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MrsDagboy Jun 29th 2005 3:20 pm

Re: The rain in Brisbane.!!
 

Originally Posted by Megalania
Better talking to the strainer post, these 'ere Poms are just Beach Boys Groupies: "Wee, Wee all live for the Sun, Sun, Sun, Su-u-u-n".

Or a brick wall! :rolleyes:

JackTheLad Jun 29th 2005 3:30 pm

Re: The rain in Brisbane.!!
 

Originally Posted by MrsDagboy
Or a brick wall! :rolleyes:

http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/.../BrickWall.jpg

What were you saying again?

JTL

MrsDagboy Jun 29th 2005 3:33 pm

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Originally Posted by brisnick
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117...3-1248,00.html

There was severe flooding in May 1996 and again in July 1973 - the year the cargo ship Cherry Venture was driven ashore on Fraser Island by big seas.

LOL, just shows you cant trust everything you read.

The Cherry Venture wasn't driven ashore on Fraser Island, it was driven ashore just south of Double Island Point on 40 mile beach.

Bix Jun 29th 2005 3:33 pm

Re: The rain in Brisbane.!!
 

Originally Posted by JackTheLad

The pointing of your foundations are not good. :(

Remember Jericho.

MrsDagboy Jun 29th 2005 3:34 pm

Re: The rain in Brisbane.!!
 

Originally Posted by Bix
The pointing of your foundations are not good. :(

Yeah, I hope it falls down :p

Bix Jun 29th 2005 3:47 pm

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Originally Posted by MrsDagboy
Yeah, I hope it falls down :p

Powers beyond imagination :eek:

MrsDagboy Jun 29th 2005 3:50 pm

Re: The rain in Brisbane.!!
 

Originally Posted by Bix
Powers beyond imagination :eek:


;)

ABCDiamond Jun 29th 2005 4:14 pm

Re: The rain in Brisbane.!!
 

Originally Posted by steve99

Just checked out the Gold Coast :scared: 413.8mm so far and 350mm of it yesterday. Brisbane only showing 40.8 yesterday, thats a pretty
amazing difference.

Brisbane Airport recorded 86mm today so far, with 152mm for the month.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/20...0.200506.shtml

I'm still waiting for the water to go down in my garden :D Then I can measure how deep it ended up getting :)

steve99 Jun 29th 2005 4:19 pm

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:)

Originally Posted by ABCDiamond
Brisbane Airport recorded 86mm today so far, with 152mm for the month.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/20...0.200506.shtml

I'm still waiting for the water to go down in my garden :D Then I can measure how deep it ended up getting :)

I got my info of here, http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/ID...9.latest.shtml
just shows you how localised the weather can be.

We having April showers today, it just bucketed it down for about 20mins and is now blue sky...
It seems to come down so heavy at times I think some people would struggle to stay upright in it, still prefer it like that to that horrible drizzly pointless english rain ;)
steve

Megalania Jun 29th 2005 4:21 pm

Re: The rain in Brisbane.!!
 

Originally Posted by MrsDagboy
Or a brick wall! :rolleyes:

This would have to have been ghost writ by a Pommy Expat:

http://www.candlelightstories.com/images/Pea.jpg

The Pwinthess and the Pea

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a real princess. He traveled around the whole world in search of his real princess; but never found her. There was always something wrong with the princesses he found. None were to his taste. They simply weren't real princesses. The prince returned home very sad and weary, for he had set his heart on marrying a real princess.

One evening a storm settled over the land. Lightning flashed and thunder roared. Rain came down by the bucket. When the storm raged at its worst, someone knocked on the casle gate and the king himself went down to open it.

On the other side of the gate stood a wet and ragged princess. Water ran down her hair and mud caked her sopping clothes. It flowed in through the heels of her shoes and out through the toes. She said she was a princess and would like to get warm.

"We shall see if indeed she is a princess," thought the queen without uttering a word. She hurried off to the guest room and took all the bedclothes off the bed. Then on the bare bedstead she put a tiny pea. On top of this pea she piled twenty mattresses and twenty feather quilts. That was to be the bed upon which the princess would sleep.

The next morning a servant asked her how she had slept. She replied, "Oh, just wretchedly! I did not close my eyes even once the whole night through. God knows what was in that bed turning me black and blue!"

Now everyone knew that she was certainly a real princess, since she had felt the little pea through all the twenty mattresses and twenty feather quilts. Only a real princess would be so sensitive!

The happy prince married her. The pea was put on exhibition at the royal museum where you can go see it, if it hasn't been stolen.

That was a real story!

JackTheLad Jun 29th 2005 4:25 pm

Re: The rain in Brisbane.!!
 

Originally Posted by Bix
Powers beyond imagination :eek:


Oh well done, knock down my bloody wall :eek:

Ok, go ahead, what were you saying... something about rain blah blah blah, go on, I'm listening...

JTL

JackTheLad Jun 29th 2005 4:26 pm

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http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/images/...hearingguy.jpg

Please go ahead.
I'm listening,

JTL

ABCDiamond Jun 29th 2005 4:48 pm

Re: The rain in Brisbane.!!
 

Originally Posted by steve99
:)

I got my info of here, http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/ID...9.latest.shtml
just shows you how localised the weather can be.
steve

Everything can be so localised :)
Both of those BOM charts say Brisbane, but one is Brisbane City (40.8mm), and the other Brisbane Airport (86.0mm), a distance of 14km :D

That's why when people discuss Brisbane temperatures, it can be 10 degrees different between some parts.

Pollyana Jun 29th 2005 4:55 pm

Re: The rain in Brisbane.!!
 

Originally Posted by ABCDiamond
Everything can be so localised :)
Both of those BOM charts say Brisbane, but one is Brisbane City (40.8mm), and the other Brisbane Airport (86.0mm), a distance of 14km :D

That's why when people discuss Brisbane temperatures, it can be 10 degrees different between some parts.

We're in Aspley, on the north side, and the airport figures are pretty close for the weather we get - vastly different from the city though, esp when it comes to temps overnight and humidity.

ABCDiamond Jun 29th 2005 5:14 pm

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I just measured a watermark in my garden, from last nights rain, and it was 220mm deep. :)


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