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fwiw, my cousins and aunts and uncles are mostly in Q'land and when we spoke today by phone they said the reporting was exagerated. wot a shock, eh?!



Whereabouts in Qld, mav? Having friends who live in Innisfail, and seeing the footage coming in regularly, I haven't seen much evidenbce of exaggeration. No loss of life, thankfully, but looking at the extent of damage to buildings, that's a fortuitous freak. The economic damage will be the most significant, escepially to the banana and sugar plantations which sustain the local economy in that part of Northern Qld.

noho ora mai
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