Extreme Weather
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@nta said in Extreme Weather:
Roseville bridge in Sydney. This isn't River water coming over the bridge by the looks - it's runoff from further up the hill on each side
Don't think I'd be driving on that. I've watched 'Massive Engineering Mistakes'
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@nta That's up fairly high. I recall from my much younger days rowing on the river how high that flow is. I wonder how it looks on the old highway bridge.
Here's a contrast from last year and 1961
I've seen it higher than that. There's an arch in the pier of the railway bridge that on occasion you could fit a single scull through.
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@antipodean Emu Plains is a couple of metres from "fucked" in that vid.
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@crucial said in Extreme Weather:
@nta said in Extreme Weather:
Roseville bridge in Sydney. This isn't River water coming over the bridge by the looks - it's runoff from further up the hill on each side
Don't think I'd be driving on that. I've watched 'Massive Engineering Mistakes'
Problem with that stretch of road is you can't see that until you're on it.
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@nta said in Extreme Weather:
@crucial said in Extreme Weather:
@nta said in Extreme Weather:
Roseville bridge in Sydney. This isn't River water coming over the bridge by the looks - it's runoff from further up the hill on each side
Don't think I'd be driving on that. I've watched 'Massive Engineering Mistakes'
Problem with that stretch of road is you can't see that until you're on it.
Surely a warning sign wouldn't be out of the question? You know what dumbfucks are like. 'Nobody told me not to drive into window deep water in my Ford Kia'
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@crucial said in Extreme Weather:
@nta said in Extreme Weather:
@crucial said in Extreme Weather:
@nta said in Extreme Weather:
Roseville bridge in Sydney. This isn't River water coming over the bridge by the looks - it's runoff from further up the hill on each side
Don't think I'd be driving on that. I've watched 'Massive Engineering Mistakes'
Problem with that stretch of road is you can't see that until you're on it.
Surely a warning sign wouldn't be out of the question? You know what dumbfucks are like. 'Nobody told me not to drive into window deep water in my Ford Kia'
I don't believe the bridge has ever seen that much surface water running down the hill at once, so they didn't think about that.
It is about a 2km run from one side of the river to the other to get to the nearest safe turnoff.
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@nta said in Extreme Weather:
Roseville bridge in Sydney. This isn't River water coming over the bridge by the looks - it's runoff from further up the hill on each side
that's bloody impressive. I remember in HK when it was red or black rain, the roads would turn into canals.
For a country which had a lot of setup for typhoons, they seemed to take black rain a lot less seriously. Which I never understood as black rain is easily the more impressive. Turn roads into rivers in under 5 minutes.
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@nta Junction view was just a judder bar!
With bridges it's a lottery in terms of how much debris hits and gets trapped against it. If most of it is passing through that reduces some of the pressure. But the volume and force of all that water. Mental. Water will fuck you up, no question.
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@paekakboyz yeah, water is nuts. There are pot holes all over the roads following the last few days of rain. Crazy!
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@voodoo said in Extreme Weather:
@paekakboyz yeah, water is nuts. There are pot holes all over the roads following the last few days of rain. Crazy!
Mrs TA had to go up to the central coast for work, via the M1. At one point she passed 3 cars pulled over from smacking their wheels into potholes big enough to wreck them at 80km/h - it was raining so hard that nobody could see the potholes, nobody could drive 110, and the RMS hadn't even had time to put signs up.
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Not as bad as Aussies recent weather woes, but still a pretty wild here!
We had 150mm of rain from about 3am to 7am (c 40,000 litres off my roof area) and hundreds of lightning strikes, many followed immediately after by the thunder, now Auckland getting hit.
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@taniwharugby said in Extreme Weather:
Not as bad as Aussies recent weather woes, but still a pretty wild here!
We had 150mm of rain from about 3am to 7am (c 40,000 litres off my roof area) and hundreds of lightning strikes, many followed immediately after by the thunder, now Auckland getting hit.
it was as wet as I've seen it here. Just intense rain, lots of flooding and surface water everywhere. Crazy times
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@nzzp not sure if it is more widespread down there, but up here think we were almost under the storm (or were pockets) as it passed and went south as places a few km from me have been smashed this morning with buildings flooded.
We had surface water like we havent had for maybe 7 or so years, but the Hikurangi flats had no water on them, and they almost always flood after a decent rain, so was a bit odd.
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The drains out on the road got blocked with leaf litter etc that has built up over a dry summer. Inside ten minutes this then got overwhelmed, flooded the road and then shit from the road and adjoining properties blocked all our drains. As a result I have a 2500 sq m warehouse 300mm deep in water.
At the height of the downpower I was out in a suit with a shovel trying to clear the street drains while lightning was going off Oh and the mains power box was about a metre away also completely submerged.
Fucking awesome amount of flooding in less than a quarter hour.
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One of the guys dead from the boat caught in the bad weather up North is from the same year as me at college.
It's going to be really sad for the family involved, and I'm sure at least one poster here will also know the family.
Sounds like there might be more as he was with friends (who I may also know).
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@dogmeat said in Extreme Weather:
The drains out on the road got blocked with leaf litter etc that has built up over a dry summer. Inside ten minutes this then got overwhelmed, flooded the road and then shit from the road and adjoining properties blocked all our drains. As a result I have a 2500 sq m warehouse 300mm deep in water.
At the height of the downpower I was out in a suit with a shovel trying to clear the street drains while lightning was going off Oh and the mains power box was about a metre away also completely submerged.
Fucking awesome amount of flooding in less than a quarter hour.
Similar here mate in Hauraki. Overflowed the street and straight in to our place. Wifes studio flooded to the ankles. Spent most the day on the pump and now have 2 industrial fans and 2 big humidifiers doing their job. And just cleaned out the drains on the street!
