Extreme Weather
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I have never seen so much fucking rain. Only just made it to work this arvo, not expecting to get home.
This shit seems worse than 2011, especially the Northside. The Brisbane River might not burst its banks but the localised flooding is smashing us. People getting stranded everywhere, families in houses panicking because their house is going under and they are trapped...
And people are still out and about sight seeing and expecting help when they get into trouble...
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@crazy-horse said in Extreme Weather:
I have never seen so much fucking rain. Only just made it to work this arvo, not expecting to get home.
This shit seems worse than 2011, especially the Northside. The Brisbane River might not burst its banks but the localised flooding is smashing us. People getting stranded everywhere, families in houses panicking because their house is going under and they are trapped...
And people are still out and about sight seeing and expecting help when they get into trouble...
Yep, it's very bad. All access points getting slowly cut off. The Southerners who moved here recently will be getting a very bad shock.
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@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
@nta said in Extreme Weather:
Wivenhoe Dam looks to be over safe capacity so that's going to need addressing as well?
I thought they were discharging already?
6 dead now
Watching reports this morning to suggest it was 100.2% - so if there discharging, they're not going fast enough.
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Crazy fucking vision down there. You guys just aren't designed to deal with that much water
Flow on effect up north. Brutal brutal heat. Last night almost cyclonic winds.
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@nta said in Extreme Weather:
@booboo https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-25/wivenhoe-dam-flood-water-release/100863418
Saw a headline that Wivenhoe was at 160% but couldn't click on the link.
And now work has closed all SEQ offices including ours. Not sure why we're closed, we're unaffected apart from the fact we can't get milk for our coffee as the roads are closed. Supermarkets look like early stages of a pandemic.
Another fatality overnight. 7 dead in QLD now plus one in NSW.
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@nta said in Extreme Weather:
Wivenhoe Dam looks to be over safe capacity so that's going to need addressing as well?
Nah, 100% is just drinking water capacity. There's all the room above the spillway which accounts for the other percentage.
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That was crazy.
So many people were out yesterday during the worst of it. What people don't seem to understand is that they can find themselves in trouble in the blink of an eye and emergency services having no way of getting to them in a hurry. When roads are blocked, they are blocked. Emergency services aren't getting through either. I know of a guy, no idea who he is/was, getting washed away from near a shopping centre and emergency services were unable to get anywhere near where he was last seen. Who knows, he might be ok but now it's just a matter of waiting to see if a body is found.
And emergency services were operating with a skeleton crew. Many were simply unable to get to work. At times like yesterday you need to be prepared to look after yourself. Help may not be coming.
Now the poor bastards in Northern NSW are in the firing line.
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@crazy-horse loved the vision of the dudes in Logan hammering around on jetskis
love a bit of stupidity
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@antipodean I have learned much in the last 24 hours about hydro shit.
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@nta said in Extreme Weather:
@antipodean I have learned much in the last 24 hours about hydro shit.
Growing up with Warragamba Dam I learnt most of it earlier which I think made me Western Sydney's "Chief Hydrological and Hydrodynamical Engineer".
After (another) flooding through Windsor I was speaking to an old farmer out that way who gave me the best relevant advice; 'live on a floodplain, buy a boat'.
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Just found this on https://www.seqwater.com.au/dams/wivenhoe
Wivenhoe Dam has a total storage capacity of 3.132 million megalitres.
Full supply volume: 1,165,240 ML
Operational volume: 1,051,460 ML
Current volume: 2,137,300 MLI think a better way of reporting dam levels might give some comfort to those living downstream. If you didn't know it could take three times its operational volume, you may be unnecessarily shitting yourself. I certainly had no idea the discrepancy was so large.
