northernbird

I just spat my earl grey all over the keyboard

Budawang

Canberra might have plenty of good things going for it, but the weather this summer has been terrible. The last couple of days have been wet, wet, wet with more rain forecast until Monday.

The first couple of years I was here it was dry as a dog's biscuit.

paulry

This is the wettest place I have ever lived

Did you see the storm drain that runs through Lyneham yesterday afternoon? It was a raging torrent at 5pm and looked close to bursting it's banks.

zultan

To be fair the rain has also been in Sydney and across the NSW.. it aint just Canberra getting wet..

chris955

I thought you would like that

quoll

Yeah but there were 7 or 8 years there where there was no bloody rain at all, the dams were down and you would go for weeks just scouring the BOM site for a little blue patch which would, invariably split and pass to the north and south of the ACT. Now that was incredibly depressing (more suicides in droughts than there are in floods!)

One thing I am missing by being in UK is seeing how high Lake George gets - if anyone has any pics of how full it is now, I'd love to see them. I've been through a couple of totally dry periods and a full to the brim period (they reckon that the new road could get flooded as it was built in a drought period and all the old timers tut tutted and predicted that the water would overtop it at some stage.

Dreamy

We drove past Lake George on Friday. It was dry.

We did comment that it wouldn't stay dry long as I am a bona fide rain queen - didn't think I'd have such an effect quite so quickly.

We were also amazed at how low the road was!

NickyC

We drove to Canberra just after Christmas and I was surprised to see that it wasn't that full at all. There certainly was water at the south end (where it always fills first) but it took a good few k's along the highway before it came into view.

It might be different now - two months later. Lake George is a funny one - I've also seen it full to the brim and bone-dry. Apparantly its catchment is fairly small so unless there's been a lot of rain very locally it doesn't fill as much as you would expect.

Bernieboy

No that was the 'Im a citizen of Australia'answer,she was prob typing naked,pissed and singing ' tie me possum down sport'

Bernieboy

Pardon

Pollyana

I thought you'd disconnected that webcam!!!

Bernieboy

The lads in me local insisted i kept up the payments,PS,wave to the boys

Pollyana

No good, I'm at work now I can do them a display and a wave tonight though if they'd like to reconvene later

commonwealth

moon the queen you queenslanders.

Wol

I've got to take Mrs Wol to the John James hospital in Canberra on Monday and we're a bit concerned that the road round Lake George might be flooded - do you know of any sites that have information? The NSW RTA site is useless - it doesn't even know where Canberra is! for god's sake, it's only the capital!