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Just heard on our news that 2 men are missing .... I think they said in or near Cardwell.
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OMG Positive thoughts to the familes of these poor souls who are missing.
Thinking of everyone affected by this horrid situation.
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Hi Eastender.
These two recent Cyclones in Queensland ( Anthony and Yasi )were no direct threat to Montville.
Montville is to far South ( Queensland ) and was not in the path of the Cyclones.
Sylvia.
Those two missing men were found, and are safe.
There is a recent report however of a couple that were on a Yaght that are now missing.
One death of a man who had locked himself inside a room as Yasi went through.
Unfortunatley, he died of Asphixiation as he was running a Generator in a confined closed area.
They say the man had been using a generator for power inside a closed room ( as power had been cut ), while waiting for Cyclone to pass over.
Quensland Premeir Anna Bligh stated: The coroner wanted me to make people understand that if you are using a generator for power, doing it in a closed room without any ventilation means you are at risk from asphyxiation from diesel fumes.
We here in Victoria - Melbourne are just now feeling the remnants of the first Cyclone "Anthony" that passed last week through northern Queensland, as warm moisture air moves down from the North and Cool air moving up from the south.........and are receiving flash flooding. Not on the scale of recent Queensland floods....but to the North of Victoria many rivers and creeks are overflowing and causing havoc to many country townships and communities. The city of Melbourne received 8 hrs plus of torrential downpour last night, and caused havoc on the roads in many outer and inner suburbs of the CBD. ( None life threating )
Our local Melbourne news reported last night for people of Melbourne to be aware of road closures, rivers and creeks rising around the suburbs, as there will be quite a bit of torrential rain over our weekend.This mornings local news shows us flooding in shopping centres and water knee high deep in and around some areas of Melbourne City as our gutters and drainage system struggle to cope with this sudden and very heavy downpour.
Latest News:
TORRENTIAL rain and thunder storms throughout Victoria has seen more than 3000 calls to emergency services, a woman in a critical condition after being hit by a tree and several people caught in floodwaters being rescued.
The torrential rain has lashed most parts of the state and metropolitan Melbourne, drenching some areas with more than 150mm of rain.
Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) forecaster Andrea Peace said Victorians were experiencing the effects of tropical cyclone activity.
"We have had a lot of moisture moving into the state which was the remnants of ex-cyclone tropical Anthony, that's moved down from central parts," she said.
The worst hit areas overnight in Melbourne were in the southeast, with Lyndhurst receiving 175mm of rain and Dandenong 157mm.
The SES received 3234 calls for help and 84 people had to be rescued from houses and cars inundated by the floods.
Weather meteoroligist are saying that Australia in general should prepare for more of this to come over the next coming years. Cyclones, Droughts, and Bush fires with extreme heat and extreme weather patterns.
I think the average Aussie knows this already.....lol
After all.... this is Australia, and we are a land of Droughts, Fires and Flooding plains, and have been for possible thousands of years.....so tell us something we dont already know..!!!!
Its how we prepare for it in the future that will count, and to think that Queensland went through a category 5 Cyclone with hardly no casulties shows that people are prepared to evacuate to safe centres and be responsible, and when told to do so.....it will save many lives. Our building code for Cyclone and Bushfire prone area's will toughen up as we learn and move forward as a reasonably new Country.( By World Standards )
Advance Australia fair.....as we say....:>))
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Thank you Tony for the infomation, wasn't real sure where Montville was located, i appreciate you letting me know and keeping every one up dated on what's happening.
Thank you
Pam
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Excellent summary Tony!
xxxxxx mick
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Hi Eastender and Sylvia.
Your welcome.
Montville is just slightly north/west of Brisbane city ( approx 200km )......so quite a distance away from where these cyclones came through.
Although i was born here, and my Aussie Geography is reasonable, i still have to "Google map" where some of these towns are myself....lol
All in all from reading some O/seas News....it does sound as if the whole country is going down the drain, but there would be some people living here in Aussie that would not even know all this was going on in the north east, if not for the Tele news or radio.
Although parts of the East coast is copping it badly with Cyclones and flooding,over in the West of the Country it is still under drought and bush fires.....In fact it is the driest year on record for southwest W.A..........Such is the size of this Island.
A freind from the U.K had emailed me and found it amazing why there were no deaths recorded from these last two massive cyclones here after it came through with such a vengence. A Catergory 5 cyclone is the highest you can get...........and If this happend in the U.K it would have wiped out thousands of people, he said.
I had said to him,that if you do a comparison ( size and population ) to other countries, then the area's of where these cyclones went through is less populated here than perhaps a major city in the U.K
In Comparison....you can fit the whole of Europe into Aussie with room to spare.
Population of Australia is 21 Million scattered over the same land mass area, so quite spread out.
The population of London is ( i think ) about 8 mil
The whole of the U.K ( plus Ireland ) fits 16 times into Oz....so you can evacuate to another part/state of the country if you really needed to.
This Cyclone Yasi is now heading for Alice Springs N.T ( Central Australia ) and although has weakened somewhat is still carrying high winds and much rainfall. So in fact it has travelled from the East coast of Aussie nearly 2200km inland towards central Alice Springs in the N.T causing much destruction along its path .......but not a single death that they can confirm positivley ...Yet!
It still is a very safe country generally, although it does sound bad at times.
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Just an update for anyone who has freinds or family in Melbourne and Victoria in general.
http://video.heraldsun.com.au/1781779199/Victoria-lucky-to-have-no-casualties?area=videoindex5
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