Cyclone Marcia – Rockhampton Queensland Australia (With Updates)

On Friday 20th February 2015, Tropical Cyclone Marcia approached the Queensland Coastline. It made landfall and then passed directly overhead of the city of Rockhampton in Queensland, and that is where I live, so we were right in it.

In the U.S. these systems are called Hurricanes, and other than the difference in names, the only other difference is that here In the Southern Hemisphere, our Cyclones rotate in the opposite direction, that being clockwise here in Australia. Other than those differences, they are exactly the same sort of major weather event.

I’m going to use the facility of our blog site here to detail as much as I possibly can about the event.

This will be done in a series of Posts, and this small Post will just act as an introduction to the Series with the links to each of the individual Posts. The links are below and just click on each of the links to take you to the individual Posts.

Cyclone Marcia – Rockhampton Queensland Australia (Part One) Introduction

Cyclone Marcia – Rockhampton Queensland Australia (Part Two) Preparation

Cyclone Marcia – Rockhampton Queensland Australia (Part Three) The day of the Cyclone

Cyclone Marcia – Rockhampton Queensland Australia (Part Four) The cleanup and beginning of the recovery.

Cyclone Marcia – Rockhampton Queensland Australia (Part Five) Food storage during the power outage.

Cyclone Marcia – Rockhampton Queensland Australia (Part Six) The drawbacks of modern technology.

Cyclone Marcia – Rockhampton Queensland Australia (Part Seven) Recovery after the power came back on.

Cyclone Marcia – Rockhampton Queensland Australia (Part Eight) Everything old is new again.

Tagged: Queensland Cyclones, Rockhampton Queensland, TonyfromOz, Tropical Cyclone Marcia, Tropical Cyclones

Posted in: Australia, Disaster, Electrical Power Generation, Personal