CYCLONE headed our way

Hopefully it doesn't end up here in Darwin, but it's heading our way......category 5 with winds up to 320km/h

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDD65011.shtml

is this ingrid??

she started just off coast top end qld...they thought it would hit somewhere between cooktown to townsville early last week...

I hope it misses you all up that way:sandrine

Yeah it's Ingrid.

Good luck Reub. Lock that baby up of yours.

Can you post how Crocker Island fares as my cousin is working up there.

Squiz....

bugeyedbabe wrote:is this ingrid??

she started just off coast top end qld...they thought it would hit somewhere between cooktown to townsville early last week...

Yes it is Ingrid...it did hit the top end last week but we have finished with it now so they can have it.My uncle was caught up in it last night and said it was small in size but quiet powerful. Good luck with it!!!!:o

Cheers....will let all know what eventuates....shame I don't have a built in garage for the car, just the open understorey of our elevated house....and no where else really to take it. Is a worry, but family and friends are a little more important should Ingrid get here.

Let us know when you get back online,

doesn't look good for the islands.

i hope everything is all right

I just spoke to my uncle. My cousin's place had a tree through the roof, and every other building is detroyed on Crocker Island. He parked his car and boat under the stilts of the school principals house, only for the car and boat to survive, but the house lost its roof.

He and is partner work on an Aboriginal school on Crocker. Apparently they are going to be flown off the island so that repairs can be made to the school and then for it to be re-opened.

He was saying the the winds were vicious....coming from one direction, then dead calm as the eye passed over, then coming from the other direction the end of it came.

Squiz....

yeah..heard crocker copped it bad....just saw pics on TV...