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Natural Disaster in Newcastle

Majestic

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Newcastle on Australia's east coast and the home of Jess and myself on Friday and Saturday had a natural disaster to the same level of the Newcastle earthquake back in 1989.

It hit on Friday afternoon roughly at 12pm. It started when a tanker ship (Pasha Bulker) in Newcastle's harbour got bogged on Friday due to the severe storms, on Friday afternoon excessive rain and wind storms flooded much on newcastle including my own workshop in Broadmeadow.

That night it hit again with far more power, much of Newcastle and the Central Coast was flooded, power out to more than 100,000 homes (thats why I haven't been on) and currently the death toll stands at 9, with several of them being children. Winds were as strong as 100km/h and waves reaching 8 meters in height.

This all has happened on the Queen's Birthday long weekend with many preparing to go away, taffic and massive road closures as well as people going out to see the Pasha Bulker has caused massive traffic jams in the Newcastle region.

For the full story and the lastest up to date news visit:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21871056-2,00.html

Myself or Jess will keep you updated on this.
 

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Sorry to here this Maj and Jess I hope that things well dry out and that things get back to normal
 
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hope all do ok

I hope you all are doing ok . I also hope thing will return to normal for you guys.
 
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Hope things dry out asa majestic , at least your PC was dry tho ;)
 
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Thanks, we were extremely luck as our house got no flooding. Other have lost everything not to mention those who have loss their lives and livelihoods.
 
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Majestic said:
Thanks, we were extremely luck as our house got no flooding. Other have lost everything not to mention those who have loss their lives and livelihoods.
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I wish there was something I could do to help,but alas there is nothing to be done from this end other than keeping you and those around you in our thought's and prayers.
 
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We are lucky to not get any damage, just lost some food in the fridge and freezer.

We now have power which was the major problem for us, you don't know how much you rely on it till you go without for several days.
 
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I'm sorry I haven't been able to get online. I am glad to hear you and Jess are ok. You are right about electricity. You never realize how much you use it until it's off for a while.
 
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Thanks, yeah I actually dug up some old magazines to read for the weekend, it's really all I could do. Now lets hope work is washed out for tomorrow. :lol:
 
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Oh wow, I am glad to hear that you two are doing ok, and my prayers are with those who were devastated by Mother Nature's bipolar moment.
 
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Thanks Icewolf, we thought we may be in for another one tonight, but it seemed the weather man was wrong. :excited:
 
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I hope things are going better by now in your area. Don't you guys feel too alone with all this weather problems. Here where I live, it's almost a daily heavy Thunderstorm or ten. Each one brings strong force winds, and a big chance of twisters. Lately, the storms blow in after midnight too. Most people around here are sleeping at that time.
 
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oh dear lord, i'm glad you're all okay. i DO know the power thing. a couple years back the power grid in the northeastern u.s. died. it's the STRANGEST sight to be living in a city and not seeing stars one night. then the next it's like civilization died and there's the milky way. it was like that for 3 days for me. plus i work at a hospital AND i was at work when it happened. i had a nice 14hour shift that night. but yeah... no power is insane:yuck:
 
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Looks quite bad. I hope nobody was injured too badly. Going to be a real pain to get that Tanker off the beach though.
 
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I know exactly what thats like. You think thats crazy, two weeks ago a tornado went over my house. Last week one threw my neighbours car on top of his house. Sucks. Here in a day or two another storm system is coming in and it already looks scary. :cry:
 
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Tornadoes are not good, we are very lucky here as we rarely get them.
 
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At first i thought you meant Newcastle in the UK :lol:.

On a more serious note, i'm glad to hear that you and Jess are ok, and were lucky to have very little damage to your home :)
 
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i've been through my share of tornadoes. i hate them and i always look out for the yellow sky. *shudder*
 
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Knight said:
At first i thought you meant Newcastle in the UK :lol:.
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Nope, Newcastle in AU. Many Australian cities where named after UK ones, the states were even named after UK people and locations such as the states:

Victoria (After the Queen of the time, 1770's)
New South Wales (After Wales, the new Wales of the South)
Queensland (Name is obvious)

A little bit of trivia for you all. :lol:
 
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