Cyclone Hamish, CAT 5, 30 year storm - barrels towards OZ

NVDL: Seems like in Climate Change Bad Luck Roulette Wheel, Australia is getting hurt badly. So is the USA. At one stage Hamishes' winds were freaking 280km/H!

clipped from www.theaustralian.news.com.au RESIDENTS of the central Queensland coastal areas around Yeppoon and Gladstone are preparing for the worst cyclone to hit the area in almost thirty years. “It’s usally a pretty sleepy place, but I’ve never seen like this,” Mr Landry said. Cyclone Hamish has been tracking down the Queensland coast for the past five days. Today it reached category five with wind guts near the centre of up to 280km/h, before dropping back to a category four. Rick Lawson, of Seaforth just north of Mackay, managed to get in a bodysurf, a novelty in north Queensland where the Great Barrier Reef blocks all but cyclonic swells.