Debbie was making her presence felt on Sunday well, at least she was making the news down south. Townsville was pretty quiet and calm by all accounts although they did close the airport on Monday morning as Debbie was supposed to hit around 9.30 am. However she had made her way further south before crossing land around Bowen.
TV channels had been having a field reporting on this and that and again and again! It should have been old news by the time my program came on at 3 pm. That is afternoon tea time in this household and we both like to see how many answers we can get on the English version of The Chase. But no, it was not to be, so much more exciting to see news reporters out in wind and rain advising people to stay inside! Obviously they dont realize how contradictory that is. Someone did say that it was done to show people how bad it is, well i think if they should work it out if they saw trees being bent over and touching the ground. Plus around 65,000 homes are without power so the people who need to be told to stay inside cant accessed TV reports anyway.
Move on to the third day and on the main channels, you guessed it, still on Cyclone reports! Of course one of the funniest things I heard (when I was flicking to get something else to watch) was the report thats its too early to know what the full extent of the damage will be. Oh Really!!!
I dont mean to down play how serious the weather pattern has been and will continue to be for the next few days but I have been in that area when there was a cyclone about to hit and most people living in those areas are very well prepared and they prepare and then just wait it out.
Debbie has been down graded from a Cat 4 to a one and now we will get the rain, expecting 150 to 200 m in our area over the next two days. It has been raining on and off most of the day. Hopefully drought affected areas out West will get some of it.
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