On the Bottom Half

Bonus Cyclone.

At the risk of frightening you guys, we've just been issued with a cyclone warning for Severe Tropical Cyclone Larry. It's supposed to hit this evening or early morning tonight (about 12 hours from now) and is currently classified as a Category 4 storm. They are calling for gusts between 120 km/h and 280 km/h. I've grabbed some food (one can each of corn, beans, peas, a one kg bag of museli, a box of good granola bars, and two 200 gm chocolate bars. I'll probably go grab a loaf of bread and two bottles of water as well. As it stands, the volunteer trip tomorrow is cancelled and I'm to check in on Tuesday to see if they are going to go out then.

The hostel manager is saying that power will likely be knocked out so I'm charging my cell phone now and if anything untoward happens, you can try me on that. Mom has the number if anyone wants it.

Kind of exciting! The webpage for the Bureau of Meteorology Cyclone Warning News Release is: http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQP0005.txt. Other than that, there's no cyclone shelters to run to, so I'm probably going to hang out at the hostel for the next day or two.

Chat at cha guys soon!

posted by Kyle @ 18:50