stuckinblighty

What drought ?!?!?

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

Pollyana

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

bcworld

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.

MartinLuther

So English.

MartinLuther

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.

bcworld

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.

stuckinblighty

As i've said before i've never seen a country in a drought have so much frickin rain.

Wrong type of rain maybe ?

datamile

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 )

MartinLuther

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.

stuckinblighty

Thats cos its summertime

ozzieeagle

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.

MartinLuther

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 ) 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.

MartinLuther

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.

ozzieeagle

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

bcworld

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