MissyB

Some parts of Victoria are also getting flash floods... Including tourist areas of Halls Gap/Grampians and also parts of the Great Ocean Road.

Also some strong winds on the way for Melbourne!

http://www.theage.com.au/environment...113-19pu7.html

jothefw

all of Victoria got some, except Gippsland by the sounds of it. We had 3 inches yesterday (only expect 17 in a whole year normally!) and 2 inches of that fell in the space of a couple of hours.

It's a weird weather year, that's for sure. Hope everyone keeps safe.

ProudVIC

208mm (8 and 1/3 inches) here since Sunday. The January average is only 55mm and there is still over a a fortnight to go. Most of the rain fell in the last three days.

The amount of water flowing through the creeks and even smaller drainage lines is extraordinary. I am in a hilly/mountainous area not far from Melbourne so we don't have major flood issues but we have certainly had some issues with flash flooding.

BEVS

Well. Major flaming Poo. We've had it with the earthquakes in Xch and the Pike Mine disaster here in NZ.

....and now the weather wants to make it all worse across Australia .

I'm just so sorry for all the extreme tragedy, loss and mess.

Expat Kiwi

stay safe down there. No need to tell you to watch the warnings and register for SES alerts, you're probably already doing that.

Pollyana

Can't register for Emergency Alert - nor can you opt out. If your phone is registered in the target area you get the messages automatically.

Sherlock Holmes

Quite a lot of Western Victoria is in trouble now. I've heard that people affected are a bit miffed at the lack of coverage owing to QLD.

Our lecco went off earlier, just as I was nodding off and everything with a beep went beep lol.

It's back on now hence I'm here. Our river is up but not encroaching on buildings yet (nor very likely to).

North and North West of the state are worst hit but also places on the Ballarat-Hamilton road.

stacey31

omg ive not seen anything over here in england about Victoria got a bit of QLD and mainly Brazil but so far not heard about Melbournes hope it doesnt get any worse for everyone , were having unusually mild weather at mo for the time of year ,, very wierd !

sunbather

Is there a list of towns at risk in Victoria? I saw on the news this morning that Echuca is being warned. I have an elderly aunt whose house in right on the Murray river a bit further downstream at Tocumwal.

bcworld

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDV36900.txt

Tocumwal river height gets a mention at the bottom but not mentioned in the warnings specifically.

sunbather

Thanks for that. I'll be able to keep an eye. I don't actually want to ring her because I don't speak to her too often and I don't want my contact to make her panic. She is in her 80s

Expat Kiwi

What if you only have a mobile, or naked broadband, and don't have a fixed phone line?

Pollyana

The mobile will get a text message, BUT telstra say they cannot yet target mobiles by their location, its all done via the database that stores the registered address - usually whatever address you gave when buying the SIM card. So if you've moved you will get the warnings for your old area, unless you phone your mobile provider and change your address with them.
They are working on changing it so it will target mobiles actually IN the area at the time, but that'll be at least a few months yet. Its not a perfect system but its better than nothing.

I know nothing about naked broadband so can't help you there I'm afraid. Can you run phones off it?

The FAQ page is here - http://www.emergencyalert.gov.au/fre...questions.html - might help a bit.