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HI kizzy, yea been pretty stormy, but we have been lucky in Hervey bay, cos its protected by Frazer island but the rains been pretty intense, I have a very wet soggy wall in my studio but that's it. Haven't bought the paper yet but I am assuming a lot will be without electricity, queenslanders are resilient they are so use to the tropical storms it something you expect like nice spring rain every spring lol And the lightning can be spectacular, just sitting on the veranda watching it, is like going to the movies.

Although I have lost two computer in three years because of the lightning,
last year it hit my house and my dishwasher melted on the insides, i had liquid metal in a puddle on the floor I think it was an aluminium part lol

Morning all, yeah the storms have been really BADDDDD! well the one huge sucker we had on Monday afternoon, really frightening, i have spent the last 2 days cleaning up the tree that fell over not a real big one thank god, at least the tree loppers are busy???? But shite, i have not seen a storm like that in years, and it lasted for ages, very scary stuff, lightening was sooo close, and the thunder was shaking the whole house like an earthquake, hope everyone is ok as some areas are devastated!!! how pathetic tho, they are talking about getting security to the houses that have bin hit hard as looters are starting to hit them......why is it that pathetic people always come in and grab whatever they can at other defenseless people's expense???????

oh my god didn't realise it was so bad I live here and hervey bay has been really lucky then , what parts of Queensland have been hit don't have TV.

there are some real lousy shits in this world with no conscience, they are the ones that should pick up a live power line, thinking its the lead to your TV.

Wow guys i just went to the nine news and i must have slept through it, I cant believe it, It looks like it hit Brisbane cos the poor 20 year old guy that got swept away was at chermside that in Brisbane and its gone as far as sunshine coast,
bubbles should be fine cos he lives in Maryborough and that 25 minute drive from here, I don't think Marybourough has been affected.

Yes, my thought are will you all also.

I have never been through a bad electrical storm but I was in the SES in FNQ in Cairns and have experienced a lot of cyclones so I can sympathise.

Hey Ralf, well then you would understand how bad they can get up here sometimes, and how scary!!!!!!but my place is ok thank god just an old tree fell in the backyard, bloody hell wish it was this damn huge Palm tree i have right at the end of my deck? but knowing my luck it would fall towards the house as they seem to do?
Sad but some people have lost everything, they say it was like a mini cyclone....and it felt like one too!

Hey Ralf I lived in fnq for over a decade where about were you ?& when ?& who do you know ?

glad yr ok Phae

Hi Phae, those palms are dangerous coz they only have little root systems holding them in the ground. When I was living in Ayr, we went through cyclones Charlie & Joy. We had 13, 30mtr high, 1-2mtr round palms next to our house and we lost a couple of them, thankfully only one hit the house and it was only enough to knock the corner off. If it had of landed squarely on the house, we would have been in a lot of trouble!

Glad to hear you're fine

Hey Kiz Yes i'm fine thank you so much for caring guys....had tried to get on where i can, but the lines must be shot, as my connection keeps dropping out all the time.....Bugger, still many houses without electricity at all, so i am lucky, it was Bad enough over this way let alone being in Ashgrove they copped it really bad poor buggers

Hey ralf Ayr hey???? i lived in Bowen for about a year and got the hell out of there, too small for me, but i do remember all the cyclones, and all the boys getting their surfboards as soon as the weather stated a cyclone warning off they went crazy buggers

I have been around alot, I was born here in Bacchus Marsh in Vic then when I was 6 moved to Qld. I went to Nanango, Blair Athol, Clermont, Biloela, Hay Point (near Mackay), Bowen, Brandon (near Ayr) and Cairns. Now back in Vic! Moved back here in 1995.

I was in Bowen for grades 4 & 5. Small world eh?

AYR????
My home town - grew up in Clare, just 20 miles up the river and cyclones were an anual event, sometimes we were lucky enough to get 2, they always meant at least one day off school for us and the spectacualr sight of the brudekin river (About a mile wide) rising at 6 ft an hour. Had to be seen to be believed.

Summer storms always seemed to cause more damage back then than the cyclones, although in 59 we had one split just off the coast and got two within a three day period.
Exciting stuff for primary schoolers.
Experienced a couple at sea in the 60s, now that made one sit up and take notice i can tell you.

Hey Bubbles
Oh yes the Burdekin River is majestic in flood. I have witnessed that a couple of times, just amazing.

Yeah except i'm about 20yrs ahead of you but it was alot of fun back then, and just living on the beach was heaven not a bad old place made heaps of friends up that way, who now all seem to live in Brisbane?

I was in the outskirts of Cairns out at Woree/Bayview Heights. I moved there in Grade 10 so that must have been 1989 and left in 1995. I love it up there, but just too expensive with the freight and tourist dollar on everything. I really miss the lifestyle, weather, humidity, rugby league and Malanda Milk! The milk down here sucks. I hate the cold, brrr. I still have relatives up there in Mareeba, Longreach and Collinsville.