Extreme Weather
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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!
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@gt12 said in Extreme Weather:
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).
Gutted mate. I know Lance pretty well and have fished the three kings on that boat about 15 years ago. Horrible news.
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http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ21037.shtml
Six-hourly rainfall totals between 100mm to 160mm are possible.
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WE had warm rainfall in Surrey yesterday too.
It's been really warm and sunny recently so I booked a round of golf. And of course, it was a drizzly afternoon. Boo. Not golf terminal though, but then down the 18th the heavens properly opened. Properly. But the rain was warm, sort of like tropical warm. Very strange given that it was a 16-17 degree day.
30 minutes later there wasn't a cloud in the sky.
Climate change deniers are just plain wrong.
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You've heard of the definition of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?
So the Mary River has just had it's third flood in 2022. That's 3 floods in 4 months.
Thankfully this last one is nowhere near as as bad January and March.
Nor has Maryborough been hit at all this time (stayed below "minor" flood level).
But Gympie town centre has gone under again (at least parts of it).
FYI - cutting Gympie and Maryborough off may threaten toilet paper and alcohol supplies to Hervey Bay ...
... so potential catastrophic disaster
How often do you allow your business to flood and try and rebuild/re-establish in the same place?
Since we moved to Qld they've flooded AT LEAST in 2011, 2013, 3x this year ... and I'm pretty sure a few other times that I cant get results from google. (Pretty sure at least 2x additional floods ... ).
So why do you try and build back in the same place? It's just going to flood again!?!? And then expect is to feel sorry for you?
Seems seriously fucking stupid to me.
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It was a high of 18 degrees here today
Arma-fucking-ggeddon
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@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
How you holding up @NTA and other Sydney Ferners? Damp again?
Much floodness this year. Getting silly.
Yeah she moist in these parts. This was rugby on Saturday. Great scrum weather, but you don't really get the full effect without video
And then the river came right up - and quickly! The growing issue in my part of NW Sydney is urbanisation; all the feeder creeks are getting hammered because pasture land is being eaten away by paved surfaces and drainage. The outcome is faster water egress to channels. Have a look at various parts of the area immediately south of Windsor, where the river is flooding and badly:
Google Earth Timelapse
Explore the dynamics of our changing planet over the past three and a half decades.
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@mariner4life said in Extreme Weather:
It was a high of 18 degrees here today
Arma-fucking-ggeddon
Get fucked
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Loooool fuck that!!!
There's a reason I live in the tropics
