Poor Bloody Queensland...

[Gekko71]

Immediately after suffering floods to an area the size of Germany and France combined, Queensland has now been hit by two tropical cyclones (Hurricanes).

The first hit a few days ago. The Second is a category Five (the highest) and will batter 500km of populated coastline in about half an hour with a full evening of 300KMH winds (187 MPH).

Currently the SES (emergency services) are chasing around a few idiots who have refused to evacuate and are now in direct danger.

If there's anyone on the board willing to say a quick prayer for the folks up there, it would be both timely and very much appreciated.

EDIT - 9.5 m waves measured off Townsville. Significant flooding in low lying areas Link.

[Foil]

Wow. I'd heard about the recent floods, but didn't hear until yesterday about the hurricane.

I know we have a few folk here from down that way... any from the Queensland area?

[woodchip]

The cat5 cyclone is similar to the one that hit New Orleans. Hope you Aussies have the ability to get everyone inland as it will not be a storm you want to ride out.

[roid]

Weird though we didn't get any weather from it down here in Bris, normally such storms up north QLD bring rain/wind to the entire QLD state. I'm only seeing it in the news, pretty powerful cyclone that one.

Get this, no-one was killed, and from what i can hear there wasn't even any major injuries. Wow.
I sent the Flying Spagetti Monster many psychic messages asking for his assistance for northern QLD, and it has clearly paid off. I'm a hero.

[Blaze]

You humans and your flying spaghetti.

[Gekko71]

I sent the Flying Spagetti Monster many psychic messages asking for his assistance for northern QLD, and it has clearly paid off. I'm a hero.

Yeah, that probably did it.

[Blaze]

that's not blood in Queensland, that's spaghetti sauce. 9_9

[Alter-Fox]

You're reminding me of a hilarious story Xaihyv made up years ago about a book that was going to be turned into a movie.
It was a fight -- "The Author" vs "Film Director". And Film Director was making it look worse than it was so that people would choose him to make the adaptation... I guess he was trying to prove that he could direct well.

I'll post the actual dialogue if I ever remember it.

[Neo]

I beat a pilot in D3 named Xaihyv

[Alter-Fox]

Yep that would have been my brother.
He plays lots, talks on forums little.