Fuuuuuuuck ...

[blamebrampton]

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.

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[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It started at about 11pm and will be going through the night, with storm surges following in the morning. There is minimal news coming out of Queensland tonight because everyone is battened down and not going out for anything.

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 ...

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

thanks! yeah, i just got up and am listening to bbc radio, which is reporting from egypt, and i have the abc news cyclone page up as well. then there's also the snow in the u.s...

[arcanetrivia]

Last I saw it pasted over the US, they would have had to mean just the US (very slightly smaller, I think, but um, definitely big enough to be going on with). Might be bigger now though, I don't know.