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  It could be larger than Cyclone Larry? Say it ain't so! : MagicWishMonkey
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    God I hope it's not Cyclone Curly. : Sze Ior
    • at least you'll hear it coming: "NYUK NYUK NYUK NYUK WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP" : Donborvio
  • sounds like the name of a wrestling jobber : smax
• Holy shit D: : LoioshDwaggie
• don't be a wimp, bombay. stand on the beach and call the storm a fag : riptyde
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  Cheers mate; we're clearing out at 5 tonight to Sydney. Direct hit on port Douglas according to the bom... : bombay
  • :( :( :( : mwasher
  • Good luck, safe travels : hankyJR
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    Good luck. How fucked is your place going to be? Or is it something you'd rather not think about? : dedgecko
    • If it is a direct hit an a cat 4 the house will flood for sure. Much of the town could be damages or dest... : bombay
  • good luck! : dirge23
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    Do they clear out all the dive boats and yachts from the marina? Must have been a boat convoy moving sou... : Cubictoast
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      They send them up the river and tie them to the big mangrove trees. : bombay
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        That's awesome, I was wondering if there was an area protected enough to store them. Good luck man, hope... : Cubictoast
        • Thanks, if you go to www.YouTube.com/coralseavideo You can see some vids of when I helped tie up gala... : bombay
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    Well fuck, I hope you get out OK : moshman
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      We are safe we are sitting on plane waiting to depart for Sydney. The latest track has a direct hit on Ca... : bombay
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        Cairns is a bullseye hit right now :( : filthysock
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          man, considering how flat Cairns is, it's going to fuck shit up. : moshman
          • I remember flying over Cairns on my way to Cooktown. Everything is so vulnerable. : Dr_Cube
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        good to hear. Hope your stuff doesn't get wrecked too bad. I hope it dies down a little : moshman
        • Made it to Sydney safe. Port Douglas is expected to get winds up to 175km/h. I think we made the right ... : bombay
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  WTF did australia do to deserve all this shit at once besides having totally awesome accents? :( : Entity
  • Burn fossil fuels : hankyJR
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    well it's definitely not climate change, because i heard on good authority that that's not real. : Wheatloaf
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      i was listening to a good discussion on an NPR radio station, about the current weather patterns. A profe... : happynoodle
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        aren't we seeing more extreme weather more often as a result of climate change, though? that's one of th... : Wheatloaf
        • No. He claims those changes take time. A lot of time. It's not something that would happen overnight. He ... : happynoodle
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    vegemite : riptyde
    • ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : r3dn3ck
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      i like vegemite : m0rfus
      • ^ part of the problem : Amadan
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    Abrasion? He's not even really Aussie but still, someone has to pay for him. : ryuuseki
    • Abrasion is the best thing to come out of Australia since the thunder dome : gmd
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    Fosters and Yellowtail. : Alco23
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      haha, both of these are indeed gross. : jimmy_legs
      • Yellowtail is a damn decent cheap wine, better than 3 Buck Chuck : VegasX
    • lol : drucifer
    • Paul Hogan makes up for all of these. : gibolas1234
    • Lol! : yosemiteclimber
    • oh lawd : Godhatesfatpeople
  • abbie winters just kidding AW is awesome and one of my favourites, love natural stuff!! They're beautifu : proclone1
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    Yahoo Serious : acheron
    • Or jacko that energizer dude from years back : jonin
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    Racism and hatred of gingers. : Afterglow
    • it's the gingers that hate. : hankyJR
  • spiders : devpaul
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    they have a LOT of critters that need to be exterminated : Downforce
    • That's what the Brits said when they founded Australia : EvilDolemite
    • They're all conditioned for this sort of climate though, like half our trees require a bushfire to germin... : nem00
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    Isn't it obvious? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation_and_military_service#Austria : steauengeglase
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      This amazing man on the Internet told me it will split Hell wide open. : steauengeglase
      • Fucking Australians : HamChowder
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      errr österreich != Australien : proclone1
      • Normally I'd be self conscious about that, but I like the way that mistake turned out. : steauengeglase
  • They lost the ashes. Again. This is the country's automated self destruct mechanism. : Beady
  • newek. the locusts, flooding, and cyclones all started when he moved. : Audhuml4
  • Having totally awful accents. : Cliffzorz
  • hurricane felicia came into town! she brought the southeastern US with her : Postal
  • This is what happens when you censor the internet! : Nighteyes
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  They could use that BS migration tax to pay for it, bet people are glad they paid to move to QLD now >.< : Masquerade
  • I love FNQ. I don't mind leaving for a monster cyclone. : bombay
• Attack it with a drunken Russel Crowe. He'll put up a good fight at minimum and bring it down to a categ... : pigvomit
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  Bahaha, "Cyclone Larry " is such a terrible name for a destructive force of nature. : Moonbase Commander
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    It's the name of the challenged bagger at the supermarket who goes apeshit if you buy ring dings Oh it... : EvilDolemite
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      They should make more seasons of CYE :( : xxx2xxx
      • I really enjoyed the revival season last year or so ago : rosewood
  • it just sounds like it wants to molest you : nutop
• It's probably in poor taste, but here we go! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7REBlbNISns : CoreContingency
• There's nothing to worry about, hell I'm there right now and the weather isn't that b : niceguynick
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  Am I just becoming aware or does it feel like there had just been a lot of shit fucking up in the world l... : spector
  • the surf is going to be like at the end of point break i imagine : spector
  • You just became aware. Welcome, to the real world. : rosewood
  • We live on a planet, that's in space. Shit happens to it, it's Science. : VegasX
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    Check out this graph from io9, a very interesting stat is the number of people killed by natural disaster... : MercFox1
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      its a fucking dumb stat : filthysock
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        Care to expound? : MercFox1
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          2004 had similar numbers killed to 2010 (tsunami) 1976 had three times as many This graph is implicat... : filthysock
          • Sounds good : MercFox1
        • Oh, good word! : DewFuel
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          The Tsunami was like a once in a lifetime scale event of massiveness. That probably accounts for most of... : podung
          • 2010 was the haiti earthquake : filthysock
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            It was certainly a once in a lifetime event for a lot of people...

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            It was certainly a once in a lifetime event for a lot of people... : Haxim
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      I think the most interesting stat is the earthquake one. I wonder what it looks like plotted over a 50yr... : ant_hillbilly
      • http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/other/quake1.html We don't have more earthquakes. We just find out ab... : Vantage
  • more and better coverage : filthysock
  • MASS ANIMALS DEATHS AND STORMS 2012 : Moonbase Commander
• I bet it is friends with Clarkson. : NFXFSX
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  Wait, they named the last DEATH STORM "Larry"? Is that a deliberate attempt to make the storms seem le... : Vantage
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    you do know they name them alphabetically and as they appear, so before Larry it might have been James an... : moshman
    • it's so early in the morning I forgot the fucking alphabet! : moshman
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      cyclones that form in Australian waters are named in alphabetical order. switching from male to female na... : CoRDS
      • I guess weather fronts are named in alphabetical order everywhere on earth. : moshman
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  My Cousin is in Cairns.. and he's in the SAS so those guys will basically be manning up to 'weather-the-s... : biofrog
  • Looks like he'll be helping to evacuate the hospitals. : filthysock
  • He's in the SAS? oh he'll be fine then. He's probably stripped bare naked and growling at the storm front... : Goblin au
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  the map gets more frightening every three hours with each update http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.... : filthysock
  • http://www.bom.gov.au/gms/IDE00035.latest.shtml : thewindcriesmary
  • fucking scary : moshman
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    Just got the txt from authorities, mandatory evacuations for low lying areas orders from Cooktown to Town... : bombay
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      yeah, good thing you were on top of this shitty situation. I bet syndey is nice and warm right now, go to... : moshman
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        11pm at night and its currently 32c here, about to get humid aswell with the cyclone up north : thewindcriesmary
        • perfect for the beach then :) : moshman
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      yeah, damn good work on your part : filthysock
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        I doubt there will be many planes flying into that region any time soon, so it must have been one of the ... : moshman
        • The airport is open till noon tomorrow and virgin has one schedules out and they are bringing one extra o... : bombay
  • i see boobs. what is seen cannot be unseen : smax
• Cool IR Loop of the damn thing. http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/sohemiloops/shirgmscol.html I'm mov... : dafugg
• Jesus, in that pic it looks like the center is a frown face. Stay safe bombay and anyone else that's in t... : HL3dsx