Extreme Weather
-
@NTA said in Extreme Weather:
Mrs TA had the TV on this morning. Channel 7 Sunrise is trying their best to still paint it as a monumental disaster, with 6 reporters out on the ground, and TBH while it looks bad, it is hardly the apocalypse.
It isn't. Seen much worse. Only people disappointed are the media.
Surprised the usual dickheads hording toilet paper and baked beans still didn't have stockpiles left from Covid.
-
-
Plenty of posts showing this type of erosion and then comments saying it happens all the time?
-
So I fly out of Hervey yesterday for Cairns after multiple delays, via Melbourne. Yes Melbourne (but that's not my point).
And so it rains there this morning
And I mean rains.
200mm in 2.5 hours. And more. And more.
Am currently on a plane and only on the phone so it's fairly rudimentary figures but looking at the rain fallen and the BOM IFD website seems to be pushing something over 1 in 1000 year event. I may be wrong about that ... but ...
It's basically the back end of Alfie, dragging rain in from the north stalling over Hervey Bay.
Who said Alfie was over dramatised?
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.95565.shtml
http://www.bom.gov.au/water/designRainfalls/revised-ifd/?multi -
@Nepia said in Extreme Weather:
48 hours without power now for my Mum, they've been warned it could be another 3 days before they get it on again.
My parents are still without power too. Fair few jobs to fix for energex https://www.energex.com.au/outages/outage-finder/outage-finder-map/
Rain finally turned up for Brisbane with the low stalled, but none of it has come north enough to the farm yet.
-
@antipodean said in Extreme Weather:
@Nepia said in Extreme Weather:
48 hours without power now for my Mum, they've been warned it could be another 3 days before they get it on again.
My parents are still without power too. Fair few jobs to fix for energex https://www.energex.com.au/outages/outage-finder/outage-finder-map/
Rain finally turned up for Brisbane with the low stalled, but none of it has come north enough to the farm yet.
Speak for yourself...
-
@antipodean said in Extreme Weather:
@Nepia said in Extreme Weather:
48 hours without power now for my Mum, they've been warned it could be another 3 days before they get it on again.
My parents are still without power too. Fair few jobs to fix for energex https://www.energex.com.au/outages/outage-finder/outage-finder-map/
Can't win. Either overhead powerlines are under threat, or subsurface pits flood and risk shorting or physical shifting due to slide
-
Thargominda - about four hours east of Cameron Corner (border point between NSW, QLD and SA)
-
Ta$man getting absolutely hammered again, @Chris-B hope you are safe mate
-
@No-Quarter weather this year is fucked.
-
@No-Quarter - House has been flooded a couple of times, unfortunately. First time in 160 years, I'm pretty sure (it's a very old house).
We're coping fine. Lots of help - professional and otherwise.
Thanks for the good wishes.
Enjoying the footy in alternative accommodation!
-
@Chris-B how you holding up in this next wave of weather?
Pretty wild here and meant to be worse down there!
-
@taniwharugby Luckily it wasn't as bad as predicted.We could cope with 3 inches of rain - five inches would have been messy and tested the fortifications around the house.
-
@Chris-B yeah I think other areas got hit harder this time.
Parts of Northland and BOP in particular, we had 98mm in a bit less than 12 hours and 116mm in total in a 24 hour period....but saw some footage of the flooding in areas like Kawakawa, Opotiki who got hit harder still, not much fun for people!
-
@taniwharugby said in Extreme Weather:
flooding in areas like Kawakawa
one of the things that shits me is when you get flooding in flood plains. I mean, that's the point of them - they look spectacular, but it's not an issue. It's the flooding in areas you don't want flooding that are the real headache.
Media just want the money shot/clickbait, though
-
@nzzp this particular one was more the roundabout as you enter Kawakawa, the entire area including playground was well under water...yes, the area always floods, but this was different, possibly coincided with high tide as well.
Where I live, I drive past the Hikurangi swamp every day, which has been drained and is farmland, but right now, it has areas of flooding on it.
-
@taniwharugby It has really been the cumulative at my place. We've had 500+mm in the past two months.
I still thought the river would have to come up another metre to get my house (and if it managed to do that there would be large parts of Richmond washing up in Wellington).
But, unfortunately, it broke its banks a km upstream - flowed across the plain until it reached the elevated SH6, which it couldn't cross - so it just took the path of least resistance down the side of the road and took out the houses in its path. Looked quite a lot like the footage of the Asian tsunami as it came across the paddock - and a very nasty WTF is that and where's it come from moment.
-
@Chris-B yeah it must be quite scary and then having to deal with the aftermath, I mean, where do you start.
Even with insurance, there are limitations on what they can do particularly with limited manpower and qualified feet on the ground with such wide-spread devastation.
somewhat related thread diversion....I went to a seminar last week that was looking at construction costs, in particular, under-insurance (something Kiwi's are pretty good at) and some of the data was scary.
