Getting Close

[cewilson]

17 metres and rising.

They are deciding whether to evacuate the public hospital here or not!

Cullen River has broke over the bridge, Stuart Highway maybe getting closed very soon!

You gotta love the rain! :wink:

[Phoenix]

And I was complaining about the rain here, obviously more of it up there https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[NOZ]

yeah, I wish it would flow this wa a bit

[cewilson]

Originally posted by Phoenix
And I was complaining about the rain here, obviously more of it up there https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

And still going, with more to come! 8O


And I'm meant to be travelling home on Friday! Way it's going at the moment I may be phoning you guys up and saying "Sorry, I'm flooded in!" :cry:

[Bytemrk]

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Time to break out the air compressor and floaties :!: 8O

Hope you and yours stay dry mate...

Mark

[Jamo]

You might need an extension on the snorkel!

[gruntfuttock]

Originally posted by Jamo
You might need an extension on the snorkel!

and a snorkle for the driver https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[cewilson]

Unimog's been fun! :wink:


On a sadder note, we are just about to evacuate the hospital etc. The river has hit 18 metres plus at the moment, which doesn't leave us much to play with.

If I don't speak for a while - I'm busy. Here's hoping for some sleep sometime in the near future! :?


Cheers
Chris

[gruntfuttock]

Good luck, I hope things don't get too bad

[DiscoTDI]

Send some up here, we have had around 110m last night but we need more

[cewilson]

The river seems to have peaked at 0920 this morning at 10.2 metres. It seems at this stage that the town has got away with this one just. If all goes to plan, the river will continue to fall slowly, enabling the highway to hopefully open this evening.

A lot of the flood water has been caused by the drains being blocked from the sheer amount of the water. The river itself hasn't seemed to flow over the banks too much, which has saved probably a lot of damage in the town.

For the guys in Tassie, I won't be down now until Thursday morning, and I depart on Sunday - so it's now only a flying trip through instead of the planned 10 days!

Cheers
Chris

[Ace]

I let the mayor know he can send some trucks up to bring the water back and fill the dams up around here.

It seems like it one extreme to another. First horrible drought now flash flooding. Mother nature must have PMS. https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[George130]

Dreading the rains round our place this is the first time I have seen our place go from hard dry dirt to just fine powder.