The Weekend Aussie BBQ , Vino, Fishing and Driving Thread...

Thanks Gary we’re all well and the cars still running so life’s pretty good

 

So are all you poofs in SE QLD ready for a possible cyclone next week?

Apparently a fair chance it will hit Brisbane / northern NSW from Wednesday or Thursday.

Not great.

 

Yeah. It’s been a long time since one went that far south.

 

Corporates - the new owners of the site went to the University of I-don't-give-a-shjt.

 

This could be one for the record books actually.

It doesn't seem as though ANY cyclones have actually crossed the coast as far south as NSW.

A number of them have come in the back door from Qld and maintained some form of wind and lots of rain,flooding etc.

 

I'm expecting the Gold Coast will get hit so I'm clearing the deck

It'***** us a few times over the last 28 years I've been here

 

Another southerner fresh off the boat

 

From what I've read the last one that far south was 33 years ago

 

I didn't include my 9 years at Amberley or my 2 years on Mt Isa

But don't ever call me a Qlder !!!

 

Don't trust the web, I've saw a cyclone hit last year, wiped out Mt tambourine

 

Fair point. It was the ABC / BoM after all, so definitely not to be trusted!

The surprising bit is I didn’t see the word “unprecedented” anywhere…

 

Hopefully it blows my house over JM and I build "Casa De Pap" with the insurance payout.

 

Good luck mate

 

As far as I've seen the southern most cyclone that CROSSED the east coast was @ Coolangatta/Tweed Heads.

On 20 February 1954, a tropical cyclone crossed over Coolangatta. While the cyclone occurred when weather patterns were unnamed, it was unofficially given the title The Great Gold Coast Cyclone. Serious structural damage to buildings occurred in Brisbane, Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast.

 

"Casa De Pap" will be a 2 bedroom shack for the money insurance will pay me out for that dump.

 

Fair enough. Probably correct.

I suspect that if / when this does cross the coast it won’t be as an actual cyclone - nevertheless not good.
Lots of rain and fairly strong wind for sure.

 

Fixed

 

And 25 VE Commodores with no numberplate for sale out the front.

 

Yep. And it’ll continue to change every few hours until it doesn’t.

I think if it does cross the coast it’ll pretty much bullseye Brisbane but will likely have been downgraded by then.