Have you ever?!

[TheBurningCat]

Been in a cyclone?! I used to live at a beach called Toolakea and it has had more cyclones cross it than i can count. On our cyclone emergency map townsville(capitol of north queensland) isn't listed but toolakea is...

Anyway the highest cyclone i have ever been in was a 3 in 1998. It caused flash flooding in my street and killed a man as he crossed the highway bridge in his car. 21 homes were also distroyed, My house had water come up through the back door but not much. Looking out my back door though was a 400 m wide raging river.

It took 5 weekends to remove all the debris from my yard and roof.

[LINK]
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9801/12/a...a.floods.folo/

[Brainchild]

Never been in a Cyclone, but have been in a good many floods. Our place used to flood 3-4 times a year.Never actually got in the house, but the garage,and storage barns were always a mess. And mud is a terrible thing to try and clean
Finally the city came through with a grant to remodel the water drainage, hasn't flooded in 10 years.I remember when the whole block looked like a lake though

Never been in a cyclone, but we took some refugees from Darwin for a while after Cyclone Tracy smashed it down in 1974. I can still remember the kids who stayed with us telling how frightening it was. They saw a man cut in half by a flying piece of corrugated iron.

There's a website dedicated to Cyclone Tracy here,and includes a video clip: http://www.ntlib.nt.gov.au/tracy/advanced/Tracy.html

Cheers
Mick

[TheBurningCat]

HAHAHAHAHAH, i be 1337 I double psted

[TheBurningCat]

Yeah that was a nasty one that. I visited a small town near me which got hit by some cyclone and all thats left of the town is the bank volt

[thekingofpain]

Ive been in a few hurricanes----pretty intense stuff---the first was an unreal experience while working aboard a cruieship going between Fiji and Tonga in the So. Pacific, 60ft swells and 140 mph winds which splattered Fiji into submission, felt like a cork in a washingmachine on a 900 ft vessel---hurricane Iwa while on Kauai in '82 was exciting for people ashore had to "jumpstart" the islands powerplant with a nuclear sub! Then had 10ft of water in a condo on Maui in '86 from Estelle but the mean one was Iniki in '92 while staying on Kauai which did 2 billion in damages and literally FLATTENED the island, flipped my then wifes convertable Rabbit on its roof and put all our belongings to date on the moon---or somewhere?...