Cyclone Marcia

[misi]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/cyclone-marcia-live-coverage-20150219-13iuaw.html

misi calling Guess and TeeEm:
How are things in your area?

 

[foxidrive]

Yes, tell us how things are up your way!

 

[TeeEm]

Wet. But they really copped it up North.

Pics from Courier Mail.

 

[misi]

Wet. But they really copped it up North.

Pics from Courier Mail.

Ugly...
It'll take years to rebuild everything.

 

[foxidrive]

Terrible.

 

[Megabyte]

wow 72 mph.... and two at once! Lam and Marcia

Here's what was reported by the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-31544694

 

[Guess]

Thank Goodness the rain has finally stopped. We had 185mm today and 170mm yesterday. Roads all around us were flooded. People who live 2 km+ south of us were totally stranded by floodwater blocking the northern and southern entrances to Southern Redland Bay / Pt Talburpin area. That's about 15,000 people with no-where to go.
Yesterdays rain was a weather system that was not part of Cyclone Marcia, but indirectly caused by the Cyclone.
Todays rain was the remnants of Ex Cyclone Marcia passing over us.
Not seen this much rain in years.

We were very lucky not to have the wind that battered Yeppoon , Rocky and inland areas.

 

[TeeEm]

There was a strange bright light in the sky this morning.


Oh, .............................. it's the sun.

 

[foxidrive]

I hope you blokes didn't have the mop and bucket out indoors.

As Dorothea McKeller said - Droughts and flooding rains -

Those poor people who were flooded and damaged houses etc.

 

[TeeEm]

350 homes destroyed in central Queensland

 

[foxidrive]

 

[Guess]

I've been lucky so far. Experienced 3 Cyclones, but never had our property damaged... First big Cyclone, I was only about 7yo.

 

[misi]

350 homes destroyed in central Queensland

By Monday morning 5,000 claims had been lodged and preliminary insurance losses stood at $33 million.

Insurance response teams had been sent to the region and assessors were starting to visit damaged properties once roads were open and conditions safe.

Would uninsured properties have any help from the government?

 

[Guess]

Would uninsured properties have any help from the government?

$1000 per adult and $400 per child plus anything charities would give them I think.