Extreme Weather
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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
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^^^ The other thing about the artificial pitch is the infill "rubble" is plastic so that is all washed into rivers now, and eventually the ocean as well.
It's shit to play on. Shit to ref on. I get why Councils like it, but I don't think the benefits outweigh the bad things.
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@roninwc said in Extreme Weather:
Northern NSW now the focus of the floods.
Lismore right now... Fark!
Sky News Weather claiming Lismore flood is 1 in 1000 year ARI (average recurrence interval ... although that terminology is old and 0.1% annual exceedence probabilty (aep) is now in vogue ... just to engineer for a second).
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@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
@roninwc said in Extreme Weather:
Northern NSW now the focus of the floods.
Lismore right now... Fark!
Sky News Weather claiming Lismore flood is 1 in 1000 year ARI (average recurrence interval ... although that terminology is old and 0.1% annual exceedence probabilty (aep) is now in vogue ... just to engineer for a second).
The amount of rainfall over the period is the key thing - while urbanisation might contribute to the behaviour of floods, there isn't much in the way of concrete upstream from Lismore.
Wivenhoe from 59% to 180% in three days. Similar situation.
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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!
