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I saw a news report last night that the Murray river mouth has started to benefit from all this, as I post this apparently gympie is being cut off and it's still flogging down... Howz your end going biggazza, hope the beer hasn't run out!
biggazza
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yeah all good here alpha,rains not as heavy as yesterday,still f@#$&n rainin off and on all the time ,can get out now,they reckon you might get some off this at the end of the week krankin.
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Feb 7 was a 1 in a 100 year fire really.I was in the thick of it also but the main fire was 1 day and with weather changes you can control a fire.The floods will go where ever they want and stay for weeks and do alot more damage to private property and homes and crops.
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That is why the nth/sth pipe line has been put in Krankin.It is just the start as it will eventually end up in far nth Qld.
Everyone cracking it with the pipeline don't see the big picture.
I know this because I was talking to one of the head engineers about it.
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KraftyPg
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Apparently Gympie was told their floods in about September last year were also 1 in 100 year floods yet water levels today should peak higher than that flood so I hope Victoria's 100 years don't roll around that quick.
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I hear you Krafty but it is the change between alnino and lanina.It is a 14 year cycle and has happened for ever.The amount of rain we have ad in Vic will be like this for around the next 3 years and then level out to the normal winters and summers we had as kids and then in 14 years it will start again with drought and th like.
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KraftyPg
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I'm going to hold you to that bobcat, if in 14 years it doesn't start again I'm going to hunt you down and give your flowers....(we've already established in another thread that fighting is not good so it will have to be flowers).
biggazza
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same thing here scotty,i'm working on the northern section of the s.e qld water grid here there putting in to drought proof s.e qld and some are saying why are they wasting money doing that(3 week stand down at the moment)they say it will hookup with the north one day,like you say they don't see the big picture.
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Here you go guys for the ones not up there experiancing it,some photos of the floods.
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=htt...lleries/your-pictures-coast-flooding/&h=76558
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=htt...lleries/your-pictures-coast-flooding/&h=76558
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Krankin
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No argument intended...just conversation.
How much more damage is there to burnt to the ground, nothing left.
Yes mate, I too was in the thick of it, (wife, son and close friends in local CFA) you see it started at Kilmore East, Saunders Rd, a mates property, Kevin Butler, you know, from Blazeaid,
then it came roaring SE straight for our towns of Wandong/Heathcote Junction and then on to Kinglake and on and on, "uncontrolled" and we all know the rest.
1 in a hundred, well its hard to call it that as yes the conditions were perfect for such an event,
but still it was artificially ignited,
and then not for us here as every summer we have morons trying to light the town up on every hot north wind blowing day.
Most dont get far here, but some get away on average every ten years here,
and,
the only form of controll is a weatherchange and thats in the hands of nature, not us mere mortals.
In no way am i trying to belittle the floods up north, or pull my own cock
for as I have mentioned not long ago here that I've been working near Beechworth and have witnessed the flooding 'tween Wang and Ovens/Murtyleford back in Sept and again more recently.
As for the N/S pipeline, i have no argument there for the purpose of it and future,
as also we/I/ the elec Co i worked for did elec work on it, and Eastlink and Citylink, Northern sewer project and now on the Desal tunneling works,
as we specialise in HV power supply for mining and tunneling machines, ie TBM's etc
Again you guys up north be extra careful and look after the little ones around this huge "swimming pool".
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184mm last night... 320 in Maleny...wow! Some more tonight? Is that n/s pipeline the 1 that Sir Joe wanted to build from Brisbane to the Burdikin( bad spelling...sorry) and everyone said he was a crazy old man! I am watching the news and I am shocked at what's happening..I hope everyone out there is being careful and if you need help with anything call out.. The community is unreal, we have been helping farmers move cattle and horses today... The nav loves the mud!
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No argument intended...just conversation.
How much more damage is there to burnt to the ground, nothing left.
Yes mate, I too was in the thick of it, (wife, son and close friends in local CFA) you see it started at Kilmore East, Saunders Rd, a mates property, Kevin Butler, you know, from Blazeaid,
then it came roaring SE straight for our towns of Wandong/Heathcote Junction and then on to Kinglake and on and on, "uncontrolled" and we all know the rest.
1 in a hundred, well its hard to call it that as yes the conditions were perfect for such an event,
but still it was artificially ignited,
and then not for us here as every summer we have morons trying to light the town up on every hot north wind blowing day.
Most dont get far here, but some get away on average every ten years here,
and,
the only form of controll is a weatherchange and thats in the hands of nature, not us mere mortals.
In no way am i trying to belittle the floods up north, or pull my own cock
for as I have mentioned not long ago here that I've been working near Beechworth and have witnessed the flooding 'tween Wang and Ovens/Murtyleford back in Sept and again more recently.
As for the N/S pipeline, i have no argument there for the purpose of it and future,
as also we/I/ the elec Co i worked for did elec work on it, and Eastlink and Citylink, Northern sewer project and now on the Desal tunneling works,
as we specialise in HV power supply for mining and tunneling machines, ie TBM's etc
Again you guys up north be extra careful and look after the little ones around this huge "swimming pool".
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I'm not argueing mate at all.I have experienced both first hand being an x firie and flood is a hell of alot worse when it comes to controlling them.
Fies will burn hard and fast with perfect weather conditions but they dont stay.The fire might burn for weeks but not with the intencety of the perfect storm.When the weather is more favorable you have strike teams,air attack,back burning and the like and you can control it as to save life and property.Floods you can't because when a levy breaks all hell breaks looe and there is no controlling it.
biggazza
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hey alphabet did you see that on the new's up toowoomba way today.
Oh yeah, was that a forester get air off that wave peak, it is unbelievable. I always thought toowoomba was up quite high. I have family up there and I remember driving up the range. There is home video on one of the other threads just before all hell broke loose.
biggazza
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geezuus alpha if lived here all my life i've never seen anything like that in that area,not even 1974.
This the worst flooding I have seen, 74 was 2 years before my time but we had mark on our wall upstairs on our old house to show where the water had gone. Thank god for the dams now, otherwise Brisbane would be under as well.
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KraftyPg
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They are suggesting on today's news that Brisbane might yet go under, not sure if that's just media talk or fact but either way it;s still not good news.
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Krankin
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There are warnings out for about 15 suburbs around brissy that will go today with low flooding and flash flooding but they are waiting on a king tide tomorrow and all the water from Ipswich... Toowoomba and the flood gates on the dam are open... It's running at about 150% are all coming together.
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