Townsville Cyclone!

Wishing all my Townsville friends the-best-that-can-be-hoped-for during their upcoming Cyclones Anthony and Yasi.  And we all know that the-best-that-can-be-hoped-for is that they both swing around and wipe out Bowen instead.

Mind you, since Bowen is forever being wiped out by cyclones originally heading for Townsville, maybe it's not so nice to wish this on them AGAIN!!!

But what other towns on The Cassowary Coast and The Great Green Way would we choose to have wiped out instead?  Baby Jane is in Innisfail so that's definitely out.  Besides, they still haven't properly recovered from Cyclone Larry in 2006.  Cairns?  If I didn't have friends there I'd say Cairns for sure because it's so glitzy and "Oooh, we're so more International than you!!!"  We have friends in Cardwell too!  So ... oooh, let's pick Tully!!!  They've been lying for over 30 years about their weather so maybe it's only fitting that the Weather Gods get revenge!

And if you want to follow what's happening with this story: http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/cyclone

Good luck to all you guys!  And since everyone I know in Brisbane and Toowoomba came through their recent floods unscathed, I'll break out my beautiful Kwan Yin and light a candle for you all as well!


Later:  Oh dear, Kwan Yin and these candles I light in front of her are very powerful indeed.  Cyclone Anthony swung around and wiped out Bowen - that poor dear little town - so hated by cyclones they always swerve away from Townsville to destroy it instead.

And now it looks like Yasi is swinging upwards to wipe out Cairns ... only it's so big and so powerful, they're saying it will hit Cairns as a Category 5, but will impact Innisfail as a Category 4, and Townsville as a Category 2 ... so there's no way that Bowen is going to get that instead of Townsville!

Baby Jane is saying that she's looking at the map of Cyclone Yasi as it descends on them from the Coral Sea, and it's actually bigger than the State of Queensland!