Extreme Weather
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It's feeling like a bit of a non event from where I sit - Brisbane's North. A bit of heavy rain overnight and the odd wind gust but there have been numerous times during the last few years where things were worse.
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Brisbane gets worse summer storms.
Media still trying to whip up a frenzy of panic. Pathetic.
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@NTA said in Extreme Weather:
Mrs TA had the TV on this morning. Channel 7 Sunrise is trying their best to still paint it as a monumental disaster, with 6 reporters out on the ground, and TBH while it looks bad, it is hardly the apocalypse.
It isn't. Seen much worse. Only people disappointed are the media.
Surprised the usual dickheads hording toilet paper and baked beans still didn't have stockpiles left from Covid.
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Plenty of posts showing this type of erosion and then comments saying it happens all the time?
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So I fly out of Hervey yesterday for Cairns after multiple delays, via Melbourne. Yes Melbourne (but that's not my point).
And so it rains there this morning
And I mean rains.
200mm in 2.5 hours. And more. And more.
Am currently on a plane and only on the phone so it's fairly rudimentary figures but looking at the rain fallen and the BOM IFD website seems to be pushing something over 1 in 1000 year event. I may be wrong about that ... but ...
It's basically the back end of Alfie, dragging rain in from the north stalling over Hervey Bay.
Who said Alfie was over dramatised?
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.95565.shtml
http://www.bom.gov.au/water/designRainfalls/revised-ifd/?multi -
@Nepia said in Extreme Weather:
48 hours without power now for my Mum, they've been warned it could be another 3 days before they get it on again.
My parents are still without power too. Fair few jobs to fix for energex https://www.energex.com.au/outages/outage-finder/outage-finder-map/
Rain finally turned up for Brisbane with the low stalled, but none of it has come north enough to the farm yet.
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@antipodean said in Extreme Weather:
@Nepia said in Extreme Weather:
48 hours without power now for my Mum, they've been warned it could be another 3 days before they get it on again.
My parents are still without power too. Fair few jobs to fix for energex https://www.energex.com.au/outages/outage-finder/outage-finder-map/
Rain finally turned up for Brisbane with the low stalled, but none of it has come north enough to the farm yet.
Speak for yourself...
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@antipodean said in Extreme Weather:
@Nepia said in Extreme Weather:
48 hours without power now for my Mum, they've been warned it could be another 3 days before they get it on again.
My parents are still without power too. Fair few jobs to fix for energex https://www.energex.com.au/outages/outage-finder/outage-finder-map/
Can't win. Either overhead powerlines are under threat, or subsurface pits flood and risk shorting or physical shifting due to slide
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Thargominda - about four hours east of Cameron Corner (border point between NSW, QLD and SA)
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Ta$man getting absolutely hammered again, @Chris-B hope you are safe mate
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@No-Quarter weather this year is fucked.
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@No-Quarter - House has been flooded a couple of times, unfortunately. First time in 160 years, I'm pretty sure (it's a very old house).
We're coping fine. Lots of help - professional and otherwise.
Thanks for the good wishes.
Enjoying the footy in alternative accommodation!
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@Chris-B how you holding up in this next wave of weather?
Pretty wild here and meant to be worse down there!
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@taniwharugby Luckily it wasn't as bad as predicted.We could cope with 3 inches of rain - five inches would have been messy and tested the fortifications around the house.
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@Chris-B yeah I think other areas got hit harder this time.
Parts of Northland and BOP in particular, we had 98mm in a bit less than 12 hours and 116mm in total in a 24 hour period....but saw some footage of the flooding in areas like Kawakawa, Opotiki who got hit harder still, not much fun for people!
