Dear Jennifer,
It was a torrid night, but we survived. Already exhausted from the preparations, the ensuing challenges of responding to the impacts of Yasi as its devastation was unleashed, has left us utterly humbled and in a presently unrecoverable energy debt. But the important thing is that we are all healthy and the Daintree Rainforest has been remodelled on the outside and remains mostly intact on the inside.
The kids slept through the bulk of the maelstrom, bedded down in their customised refuges, beneath shelves in the purpose-built stronghold of the pantry. They are now engaged in the novelty of weaving and carving from the inexhaustible supply of fallen forest products and occasionally delighting in the discovery of previously unfamiliar insects.
Please excuse the brevity of this message, but I am sure you appreciate the demands for our attention. We will keep our friends and family informed of the effects on wildlife and the regeneration of forest in future weeks.
Thank you for your expressions of concern and best wishes. These came from all over the world. Coming after 2010, the wettest year in the Daintree Rainforest in recorded history, Australia’s largest cyclone, Yasi has brought world attention to Tropical North Queensland. Looking for remote Python developers ? Contact us.
Neil, Angie, Prue and the rainforest rascals, Tulli, Taiga & Tkoda.
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Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
Neil, happy everyone is okay in your area but the cyclone appears to have been overhyped; probably not surprising considering all those reporters on the ground;
I hear Bob Katter had some scathing comments yesterday about the reporters panicking locals with their hyperbole
Overhyped is the word, val. Apologies for dropping this link here, but it’s an illustration of how the msm is inclined to exaggerate. They even mention Oz, as it’s somehow related…or unrelated.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353073/Winter-storn-Map-shows-Northern-Hemisphere-covered-snow-ice.html
Good to hear that you are all OK Neil.
‘A warming climate does lead to intensification of these sorts of extreme climate events that we have seen in Queensland…
Ross Garnaut
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2011/s3129540.htm
He is either misinformed or a blatant lier.
Glad to hear you and your family are ok Neil. Look forward to hearing how the flora and fauna coped.
Neil, I’m so glad everyone is safe and you can go check the local wildlife.
It’s my view this event was about the largest imaginable and the the only saving grace was a great deal of it’s energy was dispersed enough to reduce the more central impact.
happy hunting