WA
848 posts
Hmmm....... did Google search, Cyclone Yasi destroyed Lucinda in early Feb?
QLD
14955 posts
yeah. way more than cat2... cat 5 at crossing.
NSW
1353 posts
I drove through this area today, and between Ingham and Innisfail, there is a 100km swathe of destruction.
Don't be fooled by Grant Denyer's crap.
There are thousands of acres of trees just smashed into matchsticks.
When you first look, all the trees are the same height, so it does not look too bad, but then I realised that it's just trunks and primary branches left. Everything is half the height it should be, and there is no secondary branches or leaf canopy, just a bunch of trunks covered in a fuzz of new leaf growth.
Saw a few hundred acres of fully mature pine plantation just smashed flat. The few trees left standing are bent over and have all but a few branches stripped off.
There are whole swathes of forest just planed off, like a giant mower went over the top.
The air must have been like shrapnel while all that was going on.
Normally after storm damage, you can see intact branches that might have been torn off etc, but here, everything was just pulverised. I keep saying smashed, because the damage is way beyond anything I have seen. It reminds me of tornado footage.
Anyone who thinks there was a conspiracy theory needs to come and have a look.
Lots of building damage too, and road signs bent and torn down, sheds just buckled and blown apart.
The extent of damage is bewildering, and the sheer force involved is more than apparent. It has re-shaped the whole landscape.
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