Floods - how are you coping?

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How about our Queensland and Northern NSW friends let us know how they're getting on in one of the worst natural disasters to hit our country?

(For our OS friends - there is an area larger than Texas under flood - and growing day by day!)
 
Hope all of our Queensland members & their families are safe during these terrible floods.

Regards
Mr Turbo
 
Having been caught in some of flooding in QLD over the last couple of weeks, I discovered just how quickly the rivers can rise and overflow, cutting people off from other towns. I too hope all the Qld members and families are safe and sound.

Regards,

Joel
 
Hope everyone from the board is staying safe!!! Crazy weather, we're currently getting buried in snow for the second time this year (big snow that is), not usual for this part of the country.
 
Mate, it's snowing in parts of Australia in mid summer.
 
Climate change, historical precedent & inland flooding.

There is a general misunderstanding among many in relation to 'global warming' [a.k.a. climate change] that increased rainfall and increased / unseasonal snow falls 'disprove' the theory.
In reality, greater variation in weather patterns may just be a symptom of change.
Having said that, there are records of paddle steamers sailing 'overland' in New South Wales in the 19th century during large floods - these trips were predominantly, but not always, along normally dry creeks. (So perhaps the current falls are not entirely unprecedented.)
e.g.
The P.S. Princess Royal, 60 miles along the 'previously uncharted' Talyawalka Creek (an annabranch of the Darling River).
P.S. Pioneer: Once during a heavy flood it left the Talyawalka Creek and set out overland on a journey during which the skipper at one stage did not see land for more than six hours. :lildevil:
P.S. Pilot: One of the slowest boats on the river ... owner - skipper would often leave the rivers to deliver or pick up cargo. ... on one ... occasion he journeyed many miles overland to a location that demanded well over 30 feet of water in the Darling or he was truly stranded.
(Info from Paddle Boats of the Murray Darling River System, by Brian Marshall ISBN 0 7316 2941 8, if anyone is interested.)
Perhaps the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Us white fellas really haven't been on this continent anywhere long enough to understand it, just long enough to love it!.
 
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Hope you are all staying safe.

Over here in Western Australia we had a max of 44c today. Was hell at work, had to shut off a few of the servers due to our old aircon dying in the server room. And working in the storage room wich is ~48c with no fans, windows or any doors open for a few hours. I shouldnt complain though, ive been in worse and its not as bad as the floods some of you people are in the middle of.
 
Kevin recommended to me a book on this subject some time back. It is called Heaven and Earth by Professor Ian Plimmer. I'm glad he did because it explained much and confirmed suspicions I had in my mind on this. While I found it a difficult book to read- Kevin did not mention this but then he is far smarter than I am- yet well worthwhile. I imagine it is still available- I bought mine online.

Barry said:
There is a general misunderstanding among many in relation to 'global warming' [a.k.a. climate change] that increased rainfall and increased / unseasonal snow falls 'disprove' the theory.
In reality, greater variation in weather patterns may just be a symptom of change.
Having said that, there are records of paddle steamers sailing 'overland' in New South Wales in the 19th century during large floods - these trips were predominantly, but not always, along normally dry creeks. (So perhaps the current falls are not entirely unprecedented.)
e.g.
The P.S. Princess Royal, 60 miles along the 'previously uncharted' Talyawalka Creek (an annabranch of the Darling River).
P.S. Pioneer: Once during a heavy flood it left the Talyawalka Creek and set out overland on a journey during which the skipper at one stage did not see land for more than six hours. :lildevil:
P.S. Pilot: One of the slowest boats on the river ... owner - skipper would often leave the rivers to deliver or pick up cargo. ... on one ... occasion he journeyed many miles overland to a location that demanded well over 30 feet of water in the Darling or he was truly stranded.
(Info from Paddle Boats of the Murray Darling River System, by Brian Marshall ISBN 0 7316 2941 8, if anyone is interested.)
Perhaps the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Us white fellas really haven't been on this continent anywhere long enough to understand it, just long enough to love it!.
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"Kevin did not mention this but then he is far smarter than I am"

:lol: yeah right Rally! I too found it a difficult read! (but good)

Back on topic I note we've had no responses from those in areas affected; not surprising under the circumstances!

Our thoughts are with you folks!
 
We had a little inconvenience and adventure getting home from Warwick after Christmas but have been ok at home ( live at the top of a huge hill ) , friends and family have been effected in marybourgh, gatton and toowoomba , flooded homes and businesses
the worst part is that they are predicting this to go on till march
 
Rally said:
Mate, it's snowing in parts of Australia in mid summer.
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It usually does! Just that no one pays any attention to it as the media doesn't sensationalise it. Since the floods have occurred, links may have been made to "climate change (previously global warming)" thus the media coverage of the snow as well as the floods - because it suits their agenda to get more people watching/listening/reading their stories = more $$$ from adversting.

Either way, I hope that those effected by the floods, regardless of wether they can read this thread or not, are all dealing with the floods and are safe overall. Yes there will be a massive damage bill, but all of that money isn't worth one life.

All the best to those who are doing it tough (now) due to too much water.

Cheers

Bennie
 
Someone on the news called it an inland tsunami, and I thought typical media hype. Then I saw the footage. The depth and speed of the current was amazing- as bad as the worst of the Boxing Day tsunami in Indonuesia a few years back. I don't think I've ever seen a car being carried down a river as quickly as what i saw on the footage today. They said an 8 metre surge went through the city.

The crazy thing is I had a parcel to be delivered to Towoomba this morning and was joking with the courier they'd be better sending it by boat. I then saw the footage and how serious it was. Then our Queensland distributor rang me about the parcel and if it had left. I suggested the end user probably had bigger fish to fry than worrying about his parcel.

I was then in the waiting room to get an MRI and they said the flood peak in Brisbane will be bigger than 1974- which was huge. The dams are at 140% and they are filling faster than they can let it out. In volume, the catchment is dealing with the volume of 2 Sydney Harbours a day. I'm having difficulty getting my head around the scale of all this. Our thoughts are still with our people in Queensland and northern NSW.
 
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Toowoomba Flood 2011.01.10
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Rally said:
The dams are at 140% and they are filling faster than they can let it out.
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I'm not sure as to which dam, but one of the dams in one of the effected areas is currently at 173% & still rising as of early this afternoon. They expect this particular dam to reach 200% (it's max capacity before they need to open the spill gates) by the end of today sometime.
They also said that this same dam was at just 20% only 18 months ago.

Rally said:
Our thoughts are still with our people in Queensland and northern NSW.
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That they are. Be safe & stay safe everyone.

Regards
Mr Turbo
 
:eek: Whoooooo! Geez, I think I'd be off to move the car to higher ground and not staying there to video the event!
 
Really hope everyone out there stays safe. We don't hear much on the news of what happens down there (the last thing i recall is paul hogan not being allowed to return to the u.s. because of back taxes :D ), but heard the affected area is now the size of france AND germany combined. Can't even imagine! Saying a prayer for all those out there tonight...
 
Did you like how the bloke in the Patrol remembered to lock his front hubs? Wish I had the footage to show on the really fast moving torrent- but it will probably be on the news tonight. Damo, it might be the same dam as my information was probably older than yours.
 
Well, good news for Hoges is that they have dropped all charges (actually there were never any charges, just allegations) and he is suing them for $80 million. Can't say I blame him either. A few days ago the area was about the size of NSW- 809,000 square km's. The area of land affected is now greater, and continues to grow as now areas of NSW are affected.

dirtyRU said:
Really hope everyone out there stays safe. We don't hear much on the news of what happens down there (the last thing i recall is paul hogan not being allowed to return to the u.s. because of back taxes :D ), but heard the affected area is now the size of france AND germany combined. Can't even imagine! Saying a prayer for all those out there tonight...
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