TC Larry

[den]

Cyclone Larry (cat.5, 290kph winds) is battering Innisfail and Cairns right now. The eye passed ove Innisfail ay 8.30 (7.30 EST) Good luck up there.

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Larry is the same size az Hurricane Katrina, but the population centres it's pounding are much smaller than New Orleans, and they're above sea level.

[arcturax.livejournal.com]

About the same size, but it's winds are even stronger, about as powerful as an F2 or F3 tornado and I woulnd't be surprised if there is little but devastation left.

Could be worse I guess.

Back in 1974, the city of Xenia was leveled by an F5 (it's about 30 miles northwest of me). Check out some of the pictures here: http://www.xeniatornado.com/

It literally looked like a nuclear bomb had hit the city. I hope those two towns beign hit by Larry fare better :/

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Larry left a lot of structural damage but as yet no fatalities.

In 1974 a cat4 cyclone Tracy levelled Darwin. 70% of the houses in the city were destroyed, 100% of the buildings were damaged. "Nuked" is a very good description. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Tracy

[arcturax.livejournal.com]

Wow, 74 was a bad year for storms o.o

That looks worse than even what Xenia got. Even though an F5 has stronger winds, they blow for 5-15 minutes or so at most. Cyclones and hurricanes blow for hours and hours.

It's good no one's been found dead yet, though I imagine it probably killed a lot of bats and other animals :(

[arcturax.livejournal.com]

Ah, I found a picture of the actual thing in action:

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

That's about as close as I was to the F1, which was about 1/3 the size. I am guestimating from the number of buldings directly underneath . I winder if they rotate opposite down under, the same way toilets flush.

God, what a silly thought at a pic like that.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Yep. Lows rotate clockwise here, so cyclones and tornadoes spin the opposite way to your's.