Spare a thought...

[Sheiky]

Jan - no photography for me tonight. But I'm thinking of chasing a few shots tomorrow night. Will check out the forecast first. If there's going to be 300km/h winds like over east then I might just sit at home with a beer and enjoy the show. No point putting yourself at risk, all your doing then is risking somebody else' life if you need help.

Good idea Ben. I just watched/listened to the 24h ABC News 24 Livefeed for about 45mins and I now have a bit of an idea of the size and specifics of the storm.


If I used Google Maps correctly, the cyclone has a diameter of almost 1000km! [:|] It's enormous. Indeed, don't put yourself and the people around you in danger for a photo. I don't know exactly where you are in Australia, but I was curious about Steve U's location and I think he's not in the dangerzone(1500km from the core). Let's hope I got that right.

I just read about the snow storms over your way, gees that's horrible as well. Hope everyone stays safe.

Indeed, and hopefully the violence in Egypt will calm down as well. I saw some footage and it looks like medieval warfare around there. People with whips charging with horses and camels.

We're actually shutting down the mine as of tomorrow night until the cyclone goes through. That's a very big deal for us, the price of copper at the london metal exchange has actually risen by over $150/t in the last 24 hours since the world found out we're shutting down.

We don't use a lot of copper where I work, but my boss follows the prices and he told me today []

Here in the Netherlands we have trouble when we have 10cm of snow

We got about 20 cm (8") here in Boston yesterday, bringing us to ~2
meters of snow so far this season...and we've had about 3 days since the
snow started that the temperatures edged above freezing, meaning no
melting and huge piles of snow everywhere, with nowhere to put it. It's
snowing outside right now - I drove into work over ~ 4 cm of snow on
the streets. Of course, I'll take the snow over the ice and freezing
rain we'll be getting by this afternoon.

I think we had 50cm this season so far at max. The worst problems were traffic-problems and slippery sidewalks --> injured people. Still, no match at all with the massive storms and snowproblems elsewhere.


Luckily this cyclone and those snowstorms are mostly predictable.


Take care people.