Hurricane Milton

my1987toyota wrote:

  Well this sucks. My area only got side swiped by Helene and it still did heavy damage. Now we have Milton and it's projected to smack
into or very near my area as a Category 3/4. 

Our turn down under! Cyclone Alfred is barelling down on us (about 350 km away) and is expected to  make a direct hit on Brisbane where I live in the next couple of days. Its been 50 years since the last Cyclone hit causing the 1974 floods in the Brisbane river catchment. Looking forward to  7-10 metre high seas, high winds and  300-400mm of rain coming along with it. Dams are already full at about 98% capacity so its likely to be pretty massive when it hits... 
Glad I live on a hill
It seems pretty surreal, as its not even raining yet!

Take care rodw. that kind of weather is no joke. hopefully damage will be minor. Prep for the worst, hope for the best.

Shit mate didn't know it was that bad up there.

We Gunna have to send truck & dogs and bobcats up again to help with the cleanup ?

Alfred is still coming. Probably about 24 hours away but on track to take a direct hit on a town of 4 million people... We are south of the estimated crossing point but apparently all the wind and rain  is on the south side.

 

Tomorrow will be interesting...

tommylight wrote:

Keep us updated, if possible, and take care.
 

+1

hey rodw is it ok to post the link of your youtube live view?

Yeh, I saw you had been there. Its still very normal here and Alfred has decided to be a day late.
There is some pretty rough weather to the south of us even though we are closer to the crossing point

rodw live view. Hopefully Alfred turns out to be a whole lot of not much.
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