Yeah saw some poor bloke headbutted a tree over the road up your way mate about 2am today. Yep the winds will bring them down after all this rain for sure.Quote:
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Yeah saw some poor bloke headbutted a tree over the road up your way mate about 2am today. Yep the winds will bring them down after all this rain for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
My Apologies, did not know of that Sad News Family and Friends Involved Today [emoji22][emoji3590][emoji3590]
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He's alive but unwell. Fingers crossed.Quote:
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Farken Jebus, IT’S getting seriously Gale Force up here [emoji51]
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What a night. Finally home.
Power sticks, trees, very moist ground, don't go well together when mother nature decides to turn on the large fan , let me give you the drum!
A lot went over. But this is the start of the beginning since a LOT have simply loosened. Watch the days and weeks ahead...
Once again without the SES legends, the world would stop, honest truth...
A cheeky cold brew before some zZZZzzZZs.....
Well deserved mate!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hodge
Very bloody lucky this morning!
This tree came down and went the perfect way, otherwise garden shed with quad bike and the bungalow would’ve been destroyed!
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Not trying to WANK On, but…….our little highway was blocked this afternoon by a teenager sapling windfall [emoji51][emoji23]
4 day long weekend, sooky sheila’s/metrosexuals heading back IN Galore [emoji23]
Anxiety PLUS, under the Faceache spotlight Stihl worried if I’ve broken highway clearance rules [emoji2961][emoji2961][emoji23]
Fark em All, they’re All home and Hosed Hopefully [emoji120][emoji120]
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But they were iphoning and uploading to their instagram stories the "unprecedented emergency" they got caught up in, I bet. Society's fcuked mate, how did we change into this in only 20 years?Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
In Absolute Fairness, there was ONE 60+ Gentleman ( suspecting hi flyer decent bloke) that stayed the course extremely Helpful Old School, never Judge a Book in Shiny shoes happy to Fark Em UP [emoji123][emoji123][emoji736][emoji736]Quote:
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Still raining on and off. Paddocks all have half inch of water. I found this vid is from earlier in the season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-oXuRZqHTA
We spent many, many days at lake Eppalock, fishing, skiing and exploring. Near the end of the vid it shows a small inlet to the right of frame. It is or is next to a quarry that the lake flooded. In the early eighties we used a depth sounder to show the bottom. You could see the road contour and what looked like a truck sitting on it. Sadly We will never know as it is too deep to dry out when the lake is drained, as it was almost a decade ago.
Don't build new dams as they will never fill. Ha!
Other side of the divide. Check this out (Monday 31st), heaps more rain, with water table rising now thru to surface level and the 6 meg dam has 80m long wall with I m free board and she breached over top but survived. At same time, 50kph westerly and another big stringy bark came down _ blocked access to our paddock garden. Just needs a bit more clearing away so I can get to the little red tractor so it can help out from behind.
Last pic is the dam over flow.
The aftermath of the Eppalock overflow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew2jB9krWME
More weather on the way people, copping it here north of Ballarat now.
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Biggest winds this season happening and picking up now. Ground moister than Paris Hilton's knickers ... Trees and poles stand no chance.
This incoming storm may be a quiet achiever.
Bring on tonight.
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Bloody Millsy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hodge
Just had a look at BOM and wowee it looks like a breaker sweeping over the whole state. Time to duck dive and hope to come up behind it.
How goods coming home from work 7am Sunday morning! Blood marvellous.
Think i've said it 30-40 times before, but fcuk it i'll say it again. SES volunteers are legends!!!
Without them, I dead set don't know what this joint would turn into after some weather... Such privilege working alongside and assisting them.
On another note. I experienced WITHOUT A DOUBT the heaviest 10-15 minutes of rain/wind I've ever witnessed in my life. It just hit out of nowhere like a explosion of wind and rain in a matter of seconds, from calm and dry to catastrophic! 2:22am to be exact... Just that little bit of dark red on the radar.
G'night all. Wait... G'day. MOrning, whatever it is....
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What's SES? Some sort of search and rescue service?
Our local State emergency services mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrazilianY60
https://www.ses.vic.gov.au/
Mostly volunteers, responding to all types of emergencies like weather, storms, floods, fires. They work in hand with the fire fighters and the cops quiet a lot.
I work on the power grid and get to work with them all the time , mostly during storm, trees down bringing lines down or vice versa.
Some of the shit they do and put up with as VOLUNTEERS on their own time is staggering. Bow to them any moment personally !!!
Thanks mate for the explanation.
Here this is called "Civil Defense". A lot of help from the 4x4 comunity on floods, landslides, etc, transporting people back and forth the critical sites. As a great part of the people into 4x4 are also RAM radio operators, they help providing means of comms as well.
I took part once transporting Red Cross food, water and clothing donations in one of those occasions and had to do a river crossing (there was no other alternative) that was the only time ever I have feared for my life. Not a good memory.
As you said, these are folks that deserve a lot of respect.
While lots of places in OZ are experiencing flooding, my hometown is on its 3rd day of Total Fire Ban. Australia is such a big country.
Take care out there.
Think the ‘Licola Snow Trip’ should be held in Victorian PEAK Summers going forward [emoji23]
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Balmy 35 degrees in Brissie today. Gotta love Qld!!
I need to move north.Quote:
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Beautiful summers day working from home today in Melbourne!
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Haha yeah the same (WFH) , thought about it then thought don't be silly it's not that bad. . . Bloody should have lol looks cosy as. . [emoji106][emoji106]
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Getting belted up here 150klm south of Mt Isa, perfect timing with Cultural Heritage field surveys planned for Wednesday, creeks will be running hard, site access will be cut off - what a cluster. Was 35 deg about 10 mins ago, now sitting at 20 deg.
Glad I’m not home, apparently they had the heater as well.
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140mm in the gauge out here last 12 hrs - its moist!
How ya all doin' over in the east? About a third of my kid's shed went MIA this morning! We haven't had power since before daybreak, either. Running the old gennie to keep the fridge, aquarium, and internet going. Lucky we have a wood fireplace.
Edit: power back at 4:30. Certainly makes keeping Australian Rainbowfish alive, interesting!!
Power on and a warm pug lolQuote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
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As long as the pug is warm, all is right with the world.
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it made for any interesting chrissy day for sureQuote:
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Yep, obviously nothing like our banana bender family up north have experienced but I spent Christmas so far clearing up crap.Quote:
Originally Posted by rusty_nail
New driveway I just fixed up gone for starters lol
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A message recently received from a friend who lives between Mossman & Daintree Village in FNQ on a 100 acre rainforest property. He & his wife are in their mid 60's. Names changed to protect privacy.
Hi All, Today is the first time I have had access to the internet since just before Cyclone Jasper made landfall. We survived the impact of the Cyclone extremely well with our newly purchased power supply kicking in very early on and keeping us functioning. The flood levels were quite modest but made it impossible to get off the property and we had begun a general clean-up around the house. However because we did not have any communications at all we had no idea that Jasper had not moved over and past us and that biblical levels of rain were heading our way. So Sunday night at about 11.00pm the water levels began to rise from modest levels to something very scary (we ended up with flood levels 2m higher than ever before). We worked hard for an hour or so to keep our valuables up as high as possible but once the water level inside the house reached our waist we new we had to get the canoe and paddle over to our cottage (about 130m away) and rescue Fred our 81 year old tenant. After spending a bit of time sheltering under the cover of our veranda and watching the water constantly rising we decided to paddle back past the cottage and up the hill. We have a small shelter there and knew that it would be above the floodwaters. I managed to get everyone safely there and we sheltered there but I started to worry about our chooks so I paddled back to the house to rescue as many as I could of our 5 chickens. Managed to recover 3 but they were very cold and when I got back to June and Fred I handed them one each and we tried to warm them up with our meagre body heat. (I found another one at first light. So 4 of our five chooks survived). At first light I began the process of getting us off the property and to safety. I paddled on my own for the first trip and once I had made it out to dry land on the Daintree-Mossman road I met up with new neighbours Julie and Ian (They have recently bought the Hotel but live 1K down the road) Ian offered to look after June so I paddled back and loaded our small amount of gear into the canoe and we paddled back out and dropped her off. The water levels were dropping so the journey back to pick up Fred was an ordeal and took a bit of time but I did get there and organised to get him loaded up. He wanted to take way too much gear and we capsized twice before we even began the journey. It was a nightmare paddling out to the top of the driveway with Fred not able to offer much help. We managed to get within 30 meters of dry land when we capsized once again. This time in deep water with little hope of bailing out the canoe and getting back in. So I turned the canoe upside down to provide Fred with something to hang onto while I swam for help. June in the mean time was getting terribly worried about how long I was taking so sent Ian out in his Polaris. I met him on the road and with some extra lengths of rope and Julie's help we managed to swim out to Fred and winch him to safety but not before I cramped up and went down almost one time too many. If it hadn't be for Ian quickly grabbing me I would not have made it. So after a very long post (sorry about that) we are all safe and now trying to cope with the recovery phase.
Queensland, The sunshine state! That would have been an absolutely harrowing ordeal. Glad your friends made it out, Cuppa.