woberto Report This Comment
Date: November 23, 2025 07:38AM

I could have made some OC here but couldn't be bothered leaving the house.
Cyclone Fina blew a lot of trees, branches and leaves all over the place last night here in Darwin.
Don't bother checking my IP address pulse as the NT is officially known as "The northern territory of South Australia" so we don't have or own network. But you are probably the only person who knows that anyway.
The twirly thing missed us by 50 kays so it was no bigger that a summer storm in Sydney or a winter storm in Melbourne.
Could have been worse, fingers crossed the next 3 or 4 this season do the same thing.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: November 23, 2025 11:39AM

Summer storm in Melbourne is what flooded my house That sucked.

Good that it didn't hit full on though; was no Tracey.

I can't really see your IP; I can see ipv4 addresses if I look but ipv6 is garbled because I really truly can't be fucked reverse engineering the site to make it work with ipv6; most eg mobile networks or providers that rely on CGNAT are ipv6 these days and Cloudflare basically 'translates' ipv6 into a pseudo ipv4 address which is garbage and meaningless but it means the site gets passed a header with an IP in it that it can use for things that require IP tracking like image comments etc; gives it something to put into the database.

It wouldn't cope with real IPv6 addresses the way things are right now, it would spit an error if the request came through from one; but it's so low down my priority list when it just works being fudged. So you talk ipv6 to Cloudflare, it talks ipv4 to the site and gives a fake IP address to it as the request source.

edit: With that said, yes I am aware of how Darwin connects to the rest of the country Though Vocus and Telstra in particular are joining Darwin to Townsville/Brisbane and over to Perth via Port Headland. The fibre blackspot programme will fix some of that up too as will HyperOne if that gets off the ground







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quasi Report This Comment
Date: November 23, 2025 11:59AM

Glad things are okay there. We're entering the last week of our season here with no storms on the horizon and it was the first season since 2015 that the continental U.S. had no strikes. A few km can make a big difference. The last one that went through this area last year was about 80 km north with little wind damage here but a couple meters of flooding from the storm surge down by the river and harbor that did a lot of damage. In 2022 the eye of hurricane Ian went right over my house and took my shed roof which gouged a hole in my house roof. The worst from it was about 50 km south where the storm surge was about 4.5 meters at Fort Myers Beach and nearby islands where over 100 were killed. Don't mess around with that stuff.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: November 24, 2025 07:39AM

Well I am being a bit blase (spellcheck?) but you can't predict the weather.
You can see it coming but you don't know where it will really go.
My earliest memories in Sydney are massive storms, 10 days of drenching rain and bushfires.
It's just life but if you read the news it's the fucking apocalypse.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: November 24, 2025 10:57AM

That's exactly what a lot of the people who get killed in these things say. The forecasters here can't pinpoint exactly where the eye will go until soon before it makes landfall, but they can give a close general idea days in advance, close enough to sit still or get the hell out, but people get blase and sit there until it's too late because they haven't seen the worst in years or decades or never at all.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: November 24, 2025 12:38PM

Northern Territory and Far North Queensland are sensible folk.
Get the warning and stay home until the warning ends.

Other capital cities in Australia are fucking idiots, real Darwin Awards contenders.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: November 24, 2025 01:27PM

qman the tides here are 5-6m (15 feet) and the cyclone arrived just as high tide arrived.
You would struggle paddling against the tide in Darwin Harbour even in calm weather, the tide is intense.
Not that you would survive more that an hour before a croc' took you for a roll.