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April 25, 2006
Looks Like Monica Choked
She came ashore on a more southerly route and weakened quite a lot:
"Cyclone Monica was completely downgraded to a tropical low a few hours ago,'' Gordon Jackson, senior meteorologist at Darwin's Bureau of Meteorology told smh.com.au at 4pm."The actual system has moved through Darwin as a weak low. We ended up with some rain and some gusty winds. It's moving out to sea now,'' he said.
He said Monica had taken a more southerly course than expected.
"The path it took took it over a lot more land. Originally it was expected to be nearer the coast and [that] would've maintained its [strength].''
Thank goodness.
"There's bugger all, mate," the community's clinic manager Chris Jones said. said this morning.
Not being a speaker of Australian, I think that's good news...
Posted by Mr. Bingley at April 25, 2006 09:07 AM
Comments
"Looks Like Monica Choked"
That's going to garner some rather predictable search results.
Posted by: Rob at April 25, 2006 09:14 AM
Hehe, well, Sis likes seeing the stats go higher, so I do what I have to...
Plus it gives me quite a chuckle to read some of the stuff, well, most of the stuff, that I have to clean out of the spam filter.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 25, 2006 09:19 AM
If only she'd bitten instead...
Posted by: Ken Summers at April 25, 2006 09:26 AM
Well, I'm sure it couldn't possibly have been more than she could chew...
Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 25, 2006 10:22 AM
I know there's a town in Australia called "Alice Springs;" I wonder if there's a town near Darwin called "Blue Dress"...
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 25, 2006 10:24 AM
Shouldn't this headline be, Monica Gagged?
Posted by: Nightfly at April 25, 2006 01:30 PM
How about "Monica Didn't Inhale"? Or am I conflating something here?
Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at April 25, 2006 04:16 PM