Canberra. How come...
Mar 2nd 2012, 7:00 am
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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!
Mar 2nd 2012, 7:12 am
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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!
The live desktop map looks pretty comprehensive http://livetraffic.rta.nsw.gov.au/desktop.html
Good luck to Mrs W at JJ (good place to be going to!)
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Mar 2nd 2012, 7:21 am
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Tried both this morning, but neither seem to have actual flood information on roads.
Mar 2nd 2012, 8:22 am
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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!
Mar 2nd 2012, 8:24 am
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Thinking further about this if the road was flooded we would be sure to know - it being the major route out of here.
Mar 2nd 2012, 9:13 am
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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.
Mar 2nd 2012, 5:35 pm
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It was clear at 6.30pm yesterday
Mar 2nd 2012, 11:59 pm
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Some photos of the big wet (none of Lake George though):
http://the-riotact.com/flood-pictures-march-2012/66672
http://the-riotact.com/flood-pictures-march-2012/66672
Mar 3rd 2012, 5:12 am
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25 mm in the last two hours and still raining. Looks set to continue all night.
Mar 3rd 2012, 7:34 am
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My husband almost got stranded in Canberra on Thursday night - his flight to Melbourne to catch the international flight got cancelled and I had visions of him being trapped there forever! He's home now thank goodness but he said he had never seen it so green in Feb and the garden looked like a jungle as the d-i-l hadnt been able to get on top of it (the kids are living in our house). He had some mail for me in his backpack and it was sodden - his pack had obviously been outside on Thursday night some time and the rain had seeped through even though it is a sturdy "waterproof" backpack.
Loving looking at the damcam at the Cotter - it's pretty impressive to see all that water!
Loving looking at the damcam at the Cotter - it's pretty impressive to see all that water!
Mar 3rd 2012, 7:42 am
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Some photos of the big wet (none of Lake George though):
http://the-riotact.com/flood-pictures-march-2012/66672
http://the-riotact.com/flood-pictures-march-2012/66672
Mar 3rd 2012, 8:25 am
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Some photos of the big wet (none of Lake George though):
http://the-riotact.com/flood-pictures-march-2012/66672
http://the-riotact.com/flood-pictures-march-2012/66672
