I think i would prefer to be in the category of not impressing him to be fair. Otherwise i could be sectioned
Weāre all friends here, arenāt we 
Hell that looked bad SDU , iāve never heard of that disaster. Must have taken years to recover and looking on the map Darwin looks quite isolated.
On the other hand Darwin from 50 years ago still looks 1000% better than Darwen in England does now.
Is it a regular thing with hurricanes in Australia? We get occasional bad wind (usually monday morning) we had gale force winds a couple of weeks back but not on that scale.Do they still build houses from wood out there.Florida seem to and they have seasonal tornadoes
Believe it or not, I never drove the Hume. Only was in Melbourne for half a day, once, that was enough, too cold. I arrived on the thumb and left on the Aurora. Some grand old motors there though. 
Well that dates me, doesnāt it, I was long gone from Darwin before that happened. Heard about it of course but that is the first time I have seen the destruction. I was looking for my old workplace without success but those scenes are largely of the housing areas outside of the town arenāt they?
Apart from the obvious, what strikes me is the wide use of building houses on concrete stilts, many which survived, something I have always advised for flood prone areas elsewhere. Nobody in officialdom seems to take any notice but I reckon all those pilings state the obvious. They survived athough the houses above were never going to escape the force of the wind.
Love the sign though, if youāve got nowt else, a sense of humour does no harm. 
@Ramone the tropical areas of the southern hemisphere get cyclones, in the northern hemisphere they have hurricanes.
If you survive the cyclone the resulting rain depression may get you.
Cyclone season is from November through March, although not restricted to those five months. Cycones are categorised from 1 to five, with five being the most severe.
After my time too but I do remember being held up by a flooded river somewhere to the west of Brisbane, by a flooded river on my way back down to Sydney with my mate in his ute. We were there for several days, quite a group of us sleeping in a village hall. There must have been floods behind us because a helicopter hovered and lowered supplies to us.
Holden HB Torana press photo:
Where have I seen something very like this before? 
Over here parkroyal i would think it would have a Vauxhall badge on it and youād have probably seen many of them at the bottom of a pile of cars in scrap yards.My dad had a Viva very similar but rotten
SDU , so why do they still build houses from wood , youāve more chance of surviving a hurricane with bricks and mortar?
TBH until I came across this on flickr I didnāt know there was such a thing. Of course itās an HB Vauxhall Viva, what else could it be. My Uncle Len had a Vauxhall HB but with the slant-4
Looks like that photo was taken at Kings Cross.
My son and his mate went to Europe. His mate owned a Holden Barina, just a rebadged Suzuki. They noticed a lot of thesse cars rebadged as Opals. My son and his mate visited an Opal dealership, enquiring about a full set of Opal badges. The salesperson was amazed that the same car was available in Australia with different badges. On his return home the salesperson posted old mate a full set of Opal badges. One heād replaced all the Holden badges, some stranger offered him silly money for his rare Opal.
In europe Vauxhalls were badged Opals and the UK the other way round. I donāt know whoās design they were.There were some Opals over here namley the Opal Manta .I think the Kadet (not sure how you spell it) was either a Chevette or a Cavalier but that was sold here too. There were probably more
A missing couple who spent two days being stalked by a crocodile after their vehicle was swept away has been airlifted to safety.
The pair, aged in their 50s, spent three days stranded in the Gulf Country northwest of Staaten River National Park in Queensland after their four-wheel-drive washed away in crocodile-infested flood waters.
The couple told rescuers they were stalked by a giant crocodile for two nights as they endured 40C heat with no food, drinking only from the river.
The couple had tried to drive through a river crossing when their vehicle was overcome by a large wave of floodwater.
They told rescuers they had to scramble out the passenger window to escape, with the male driver swimming back into the vehicle to free their two dogs.
Without phones, the couple said they wrote two large SOS signs in the dirt.
A friend reported them missing on Saturday after they failed to arrive in Kowanyama after setting off from Normanton on Thursday.
A LifeFlight rescue crew took off from Mount Isa base on Saturday morning and located the couple and their dogs after seeing the SOS sign.
The pilot was able to land the chopper on the road beside a river before Queensland Ambulance Service flight paramedics assessed the patients.
Well-spotted, itās the elephant douche if Iām not mistaken. Love the Opel story. I was used to the Chevette and when I got here there were all these things called Holden Geminis running around. Itās only later that Iāve realised that the Gemini is closer to the Kadett in looks. Australia went badge-engineering mad in the 80s - Barina (aka Suzuki Swift) as you mention, Holden Apollo (re-badged Camry), the Ford Telstar (a re-badged Mazda 626), the Ford Laser (a worse-looking Mazda 323), the Ford Maverick (a Nissan Patrol). To put the tin hat on it there was the Toyota Lexcen (a Toyo-badged Dunnydore).
Never heard it called that before. There used to be a Minskis close by, Iād never heard of them before but my (Pommie) missus recognised it.
Long while ago but Minskyās bar rings a faint bell.
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Was there a Wimpys on the Cross too, or am I mixing up my stories?
No, and come to that I canāt say Iāve ever seen a Wimpy burger joint here.
Mustāve been something she told me about.