Thread: Send her down, hughie!

Originally Posted by Saitch

Bob, I had a look at the North Pine yesterday, down the road from my place and it's still not running My dam's excess water flows into the Pine over a distance of about 3 kilometres and the dam's not overflowing yet.

In the last four days we've only had 90 mm. A lot of the heavier falls were coastal.

I'm relying on the Pine to run, to flush out the crabs and prawns. Boats set up , ready to roll.

There's smiles out west.

Farmers in Goondiwindi rejoicing as their dusty paddocks turn to swimming pools, filling up their empty dams.

Been raining most of the morning, some of it heavy, and there was 9mm in the gauge at 0600, and another 18mm since. This makes it already the heaviest rainfall since December 2018.

I looked in my raingauge this morning and all i saw in there was some dust and a dead spider

Around 1hr ago the heavens opened up here in Westlake ,it was like living in Cairns when there is a cyclone hanging around. We were about 1/2 km frome when it started & were stuck in the garage for about half an hour. The house & garage gutters were overflowing , the storm water drains could not cope so spoon drain in driveway overflowed into the garage so we had around 25mm of water flowing through the garage & the strainer in the top of the tanks could not cope so the water was flowing down the sides water out of the pool yesterday & it started overflowing so had come up about 175mm. I guess I will be off to the pool shop next week to spend couple of hundred dollars on salt & chemicals. It would be at least 30 years since we have had that much rain in such a short period.
Was talking to the guy at the Dollar Shop this morning said he cant keep up with the sale of umbrellas

Originally Posted by 1950landy

Around 1hr ago the heavens opened up here in Westlake ,it was like living in Cairns when there is a cyclone hanging around. We were about 1/2 km frome when it started & were stuck in the garage for about half an hour. The house & garage gutters were overflowing , the storm water drains could not cope so spoon drain in driveway overflowed into the garage so we had around 25mm of water flowing through the garage & the strainer in the top of the tanks could not cope so the water was flowing down the sides water out of the pool yesterday & it started overflowing so had come up about 175mm. I guess I will be off to the pool shop next week to spend couple of hundred dollars on salt & chemicals. It would be at least 30 years since we have had that much rain in such a short period.
Was talking to the guy at the Dollar Shop this morning said he cant keep up with the sale of umbrellas

If it keeps up like this I'm building a boat and rounding up animals two by two!

I remember that in 1770 there is a creek opposite round hill, part of the National Park. Used to be the go to place for mud crabs. Now, if you are caught with even a crab pot in your boat in the creek, It's a hanging offence. The trick is, after rain like this, wait for a couple of days, then set your pots at the edge of the brown water. As long as you are past the park boundary, you will fill your boat with crabs. [ within the limit, of course]

I see Kingscliff had 300mm over night, which is a lot of rain, now heading south.Flood warnings for most Northern NSW rivers.
We unsure if we may have to delay our planned trip to Lismore tomorrow.
Our friends at Orara will be pleased as the Orara River had stopped flowing on the surface.
Five metre waves pounding the Northern Beaches in Sydney and houses at Colloroy threatened.
Oldest son, a mad surfer, unhappy that all the beaches closed.
Rain is putting out fires down south, which is good.
People being rescued after driving into flooded rivers. Will people never learn?