Yet more in Victoria, heavy rain still trashing the place, more expected till it leaves. You can follow the news at the previous links.

What I thought might spin up and did not - the eastern 'tail' has reached Qld and has a fair amount of rain in it, but is scattered. Too turbulent to spin up, I suppose, lucky us.

Yasi was the 3rd Qld cyclone this season, which we are still in - on average, there would still be a further 3 expected this season. Only on reported dead so far, but a few are still missing. Some of the suspected missing have been found safe. Not luck really, but preparation. But still a few 'overconfident' have to be rescued from going into flood waters where they should not - if the SES had not been so active and prepared, we probably would have had another 30 or so deaths this year in total.

One incident occurred where the prepared shelter was totally destroyed, but a local woman had insisted the the senior citizens gathered there move to a stronger shelter a few hours before the worst hit, saved many lived. She's a bit of a local hero now.

The areas where Yasi came ashore have been almost wiped off the map.