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What drought ?!?!?

Its been pissing it down all weekend here.....oh yeah and its a bank holiday theres a surprise :(

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Think yourself lucky you aren't in south west Queensland..........rained a bit there recently too.

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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.

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:lol: So English.

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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.

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Yes I'm sure there is an element of that...certainly a lot of debris littering the streets at the moment.

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 ?

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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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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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Thats cos its summertime :D

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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.

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There has been talk that the drought may be breaking. If you compare this year to 2006 then it's been very raining indeed.

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.

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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.

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Yehp.... that why I want the population floodgates wide open....so to speak ;)

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Well they couldn't be expected to rustproof the thing - they had to make sure the visitor centre was finished first! ;) :D

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Nope, just the wrong places. Remember, we're talking about a country three times the size of Western Europe. It'll take more than a few showers in suburban QLD and VIC to break the drought.

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Qld outback is having biggest flood in 120 years. Drought broke in suburban Brisbane a few years ago.

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+1 :thumbup:
Not much of this water will impact the major dams

http://waterinfo.nsw.gov.au/sr/index...e-weekly.shtml

Drought not really broken till substantial rain in the Murray catchment

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Eh, that's NSW. Talking about drought in Qld?

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This summer has been interesting. It's has not been hot at all, infact, just warm. (Hot by UK standards in other words). It's even been quite balmy in February, occasioning people to make comparisons with SE QLD.

We are in drought and have been getting 10-20pc less than the 30 or 40 year average but much of that has come in downpours which is great for large tanks and redistribution...

Just based on the greeness of the backyard , the worst year we had was 2007/8.

This year and last year have been far better.

People forget that Melbourne is supposed to be dry and dusty in February and the grass otherwise browning off. I couldn't believe how green Californian gardens were in March, and our yard had finally gone brown in a mid-March heatwave.

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Just pointing out that rain in Qld impacts on the Darling River -which flows through NSW to SA
http://waterinfo.nsw.gov.au/sr/menindee.shtml

Its all inter related QLD /NSW/Vic /SA

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Remember it well :thumbup:

Strange isn't it that you accept the lack of greenery as normal when it is all down (well some anyway ) to political factors .

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Maybe - the fact we can't use sprinkler systems for our personal enjoyment is political but watering gardens and maintaining gardens is not the natural order.

Look at the flora and fauna not on sprinkle systems.

We saw a movie made in the 70s and it showed a family down the Mornington Peninsula back then. It looked like Cyprus and hot as hell.

We saw it in a wet Melbourne winter and my wife who had never seen Melbourne in the summer could not believe it could get that hot.

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raining again

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We could do with some of that rain in regional WA, the last time it rained here was 19th December - 0.4mm and before that 6mm on 20th November - it is so dry :(

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Drought is alive and kicking in Pilbara region.

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People who havn't lived here for long think short term water supply means no drought. When you have been here for a while you know better, much better.

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Qld situation

Flood: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...-1225838836588

Formal decision in April whether the current falls will break most of the remaining drought in Qld but most predicting it will as highest flood levels in 100/120 years.

Some area's where drought has already been revoked: http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/4789_13811.htm

Brisbane was declared drought free on 1 March 2008: http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/Qu...Mar/index.html

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A bit blasé Vash, to put it in perspective, from an Australian point of view, in Queensland an area larger than the whole of Victoria is currently underwater.
The worst floods for over 120 years is hardly "a few showers"

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What's that area measured in Belgiums?

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7.4

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Don't know. That's too small a unit of measurement in Qld...we only measure in Victoria's and up. ;)

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We obviously use Belgiums down here as Victorias are too large a unit :D

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If you wish to be really pedantic do you measure it right down to the finest Luxembourg as well?