Drought ?
What drought ?!?!?
Its been pissing it down all weekend here.....oh yeah and its a bank holiday theres a surprise :( |
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Originally Posted by stuckinblighty
(Post 8401949)
What drought ?!?!?
Its been pissing it down all weekend here.....oh yeah and its a bank holiday theres a surprise :( |
Re: Drought ?
Originally Posted by stuckinblighty
(Post 8401949)
What drought ?!?!?
Its been pissing it down all weekend here.....oh yeah and its a bank holiday theres a surprise :( Arrived at the airport to find about a foot of water across the entire freeway at the airport entrance - think they forgot about drainage when designing roads in Mel. |
Re: Drought ?
Originally Posted by stuckinblighty
(Post 8401949)
What drought ?!?!?
Its been pissing it down all weekend here.....oh yeah and its a bank holiday theres a surprise :( |
Re: Drought ?
Originally Posted by bcworld
(Post 8402094)
It was torrential at 6am this morning in Melbourne!
Arrived at the airport to find about a foot of water across the entire freeway at the airport entrance - think they forgot about drainage when designing roads in Mel. |
Re: Drought ?
Originally Posted by MartinLuther
(Post 8402248)
I'm wondering if a lot of the drains are having problems because this is the 1st big rain we've had for a long time (i.e. lots of blockages). Also lots of run-off from the hard earth. I'd imagine the roads are going to be a bit slippy as well.
Was in the CBD yesterday and there were abandoned water logged cars all over the shop. Saw this poor old couple fetching their soggy belongings out of their car which had clearly been underwater. Back to the drought...that was a pretty large area of rain last night so hopefully at least some of it made its way into the catchment. :fingerscrossed: |
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As i've said before i've never seen a country in a drought have so much frickin rain.
Wrong type of rain maybe ? |
Re: Drought ?
SEQ dams have gone from 17% two years ago to 93.8%. In fact from 74% since 26th Feb, so yes we've had some rain. Perhaps triggered by the millions spend on water pipelines, and de-salination plants that now lie unused ( and rusty )
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Re: Drought ?
Originally Posted by stuckinblighty
(Post 8402356)
As i've said before i've never seen a country in a drought have so much frickin rain.
Wrong type of rain maybe ? Drought just means less rain than normal but how many rainy days did we have in Jan and Feb this year. 4 maybe? That's not a lot of rain. |
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Originally Posted by MartinLuther
(Post 8402389)
Have you seen how sunny it is outside? Get out there while you can.
Drought just means less rain than normal but how many rainy days did we have in Jan and Feb this year. 4 maybe? That's not a lot of rain. |
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Originally Posted by stuckinblighty
(Post 8402356)
As i've said before i've never seen a country in a drought have so much frickin rain.
Wrong type of rain maybe ? Your correct.... dont get me going on this subject. Comes down to the freaking state borders. Most people haven't seen how beautiful Melbournes gardens and parks used to be back in the 70's and early 80's.... when the sprinklers where left on most of the summer. Stupid, ignorant, state government border freaking issues. Then we have dickheads claiming there is to much population.... when it comes down to freaking infrastructure. It really annoys me this subject. |
Re: Drought ?
Originally Posted by stuckinblighty
(Post 8402407)
Thats cos its summertime :D
The other thing is that it's a big place. I know last winter the Mornington Peninsula got normal levels of rainfall whereas other parts of Vic didn't. As you live not that far north of the MP (in Toorak :D) I suspect that you've had something like normal rainfall as well over the last year. I did think summer was dryer than normal but at the same time we had one of the coldest summer days I've experienced since being here. |
Re: Drought ?
Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
(Post 8402415)
Your correct.... dont get me going on this subject.
Comes down to the freaking state borders. Most people haven't seen how beautiful Melbournes gardens and parks used to be back in the 70's and early 80's.... when the sprinklers where left on most of the summer. Stupid, ignorant, state government border freaking issues. Then we have dickheads claiming there is to much population.... when it comes down to freaking infrastructure. It really annoys me this subject. |
Re: Drought ?
Originally Posted by MartinLuther
(Post 8402425)
The problem with infrastructure is that it has to break (or get near breaking point) before the people allow governments to do something about it. I believe there were similar problems before they built the Thompson Dam.
Yehp.... that why I want the population floodgates wide open....so to speak ;) |
Re: Drought ?
Originally Posted by datamile
(Post 8402384)
de-salination plants that now lie unused ( and rusty )
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