Thread: Its time to EVACUATE

1974 was pretty much just a rain depression by the time it got here to brissy..

about 63 there was a cyclone that battered alexandra headland and maroochydore and there was a reasonable sort of storm surge as i remeber 5-6 foot of sea foan covering the beach and foreshore up to some of the houses over the road at alex.

i was staying on the beach front at alex when it hit. was a bit of a big night and day.. the big old fridges being blown about like paper bags and dual axle vans going end over end into the bush but more importantly my sister and i's new bucket and spades stayed put on the back stairs

there was another small one that hit from just north of brissy to the gold coast in the early 70's when broadbeach island caravan park was still there... was staying there in an old army tent and it managed to survive... spent a long few hours hanging on the the poles and tigthening ropes

Sitting here in Gladstone, we are under a cyclone warning and it's not even raining yet and the wind is no worse than normal at the moment. Was up at Byfield last night and got a few showers with some strong showers on the way back home this morning but nothing bad, again no worse than normal wet season weather. Hopefully it will stay off shore. Hamish has been downgraded now to a 4 but that's still bad though. If I wake up tomorrow and it looks bad I will probably head inland and wag off of work. But at the moment, if you didn't watch the telly or listen to the radio you wouldn't know anything was up.

Originally Posted by incisor

1974 was pretty much just a rain depression by the time it got here to brissy..

there was another small one that hit from just north of brissy to the gold coast in the early 70's when broadbeach island caravan park was still there... was staying there in an old army tent and it managed to survive... spent a long few hours hanging on the the poles and tigthening ropes

Someone will no doubt correct this as it is from memory however I think the problem in 1974 was that a rain depression had already filled the dams then the remenants of the cyclone arrived and hung around for a week dumping still more water with no more room to hold it back. I had spent a couple of weeks in Townsville with friends in my first unaccompanied big trip away from home, so had enjoyed the cyclone up there then flew south back to Brisbane to more rain.

We were not flooded so my memory of the 74 floods is that we were given an extra week off school. Also that father christmas brought a cowboy outfit and cap guns (are they still legal?) The dog like me was more than a year old before it saw rain due to a drought where we were then living. So the dog never really came to grips with either rain or loud thunder like noises. Not a good christmas for the dog then.

When another cyclone strikes the Gold Coast it will not be pretty. My grand father had a house down there in the forties and fifties. There are photos in the family album of water driven inland by a cyclone (late forties?) to where the Casino now stands. Back then there were only a few houses around. Imagine what that would do today. There were no canals then either.

Hello guys,
We are safe in Chambers Flat enjoying great company, food and wayne

We will be monitoring the state of the roads from couple days on specially the road between Bundy and Moore Park Beach.

Cheers and keep safe

Good to here you are OK Chucaro, hope all is well back at your place too...

Take care..

Mark