{"id":3409,"date":"2011-02-02T14:54:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T21:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2011-02-02T16:40:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T23:40:31","slug":"flood-weary-queensland-australia-struck-by-tropical-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/flood-weary-queensland-australia-struck-by-tropical-cyclone\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood weary Queensland, Australia struck by tropical cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/natural-disasters-in-national\/powerful-tropical-cyclone-yasi-slams-queensland-australia-picture\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Yasi moves inland over flood ravaged Queensland, Australia.  Click the image to view more satellite photos on Examiner.com\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_qM6V6-HRzM0\/TUnPaXZmIII\/AAAAAAAAES0\/6Vr3J8yZp1I\/s288\/vis.jpg\" alt=\"Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Yasi moves inland over flood ravaged Queensland, Australia.  Click the image to view more satellite photos on Examiner.com\" width=\"288\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Yasi moves inland over flood ravaged Queensland, Australia. Click the image to view more satellite photos on Examiner.com (CIMSS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Devastating flooding over the past month and a half inundated hundreds of thousands of square miles in the Australian state of Queensland.\u00a0 The last thing the weary residents needed was more stormy weather but that is what came in the form of Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just a few days ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/natural-disasters-in-national\/flood-weary-australia-now-faces-threat-from-tropical-cyclones\" target=\"_blank\">Tropical Cyclone Anthony<\/a> made landfall on Australia\u2019s northeast coast.\u00a0 Mercifully it was a relatively small storm.\u00a0 The same cannot be said of Yasi.<\/p>\n<p>Yasi landed at midnight local time on Thursday as a powerful Category 5 storm packing wind gusts to 186 mph.\u00a0 Tens of thousands of residents fled the storm as it approached and reports of down trees, roofs ripped off homes and widespread power outages are being seen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/natural-disasters-in-national\/tony-hake\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Disasters Examiner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is a cyclone of savagery and intensity,\u201d warned Prime Minister Julia Gillard.\u00a0 &#8220;People are facing some really dreadful hours in front of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Accompanying the damaging wind was destructive storm surge more than six feet high that will likely submerge low lying coastal areas.\u00a0 Rains from the storm are sure to drench ground already saturated from the massive flooding Queensland has seen in recent weeks and new flooding is likely.<\/p>\n<p>The storm has moved inland and is near the town of Georgetown.\u00a0 It still is packing powerful punch as a Category 3 cyclone with gusts in excess of 127 mph (205 kph).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/natural-disasters-in-national\/severe-tropical-cyclone-yasi-roars-ashore-australia-packing-winds-to-186-mph\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Get the complete story on Examiner.com including a look at amazing satellite imagery of the storm as it struck.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Related: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/natural-disasters-in-national\/nasa-satellite-images-of-flooding-queensland-australia-picture\">NOAA satellite imagery of the flooding in Australia<\/a>\u00a0(Examiner.com)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devastating flooding over the past month and a half inundated hundreds of thousands of square miles in the Australian state of Queensland.\u00a0 The last thing the weary residents needed was more stormy weather but that is what came in the form of Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi.\u00a0 Just a few days ago Tropical Cyclone Anthony made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/flood-weary-queensland-australia-struck-by-tropical-cyclone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flood weary Queensland, Australia struck by tropical cyclone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,330],"tags":[369,224,50,295,368,488],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}