Riding Down Under - Tropical Cairns Australia

Gonna be windy ...
Category 2
  • Destructive winds. Minor house damage. Significant damage to signs, trees and caravans. Heavy damage to some crops. Risk of power failure. Small craft may break moorings.
  • Maximum mean wind speed 89–117 km/h.
  • Typical strongest gust 125–164 km/h.
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and very wet
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Will be a relief...it was 35 on the deck at 10 am today !!
 
Packing up stuff from the deck now we know close enough to to where and when.

Meanwhile - an RE 40k km review
and the gear he took

Noraly tackling the iffy corrupt economy of Nigeria.
crazy girl...
 
My son died of this this fall.....maybe down the line there will be a cure. Good read.

www.abc.net.au

Faced with 'certain death', pathologist Richard Scolyer is undergoing an experimental treatment

Pathologist Richard Scolyer's colleagues have designed a high-stakes experiment to fight his brain tumour, using the very treatment they pioneered for melanoma.
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Meanwhile waiting on a cyclone to land.... 29 at 11 pm and muggy as hell. 🥵
Not getting stuff done I had hoped to when it got cooler.
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www.9news.com.au

Cyclone Jasper to bring 'gale-force winds' and heavy rainfall to Far North Queensland

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My son died of this this fall.....maybe down the line there will be a cure. Good read.

www.abc.net.au

Faced with 'certain death', pathologist Richard Scolyer is undergoing an experimental treatment

Pathologist Richard Scolyer's colleagues have designed a high-stakes experiment to fight his brain tumour, using the very treatment they pioneered for melanoma.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
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Meanwhile waiting on a cyclone to land.... 29 at 11 pm and muggy as hell. 🥵
Not getting stuff done I had hoped to when it got cooler.
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www.9news.com.au

Cyclone Jasper to bring 'gale-force winds' and heavy rainfall to Far North Queensland

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Immunotherapy shows a lot of potential. Still growing pains in its application here. Course of treatment is five to six figures and has a positive effect most of the time. Unfortunately, in many cases, it is buying weeks or months. Not a magic bullet that gets patients years. At some point, I highly suspect that cost/benefit will limit applications to patients where plausible life extension is longer than x. That is on the public dime, for private payments, go nuts. Some people here are already paying for their own meds when they aren't covered.
 
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Silly bugger is loitering offshore and drifting north projected coming ashore 170 km north of us. (y)

....nice and cool at 26 and rain showers. Prepping has turned up a few bits and bobs that had been missing after returning from Canada
 
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Pretty much a miss for us...nice breeze, a few gusts and a few rain bands for us....even the dog got a walk.
Stayed up for a TV series and at 1 am was nothing really....woke up to some blowy rain and the girls chit chatting on the deck.
 
Constant rain and some nice moaning sound effects from the wind.
A few areas lost power. Most places closed
peak for us.rain and wind..
just a side swiped tho it is pissing down and blowing
 

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Getting old ....3+ MORE days of rain and we already had 1/2 meter
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can't really put the place back together til it stops
this is now - heavy rain in the red

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laptop and I got unexpected brief bath as an errant gust snuck in...so far no issue with it.
dog was not amused and we had to lift the couch to safer quarters. 48 more hours of this.
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‘Disappointing, unacceptable, disturbing’: Looters target during cyclone​

At least eight businesses in Trinity Beach have been targeted by looters on the night category 2 Cyclone Jasper crossed the Queensland coast.

5 am on the 16th and rain is finally tapering down a bit.

Think a chunk of tree is leaning on the outer eaves at the back. Not enough light to see yet. Would explain a large thump we heard during one of the intermittent deluges.
 
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Rain starting fade a bit finally, tho still a fair amount .....got a very lukewarm shower ( courtesty of no sun for the solar water heater.)
36 hours of steady rain forecast tho. BillCat-1.jpg sigh
 
This is just getting tiresome - buckets to catch all the drips - luckily windspeeds are low
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woke up to a Major Flood Warning for Cairns 🤪- emergency alert on the phone. Won't affect us but.......damn 450 mm in 24 hours.

www.cairnspost.com.au

The Cairns Post

The Cairns Post
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www.abc.net.au

Live: Emergency flood alerts issued for parts of north Queensland, with rainfall totals of up to 450mm in 24 hours

Emergency flood alerts have been issued for parts of north Queensland, following torrential rainfall in the wake of ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper. Follow live.
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Fortunately we are away from the water coming down from the Tablelands so it is "only" local rain 380 mm since 9 am.

Cairns is isolated highway wise and even the airport now closed. The greater region has recieved 1.5 meters of rain :eek:
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www.abc.net.au

Cairns cut off with 'worst flood on record' as mayors call for help from Australian Defence Force

Heavy rain is battering Queensland's far north, causing heavy flooding in low-lying areas as rivers burst their banks in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Jasper.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
 
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Fortunately we are away from the water coming down from the Tablelands so it is "only" local rain 380 mm since 9 am.

Cairns is isolated highway wise and even the airport now closed. The greater region has recieved 1.5 meters of rain :eek:
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www.abc.net.au

Cairns cut off with 'worst flood on record' as mayors call for help from Australian Defence Force

Heavy rain is battering Queensland's far north, causing heavy flooding in low-lying areas as rivers burst their banks in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Jasper.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
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i'll take the snow.

wait, what snow?
 
Well 1" of rain equals approx 12" of snow
.....1.5 meters of rain .....that's approx 60" of rain...x 12
near on 60 feet of snow.....careful what you wish for. :eek: ☃️


BTW the Daintree Rain Forest was never glaciated...one of only two rain forest regions to have survived intact for millions of years. The critters sort of harken back......come visit one.

Cassowary I photographed at Etty Bay.
 
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Well 1" of rain equals approx 12" of snow
.....1.5 meters of rain .....that's approx 60" of rain...x 12
near on 60 feet of snow.....careful what you wish for. :eek: ☃️
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i've been wishing for snow for a month; so far, no joy.
 
Feeling picked on but it has momentarily stopped raining in Cairns - some smalll relief and the dog can out for a pee.
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Northern beaches still getting dumped on....busted all the records and still supposed to rain until tomorrow.

Noraly happy to be getting out of Nigeria. Insanity with all those road blocks tho the exit area much nicer and gorgeous.
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