Thread: That time of year. What's in your cyclone kit?

Been through a few cyclones over the years, thankfully none too serious. Plenty of info on cyclone kits but, IMO, #1 & #2 is a genset and portable gas stove as it doesn't take very much at all to knock the power out for a week.

To their credit Bunnings in Geraldton brought a couple of truckloads of gensets up a day or so after the cyclone hit and did a roaring trade on them.

At home we tend to get blackouts on a fairly regular basis (about 4 to 6 times a year) So I always have our 2x 3kva units fueled up and ready to go at all times and because the power is usually only out for a max of 24hrs this covers us.
When the cyclone hit the power was out for 8 days so now I will make sure that I have a 44 of fuel on hand as well.

You are not safe in Brisbane or even Sydney.
1893 Brisbane flood - Wikipedia

Also 1974 was no picnic either
1974 Brisbane flood - Wikipedia
And that was a near miss. My house at Northgate was not damaged but water was about 7 feet deep in my mothers front yard in East Brisbane. We now knew why the houses were built on stumps.

In 2015 we had an East Coast Low in Sydney which gave 213Kmh gusts at Kurnell. One house in my street in Avoca Beach had a 30 metre Blackbutt fall on the roof and was a write off. we had no power for 5days and all cell towers were out for a couple of days. We had no damage but over a foot of debris on the deck. Oh , one small tree came down but didn't hit the house. It was great that Erina Fair had a backup generator and many of the shopkeepers placed mobile phone chargers outside their shops.
Its anecdotal as I cannot now find the reference , but I read many years ago that the Barrenjoey lighthouse experience a 287Kmh gust in the 1890s. If that were to happen today The whole peninsula and Central Coast would be in ruins.
Nothing down here is built to Cat5. But look on the bright side. I owned a house on Magnetic Island for a few years which was built in 1926, and apart from some dents in the roof from falling trees was intact last time I googled it.
Regards PhilipA

Originally Posted by PhilipA

You are not safe in Brisbane or even Sydney.
1893 Brisbane flood - Wikipedia

Also 1974 was no picnic either
1974 Brisbane flood - Wikipedia
And that was a near miss. My house at Northgate was not damaged but water was about 7 feet deep in my mothers front yard in East Brisbane. We now knew why the houses were built on stumps.

In 2015 we had an East Coast Low in Sydney which gave 213Kmh gusts at Kurnell. One house in my street in Avoca Beach had a 30 metre Blackbutt fall on the roof and was a write off. we had no power for 5days and all cell towers were out for a couple of days. We had no damage but over a foot of debris on the deck. Oh , one small tree came down but didn't hit the house. It was great that Erina Fair had a backup generator and many of the shopkeepers placed mobile phone chargers outside their shops.
Its anecdotal as I cannot now find the reference , but I read many years ago that the Barrenjoey lighthouse experience a 287Kmh gust in the 1890s. If that were to happen today The whole peninsula and Central Coast would be in ruins.
Nothing down here is built to Cat5. But look on the bright side. I owned a house on Magnetic Island for a few years which was built in 1926, and apart from some dents in the roof from falling trees was intact last time I googled it.
Regards PhilipA

Yes, it pays to be prepared for disasters, QLD had the mud army after the floods in 2011 ? the care army for the pandemic [ volunteers who delivered food etc to those forced to quarantine], and now we have pre-empted the cyclone season with the Emergency Volunteers, of which I & a few mates have put our hands up, to do what we can within our capabilities if needed. The least we can do.

VOLUNTEER - Emergency Volunteering


EDIT, join the CARE ARMY. A QLD initiative to help our most vulnerable.

Care Army - Emergency Volunteering

Originally Posted by bob10

Perhaps if you lived in the tropics you would not be so flippant. It's something taken seriously , especially in Darwin. Especially after 1974.

You completely misunderstood my post as usual. I have nothing against this and am prepared for what could come our way here, but last time a thread like this was started it ran off the rails big time after a couple of weeks and was eventually deleted.

Originally Posted by Homestar

You completely misunderstood my post as usual. I have nothing against this and am prepared for what could come our way here, but last time a thread like this was started it ran off the rails big time after a couple of weeks and was eventually deleted.

Sometimes you can be a hard man to understand, this post for instance would have been better as the first post, no misunderstanding here. No offence, but to me posting you are getting the popcorn out is just encouragement for those who have no interest in the subject, and just want to derail the thread. Not that that would happen in AULRO, of course. Any way, nice chatting to you.