"Authorities are still warning people to stay indoors, with fines for those who visit beaches..."
It’s one thing to have a cyclone bearing down, all menacing and mean. Crazy sustained winds, geysers of rain, angry seas threatening to lay waste to land. Pandemonium, chaos and a fine story to tell the grandchildren. Quite another to have a “tropical low” make landfall with some sprinkles etc. and that is exactly how Australians living on the middle eastern seaboard are feeling today as the storm formerly known as Alfred makes landfall.
Tropically low.
The Category 2 monster, historical, thrilled a world as it slowly made its way Brisbane-adjacent. Where would it hit? How much damage would it make? Would Joel Parkinson dust off his citizen cop whistle and bust up some influencers?
Alas, none of it to be.
Per the BBC:
Initially called Cyclone Alfred, the weather front was downgraded to a tropical low with winds set to reach up to 85km/h, less strong than first forecast.
The Bureau of Meteorology said the storm is currently sitting off Bribie Island and is moving slowly north, and expected to cross the mainland coast between the island and Maroochydore.
Authorities are still warning people to stay indoors, with fines for those who visit beaches, as heavy rain and flooding is still expected.
Oh cool. The fines are still in place.
David Lee Scales and I discussed the weather event during our weekly chat, castigating lazy jet-skiers for destroying the idea of toughness. I also took time to castigate men who enjoy breakfast in bed.
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Never new that about the Aus crest. Guaranteed bar trivia winner for me.
lot of great memories , especially now as been a bit crippled by health and age issues….not a whine but reality of Mr time coming for me……am actually going to try and take my grandkids up to Woroora next year……as a family i think we did about 6 years straight in the corner, got to know the Mc Clouds really well….one of the most magic places I have been and my kids still rate it as the best holidays ever…of course it’s changed…….marine park??…does that mean NO fishing at all?? when last there 1 fish per day per person!!
With Teddy bears …this was the first tow movie so we were just winging it….but sure put the wave count up and allowed us to film off the skis….was a bit of pioneering done……….so much bloody fun with the boys……I think my next project is ” how to become a geriatric force of nature in my wheel chair,LOL…..
wow you were there?
My love affair with the NW goes back to 81 when Wayne L and I went to Red Bluff with jack Mc coy…..then we disappeared from there and went Gnarloo and stayed for 6 weeks….Storm riders……we hid the spot and claimed it was in SA,LOL……so fast forward I made a movie with Margo/RCJ/Taj/T-ray/Noah J….up at Woroora……thought we were alone and here you are,LOl……always in those days we would not name spots/areas…..even to the point we edited footage and photo’s to make sure there were no identifying land shots……..Exmouth bombie what a treat…..have you ever watched Teddy bears picnic and spot the spot,LOL?????
Was listening to Joe Rogan earlier with Elon Musk. Musk introduced his new “Unhinged” option for his Grok ChatAI. Damn funny shit.
Surely someone here could ask Unhinged Grok “what is the problem with professional surfing these days?” and post the response here
maybe unhinged grok could explain to Leon , why he has lost in excess of $80 B in the first 2 mths of this year…now that would be damn funny?
Everyone seems to believe the market should just be some never ending series of “all-time new highs”. It’s never worked that way, and in fact some correction is healthy after impulsive move after impulsive move.
nice to hear from you…..I read some of your comments about the markets and supply and demand.
I believe that the markets reflect emotion/gambling as any comment/rumor can affect the market…in elons case , it’s a question of branding as his tesla brand is based on liberal voting consumers…which in a period of a couple of mths have abandoned tesla…as his brand is on the nose with his customers….the stock has dropped 34% or $677b……in a market that is booming?
Grok is great, way more on the pulse than the others I’ve used.
sitting here in Byron , reading your post….classic ya ol man still can wield a chainsaw…..ol school……turning a negative into a positive catching up and enjoying ya folks, yeah….
Vance was heavy….I was living in Margs at the time,…..so yeah serious shit……but everyone knows about the cyclone season…whereas here ….relatively mild compared to real rad weather events!
looks like it’s just a bit of rain now with reduced winds so , flooding come….meanwhile in Vicco , we would kill for this rain as the drought gets much worse….
Tomo leers at his new worker Damo n says
“He’s as useless as an ashtray on a motorbike “
More useless than a bull with tits
Any news about how the AB⚡️GC HQ fared though ?
You know the one, it featured here recently on Derek’s real estate news.
Tugun beachfront, sunken lounge, decorated blandly in white and tan-lite…
Well-known antisemite Mick Fanning’s place
(aka Aryan Brotherhood Gold Coast Headquarters)
He’s an antisemite? Seems hard to believe
It was well reported that Mick told Chas to “fuck off ya fuckin’ Jew” (or words to that effect) at a boozy function a few years or so back.
The funny bit was he must have mixed up Chas with Derek, as Derek is of Jewish origin, whereas Chas was brought up in a Christian (Methodist or Baptist or something like that) household and still has relatives in the Church.
So it makes sense that the Gold Coast Headquarters of the Aryan Brotherhood would be at Micks house…
Good call going home, life’s rich pageant
How does a Tropical Low comapre to a Tropical Depression, both can be solved with some brewskis