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Winds gusting up to 354km/h have pounded the region for 24 hours.


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This is only the second time since satellites started tracking storms about 40 years ago that one has maintained 185km/h winds for more than 24 hours, said Colorado State University meteorology professor Phil Klotzbach.


The other was the massive killer typhoon Haiyan that killed more than 6000 people in the Philippines in 2013.


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Doesn't look much like a hurricane hole to me. Looks pretty exsposed. Maybe they wanted a new fleet. Was in Samoa in 1990 when cyclone Val went through. Topped at 120 knots. Like having a 747 parked outside with the engines on full noise. Lots of locals took to hiding in water tanks. Was interesting to see how sustained wind like that slowing dismantles a building, including the one I was in. 

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I don't think you would boil as the air temperature isn't that hot but you sure didn't want to be outside with the amount of roofing iron flying around. Not just single sheets but 4 or 500 sq ft at a time. The only people outside were the looters. Thankfully we had some German chefs staying in the complex who managed to magicaly aquire lots of food. Cooked it on a BBQ inside and drank beer from the bar in front which we had destocked for the owner so that the looters wouldn't get hold of it. Think we were probably worse than the looters but at least the bar owner new who was drinking his profit because he was with us. Paid cost for whatever we drank. Sure was an experience. 

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the thing with bush fires is there isn't enough fuel to sustain a loooong burn

 

they get hot enough to melt alloy wheels

 

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but tend to move pretty quickly

 

so the outside heat doesn't get enough time (30min?) above 100C? to heat up the thermal mass of concrete tank + 5000ltr? of water

 

obviously your mileage may vary in a small plastic tank but it would still be better than lying under the car

 

there was a recommendation that australian bush fire trucks have hatches big enough to allow human entry after the melb. bush fires of 1972? cooked a cutoff volunteer fire crew 

 

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2009/10/21/2721656.htm

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-20/residents-survive-deadly-portugal-forest-fire-by-hiding-in-a-we/8633182

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