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Cyclone season

nocando - 2-2-2011 at 01:32 AM

Hi all over here is cyclone season in the tropics.

A major storm is about to hit the North Queensland coast near Cairns.

Here is a news snippett on its size.

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/floodrelief/how-cyclone...

John Holgate - 2-2-2011 at 04:00 AM

From what I saw on the news, there are a lot of frightened people gathered in shelters waiting it out. There was one town (forget which) where only the school building was built to withstand a class 5 cyclone and everybody's in it. It's a massively bigger cyclone than Tracy -which flattened Darwin and killed 60. Let's hope because it's so big, the winds will be more spread out and less severe. We'll know soon enough.