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Any kind of weather related disasters

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Cyclone Tracey, Christmas eve 1974 destroyed Darwin. Blew it off the map. We (my family) lost everything. They've only just found (this year) a fishing trawler that went down with 3 on board.

I'm in the wet season now. On Thursday-Friday we got 10 inches of rain. The Katherine river went from 6 to 16 meters in 4 hours. We had kids paddling down their streets in kayaks. Its rained every day since.

In 1998 the Katherine river broke its banks and peaked at 26 meters or so. A few people were killed, most of the town flooded and clean up workers found a 4 meter croc in woolworths eating the rotting meat.

Mudslides, yep one happend in Threadbo,a ski resort town, a few years ago. Killed about 13 people, one guy survived.

I have hunted in the rain, but not up here, we have great lightning storms and the wet season rain will beat you down then you'll get bogged and can't get out of the paddock.

I'm going to try for a hunt next weekend. I hunt on a place that has an all weather access road runninhg through it. If we go to the stoney ridges we should see some donkeys or buff.

Now the seasons are arse about to what your used to. Your winter is our summer in the southern states. In northern Australia its the wet season (monsoon).

Your summer is our winter is Northern Australian dry season, where no rain falls for about 6-8 months. At the end of the dry we have the build up where temp's rise and clouds build up but still no rain (best time to hunt, find whatever water is left and you find game). At the end of the wet we have the run off where all the water is running off the flood plains (best time to catch a Barra).
Hows that? see it does rain down here.

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