Category 5 cyclone hitting upper north Queensland

[Megatran]

As many of you are already aware, upper north Queensland is facing a Category 5 Cyclone. Anyone living in that area please take care and stay safe.

[1AZRAEL1]

Anyone living in that area please take care and stay safe.

Seconded. Hope everyone gets through it unscathed.

[liegeprime]

oh my, they scaled it higher again have they? I've only heard it was a category 4 yesterday afternoon while I was at the tea room in the afternoon, seems it got stronger even... hope no one up there gets hurt.

[Ravagecat]

Stay safe and take care Nth Queenslanders. Hope it doesn't hit as hard as predicted.

[1AZRAEL1]

oh my, they scaled it higher again have they? I've only heard it was a category 4 yesterday afternoon while I was at the tea room in the afternoon, seems it got stronger even... hope no one up there gets hurt.

Laat I heard last night was gonna be winds in excess of 200km/h. So pretty bad I guess.

[Deonasis]

Laat I heard last night was gonna be winds in excess of 200km/h. So pretty bad I guess.

Winds up to 300km/h near the core.

[Hursticon]

This certainly paints a very vivid picture, courtesy of NOAA:




I certainly hope that everyone up north takes care and remains safe.

[twincobra]

Have been through a few cyclones before, expecting heavy rain at the very least. Time for the transformers to go to higher ground.

[Megatran]

Good to hear on the news this morning that the Cyclone Ita has been downgraded to Category 4. Lets hope it passes quickly and without too much destruction or loss of lives.

[iamirondude]

well we atm are getting the remains of the cyclone and the winds are blowing stuff everywhere and the worse bit is i'm now up to my ankles in water in the mancave. i'm really pissed about this now as i'm trying to save my gold box OP(well the box got wet). the water is running down the walls and is wetting everything atm, rains hitting sideways.