Coffs is under water!!

[long stroke]

Yep Coffs Harbour is under water in major flood, many people are strandard and can't get home.
We are lucky to live on a hill, so we are fine:D
The radio said to stay in doors and don't venture out in it, so what did we do....ventured out in it in the county.
We wanted to go check out a mates place south of us.
First we tried the back way along the bush tracks, the whole road was water and the first creek crossing was pretty hairy (fast flowing and pretty deep:o)
I'll post some vids up soon;)

TIM.

[Sleepy]

Yikes - lucky I got in and out last week.

I got dumped on by about an inch of rain in 30 minutes just after arriving. Being a Melbourne lad, I had forgotten what real rain is.:o:eek:

Hope you're on a big hill Tim, it looks like more rain on the way.

[Treads]

Keep safe mate ;)

Just heard that south of Coffs received 110mm of rain between 6pm and 7pm :eek: Now that's some serious precipitation for ya!

[Chucaro]

Keep safe and careful about the creek crossing.

[stikman]

Hey Tim,

Do you have any contacts in Glenreagh? Have not heard from Dad tonight which is unusual, phone is off. If you know anyone over the hill give them a bell for me and make sure we do not need to head down with a boat ;)

[long stroke]

Thanks guys!!!
The creek crossing we crossed in the county was pretty safe when you think about, my brother walked it first...

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/03/1.jpg

The creek crossing after this one was flowing alot faster and about 1/3 deeper, so we weren't going to risk it.

CHEERS TIM.

[JDNSW]

Not the oly place either under water or about to be. Pretty much the whole Northern Rivers, by the looks. And I am driving to Nambucca Heads on Friday! Should have gone down by then, but I hope the room I have booked is not too soggy!

John

[dullbird]

I wonder how the RSPCA is fairing up there I dont know where it is located in regards to the flooding

[long stroke]

Hey Tim,

Do you have any contacts in Glenreagh? Have not heard from Dad tonight which is unusual, phone is off. If you know anyone over the hill give them a bell for me and make sure we do not need to head down with a boat ;)

Hi Philippe
Havn't heard how Glenreagh is faring but i'm shore the Orara river is flooding, we do have a contact in Glenreagh, i'll try find out, and might text you in the morning if i have any news;)
If i don't have to go to school me and my brother might head out for a drive;)

CHEERS TIM.

[long stroke]

I wonder how the RSPCA is fairing up there I dont know where it is located in regards to the flooding

Mmmmmm the RSPCA could be a worry, they are located in a bit of a swamp near the airport, they might well be very flooded, i might be heading to that area tomorrow, if so i'll let you know;)

TIM.

[clean32]

I cant stop to amazed with this land of mutants, fire and floods at the same time, but 110mm in 1 hour amazing when you think about it. Hope no one has been caught out, I think there has been too much of that this year.

[long stroke]

Hey Tim,

Do you have any contacts in Glenreagh? Have not heard from Dad tonight which is unusual, phone is off. If you know anyone over the hill give them a bell for me and make sure we do not need to head down with a boat ;)

Have a read of this, it has bits about Glenreagh...doesn't sound to bad there;)
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDN36618.html

[stikman]

Have a read of this, it has bits about Glenreagh...doesn't sound to bad there;)

Read of what :angel:

[Sven_040]

Just been speaking with the olds who are in Nana Glen and they said Bucca creek (which is their north and west boundry) is still rising very quickly. They are about 1km from where it meets the Orara and have already moved the cattle etc ready for a big one with still more to come.

[long stroke]

Read of what :angel:

:oops2:Forgot to post the link:p
Try it now:angel:

[dullbird]

:lol2:

you got a bad memory you forgot again :D

[stikman]

:lol2:

you got a bad memory you forgot again :D

He is bad....but thankfully not that bad :D He put it in his original post above ;)

Thanks Tim :)

[dullbird]

yeah just noticed that........:D

[Grover-98]

Do you have a clip of the County going through the crossing?

The rain is getting pretty serious here in newy as well has been going solid since lunch might be another flood like the June floods of 07...

Ahh well there are some places around my joint which flood pretty quickly but i love taking the disco down through the crossings for some fun...only bad part is my left headlight appears to of taken some water in it as it fogs up...So whilst on the topic would i be best to take it off leave it in the sun to dry...maybe add some metho to help it dry up?

James.

[long stroke]

Got two more vids, but it got a bit dark so you can pretty much only hear the county going through:angel:
I'll post them anyway;)


The first crossing.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/04/1500.jpg

And the same crossing but on the way back, on this one we actually got picked up and floated the rear end around a fair bit:eek:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/04/1501.jpg

TIM.

[long stroke]

:lol2:

you got a bad memory you forgot again :D

I new someone would say that:D