Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
#16
Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
We're at the back end of Peregian nr Verrierdale, 10 mins Noosa. Kids go to Eumundi school - well they haven't been for a few days as no bugger can get there! Making my middle one play his clarinet! Hot choc, cake and clarinet lessons! Supposed to be photographing the Eumundi bodyart festival tomorrow, do you reckon anyone will dare to bare with it blowing a gale????
#17
Joined: May 2007
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Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
Funny you should say that, I was walking through Brisbane yesterday in the damp and 'cold' on my way back to the car and I caught one of those smells ...
Y'know, the smells that remind you of some long-forgotten place and time shared with a person whose life has inevitably changed beyond recognition in the passing of time.
And it was Butlins at Bognor on an extremely wet Bank Holiday weekend a good few years ago ... it was most disconcerting then and now ... but the moment soon passed.
Y'know, the smells that remind you of some long-forgotten place and time shared with a person whose life has inevitably changed beyond recognition in the passing of time.
And it was Butlins at Bognor on an extremely wet Bank Holiday weekend a good few years ago ... it was most disconcerting then and now ... but the moment soon passed.
#18
Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
there are some great photos here:
http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2007...-storm-damage/
This one even has a "ghostly orb"
http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2007...-storm-damage/
This one even has a "ghostly orb"
#19
Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
there are some great photos here:
http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2007...-storm-damage/
This one even has a "ghostly orb"
http://media.thedaily.com.au/img/pho...24/f3_t600.jpg
http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2007...-storm-damage/
This one even has a "ghostly orb"
http://media.thedaily.com.au/img/pho...24/f3_t600.jpg
#20
Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
And they say the Dams are getting very little
We live in the catchment and have had 120mm in the last week so not sure whats going on.
We live in the catchment and have had 120mm in the last week so not sure whats going on.
#21
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 137
Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
why is that always the way, it rains for days and they still say it didn't make it to the dam! all this rain is for nothing? Is Mark back yet?
#22
Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
He's back!!! Complete with loadsa chocolate and some doritos! Rain definately eased, but he said the roads are really bad, apparently theres a few sunken cars near the golf course! Have you made that cake yet?
#23
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 137
Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
no, i've got a baby she wouldn't give me a minute, then my son came back from daycare and now i've got no chance. At least your precious cargo got back safely! Still waiting for the estate agents to send someone about the ceiling.......it will probably cave in.
#24
Joined: May 2007
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Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
But as usual it needs a certain amount of rain to saturate the ground before run-off will happen (30 to 40mm, from memory).
It needs a major (prolonged) rain event to top-up the dams and as welcome as these couple of days are it just isn't enough.
It really does need a PROPER cyclone to dump on us. Unwelcome as that prospect is safety-wise.
#25
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Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
Weve had a huge buttress root tree about 30 metres high come down, it had 2 forks in it, they went different ways, feel lucky this year, it was a couple of years back we had a smaller tree than that wreck a roof.
Rain guage, tipped between 60 and 100 ml a day out since it started days ago now, emptied it myself this morning and its filled 60 ml since then, one area up here had 600ml (uks average rainfall) in the last 24 hours, think they might have said boreen point but it was on 92.7 radio anyway.
Roads as always have washed out leaving crater size potholes to smash your cars, like dodgems avoiding cars V potholes this morning. Point cartwright is interesting one stretch has more sand in the road than on the beach.
Edit, sounds like it was 713ml in 24 hours at rainbow beach, courier mail.
Rain guage, tipped between 60 and 100 ml a day out since it started days ago now, emptied it myself this morning and its filled 60 ml since then, one area up here had 600ml (uks average rainfall) in the last 24 hours, think they might have said boreen point but it was on 92.7 radio anyway.
Roads as always have washed out leaving crater size potholes to smash your cars, like dodgems avoiding cars V potholes this morning. Point cartwright is interesting one stretch has more sand in the road than on the beach.
Edit, sounds like it was 713ml in 24 hours at rainbow beach, courier mail.
Last edited by jad n rich; Aug 24th 2007 at 2:42 am.
#26
Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
They said 300mm would fill it.
Well should be a wet summer this year so fingers crossed.
Well should be a wet summer this year so fingers crossed.
#27
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Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
Biggest danger is the flooding now with all the rivers and creeks on alert. Plus we are sending SES teams up from Brisbane to help with tree removal aas well as sandbagging
#28
Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
I was right, all went quiet for a bit then it started again! Have towels all across the living room, unplugged the electrics, have eaten cakes and doritos, feeling a tad sicky now My sister sent some pressies for the boys for a rainy day, pain your own mugs - not sure I can be arsed to watch them spread paint everywhere. Might go for a dip in my new pool!
#29
Re: Anyone else in the middle of a friggin cyclone???
I was right, all went quiet for a bit then it started again! Have towels all across the living room, unplugged the electrics, have eaten cakes and doritos, feeling a tad sicky now My sister sent some pressies for the boys for a rainy day, pain your own mugs - not sure I can be arsed to watch them spread paint everywhere. Might go for a dip in my new pool!