Fuuuuuuuck ...
Feb. 2nd, 2011 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Good luck North Queenslanders.

Cyclone Yasi took out one of the weather stations tracking it this morning. A station that was built to withstand Category 5 cyclones. Up north they have either fled or barricaded themselves inside.
For those of you abroad, yes, that's the same state that spent most of the last two months underwater. Bloody hell.
And you Americans in the Big Snow, keep safe! Stay inside and put an extra dog on the bed!
Can we have a carbon tax now, please? It has to cost less than mopping up after so many extreme weather events.
Cyclone Yasi took out one of the weather stations tracking it this morning. A station that was built to withstand Category 5 cyclones. Up north they have either fled or barricaded themselves inside.
For those of you abroad, yes, that's the same state that spent most of the last two months underwater. Bloody hell.
And you Americans in the Big Snow, keep safe! Stay inside and put an extra dog on the bed!
Can we have a carbon tax now, please? It has to cost less than mopping up after so many extreme weather events.
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Date: 2011-02-02 01:53 pm (UTC)In trivia news, the storm cell is allegedly the size of North America -- I hope they mean the United States ... ah ... perhaps they do mean North America after all:
Just turned the news back on and Egypt is going to hell in a handbasket, too. Bloody hell ...
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Date: 2011-02-02 04:05 am (UTC)*crosses fingers*
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Date: 2011-02-02 04:49 am (UTC)I am really concerned about them.
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Date: 2011-02-02 05:50 am (UTC)It's not just the fact that it's so strong, it's that it's so BIG as well.
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Date: 2011-02-02 08:14 am (UTC)Let us hope everyone heeds the warnings and stays safe. (Aussie lady, in Cairns but originally from England, interviewed on the BBC World Service, "We've taken all precautions... filled the bath and everything else we can with water, mattresses to hide under if the roof comes off, planty of chocolate and wine."
Interviewer, "All the essentials, then."
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Date: 2011-02-02 09:08 am (UTC)following the big floods, too. just like '74, '75 again. SO WEIRD!
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Date: 2011-02-02 01:49 pm (UTC)Weird or not, it is very scary, though!
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Date: 2011-02-02 09:20 am (UTC)I hope everyone in Queensland comes out of this OK. They've had enough difficulties this year already :(
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Date: 2011-02-02 09:36 am (UTC)Or maybe I'm just more AWARE of it the last two years than in years prior, I don't know.
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Date: 2011-02-02 09:50 am (UTC)I want to offer platitudes like 'keep calm and carry on' but at the rate the weather is carrying on at moment is calm even possible?
and to the carbon tax, HELL YES say I!
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Date: 2011-02-02 05:16 pm (UTC)Keep calm and call the Doctor.
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Date: 2011-02-02 12:40 pm (UTC)How many 'unusual', 'unseasonal' and 'unprecedented' weather events is it going to take, people?
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Date: 2011-02-02 01:23 pm (UTC)Completely being facetious, just in case that didn't come through.
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Date: 2011-02-02 01:35 pm (UTC)I am guessing that it will take one of the following:
* An OPEC nation being swamped by either a cyclone or rising sea levels.
* The Lord God making an appearance on American television to say 'WTF, people, this is not how I left it.' (Personally, I would be shocked.)
* The Scandinavians somehow seizing control of all international organisations including the UN and World Bank and imposing Basic Practical Sense.
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