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24th March 2006, 01:39 AM #76
Clinton,
apparently there;s a hotline (1800 number) you can ring to check on friends and rellies, if I find it I'll PM you. I saw a bit of the news tonight and they make it sound as if it's all in hand. I know that it isn't. They're trying to organise volunteer rural fire fighters to help in the clean up but while there's lots of interest from our brigades there's a lack of communications somewhere up the chain or between different agencies and it hasn't happened yet. I'm not even sure whether they'll need special legislation so that we're protected legally and accident compensation-wise like we are when fighting fires. Not bagging anyone here, it's a huge job and it's probaly beyond what they've ever planned for.
My neighbour works for Ergon and was away for work when the cyclone struck. No doubt he's been sent to work on power restoration as he hasn't been home since then, he may not even know that his house is okay
Mick"If you need a machine today and don't buy it,
tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."
- Henry Ford 1938
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24th March 2006, 01:47 AM #77
Glad to hear everyone is ok, not too much harm done by the looks which is even better.
Last phone exchange I did work at had 3 seperate generators, 35,000+ litres of diesel and was fed from 3 different incoming lines plus a massive battery bank. That's 7 levels of failsafe for a single exchange.
Can't even recall what it's name was, but it was within walking distance of that big bridge in Sydney, and a few months before 1999 ended.
I just know that all other telephone exchanges are various steps down from that one, but they took it really serious that time at that one exchange. Can't think why... :confused:
Nice to know the folks out 'there' get looked after as well as the folks 'who matter'.
We get typhoons here, which are pretty soft in reality. It rains a lot, blows a bit but nothing frightful or scary. Yet some people here manage to cark it with each decent one that arrives. I guess that might speak volumes for common sense that appears to be far less than common around here. :mad:
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24th March 2006, 11:18 AM #78
More pics of our place. I guess they don't mean that much unless you saw a before shot.
The Rain forrest shots all have a big green canopy & you couldn't see the hill behind Rain Forest 1.
I have to go to Innisfail today to assess the condition of some water damaged computers.... they have more than tree damage down there.
I have more but they didn't shrink down to less that 100K.
The 50 year old pine tree in Garden 3 just missed the water tank & knocked out 2 panels of the front fence. We can stand that up again no worries. The fence, not the pine tree.
The road in Pine Trees 1 has been cleared by a tractor.
The shiny thing on the hill in the background of Rain Forest 2 is a sheet of iron from a dairy about 1km up the road.
The chimney top of their house was on our front path... it is a 400mm square sheet of tin, I hate to think where it could have gone.Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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24th March 2006, 11:33 AM #79
George Bush offered asisstance and Howard declined, bet the locals are really pleased about that knowing how long it tales for the pollies to get off their bums, except for a bit of rubber necking and bleating to the media.
We offered aid to Atlanta and it was accepted, thought it would be nice to get some money happening a bit quicker.Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.
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24th March 2006, 09:24 PM #80
Glad you and yours are ok Cliff.
and likewise to Mick
and everyone else
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24th March 2006, 09:42 PM #81
Rubbernecking is a two edged saw.
We had a foot & mouth outbreak (cattle only)some years ago and were forbidden to visit the countryside. This of course then created economic disaster for unconnected businesses in the countryside. However I can fully understand victims of your storm having reactions to visitors eyeballing.
Hope your recovery is not too long.woody U.K.
"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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24th March 2006, 11:16 PM #82
Rubber necks are a pain in a disaster situation like a cyclone.
There's nothing for them to buy, there's nowhere for them to stay & they just get in the bloody road of people who are out there trying to work.
Today I went down to Innisfail from the Tablelands to help get computers in a bank back on line so they could process Centrelink vouchers.
I then drove to my office in Cairns to do pays for my troops & then back up to the tablelands with 300Kgs of fruit & veg for our group of friends who share in a bulk buy.
I did about 270Kms today & the bloody rubber necks nearly drove me nuts.... they slow down to gork at everything. :mad:Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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26th March 2006, 12:42 AM #83
Cliff,
if you've got the Cairns Post with the pic on the front page of the timber batten that's speared through the palm tree can you please scan it to show everyone? I spotted it in passing today at a client's place, don't have it myself. It's a pretty awseome illustration of the power involved in a cyclone (and a good reason not to go rubbernecking during the blow)
Some of our brigade is going to Herberton on Monday to relieve some of the clean up crews. There's an amazing amount of community spirit, a local building company sent a truck & bobcat plus 10 tradesmen & apprentices + utes and tool trailers down to Innisfail today for a week to help in the repairs, all at no charge. Went out to dinner last night in town and saw about 30 SES volunteers that had flown on from down south, checking in to a hotel. A lot of the volunteers are people that have left their families and jobs behind for a week or two. A big pat on the back for everyone involved.
Mick"If you need a machine today and don't buy it,
tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."
- Henry Ford 1938
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26th March 2006, 01:58 PM #84
I am glad to hear everyone on this forum from FNQ has fared ok, after the cyclone, I hope everything is going well.
Do any of you guys know how Dunk Island (4kms off Mission Beach) is?
I saw some news footage of Mission and it looks as though it copped a battering.
I worked up there 3 years ago, and I have not yet heard from anyone how the resort is.
Cliff how is the tablelands, how is Malanda, the whole area up there through to Mareeba is fantastic and I hope it didn't get too battered.
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26th March 2006, 02:27 PM #85
There are a few pics here. The Peeramon Pub copped a bit of a pasting. We used to spend Sunday Afternoons there rocking it out to the Johnston Stompers.
CheersThere was a young boy called Wyatt
Who was awfully quiet
And then one day
He faded away
Because he overused White
Floorsanding in Canberra and Albury.....
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26th March 2006, 03:04 PM #86
One thing I am confident in is that the people in FNQ are the kind of people pull through this well.
I hope that at the end of the recovery (years away) there's enough energy left over to push for a better way of dealing with such events.
I'm not saying that to level any criticism, just that I think some lessons can be learned and I hope that a bit of funding gets put aside for it. i.e. upgrading an inland town's water supply to cope with a rapid demand for bottled treated water, and pre-positioning a heap of plastic 20lt bottles. Or flood proofing the road south of Tully. I think the nation can probably afford it, IMO.
AND, being able to declare a disaster and paying those SES champions, so we as a nation don't have to rely on families sacrificing wages to pull us all out of the poo.
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26th March 2006, 11:41 PM #87
Originally Posted by Clinton1
As far as being better prepared for emergencies, well years ago (before the place filled up with southerners) locals had pantries and water tanks. Some of us still do. People around here asked me how I fared during/after the cyclone, and I tell them fine, coz I've got my own water supply, a well stocked pantry and generator, plus I've climbed the only large tree in our yard and removed a lot of its top limbs. "You were lucky" they reply. I tell them, "yeah I was lucky, but mostly I was prepared"Obviously if the cyclone had ripped right through here I might not be so lucky, but historically this area hasn't been hit as much as others and I'm a little way from the coast so wouldn't get the full strength of the blow.
Mick (luck favours the well prepared)"If you need a machine today and don't buy it,
tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."
- Henry Ford 1938
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5th April 2006, 09:00 AM #88
This is one of the roads leading into Lake Eacham.
There was a young boy called Wyatt
Who was awfully quiet
And then one day
He faded away
Because he overused White
Floorsanding in Canberra and Albury.....
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5th April 2006, 09:19 AM #89
Good as new...
Better in fact as it has all that nice soft material to act as suspension...
Cam<Insert witty remark here>
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5th April 2006, 05:42 PM #90
Yes, I think Eacham Shire council is going to bite the bullet and convert the road into a 4WD trial course.
This last pic is of the leaf splatter on our house sort of looks more dramatic than it actually is.
CheersThere was a young boy called Wyatt
Who was awfully quiet
And then one day
He faded away
Because he overused White
Floorsanding in Canberra and Albury.....