Extreme Weather
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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.
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@nta said in Extreme Weather:
Northern NSW copping it, too.
Yeah it's da climate change. It's not like Lismore doesn't have a long history of floods. Brisbane as well. Without Wivenhoe we'd be even more farked. Just go to Mt Cootha and look down. Whole bloody city is on a flood plain. It's reality and geography not CO2 emissions.
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Norths Rugby Club. It's right next to the Kedron Brook which flows from the west to the east cutting across the north of the city and exits on the north side of the airport. I used to ride/ run (part) of this every day to and from work. It seemed every time it rained Shaw Rd was flooded.
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My mate has a business to the left there. Poor bugger was also flooded in 2011.
I was supposed to swim in this pool on Saturday
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Just looking at the news right now, I'll bet there's some poor prick with Covid whose house just got flooded and has family in Ukraine. Insane times. Would be nice to go back to the days when the most important news item was whether Bill Clinton had his knob polished by an intern.
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@gt12 said in Extreme Weather:
Shiiiiiit.
It's been worse. The point is it's just water, have some fun!
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@antipodean said in Extreme Weather:
@gt12 said in Extreme Weather:
Shiiiiiit.
It's been worse. The point is it's just water, have some fun!
Oooh yuck. How much poo in that? Plus any amount of chemicals
