Extreme Weather
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@mariner4life Sad but true
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well well, if it isn't a pattern of behaviour
On the threat of the afore-mentioned storms, Queensland's Savior in Chief Anna Palletjack had a message sent out closing schools and imploring parents to collect their kids as soon as possible. Of course the message sort of failed to pinpoint where, so all of SE Qld panicked.
Turns out Storms weren't bad, not everyone had to do it, but hey, better safe than sorry right
And, in shit i have heard before "i was just following advice" "safety has to come first"
where have i heard all this before?
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@mariner4life said in Extreme Weather:
well well, if it isn't a pattern of behaviour
On the threat of the afore-mentioned storms, Queensland's Savior in Chief Anna Palletjack had a message sent out closing schools and imploring parents to collect their kids as soon as possible. Of course the message sort of failed to pinpoint where, so all of SE Qld panicked.
Turns out Storms weren't bad, not everyone had to do it, but hey, better safe than sorry rightright
And, in shit i have heard before "i was just following advice" "safety has to come first"
where have i heard all this before?
Yeah, strangely we're not dead yet.
Had a reasonable storm blow through here yesterday arvo. Probably dropped 50mm in an hour accirding to Doppler radar, which is significant but not unheard of.
Am still waiting for the doomsday storms to ramp up today. Stay off the roads. Close the schools. Work from home.
Manager had to look after kids as school was closed, but took the day off instead of WFH as "it's such a lovely day" ...
Anyway, a few red and yellow spots on the radar around the Sunny Coast. Hoping they don't become anything as Jr is driving through it in a few minutes.
No warnings on BOM.
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@mariner4life said in Extreme Weather:
well well, if it isn't a pattern of behaviour
On the threat of the afore-mentioned storms, Queensland's Savior in Chief Anna Palletjack had a message sent out closing schools and imploring parents to collect their kids as soon as possible. Of course the message sort of failed to pinpoint where, so all of SE Qld panicked.
Turns out Storms weren't bad, not everyone had to do it, but hey, better safe than sorry right
And, in shit i have heard before "i was just following advice" "safety has to come first"
where have i heard all this before?
Yeah I got that phone call from my son. Ridiculous overreaction. They cancelled all GPS sport tommorrow, including farking debating. Dude at swimming was saying that Pallachook was underplaying the impact last weekend and this was her usual overcorrection. Not sure how true that is but it wouldn't surprise me.
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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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