Good morning, Gang.
I'm glad you're all here.
Thank you very much for joining me.
Looks like the cyclone, what we would call a Hurricane
here in the US has made landfall there in Australia.
Five deaths have been reported so far and there's
also been flooding over here on the East Coast.
And Brisbane is putting out
warnings about high river levels. Here.
We have wind showing the winds that are coming in.
This image here is for water temperatures
and water temperature with the wind.
The latest river heights for Brisbane are at
post office and the red line is major.
Let me bring it over for you so you
can see it now going to Google Earth.
That would be this location right here.
Here we have the Gold Coast and
all the roads that are added.
We'll take out the roads.
Landfall for this cyclone was supposed
to be a category two. Yeah.
More rain is supposed to come here.
We got the severe thunderstorm warning issued.
Intense rainfall may lead to dangerous and
life threatening flash flooding is likely.
Other reports are saying that they're in Queensland.
About seven people have died.
Here's an image of the flooding there in the
capital of Brisbane from The New York Times.
They're calling it Rainbows there with waves of
water just keep coming and coming down.
A Twitter post from that area says we
have been forced to abandon the farm.
Water was rising too quickly, about 30 CM an hour.
That is twelve inches of rain in
an hour and it keeps coming.
So Besides droughts and fires, now they got
to add rainbows to the list of terrible
things that are happening to Australia.
All schools in Brisbane, Ipswich, Moreton
Bay, Somerset, Gold Coast, Logan, Redlands,
Cinecom, Sunshine Coast, et cetera.
Their schools are now closed.
I guess they're in Brisbane.
Statewide, over 280 homes were without power.
Another Twitter post shows how the mice are using the
Eastern Brown snake as a lifeboat with the flooding.
There's even a frog there.
Reuters has a video of the flooding.
People trudging through the water.
Looks like groceries he's carrying in another image.
I believe this is Brisbane here.
It says about 700 people were asked to evacuate
from the city of Gympie on Saturday after the
Mary River system surged beyond 22.6 meters, which is
72ft for the town's worst flood since the 1800.
Meteorologists said the diligent thunderstorms
would continue through Monday.
I can't make this image any bigger, but evidently one
man did drown recently, the most recent death after he
tried to swim from his car from the flooding.
A Twitter post from the Bureau of Meteorology
there in Western Australia, rainfall of 200 to
300 mm, which would be about eight to
twelve inches recorded at 09:00 A.m. This morning.
Now, this is Western Australia.
This is where that cyclone
is currently making landfall.
It has made landfall already and it
was considered a category two cyclone.
Here we got another Twitter post from the
same Bureau of Meteorology there in Western Australia.
And it does end up showing how the cyclone progressed.
Sending prayers to everyone over there.
What are your thoughts?
Put those comments down below.
Please stay safe.
If they tell you to evacuate, then you evacuate.
I'll talk to you later. God bless you. Bye.