It’s time to send your thoughts/prayers to our Far North Queensland cousins with Tropical Cyclone Kirrily already making herself known in the Whitsunday Islands. Premier Steven Miles says it will cross the coast later tonight somewhere between Cardwell and Bowen and is set to bring “very high levels of rainfall”. Townsville Airport will be closed from midday today, with Mayor Jenny Hill saying up to 12,000 homes could be damaged. But one thing’s for sure – Queensland is getting good at organising itself ahead of disasters… Hundreds of extra emergency and energy workers have been deployed to Townsville and Rockhampton, along with dozens of rescue watercraft, helicopters and large power generators. And it looks like they’ll need them… Kirrily isn’t fast-moving, so the region could be in for a “long and widespread event”.