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BREAKING: Category 5 Cyclone Hits Australia
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| 03-19-2006
| AP
Posted on 03/19/2006 4:04:44 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Yikes!
Batten down the hatches Aussies!
Prayers to get through safely!
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:25:42 PM PST
by
kstewskis
("I don't know what I know, but I know that it's big".....Jerry Fletcher)
To: paul in cape
That looks more like Ingrid than Larry.
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:26:47 PM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I'm all ready for some Foster's, Mate!!
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:30:24 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
To: paul in cape
FNC said winds are 180MPH with predicted storm surge of 12 feet.
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:31:44 PM PST
by
onyx
(IF ONLY 10% of Muslims are radical, that's still 120 MILLION who want to kill us.)
To: bd476; Ernest_at_the_Beach; BurbankKarl; Extremely Extreme Extremist
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:33:03 PM PST
by
onyx
(IF ONLY 10% of Muslims are radical, that's still 120 MILLION who want to kill us.)
To: paul in cape
Is it a little early for these type of powerful Pacific storms?
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:36:25 PM PST
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free - never)
To: Libloather
The US has built levees to prevent such disasters. Australia may want a few... Not if they don't work any better than ours. The Aussies had enough sense to flee to the interior when a Cat 5 storm approached. Plus they don't have any big Chocolate cities that are mostly below sea level.
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:37:06 PM PST
by
El Gato
To: Libloather
I hope the President like Aborigines
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:37:47 PM PST
by
al baby
(Father of the Beeber)
To: M. Espinola
Is it a little early for these type of powerful Pacific storms? Not south of the equator, if anything it might be a little late.
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:38:58 PM PST
by
El Gato
To: M. Espinola
This is the southern hemisphere; it's the end of summer there. Precisely when they have the most cyclones.
To: sono
actually shouldn't we blame dyson? didn't he get the cyclonic action to just work properly?
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:42:39 PM PST
by
pipecorp
(Let's have a CRUSADE! , the muslims never stopped. a 2010 useless reply odyssey.)
To: El Gato
Just to be accurate, and I'm not seeing any news articles pointing this out..
The Australian "Categories" for tropical cylones are NOT THE SAME as the Saffir Simpson Categories for Atlantic tropical cyclones.
It's actually quite complex as the Australians use a different time period average for sustained winds, etc., but in sum the criteria for Category 5 in Australia is lower than ours.
If Larry were in the Atlantic this would be a Category FOUR storm based on sustained winds.
Other thing to keep in mind is the Atlantic has unusually high central pressures for storms; for the same pressure, an Atlantic storm has higher winds than a storm near Australia, because the background pressures are lower there.
To: El Gato
3/16 is the "equivalent" of 9/19 Down Under, so this should be the height of Cyclone Season.
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:43:59 PM PST
by
Tevin
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Prayers up for out brothers and sisters Down Under.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
A Queensland state police spokeswoman at Innisfail said three people had been reported injured so far in the storm, including a woman who was struck by flying glass and two others who were hurt after falling down. I've had worse at parties in good weather. It'll take a lot more than that to beat the Aussies down.
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:45:24 PM PST
by
KarinG1
(Some of us are trying to engage in philosophical discourse. Please don't allow us to interrupt you.)
To: El Gato
Plus they don't have any big Chocolate cities that are mostly below sea level.Ya think there could be some white chocolate action going on? This, along with a Republican administration, may explain the lack of deceased...
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:52:29 PM PST
by
Libloather
(You say Dubai, and I say hello...)
To: El Gato
I was about to blast you about the use of the word "chocolate" there, but then I realized you were quoting the Good Mayor Nagin!
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:54:31 PM PST
by
Paradox
(".. and remove all doubt.")
To: El Gato
Thanks for clearing that up.
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posted on
03/19/2006 5:23:36 PM PST
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free - never)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; Aussie Dasher; All
Aussie Dasher are you okayyyy
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posted on
03/19/2006 5:24:14 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
(I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Ted Kennedy)
To: JRios1968; Aussie Dasher; All
OMG Looter guy is down there
DAMN HE IS FAST LOL!
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posted on
03/19/2006 5:25:48 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
(I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Ted Kennedy)
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