of Meteorology severe weather forecaster Michael Knepp said the storm was no longer a threat."Between 50mm to 100mm of rain fell in Beaudesert but as the storm moved northwest towards the Lockyer Valley it weakened and has petered out," Mr Knepp said.Since January 10 when a wall of water hit Toowoomba and Lockyer Valley towns, police have discovered 22 bodies.The majority of flood casualties came from the Lockyer Valley. ...

 

Read the full story at News.com.au

 

 

 

 

 

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