TC Laurence. Hope it calms down a bit!.

and workers left in ill prepared camps to die because the companies are too greedy to
- pay for them to evacuate
- miss out on a day or 2s works while there out

Its a Land of "Drought and flooding rains"


Unfortunateley its either one or the other!

Cheers Axle.

yes - looking forward to seeing a green desert next year!!

Gday
Family and I have been through five cyclones in Fiji..
Eric Nigel Oscar Gavin Hina Within a day after Hina ,T shirts were on the market.....
ENO GH
Only the "U" is missing.

I thought Vance was the strongest in 99?

Just checked the BOM again its now back to a cat 4 and hopefully be a low by the time Friday rolls around......

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Have you's had any rain in Broome yet??

Caz, just received an email to say the FESA expect us to be getting high winds from about 2am tonight. Once they start it would be very dangerous to try high tailing it, especially as the cyclone will be coming from that way. apparently its a very small but very very powerful cyclone, and is being compared to Cyclone Tracey.

Back to a 4 now. Hopefully it hits land and dies, but brings a bit of rain and some nice overcast weather.

Hi tukka,

No Rain as yet (just a few spits) no wind as yet either, however is overcast.

Cheers

Hi Kroozer

Thanks for the advice, a cyclone is not something we have experienced before, the plan is when we get to yellow to leave, we figured that the cyclone is moving towards us at a rate of between 11 - 15 k's per hour and we could 'outrun it" so to speak, is this kind of thinking wrong? I appreciate any advice as the park we are at don't seem to have tie down points.

I am hopeful it will fizzle into much needed rain.

Cheers
Caz

Sorry about the late reply Caz, with the path the cyclone is tracking by time we go to yellow alert you would probably wanna start heading out very quickly as the cyclone will be coming into town in the same direction as the highway. It is about 40 kilometres wide, so once it is at Derby we will probably start feeling some wind. It wont get very strong till we go Red but then it would be too late to move. Hopefully it fizzles down and just brings rain and nice temperatures. Just keep checking the BOM tracker, hopefully it dies soon.

I would try to tie the van down to something, maybe take it to the police station or something and book into a hotel if its too late to leave. Dont stay in the van thats for sure.

Hi Kroozer

Thanks for the reply, we would not stay in the van and had decided to go on yellow instead of blue. its 6am on Thurs now and if the TC does what the BOM says it will all be good, however if it moves back out to sea then it will re-intensify. Will keep a close watch on the BOM.


Cheers
Caz

The info that is provided to the mining company my husband works for has the cyclone go back out to sea and become a cat3 of the pilbara coast in 72hrs - as of 3am Thurs. It will be sitting between Pt Hedland and Karratha.

Hey Caz

You will be pretty right in Broome i think but also im not the weather man, but looking at the path of the cyclone and the amount of land its crossing to get to Broome its only going to be Cat 1 which is probably going to be fairly windy but not enought to wipe Broome out.

But saying that by the looks of it, its going to go back out to sea and build up again and then who knows what its going to do?

We missed all the wind up here but hasnt stopped raining since it came past, another 55mm over night. Its been beautiful

Where are you planning to go if you are leaving before it comes?

Cheers

Hi Tukka,

Just checked the BOM again and its seems to be heading sth east Derby ect are now down to Yellow. Yep our concern is if it heads back out to sea, intensifies and comes back...................... We packed EVERYTHING up last night just in case the 2am winds came through (better to be safe than sorry) and no winds as yet, it has been overcast for 2 days now (nice to have some relief from the sun).

Guess its just a long waiting game now. At least we have the technology these day's to be able to make some sort of predictions.

The plan is to head south (and keep heading south if it follows us).

Cheers
Caz

Correct


By the looks of it now Broome will probably just get alot of rain (which is needed) just to settle some dust and cool the joint down. Maybe a bit of wind but probably not enough to leave lovely old Broome town

Cheers