Extreme Weather
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@nta said in Extreme Weather:
Yes. That's a quad bike. No, stunts were not performed to get it there.
I worked on the flood recovery on the North Burnett (inland a couple of hours from Hervey Bay) on the 2013 Australia Day (ex-TC Oswald) floods.
Some astonishing shit with debris/machinery/fruit crates hanging 10 or 20m up in trees.
Nature is metal.
In awe at the power.
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@nta said in Extreme Weather:
@booboo Gympie is a fucking awful place to live if you don't like floods
Thank fuck I don't live there! (North Burnett being Biggenden, Gayndah, Mundubbera, Mount Perry, Monto.)
Keeping a keen eye on the flood situation through Gympie though as with the Bruce Highway closed:
- it's affecting our food supply: No bread, no milk, fuck all veggies (I think they've opened up to essential today so that may resolve)
- Ms Boo Jr due to come up for first weekend home visit on Friday ...
... we were meant to go visit Sunday ... but weather...
.. on top of a couple of weeks of adjustment to new surroundings ... including first couple of days of uni classes being cancelled due to effects of weather (we're hoping it's all ok for the weekend) she's a Donkey on the Edge!
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@hooroo said in Extreme Weather:
@nta said in Extreme Weather:
Sydney's turn! Been raining here pretty steadily the last day or so. Even with awesome drainage, I don't think we're training tonight
Is Royal Randwick low lying?
Polly loves a swim..is she running
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@bayimports said in Extreme Weather:
@hooroo said in Extreme Weather:
@nta said in Extreme Weather:
Sydney's turn! Been raining here pretty steadily the last day or so. Even with awesome drainage, I don't think we're training tonight
Is Royal Randwick low lying?
Polly loves a swim..is she running
Yeah she is but fresh up and doesn't have a fresh record to speak of. Carrying 61 and the next is 54 which doesn't help.
What does help is that it will be wet and James McDonald is on. What we don't want is a gut buster first up as there are some nice races she will be defending.
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@hooroo said in Extreme Weather:
@bayimports said in Extreme Weather:
@hooroo said in Extreme Weather:
@nta said in Extreme Weather:
Sydney's turn! Been raining here pretty steadily the last day or so. Even with awesome drainage, I don't think we're training tonight
Is Royal Randwick low lying?
Polly loves a swim..is she running
Yeah she is but fresh up and doesn't have a fresh record to speak of. Carrying 61 and the next is 54 which doesn't help.
What does help is that it will be wet and James McDonald is on. What we don't want is a gut buster first up as there are some nice races she will be defending.
I dont know the specifics of Randwick and the flood plain, I believe they did some significant drainage work in 2009 so might be ok, but I am sure someone will know the detail though
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it was pretty fucked on saturday, so another week of rain might have proper fucked it.
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@mariner4life said in Extreme Weather:
it was pretty fucked on saturday, so another week of rain might have proper fucked it.
And it's coming from offshore so Randwick is probably wetter than an otter's pocket.
@Hooroo not sure at what point they call the races off, but she's bloody damp across Sydney and some of it doesn't deal well with heavy rain.
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Parra Eels have their training ground just down the hill from us in the same precinct.
I suspect ours is in slightly better shape overall due to elevation, but all the fields have great drainage that kept us training when other rugby clubs were closed the last week.
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Death toll continues to rise. Feel somewhat ghoulish reporting said facts ...
But 9 now in QLD.
2 overnight in NSW, including 80-something lady who stayed in her home (in Ballina? Lismore?) despite her family trying to get her to leave on Sunday.
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Here we go again. Email circulated at work from HSE adviser as follows:
Subject: Dangerous Storms SEQ to Wide Bay
Importance: HighGood morning all,
I have just watched the 11am emergency briefing from Annastacia et all.
These are considered very dangerous storms and will be here in SEQ today and tomorrow.
BOM is advising that Northern Moreton Bay to Fraser Coast (including Sunshine Coast, Gympie, Wide Bay to Bundy) weather is life threatening. It will be very unstable for the next 24-48hours.
Government have requested people pick up children in these areas as soon as possible.
Government has advised people to be off SEQ/Wide Bay roads tomorrow.
Damaging winds and hail are predicted in some areas
Ipswich and Brisbane river and creeks will experience flash flooding through afternoon and evening.
Schools will be closed again in some places, open for essential workers. -
@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
Death toll continues to rise. Feel somewhat ghoulish reporting said facts ...
But 9 now in QLD.
2 overnight in NSW, including 80-something lady who stayed in her home (in Ballina? Lismore?) despite her family trying to get her to leave on Sunday.
Dunno if there's been any issues today.The town of Casino in NSW (upstream from Lismore) has flooded for what is said to be the first time.
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Pandemic, war, floods...whats next?
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@taniwharugby said in Extreme Weather:
Pandemic, war, floods...whats next?
Pestilence, War, Death we have in abundance
i doubt the supermarkets here will have any stock soon, so famine?