Extreme Weather
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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
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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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