Stay safe in Cairns and dont get fucked by the typhoon [smilie=angel.gif]

That's some wild shit going on down there.

Hopefully he's not standing out in the street with a baseball/cricket bat yelling "Come on motherfucker!"

Crickey Mate!! I fully expect that wiley of a croc hunter blote to be standing right in front of that bugger of a storm.

Good luck P.

Hold on to something bro. Tightly.

yeah, stay safe, man.

if he answers this thread while in the eye of the storm on his laptop, Samuel Jackson will have to give up his bad muthafucka wallet to Pharoah.


Hopefully you won't go for the title and the wallet no matter how tempting it may seem. Good luck dealing with that shit man.

Stay safe man. I read online the storm was bad hopefully though you and your loved ones avoided the trouble.

Hope you alright man.

Come on. Its only a typhoon. Its not like its a hurricane or something.


A little humor to brighten up the day.

Wow.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/australia_cyclone;_ylt=AmpjwVigvVTXZf3msGkzPeas0NU E;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--



Thousands Feared Homeless in Australia

By MERAIAH FOLEY, Associated Press Writer
3 minutes ago

Metal roofs littered streets, wooden houses lay in splinters and banana plantations were stripped bare after the most powerful cyclone to hit Australia in three decades lashed the country's eastern coast Monday.

Amazingly, the storm caused no reported fatalities, and only 30 people suffered minor injuries. But the damage from Cyclone Larry, a Category 5 storm with winds up to 180 mph, was expected to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Hardest hit was Innisfail, a farming city of 8,500 people 60 miles south of the tourist city of Cairns in northeastern Queensland state.

"It looks like an atomic bomb hit the place," Innisfail mayor Neil Clarke told Australian television. "It is severe damage. This is more than a local disaster, this is a national disaster."

The town urgently needs accommodation for people whose homes were damaged, a power supply to feed hospitals and other infrastructure, he said.

There was no official count of the homeless Monday, but given the number of homes badly damaged, the figure could run into the thousands, Clarke said.

The casualty toll was so low because people left town or went to shelters after authorities posted warnings. Residents and officials were mindful of the damage Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans and Mississippi last August, said Ben Creagh, a spokesman for Queensland state Department of Emergency Services.

"Everyone here studied Katrina and took a lot of messages away, a lot of lessons at the expense of the poor old Yanks," Creagh said. "There was absolutely no complacency at the planning level at all, and I think that shows. ... Good planning, a bit of luck — we've dodged a bullet."

Within hours of the storm's landfall, officials declared a state of emergency, prepared Black Hawk helicopters to run rescue missions and announced cash payouts for victims — $720 for each adult and $290 for each child who lost their home. Prime Minister John Howard indicated more aid was to come.

Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said 55 percent of homes in Innisfail had been damaged, though rescue teams had yet to get full access to the swamped region. All roads into the town remained blocked late Monday.

Innisfail Barrier Reef Motel owner Amanda Fitzpatrick echoed the mayor's damage assessment.

"We could only go out in the eye of the storm and have a look and it just looks like an atomic bomb has gone off," she told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.

Farmers were expected to be among the hardest hit. The region is a major growing region for bananas and sugar cane, and vast tracts of the crops were flattened.

"It looks like someone's gone in there with a slasher and slashed the top off everything," said Bill Horsford, a cane farmer. One lawmaker estimated lost revenues could run to $110 million.

The storm also barreled over a portion of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, damaging a narrow band of coral, said David Wachenfeld, director of science at the government body that cares for the reef.

The reef is more than 1,240 miles long, and the affected area is only about 30 miles across and far from the places where nearly 2 million tourists a year gaze in awe at the coral's vibrant colors and fish life, he said.

It would take 10 to 20 years for new coral to grow and replace the damaged area, he said.

The storm was the most powerful to hit Australia since Christmas Eve 1974, when Cyclone Tracy destroyed the northern city of Darwin, killing 65 people.

A man who answered the phone at an Innisfail evacuation center late Monday said it was too soon to estimate the number of people who lost their homes.

"We are trying to collate at the moment how many houses have been destroyed, how many people we have in shelters," he said. "There are just so many people and so much damage."

Close one.

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Holy shit dude. Crains is right on the coast too


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Close one.

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That's one hell of a cyclone.

Look how far inland that went.

Holy shit dude. Crains is right on the coast too


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The Jesus fishy things kept it away.

Not to get off topic but natlie portman would eat that storm alive then shit on it. that is all.

There has been a Pharaoh sighting.

He appears to be alive.

Yes, all I'm fine.

My fiance and I came through the storm without a scratch and the house is fine too.

Cairns wasn't hit head-on (as the graphic shows) which is how we managed to stay safe.

Signs, trees, fences and roofs and shit are everywhere, but no one I know suffered any serious damage.

And we've apparently got another Cyclone coming this way and it's scheduled to hit Friday my time.

So, once again us Bad Motherfuckers in Australia will fight Mother Nature and live to tell about it.

Storms don't kill people - we kill people!

It's amazing that no one died during this thing. A level 5 Cyclone is just wild.

Thanks for all the well wishes and good karma guys. It's really appreciated.

Austrailians arent scared of shit it seems. I knew crocodile dundee was a docudrama.

http://www.collectr.com/ce/images/cphoganp.jpg

Yes, all I'm fine.

My fiance and I came through the storm without a scratch and the house is fine too.

Cairns wasn't hit head-on (as the graphic shows) which is how we managed to stay safe.

Signs, trees, fences and roofs and shit are everywhere, but no one I know suffered any serious damage.

And we've apparently got another Cyclone coming this way and it's scheduled to hit Friday my time.

So, once again us Bad Motherfuckers in Australia will fight Mother Nature and live to tell about it.

Storms don't kill people - we kill people!

It's amazing that no one died during this thing. A level 5 Cyclone is just wild.

Thanks for all the well wishes and good karma guys. It's really appreciated.

Good to hear Pharaoh, Stay safe...

If I were a Cyclone, I wouldn't fuck with you either.

I find it incredible that no one was killed.

We're tough people here in Australia.

We're nice, friendly and entertaining but if you want to fuck with us we'll rip your fucking nuts off.

No one fucks with an Aussie.

If you see an Aussie in a bar start buying him beers. Start up a conversation with him and shake his hand. Then buy him more beers.

Then go over to the biggest fucker you can find in the bar. Smack him in the mouth.

I guarantee the Aussie will jump in and save your ass in that fight. No matter how drunk he gets or how big the other guy is he'll kick ass.

As long as you don't buy him Foster's you'll be fine.

BTW, I wasn't scared at all.

I slept through the whole thing.

Well, almost the whole thing. My fiance woke me up and I had a look at the whole thing but then I went back to bed.

There wasn't anything I could do except grab my cricket bat and head down the street.

Fuck doing that @ 6:30am. I went back to bed and when I woke up at 11 it was all over.

There wasn't anything I could do except grab my cricket bat and head down the street.


That just made my day.

Always happy to entertain you GD.