a tad damp

[incisor]

BLOODY HELL!

i didnt know they made drops of water this big!

just sent the wife home and she only just made it out... hope she can get home

don't think i will make it out after i get everything up off the ground here..

fun fun fun

[Eevo]

meanwhile, there is cat4 cyclone on the west coast, but media isnt interested

[Mick_Marsh]

Expecting floods?
Again?

About time you moved to premises on higher ground.

[incisor]

i keep moving higher and they keep making the waters deeper :p

[Mick_Marsh]

Damn those melting polar ice caps.

Or should that be:

Dam those melting polar ice caps.

[incisor]

now got police, fire and swift water rescue with rubber boat over the road all lights flashing... something hasn't gone well just up the road by the looks of it...

[UncleHo]

My rain gauge reads 58mm since 3pm yesterday to midday,and 19mm until now 2.50pm and it is thundering,high tide is 8.13pm,2.21mtrs a@ Bongaree jetty, so it would be damp on Bribie Rd after about 5pm with King John Crk backing up.


cheers

[Pedro_The_Swift]

BLOODY HELL!

i didnt know they made drops of water this big!

just sent the wife home and she only just made it out... hope she can get home

don't think i will make it out after i get everything up off the ground here..

fun fun fun

shouldve bought sent the missus home in the Caddy;):p

[incisor]

My rain gauge reads 58mm since 3pm yesterday to midday,and 19mm until now 2.50pm and it is thundering,high tide is 8.13pm,2.21mtrs a@ Bongaree jetty, so it would be damp on Bribie Rd after about 5pm with King John Crk backing up.


cheers

and here i am with 3 jobs at beachmere after 17:30 ...

don't think they are going to happen...

[incisor]

shouldve bought sent the missus home in the Caddy;):p

they call it domestic harmony last time i looked :D:D:D:D:D

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Thats Ok,,

you have Uncle on speed dial, yes?:angel:

[incisor]

i have leeloo here as well so the caddy will stay here if i try to go home :p

[extreme]

Its bucketing down here , with lightning and thunder

[UncleHo]

Eased off a little now, but the wind has picked up,looks like Incisor might need to put the wading plug into the 300TDI timing cover,as a slipping timing belt you don't want, got a meeting at Caboolture Airfield tomorrow morning,just up the road from Inc's shop,----maybe.

[Mick_Marsh]

Fine, sunny, blue sky's here today. Not a cloud in the sky.
It rained here last weekend. Greened things up a bit but there are still bare patches of dirt in my front lawn.

Why do you lot up north hog all the rain? Send a bit down this way.

[incisor]

Eased off a little now, but the wind has picked up,looks like Incisor might need to put the wading plug into the 300TDI timing cover,as a slipping timing belt you don't want, got a meeting at Caboolture Airfield tomorrow morning,just up the road from Inc's shop,----maybe.

getting worse here....

daughter is trying to get away from caboolture hospital as it looks like being flooded in so they let all the trainee nurses go early

she is trying to get home as well so not sure how she will get on...

[Eevo]

...

[The ho har's]

We have only had 55mm since yesterday afternoon :angel: We are now having a thunder storm and the river has a flood warning on it :no2: Oh well we are sort of getting used being flooded in every second year or so.

Mrs hh:angel:

[UncleHo]

Constant heavy squalls here now 4.25pm,don' like Inc's chances of a Beachmere run this evening,just briefly lost power here 1/2 Klm from Inc's,I have just seen pics of Morayfield Shopping Centre,showing vehicles in water up to the mid doors,including a Jackaroo :( channel 7's tony aldern has stated 100mmin last hour.Bribie Island Road must be close to over,no traffic down Bestmann Rd in the last 10 minutes.

[UncleHo]

Both our and Spiro's table drains are full so driving down our road is becoming hazardous as people are still driving at 80+ kph :( it's now an inch over the road "and still they speed" :mad:

News has just stated Caboolture has received 90mm in 1 hour

[incisor]

Am stuck on the highway trying to get home

[pop058]

Am stuck on the highway trying to get home

Nan & I are about 12 kms north of Caboolture turnoff which, I believe is where the Bruce highway is block in both directions

[Lionelgee]

Nan & I are about 12 kms north of Caboolture turnoff which, I believe is where the Bruce highway is block in both directions

Hello Paul and Nan,

The sun just broke out of the rain clouds back here in Bundaberg about an hour ago. Safe travels and take care.

Kind Regards
Lionel

[ramblingboy42]

I've been outside knocking down my neighbours sleepers he put up to stop water from my yard going into his.

The water in my yard was climbing up to the damp course.

He will not be happy when he realises we are sharing the floodwater now.

Mine has dropped rapidly following the water release thankfully.

[Eevo]

I've been outside knocking down my neighbours sleepers he put up to stop water from my yard going into his.

The water in my yard was climbing up to the damp course.

He will not be happy when he realises we are sharing the floodwater now.

Mine has dropped rapidly following the water release thankfully.

just take out the bottom one, so it looks all normal :angel:

[incisor]

Nan & I are about 12 kms north of Caboolture turnoff which, I believe is where the Bruce highway is block in both directions
Take the toorbul turnoff then new toorbul Rd thru to old toorbul point road onto the Bribie rd

[The ho har's]

Since my last post we have had another 55 mm, 4pm till 6pm


Mrs hh:angel:

[Debacle]

Since my last post we have had another 55 mm, 4pm till 6pm


Mrs hh:angel:

Expect a bit more, it lasted almost 4 hours up here.

[Eevo]

wet enough to cancel the rugby

[loanrangie]

wet enough to cancel the rugby

If they are soft.

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[Eevo]

reports of multi fatality
driving through floodwaters

[jerryd]

Just taken me 5 hours to get to Caboolture and back to pick up number one son from work. I think every road must have been flooded, closed or at a standstill.

My little Suzuki van went through all the deep puddles no problem, I even passed Mr Robinson in one flood, he was stationery with engine problems :D

[Eevo]

three dead

[UncleHo]

Well,Bribie Island Road must be open :D as there is a heap of traffic going past our place,including a Bribie Island bus,at 10.45 pm,considering the last bus from Caboolture is usually 7.30 pm, just goes to show how late some workers will be getting home,at least it is a Friday,so most won't have to work tomorrow,I'm off to bed now,reset all the clocks including the microwave,as we lost power at the height of the storm,so you S/E Qld folk check your clocks :D

cheers

[bob10]

S.W.M.B.O. left work at 3pm, just got home. We tend to forget Brisbane was built on a swamp. Bob

[trog]

I was to get an early mark today, seven am start , do a series of drops in the not so sunny coast then home. It took over nine hours to get back from Cooroy. Early mark has been a double shift and some. It will be interesting submitting this time sheet !

[GuyG]

We must have been very lucky today, left Albany Creek round 2pm going to MR Auto at Redcliffe to collect the next round of parts, then home having done some sight seeing along the waters edge to the Western Suburbs of Brisbane by 4.45pm. We must have just snuck through before it all went nuts. It was absolutely bucketing down, parts of the Deagon Deviation were already starting to flood, down to single lane in both directions.

Was glad to be in the Rangie :)

[Pedro_The_Swift]

and today its brilliant sunshine and dead calm,,,:angel:

[bob10]

Our neighbour says it was worse than the 1974 floods here. The road was a river, allsorts of flotsam & jetsam floating down. We have a collection of wheelie bins. Currently on the phone to the insurance company, lines are very busy, Bob

[AndyG]

My sympathies to all those affected, especially those who lost loved ones.

After a damp March 2000 mm, last week was relatively dry 100 mm,
but to make up for it,
6.8 on Thursday
7.1 on Friday

watching the smoke from the Volcano down the road with interest, as these tremors are not a good sign

[Pickles2]

i have leeloo here as well so the caddy will stay here if i try to go home :p
Hello Dave, I hope you get through this OK.
"Caddy",...are we talking Cadillac,..if so, what model?
Keep safe, Pickles.

[Mick_Marsh]

Hello Dave, I hope you get through this OK.
"Caddy",...are we talking Cadillac,..if so, what model?
Keep safe, Pickles.
Better than a Cadillac
Caddy | The Van with more Fans | Volkswagen Commercials < Models < Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (http://www.volkswagen-commercial.com.au/en/models/caddy.html?&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=caddy&utm_campaign=Caddy+)[E]+Evaluation+[Model]

[UncleHo]

G'day Pickles
No,Caddy as in VW small van,Daves work vehicle, I think he left it at work and came home in his 87 Rangie :D he lives not far from our place,we had 148mm from 12pm up to 10pm last night,yup! a tad damp :eek:

[V8Ian]

My mate from Redcliffe was inundated for the first time ever. His house was regularly surrounded by a moat, but never before has it flooded. Flood plains north and south of his house have been raised two metres or more and developed for housing.
By the time he realised the house was going under, the water outside was neck deep. He called the SES and spent over half an hour on hold, meanwhile the water was still rising so he hung up and called the fire brigade. The firies said they'd be there ASAP. They haven't got there yet.
His three year old XR6 is also a write-off.

[Bytemrk]

That sux Ian....:(

Hope not too many here got inundated.....

[The ho har's]

Well today it is sunny :) And the river is rising slowly. It shouldn't get as high as our last flood, maybe only minor level. Our wheelie bin got washed away last night, I found it 8 foot up a tree in the creek:D Oh and there is a Land Cruiser floating around down the road, you would think people would pay attention to the flood markers wouldn't you. Lots of tourists around, must have never seen a river flood before.

Mrs hh:angel:

[Bytemrk]

Take care Ho Hars...... Glad you got ya bin back! :D

[V8Ian]

Take care Ho Hars...... Glad you got ya bin back! :D

Probably got advice from Fifth Columnist, he's an expert. ;)

[1950landy]

We had enough rain yesterday to over fill a bucket my wife placed in the middle of back yard ( catching water for ferns)
Also the electric locks on my Falcon Ute got moisture in them , after unlocking the vehicle this morning then every time I locked it would just unlock again. Just finished pulling the locks out & put them in a tub of metho to dry them out . All working OK now.

[Barefoot Dave]

Emergency services were in the same boat (haha) as everyone else.
Most of our members got stuck on the roads or cut off from base. When we didmget a few together, it was too dangerous to go out. 95% of jobs logged yesterday dont need help today. Now the house clean outs start.
'Swiftwater' teams had no boat and no qualified operators, yet we all did what we could...

[trog]

Ah , so that explains why my text pleas for rehydration assistance while stuck on the Bruce were ignored :D

[incisor]

Well,Bribie Island Road must be open :D as there is a heap of traffic going past our place,including a Bribie Island bus,at 10.45 pm,considering the last bus from Caboolture is usually 7.30 pm, just goes to show how late some workers will be getting home,at least it is a Friday,so most won't have to work tomorrow,I'm off to bed now,reset all the clocks including the microwave,as we lost power at the height of the storm,so you S/E Qld folk check your clocks :D

cheers

i was in the rangie in front of that bus :p

i was just getting home...

[Bytemrk]

Stuff at work stay dry Dave?

Hope so...

[incisor]

Will get in there this morning and find out ;-)

[rick130]

Fingers crossed for you.

We've just been getting the edges of all this weather, the river here still isn't running and April was double the average.
A mate in Maitland tipped out 250mm from 4hrs rain two weekends ago and Dungog received 380mm I was told when those houses washed away.

It's all getting a little too common.

[UncleHo]

I spent a few hours in at the Caboolture Warbirds Museum brooming out water that had blown in,and wiping down aircraft,had to go in via Old Toorbul Point Rd and then down the Bruce hwy.as Bribie Rd was still flooded.

Hey Dave,I saw that bus come down the road through the window didn't look at the vehicle in front :)

cheers

[DiscoMick]

Relations left Brissie at 2pm Friday intending to beat the traffic on way to Maleny. By 7pm they had only reached the Bribie Island turnoff, so went over the overpass and turned back. Said many cars idled so long while stopped they ran out of fuel. Others had flat batteries and couldn't be started. Sat morning there were still long delays so we detoured via Woodford instead. Unbelievable volumes of water had gone through in numerous places. Deaths were very sad.

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[incisor]

well i'm glad i got everything up off the floor ..

putting it all back down on the floor was PIA...

all good now thankfully!

[incisor]

Brisbane recorded wettest May day in 175 years | Caboolture News (http://www.caboolturenews.com.au/news/brisbane-recorded-wettest-may-day-175-years/2626969/)


The biggest single rainfall was recorded at Caboolture, which received 333 millimetres. Of that, 277mm fell within three hours during Friday afternoon. https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/05/1336.jpg

Two cars involved in the overnight fatalities have come to rest against train lines between Dances Rd and Beerburrum Rd, Caboolture

http://www.caboolturenews.com.au/news/fifth-overnight-fatality-confirmed-skies-clear-rev/2626172/

[stikman]

Big thanks to Dave for the offer of space at his workshop Friday night as I was in the area with family and camper heading to Caboolture for the Urban Country music festival. We ended up cooking dinner in the camper at Caboolture BP car park and then headed home when we got confirmation the weekend was off. Ended up having to camp at the top of my own driveway as the creek in our property was a meter over the bridge. About a 9hr round trip from South Maclean to (almost Caboolture) but we did it safely and got home which is all that matters at the end of the day. Thanks again Dave.

[Eevo]

meanwhile in adelaide/SA we got bushfires going

[p38arover]

Crikey! I'd been away since Friday morning and, as I don't listen to the radio and hadn't seen any TV, I hadn't heard about the rain in Qld.

It was a little damp in where I was in Gloucester but not that bad. I came back via Dungog and saw some of the damage from a week or so back.

[V8Ian]

My mate from Redcliffe was inundated for the first time ever. His house was regularly surrounded by a moat, but never before has it flooded. Flood plains north and south of his house have been raised two metres or more and developed for housing.
By the time he realised the house was going under, the water outside was neck deep. He called the SES and spent over half an hour on hold, meanwhile the water was still rising so he hung up and called the fire brigade. The firies said they'd be there ASAP. They haven't got there yet.
His three year old XR6 is also a write-off.
The house is still uninhabitable, repairs from the hail storm last November have not yet started. The insurance assessors have not yet looked at the house since the flood. In a bid to hurry things along, last Friday morning he phoned the insurance company and told them he needed to utilise the emergency accommodation clause in the policy; the company told him that he would be contacted by phone within two hours. Still waiting, hasn't heard a peep.

Pm me if you want to know which insurance company.

[incisor]

The house is still uninhabitable, repairs from the hail storm last November have not yet started. The insurance assessors have not yet looked at the house since the flood. In a bid to hurry things along, last Friday morning he phoned the insurance company and told them he needed to utilise the emergency accommodation clause in the policy; the company told him that he would be contacted by phone within two hours. Still waiting, hasn't heard a peep.

Pm me if you want to know which insurance company.

lot of it going around

pretty poor behaviour on the part of some insurance companies and some pretty heavy profiteering going on by a lot of tradies in the area

the local charities are ringing round local businesses trying to raise funds to help out as many of the old ways of getting support have been culled by government it seems.

[Ausfree]

The house is still uninhabitable, repairs from the hail storm last November have not yet started. The insurance assessors have not yet looked at the house since the flood. In a bid to hurry things along, last Friday morning he phoned the insurance company and told them he needed to utilise the emergency accommodation clause in the policy; the company told him that he would be contacted by phone within two hours. Still waiting, hasn't heard a peep.

Pm me if you want to know which insurance company.

A tree fell on my house about three years ago, I had to chase and chase my insurance company to get repairs done and then some of the repairs were not carried out in a tradesman like manner and I had to chase the insurance company again. It took months and the storm was nowhere near as big as the recent one we had.

I feel sorry for people who have had damage done recently as there will be a lot more claims to process and the sharpy tradesman will be out there trying to scam the system.