TCs Debbie & Cook
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What do big cyclones do for the weather up north?
Well, it's 5.30 and the temp is 35 (feels like 44). Fuck it's hot!
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Jeez the commercial channels are shit.
There's a bit of rain heading our way from ExTC Debs.
Weather guy on Ch 7 looking suitably bedraggled poo-poohs the SEQ forecast for 150-200mm and breathkessly declares "that's incredibly conservative it'll be more like 450-500". Nobody from the BOM, ABC , Premier Palchook or even Livio Regano (you live in regional QLD you know who Liv is) is making ANY sort of doomsday prediction.
Move on to a Ch Nine promo. "BRISBANE! is expecting A MONTH OF RAIN! IN A SINGLE DAY! Join us tomorrow to see which suburb gets it worst! ! !"
FAAAAARK!
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Well it's been pissing down here all night and the schools are closed. Seems a bit drastic to me, but it will apparently get worse during the day.
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Notwithstanding that Ch7 and Ch9 remain the fluffiest of bunnies SEQ is now officially in panic mode.
All State schools and many private schools from Agnes Water to NSW, (thanks for the late notice) are closed pending a deluge of biblical proportions.
If you haven't built your ark it's too late.
Apparently they want less traffic on the roads mid arvo when it's expected to be at it's worst.
There is a fair lump of rain moving down from Gladstone and big rain already hitting Brissy and the GC. We've not been too bad as yet.
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/national_radar_sat.loop.shtml
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Well Bob Brown blamed the coal industry for the 2011 floods. I wonder what they'll blame this on.
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This cyclone didn't come from Australia. Therefore Pauline Hanson and One Nation are the ones you want in charge if you want less cyclones.
These foreign cyclones are not compatible with the Australian way of life
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It's unaustrayan @mariner4life
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So now the solid rain comes to Brisbane.
This is Kedron Brook, four hours apart. It's already flooded in the first photo:
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You blokes down south just aren't cut out for rain aye. I looked at the radar expecting to see huge swathes of orange and red, and instead it's all blue and green?
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@mariner4life said in TC Debbie:
You blokes down south just aren't cut out for rain aye. I looked at the radar expecting to see huge swathes of orange and red, and instead it's all blue and green?
Brisbane is ridiculous. Without Wivenhoe Dam, God knows what would happen to the city every time something like this occurred. The fact that the old Queenslanders are all built on stilts gives a good indication of what it must have been like back in the day. A mate of mine lives near Suncorp Stadium and he's been flooded 3 times in the last year. Fark that.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel and it's the Far North Queenslanders who get pumped by the insurance companies....
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Just blown through here.
Good excuse for an afternoon off but jeez the weather has been worse.
Heavyish the last half hour or so but someone turned off the tap.
May be worserer further south.
Now have a waterfront property ... admiring our water views in the backyard with a quiet red.
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@mariner4life said in TC Debbie:
@Rancid-Schnitzel and it's the Far North Queenslanders who get pumped by the insurance companies....
When my parents moved here, they didn't want to be anywhere near the river or possible flood zone and bought a house right at the top of a steep hill. Now maybe they missed out on the boom in riverfront but they've avoided being underwater at least twice and don't pack shit every time it rains. I did the same (not that I could afford to live on the river). Fucks me why people want to put themselves in that situation. Lifestyle my arse.
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Amazing how quickly you can forget about NQ when the south east starts to get affected. Top work 7 and 9 #disasterporn
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so this bitch has caused some carnage in NZ too...we got off pretty lightly in Whangarei area, we had about 80mm of rain in total at our place (60mm in one 24hr period) plenty of new lakes when I went to Kerikeri this morning and then below Edgecumbe evacuated, Kaikoura cut off again
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/91174483/live-cyclone-debbie-remnants-hit-nz
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Yeah destructive bitch.
Enzed just isn't built for rain of that magnitude.
Always worry about Mum in Kaitaia when big rain is forecast up North. Just about couldn't have located a town in a more awkward location if they tried: "hmmm ... where is the narrowest part of the valley downstream of a rather large catchment?
That'll do! We'll make this the main street ... ". Admittedly they must have got the stopbanks and diversion drains right as they've been lucky for a few decades.Been thinking about all our NZ peeps and hoping everyobe is safe and dry. Brother is in Rotorua ... well he's in Honkers at the mo but the family is there and I see it got smashed pretty hard.
Did I read someone say Edgecumbe had a 1 in 500 year event? (Pedant alert: more correctly it should be referred to as an event with a 0.2% Annual Exceedence Probability (AEP), otherwise people will think they won't get another like it for 500 years ... I recall Southland getting two 1 in 100 year floods in a fortnight back in the early 80s. Confused and annoyed many.)
Coincidentally - back to my first world problems. Came through Rocky today. Pretty much coincident with the flood peak. Quite amazing. If you haven't followed the news a couple of the tributaries of the Fitzroy River - which drains the second biggest catchment in Australia (after the Murray-Darling system - the difference being the Fitzroy gets rain) had some water fall in them. Flood has taken a week to get downstream. At one stage on Sunday they were predicting the biggest flood in Rockhampton in 60 years. That's quite significant as they tend to flood every two years (we've been in Qld 10 years and I'm pretty sure they've had 5 floods in that time. Also refer comment above about inconveniently located population centres).
After 2011 they spent $130million building an elevated Highway across the floodplain south of the town. It was like crossing an inland sea. Astonishing.
The holiday is a bit dampened. The snorkling, glass bottom boat, boom netting planned for Saturday in the crystal clear blue sparkling waters of Great Keppel Island has been throttled back. Water is a tad murky. Nice shade of chocolate milk... do won't be able to spot the bull sharks and crocodiles feasting on the carcasses of the cattle washed downstream...
But hey we're here injecting revenue into the flood damaged economy ... thank us later ... and the view from the clifftop apartment over the wine glass remains spectacular, if a little windblown and brown.
Hope the rest of youse all are safe.
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Pity it didn't rain in Queensland instead...
By drought I think she means underwater...
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@booboo the rains we had 2 weeks back were described in affected areas as a 1 in 100 year event, then this week....
