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Mentok · 02-06-2011, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by kone35

That's fucking huge bro.!
There ain't much getting outta the way of that one.

Yeah, I was telling them to GTFO of there but by the time they had their shit together they realised the thing was too big so they just bunkered down

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Originally Posted by S1gnal

@ Mentok. holy $hit

I know dude!

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Originally Posted by yahoo

mentok my thoughts are with your parents the army and cops have blocked off tully and mission beach and cardwell to sight seers so the locals can get on with the greaving in peace i hope the get there house and shop restored as quick as they can i was only in tully on tuesday for work and from the pics on the news it looks nothing like the tully i was in days before

Cheers mate, it's good to hear you weren't hit too bad. Luckily the storm didn't hit more populated regions, it just seemed to zero in on my folks!

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Originally Posted by arron

good to hear your folks are ok and the house and shop can be fixed..

Cos of the mega rain the last few days my road is washed out bad, never seen it this bad.

I didn't realise it was the same storm that was flooding Melbourne. My parents left Melbourne partly cos of the drought. So they move to the town that's hit by the biggest storm in Aus history and then Melbourne floods..

I still haven't talked to them as I'm not sure how to contact them ATM. Going to try again tonight, being over the other side of the world doesn't help.

Mentok · 02-06-2011, 06:11 AM

parents' place

yahoo · 02-06-2011, 03:28 PM

ergon and telstra are trying to get the mobile towers and land lines back up very soon i hope you get in contact mate

your rite about being lucky it didnt hit townsville or cairns things would have been catastrophic but that in no way is ment to deminish what the people whoms houses were destroyed are going thru

yahoo · 02-09-2011, 01:51 AM

any word from your folks mentok

Mentok · 02-09-2011, 12:56 PM

I got a text saying that they're ok and it looks like insurance will help out, which is pretty cool. Still no power so I haven't talked to them, might see if my dad is logged into google tonight.
I was talking to a friend at work about this today - said a mate on a forum was giving me more useful information than my parents or any news network!
So - cheers for the updates of the situation mate.

Once I get around to visiting them I'll have to track you down and buy you a beer. If my dad's VFR is repaired (storm damage) by then I'll steal it - we'll go for a ride and talk about how shit VFRs are

yahoo · 02-10-2011, 04:55 AM

for sure mate that would be great

i havent heard any more than what i told you the other day except that cardwell lucinda and the hinchenbrook area in some parts has power but still no phones water in these parts is just flowing but still must be boiled for a min of one minute tully im not to sure on i havent been able to contact my customers (im a sales rep) up there to find out how things are all i know for sure is its a bloody mess

i hope you get to speak to them soon mate

yahoo · 02-11-2011, 12:34 AM

some pics from cardwell a little south of tully

yahoo · 02-11-2011, 12:37 AM

more

yahoo · 02-11-2011, 12:39 AM

and the last 2

arron · 02-11-2011, 12:52 AM

WOW.. thats trashed bad.. is there much help there to rebuild or even clean up going on up there?

raized1199 · 02-11-2011, 02:02 AM

wow

yahoo · 02-11-2011, 03:38 AM

that first pic is the national highway beleave it or not

yahoo · 02-11-2011, 03:45 AM

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Originally Posted by arron

WOW.. thats trashed bad.. is there much help there to rebuild or even clean up going on up there?

yeh mate theres heaps of help from the ses and defence forces plus other states have flown in there sparkies to help get power back quicker

get this tho because we lost power for more than 48hrs my wife and i got $1000 each and if we had kids they would get $400 each thats crazy i remember when i was growing up we would lose power for days an days and never got any thing not that im complaining the cash is going to fixing my shed, fence and gates which i would have had to fork out for other wise