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Cyclone Yasi

Started by Zealously Jaded, February 02, 2011, 09:15:20 AM

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Zealously Jaded

Just found this picture on Twitter, I think this just shows how big the cyclone is...


Wolfy

Sweet...which country do we get to send aid to this time? :D

Sabby

I'm right there on the right coast, just above where Australia and that blue place meet.

Miss Lilly

omg....Yasi was so goddam big.  Biggest cyclone to make landfall in Australian history, I think!

Buggered if I know how no one was killed.....
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Endorphin

We're resilient over here!  XD
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Oniya

Quote from: Endorphin on February 05, 2011, 07:23:53 PM
We're resilient over here!  XD

Why am I reminded of the line:  'That's not a knife...'?
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Endorphin

Probably 'cause the real life Crocodile Hunter (Steve Irwin) was just as crazy and reckless as the Crocodile Dundee. Kinda gives Aussies an image they'd have trouble shakin' - even if they wanted to. ;)
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Sabby

Yeah... and he was killed by a flap of skin with a little pin.

Endorphin

It was actually the post sting 'treatment' which killed him.

Those things are pretty mean though. They grow bigger than a man, twice as heavy and have a stinger that causes local trauma, pain, swelling, muscle cramps from the venom and bacterial infection. No doubt something that could take down Steve Irwin would have little trouble with less worthy specimens.

The people I know who've been hit by even a baby one don't seem all that keen on a second episode.
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Sabby

It was still very underwhelming >.< You'd think the Croc Hunter would have been killed by... I dunno, a Crocodile?

Endorphin

Certainly would have been a lot more exciting. Poor bastard.
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Miss Lilly

There was one death, which I guess will be attributed to the cyclone. Although asphixiation during a cyclone seems to be a bit of an oxymoron...
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Oniya

Even so, Yasi's cloud disk would have stretched from Maine to Florida.  By comparison, Hurricane Katrina fit inside the Gulf of Mexico.
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And in that endeavor, laziness will not do." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think we're never gonna win this war
Robin Williams-Dead Poets Society ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think your world's gonna fall apart
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Miss Lilly

Yasi was massive...we're actually feeling some of the effects here in the west.  Only in the eastern parts of the west, but still....
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Braioch

Doesn't surprise me. I mean how much of Australia's wildlife exists with the propensity to kill dozens of men at one time? The whole continent is out to kill people, so it only makes sense that the weather would give it a go too.
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Miss Lilly

Braioch, you have an altogether too gloomy view of us!
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Braioch

It's true!

You guys and the Amazon!
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Endorphin

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It's true though. Australia does have way more than its fair share of potentially leathal wildlife. Kind of like the isolation of the Galapogos, but deadly.

The silver lining on the cyclone cloud is that all of our major population centres are much further South, which means that the impact is limited to the poor bastards who are living in those more remote places.
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Miss Lilly

I guess Australia is for real men, huh? ;)
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Endorphin

I'm not about to argue with that.

Real cyclones, too, apparently.  :-(
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Miss Lilly

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Sabby

Australia... the only country that can be underwater, on fire, and airborne, all at once, and yet we still blame video games for our ills :P

Miss Lilly

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