Hi Jean Trust you weathered the winds and rain ok. Did you get any surfing in on the tidal/storm surge ;=)
kind regards M On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:47:48 +1000 Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > TC Yasi is now likely to cross the coast south of Cairns, not here in > Townsville (unless it changes course), but we are still in line for > "strong gale force winds" -- better than "destructive winds" or "very > destructive winds". Winds expected to start tomorrow morning and > continue for 18 hours or so. Heavy rain likely, too, of course. > > This is not going to stop my partner Eric from holding his birthday > party in the village's restaurant/bar at lunchtime tomorrow, though the > bar will close at 1:30PM to batten down & prepare for likely electricity > outages. > > Our neighbours here are mostly locals, veterans of many cyclones, so > they know how to be prepared but not get too worried. (And have a good > stock of macabre jokes to share.) We are some distance from the storm > surge area, and the storm is now expected at low tide instead of high > tide. > > Needless to say, documentation is not high on my list of things to think > about right now. ;-) > > Cheers, Jean > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [email protected] > -- Martin J Fox 马丁·福克斯 [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________ VK7MM/HB9TQX Registered as #324626 with the Linux counter, www.counter.li.org QQ 775937674 / MSN [email protected] Veni, Vidi, Visa. (I came, I saw, I bought.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
