Thread: Send her down, hughie!

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Feel for the people of the Lismore area with this rain predicted. Was down there recently and they get really jumpy now when a cloud goes over.

It poured here for hours over night - Not really as it was a few MM only. "February 2022 is claiming a new 24-hour record for Lismore of 146.8 mm from the Lismore airport"

Rivers flood from rain over several hundreds kilometers of water catchment areas. Nicked a page from a sydney paper for this




Why is the questions. We all know it is going to happen if not now again and again.

Farm it but live up out of the flood zone.

WA got a drip

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

WA got a drip

And that is why you DON'T CAMP IN DRY RIVER BEDS.
That was probably caused from rain which fell hundreds of kms away.

Major flood warnings for the Darling.
I wish I could go out and see it.....that was a part of my childhood.

So were Henry Lawson and Bill Wannan & Eric Jollife......if you have to say who?? then I seriously recommend you do some reading and research.

Henry wrote about it , Bill & Eric sketched it in comic form.

Originally Posted by Xtreme

And that is why you DON'T CAMP IN DRY RIVER BEDS.

Hi,
I would like to see that for myself. I've seen video of Charles Wooley walking down the Darling River bed just ahead of the flow.
Not too many dry rivers in Tas.
Cheers

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
I would like to see that for myself. I've seen video of Charles Wooley walking down the Darling River bed just ahead of the flow.
Not too many dry rivers in Tas.
Cheers

'Bundalene' (aka Erich Ebe) posted a video of a flight he took along Coopers Creek as the flow was coming down there and spilling out into the numerous waterholes (lakes) beside the creek.
I haven't got time to search for it ATM but well worth looking at.

Edit - Back on the job and I've found the link to Erich's 2 day flyover in August 2011, unfortunately the photos and videos are no longer included in the thread - such a pity as they were really spectacular shots.
The link - Lake Eyre and Channel Country

In the last two days we have measured 64mm. No problems here - the main problem is going anywhere. I have a couple of kids that are going to be late back to school in Yass.

At the moment i think the creek between here and the village is too deep to cross, although that should be OK by this afternoon or tomorrow at worst. But this pales into insignificance when compared to problems beyond that. The high level bridge between here and the village over the Talbragar is at the moment about 3m below water, and the Golden Highway is closed between here and Dubbo, as are alternative roads to Wellington. The Mitchell Highway is doubtful between Dubbo and Wellington and south of Wellington - there is water over the road but it is not listed as closed (it is closed west of Dubbo). I have grave doubts about the Belubula at Canowindra, and possibly the Lachlan just south of Cowra.

In theory I can avoid the river crossing to the village by going through the forest - but I went through there on Tuesday, before this rain, and with water above the floor of the 110 in two places, I would not attempt it except in an emergency with even ten millimetres extra, let alone the 64mm we have had. And Dubbo got twice what I had here.

In Dubbo itself, the water is just starting up the escalators at the Riverdale shopping centre and a caravan park is being evacuated. And the river is still rising. And I don't think the water coming down the Talbragar is there yet!

Live Traffic is somewhat misleading - for example, it describes a route round the closed Golden Hwy using roads that are listed as closed on the Council website! Clearly it is not reliable.

The Talbragar R @ Elong Elong peaked at 6am at just under 7m and is now falling and the Macquarie R @ Dubbo is currently at 8.6m and still rising but rate of rise is flattening out.
Not much more than 3" rain over the last two days anywhere in the state but fairly widespread and on already saturated ground.

Tough times for the farmers who managed to get a crop in this year and now won't be able to get machinery mobile in order to harvest, if the crop hasn't already been flattened by the rain.