http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtml
AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY
TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING CENTRE BRISBANE

I'm not sure if that is a static link or whether it'll change after I've posted it, but I just wanted to show you all what's happening at MY place. LOL

See where it says on the map Tewantin? Then there's red lettering that says See Also ? Well underneath Tewantin and parallel to all the red lettering is a little headland and I live there.

Well, it built up to a Catagory 5 Cyclone (Hurricane) some days ago. It seems like weeks, it wasn't. Then it's slowly but surely come down the Great Barrier Reef and here it is sitting up off the coast making it's mind up whether to go away or turn around and come back. lol

They've downgraded it now to a category 3. Earlier today it was a 4. Now the weather people have decided to tell us 2 things. It'll either go away or it will turn around and come back in. One minute they downgrade the constant warnings and next thing they tell us to prepare for shocking weather the next few days whether it goes or stays.

I don't trust weatherpeople. Sorry weatherpeople, but that's just how I feel.

BTW the surf is astounding. The power! The howling at the beach. It's eerie. No beaches left here but they'll build up again I'm sure.

Well, just letting you all know in case I seem a little loopy lately. It's been quite an adventure. I just went outside and there's no rain and no gale force winds. Maybe the weatherpeople got it wrong again?!

Dear Lara, I've been watching the weather forecasts with you in mind.

This morning on the morning news, I watched the winds blowing like crazy at Bundaberg, and that's a town DH and I moved from about 4 years ago. Thank goodness we never got a cyclone while we lived there.

I'm worried about Fraser Island though. That really is copping it from the strong winds, and Fraser Is. is one of my most favourite places in Australia. I would so hate to see it damaged by this cyclone.

If the cyclone continues it's path down the coast as predicted, then you will really have to battern down the hatches and make sure that you're safe. Thinking of you Lara, and really hope that you stay safe.

Thanks very much. Nearly all the people on Fraser were evacuated. However, on the news just now they showed the conditions and it's really nasty. They talked to a few people who had chosen to stay and they had tiny little babies. I was shocked, but then they may live there and know more than I do about the conditions.

Makes you wonder why they'd risk their little babies, doesn't it?

Be safe!! It never ceases to amaze me when people decide to stay during these extreme weather events.

Living in Florida I see it all the time with hurricanes.

Be safe Lara.

Thankyou. OK here. I'll probably have a huge apology to the "weatherpeople" in the next few days for not trusting them...

I hope.

I hope the weather get s better soon for you, Lara. There is nothing worse than waiting for a storm. . . and we, in Florida, have had a few "waits". It is very unnerving! Hang in there!
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BB!!! So good to see you finally post.

It's all bearable here today. Still bad weather, but I'm not so afraid today. My original link that I posted keeps updating so it wasn't a static link. The thing has turned around and is going back up north by the look of it and it's weakening. I guess I owe that apology to the weatherpeople hey? lol

Thanks for checking in Lara 'cos I've been worried about you, and I don't have your phone number.

Stay safe......

*rubbing eyes...

bb's here???

Lara, you better be resting...Or I am going to have to send you some bagels.. LOLOL

(I was thinking about that drive where you and D and D said you all were still full from eating those bagels hours before and then none of us knew the road and while I was looking for the name of the street, you were looking for a particular tree when they all looked alike to me...LOLOLOL)