Cyclone Marcus

[Sarsippius]

So about 10am today cyclone Marcus passed directly over Darwin, it was a category 2 which wasn't really too bad to be honest. Some suburbs the power went out but we were ok the whole time, just did out thing inside never feeling in any danger.

I was a bit surprised though afterwards that quite a few trees had come down, no real damage to the house but it was a bit close. Some big trees just outside the back fence came down so there'll be some repairs needed there, a big palm out the front came down and by the time I came out someone had already been at it with a chainsaw. It might have been obstructing the road, not sure if it was the council or someone from the neighbourhood.

I took a few videos to show the trees and things for anyone interested.

[durbster]

Blimey. Is that normal for so many palm trees to come down? I thought those things were basically indestructible.

And I kept thinking you aren't anywhere near cautious enough about finding snakes in amongst all that

[Santaria]

Blimey. Is that normal for so many palm trees to come down? I thought those things were basically indestructible.

And I kept thinking you aren't anywhere near cautious enough about finding snakes in amongst all that

It depends how soaking the rain has been, but yeah. Generally they don't fall down for noone, lol.

[Sarsippius]

The big palms all stayed up except for the one that came over from next door, we had one not so big one snap in half but that had been gotten to a bit by termites (side note the termites here a massive, Mastotermes darwiniensis, workers are about 10-11mm long https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastotermes_darwiniensis). We have a couple palms that would be a metre plus in diameter, none of which came down but they would do some real damage if they did.

Like I said from inside things didn't seem so bad but there's so many downed trees all over town, lots of downed power lines with some areas still without power, apparently the town is sold out of chainsaws lol. Luckily it was only a category 2

This was on the walk to the supermarket the morning after:











Our front drive, the stump on the right someone had kindly chopped up by the time we came out for a look.



We went for a wander down the main road over our back fence, a lot of trees had come down.





















Downed power lines on the other side of the road



Our back gate is under there somewhere



The father in-law going at it with a chainsaw, all the chopped branches laying on the ground. They've told us not to take any more green waste to the tip, just leave it all on the verges so we chucked everything over the back fence

[wobblysauce]

Nice, was going to say about the storms here the other night, but only knocked down about 10 trees and a number of branches.