Hervey Bay Gossip

The unseasonally hot weather that’s hit Hervey Bay over the last few weeks seems as though it’s about to end.

The latest forecast suggest that we could be seeing maximums in the mid to high 20s in the coming week and some rain on most days next week.

If you were late getting out of bed this morning this is the Hervey Bay sunrise you missed.

Driving a car, riding a mobility scooter or even walking along parts of McLiver Street/Oleander Street Hervey Bay can be quite dangerous in places.

In places the road is not all that wide and there are large stretches that have no footpath for pedestrians or those on mobility scooters and one of the worst spots just happens to be the busiest spot … the last few hundred metres or so that lead down the hill to the lights at the McLiver/Main Street intersection.

Jim MacKellar says that the Fraser Coast Regional Council still has $1.7 million in their Footpaths and Bikeways Capital budget but the council has been busy telling residents who have complained about the situation that they have no money.

So does the Fraser Coast Regional Council have the money or not? It’s possible that all will be revealed on the local news on Channel 9 tonight.

We all thought that Tropical Cyclone Yatsi was bad and there’s no doubt that it was but with our modern forms of communication help wasn’t far away. Maybe the recovery effort was a little slow to get into gear but then this is Queensland and distances are huge.

Back in 1918 when a major tropical cyclone hit Mackay things were different. Communications were transmitted with lights and flags and help was weeks away. This report from the Lighthouse Keeper’s log of the storm … and the aftermath … may well show you that these days we’ve got it easy compared to what it was like back in January 1918.

Follow this link to the report and skip the the page labelled ’45′ … it seems to be out of sequence