Huge Cyclone

[Frank Appleford]

A huge cyclone is about to slam into India's East coast.

[happy daze john in oz]

A huge cyclone is about to slam into India's East coast.

Does it have a name?

[Frank Appleford]

Hudhud John.

[Chris Allman]

Cat 3 at the moment but predicted to go to Cat 5 - nasty.

[Peter F Chard]

Several years ago I flew from Auckland to Port Vila in the Solomon Islands to do the '' Out of Water " survey on a 22m long passenger catamaran, it carried freight plus 150 passengers. The slipway was on an offshore island about 45 Km from Port Vila and the survey took about eight days to complete. We were dropped off the slipway about 10pm to make our way back to Port Vila -- The owners also offered free trips for any of the locals who wanted to get to Vila and you have guessed it, we finished up with a full load of passengers plus about a thousand baskets of bananas plus an uncountable number of chickens, all this at the time Typhoon Yassi was at its maximum wind strength. I had to get back to Vila to catch my plane back to NZ and this was the only way to do it -- we got hammered but I must say the catamaran handled the weather conditions very well, we arrived back just as dawn was breaking. I caught my plane later that morning and when we reached our cruising altitude the Captain came on the public address system and said he was going to climb above Yassi so we could have a look at a cyclone from above, something to tell you our grandchildren about. It was very spectacular and quite an experience, regards Peter in NZ.

[Frank Appleford]

I was working in Darwin in 1975 after cyclone Tracey, and boy what damage they do. Darwin was a mess. We had to bed down on the building site I was working on, there was nowhere to stay.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
The name stamped on it is India here I come, Supposed to be he biggest ever, If I was in India I would head for the Himalayas
Cheers Des

[Chris Allman]

Now Cat 4, winds at 115 knots = 132mph - feel very sorry for whoever is in its path.

[cappy]

time to get your brown trousers on .....was the bosuns reply to me when asking how strong the wind would be off osaka in japan 1961......fearsome was the word and fearsome it was regards cappy.... to put in clear language probably the only time in my life i was truly scared

[Keith Tindell]

That was probably the same one that i was in Cappy, We had painted the bridge about a week before we hit that lot, when we came out the other side the bridge was almost bare of paint, almost like it had been shot blasted. Remember eating cold food, as cook could not perform in the galley with that weather KT