East Coast floods

[arm79]

Originally Posted by FTE217

I ran the gaunlet Saturday being we had most of the day not raining (rare) - I went F it I'm cutting the lawn.
Adjusted mower higher a couple of clicks off I went.
Some sections I just couldn't due to being a pool.
Left some nice mud lines but expected.

Ahhhh... So its you in this video...

https://dai.ly/x87eshp

Yes, yes, I know... Just please see the humour in it!

[FTE217]

hehe yes I do
Good on him
My current and previous neighbours do think I'm as mad TBH what/when they see me do rain hail shine and kind of hours.

[Citroënbender]

I just did a tip run (Kimbriki), was quiet on arrival but soon a busy scene. Not the only person trying to wrap up a garden job.

Adversity it isn’t - just inconvenience. As someone who prefers to be doing stuff outdoors, it’s frustrating. Right now wishing I hadn’t brushed off a mate when he wanted to build a couple of tiny houses - could be trucking them up to Lismore or Casino for emergency accommodation.

[FTE217]

I'm sure a nice mud bath down Kimbriki......
What a set up might I say.
Yes its killing me as well hate being indoors.
That would have been a good outcome re building those house's and getting them north, on high ground may I say.

Will upload photos later but yes Lismore has received a devasting amount of water...

[T3rminator]

Just got off the phone to a mate in Brissy. Has blown 4 tyres, on separate occasions, in the last week. Apparently from running over pot holes, man holes and sharp objects being washed up. He drives for a living, so doesn't really have a lot of options. He has been a climate change denier, but the last thing he said to me was "maybe climate change is happening"

[DJR-351]

Not every day you see flooding on a bridge..

[Citroënbender]

That really was something else. It’s an interesting descent even in dry weather.

Why is it that so many recent images of flood-stuck cars here, include a Territory? Camries I can understand but the former seems greatly over-represented.

[hayseed]

Originally Posted by TrVrPhiLpsiNdstrys

Will upload photos later but yes Lismore has received a devasting amount of water...

Pic from the weeklytimes..

[FTE217]

Originally Posted by DJR-351

Not every day you see flooding on a bridge..

image

not far from my surrounds.
Left the office on 3pm, couldn't believe what I was seeing on the roads and towards my home.
Waterfalls you never saw, pot holes now are death traps for damage.
Water across 2 of 3lanes, my area was a river out of control.
Just lucky winds weren't high for heaps of trees would have come down.

[Citroënbender]

The current edition of NRMA’s Open Road magazine, which arrived today, shows remarkable prescience. A view mostly of water, labelled “Big Backyard - Discover Greater Sydney’s natural wonders”.

[MITCHAY]

Some crazy photos and videos coming out.

[mondeomatureguy]

hi guy's
Not really being affected by the floods in Goulburn too much, my heart really goes out to all these people who have lost everything.
I saw the news and read the news paper's but what got to me was a guy in Richmond who said "he was just getting his house back to normal after last year's floods and then being hit again".

I cant even think what these people went thru and are still going thru. Its going to take years for Lismore to get back on there feet, and there's something good have come out of this, it shows how resilient Australians really are.

[Citroënbender]

It’s almost incomprehensible that Lismore is getting hammered again. Just a terrible situation. Convergence with an overdrawn market for construction materials/services, is not good either.

[mondeomatureguy]

Hi Guy's,
My wife was watching the TV and they interviewed a man that was affected by the floods and his whole street was also affected.
He was saying " his house needs to be knocked down and if it is who on earth would buy the land after what happened.

Its bad enough going thru this once but now again Lismore had been flooded the second time in a month, how do you deal with that?
We think we have problems with Petrol Prices but compared to what these people in Lismore are going thru its nothing.

[Citroënbender]

North-west Sydney will be flooding again, the way this is going - waterlogged ground already ponding after just a morning of rain. Really hope northern NSW gets a break.

[Citroënbender]

Amazing to consider much of the state is still on short notice for flooding events, months in now. Dams full, ground saturated, there’s nowhere for water to go once it hits the surface.

Have just bought bulk hydrogen peroxide to dilute for mould treatment. I’ve noticed the lime rendered walls host more mound than cement rendered renovations. The horsehair plaster is more black then white.

It’s sad to see the ongoing travails of flood-impacted agriculture in northern NSW only get passing media attention. It’s as if they think farming is a hobby, not an essential service.

[buggerlugs]

https://www.news.com.au/national/la-...05c2cd7a00eadc

[LG17]

Originally Posted by buggerlugs

https://www.news.com.au/national/la-...05c2cd7a00eadc

I read a very similar article to that a few days ago and thought oh ****, not again.
Everything is so saturated the ground can't take any more. It's at the stage now where large trees are just toppling over even with no wind.

[Citroënbender]

That message originally came through (from NOAA calcs IIRC) late March / early April, shame it’s being borne out. Just awful.

[FTE217]

yer its pretty mad the amount of rain.
I can't complain anything like up north of us in Sydney town but Citroenbender knows nothing gets a chance to dry out here for months now......
Started raining again from Saturday night and ecpected off and on rest of the week.
Feel for those with lost homes etcetc it must be just damn terrible feeling everyday.

LG17 re nice big gummies is my concern for ages, your on akerage if I recall right whereas I'm not.
In the gully I'm in we have a creek and moist at the best of times, many house's have had fallen trees over the years and we've had the street bloked 3 times last few years as well.
I have a massive gum over our house, should have chopped it down few years ago.
Finally got a lopper to confirm on the job Sunday plus another 3/4 smaller ones.
Crane job might I add.
Costing a bomb but the wife and kids will feel alot better its a disaster waiting to happen.

Our weekend sports have been cancelled a number of times, golf course's some haven't re opended for months.

[Citroënbender]

Amazing that after so many recent weather events, people are still driving into flooded roads.

[b0son]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Amazing that after so many recent weather events, people are still driving into flooded roads.

When there was flooding near my parents, the police blocked the road back home, forcing a detour.... which took an additional 3 hours! (20min trip normally). So yeah, I can understand why people take their chances.

[Itsme]

Originally Posted by b0son

When there was flooding near my parents, the police blocked the road back home, forcing a detour.... which took an additional 3 hours! (20min trip normally). So yeah, I can understand why people take their chances.

Only fools risk their lives.

[PhilT2]

Originally Posted by Itsme

Only fools risk their lives.

It's not just risking their own lives that is the issue; they risk the lives of the people that try to rescue them. Time we sent a bill for the cost of the rescue to those that do things that are obviously stupid.
I know people get sick of the govt telling them what to do but it seems like some need to be told because they're not smart enough to work it out for themselves.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Amazing that after so many recent weather events, people are still driving into flooded roads.

Or, sadly, those who go kayaking on a flooded river.

I've done that once before. After a close call for my BIL, never again!

[Citroënbender]

I note the irony in our now under-resourced Terrey Hills weather radar taking a dump right when it should be providing life-saving data.

[b0son]

Originally Posted by Itsme

Only fools risk their lives.

It was 30cm of water across the road. The only thing being risked was embarrassment.

[FTE217]

My area got 98mm yesterday.......
Can't complain nothing like what people are going through out western sydney and other regions.
Just glad we got knocked down last week a motha gum near the house, looked healthy outside but termites we're eating it away from the inside, those winds like yesterday one day it would have fallen on the house.

[Citroënbender]

Mobile devices will need to be in landscape to see the camera images.

https://www.livetraffic.com/traffic-...r-road-windsor

Looks worse than the three inundations prior.

I feel - without subjective proof - that the reality of life for people in some of these repeatedly flooded areas, is no longer resonating with a growing army of chiefs and spokespersons. Yes, many would in a sense be more prepared than ever before - yet also more weary, and lucky if they’ve had time to recover from the last event.