Tropical Cyclone Ita has been downgraded to a category two storm as it travels down the far north Queensland coast.The cyclone made landfall at Cape Flattery about 9:00pm AEST on Friday night as a category four storm, but weakened as it travelled inland.Destructive winds of up to 150 kilometres per hour are lashing the region. There are reports that trees are down and homes have been damaged.The system is continuing to weaken as it moves south-southwest inland from Cooktown.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-11/live3a-cyclone-ita-makes-landfall-on-queensland-coast/5382592

More good news to wake up to.

I agree with the sensationalist reporting, but I wonder if that's a strategy to make people think carefully about their safety?

I suspect it'll do more damage in the long run, because people will get used to the over dramatising of potential damage and not heed a really dangerous cyclone.

I've lived through 6 cyclones,,.one of which dumped my entire house off its stumps lol...then did a U turn and hit us again. It was a cat 4 or 5 (Jason)

Then straights after we had to fly out to the bush to check if people had been hurt and the missionary pilot decided to cry and pray as the winds smashed the little plane around....thats cos the cyclone had turned around ...so we had to whallop him.

"Mayday mayday mayday! Praise The Lord, forgive me my sins..." ( hands off controls in prayer position lol)

Whallop! "Bleep The Lord, just fly the plane!"

All the building in the bush were gone,,,the trees were completely skinned on the windward side...but all the people were ok. All they needed was cigarettes haha.

"Mayday mayday mayday! Praise The Lord, forgive me my sins..." ( hands off controls in prayer position lol)

Whallop! "Bleep The Lord, just fly the plane!"

 

 

 

Just yet another case of Earthy JMK to the rescue to save the day 🙂

 

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@grumpy*cat*rocks wrote:

These guys are doing a live feed from Cooktown.

It may or may not work depending on how things go for them. They are from Oz Cyclone Chasers.

http://www.auscyclonechasers.com/currentchase.htm

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I follow these guys... they are great 

 

hope everyone is ok... it is going to be a long treck down the coast and who knows where it will fade out... tracking down south as a cat 1 storm is still pretty concerning. 

 

 

The amount of rain coming with it will be a concern......

I wish I was there as a helper