Our One 'Cyclone Yasi' Legacy

The Sunshine Coast has fared fairly well following Cyclone Yasi hitting Australia on Wednesday. We didn't cop any extra rain or wind from the cyclone which is over Central Australia and is now classified as a rain depression. However yesterday the 'tail' of Yasi dropped "Queensland quantities" of rain on Victoria, especially its south eastern suburbs with some areas receiving over 7" (180mls) of rain.

The photo above left is from Mission Beach near where Yasi first crossed the coast. During our 8 month trip in the caravan some time ago we spent a week or two at Hull Heads 15k's south of Mission Beach. It was here I went fishing and caught mackerel, a day I will never forget. Hull Heads township now really doesn't exist! What wasn't blown away by Yasi has been swept away by the sea following the storm surge.

Sydney has experienced 6 consecutive days where the temperature hasn't dropped below 30 degrees, there are bushfires in Western Australia and the cleanup continues where Yasi first crossed the coast 1500k's away, just to the south of Cairns.

However the one legacy we have had here on the Sunshine Coast has been the level of humidity. It has been said our weather the last few days has been like what you would expect in Cairns. Our days have been extra sticky with humidity around the mid 70's which is very high even for here. The humid weather has been blown down to us from the north. Our ceiling fans have been working overtime and our pool has been a popular spot 24 hours a day!

Our big screen plasma TV is almost 5 years old now. Unlike LCD TV's, plasma TV's create quite a lot of heat. This is great in our cooler months but not so good right now in this hot humid weather!

I did my Blogger presentation at the Computer Club yesterday and afterwards I had several people say they were going to give blog pages a go! It was extremely hot in the hall where the Computer Club meets.

Meanwhile I popped into the local Aldi store on Thursday morning and picked up a High Definition Set Top Box which also has the ability to show my downloaded movies, and, can also 'record' TV shows to an attached USB drive. All of this for under $40. Trish has a small flat screen Standard Definition TV in her sewing room. She has an old VCR attached to it on which she records (on tape) some of the shows she likes. I set the box up there.

I was pretty impressed with what this little machine can do, the only downside was the poor remote control which came with it. I have an older "Harmony" universal remote control here so set it up as the remote for the new box. It does a great job. Trish isn't so sure!

We have had a couple of showers overnight and a few more are lingering this morning. This has given us a brief reprieve from the humidity. However we expect to get to 31 today and it will again be sticky. A south east change is due tomorrow which should blow the humid air away. It will still be around 30 degrees but it should be heaps more comfortable. It is raining again right now with a brief shower. The garden gets a quick water and the pool has been topped up and is now full again via the 'water diverter'.

Meanwhile thousands of kilometres away in Texas USA, Lou-Ann has been shut up in her home for several days now owing to the late winter snow! What an incredibly different way things can be in this world of ours!

The photo was taken in her front yard.