Thread: Flooding

Even the dog is sulking,i think we have all had enough of the rain.

Here in Westlake my 150 mm rain gauge overflowed during the night & the pool which I emptied down to the bottom of the skimmer box has come up to just under the coping over night which would be around 250mm. We are having steady rain at the moment but it has just started to thunder. We live on the side of a hill with the river on one side & the lake on the other, we will be OK but the

Centenary suburb's started flooding yesterday morning & Wivenhoe again has opened the flood gates & the water is due to reach Brisbane at the high tide yet again but that's OK peoples insurance will foot the bill. Surely by now they can calculate a time frame where the water reaches Brisbane at low tide & the BOM can give the Dams more accurate information about how much the weather is going to impact the dam so they can start releasing some water earlier so it dose not impact those living below the dam. Wivenhoe was built to stop flooding but it has become a sauce of revenue & they hold the water until it is too late which causes a lot more flooding .
One of the problems with the Brisbane River is that the Bremmer River & most of the creeks enter the River heading up stream instead of down stream so when there is when the river floods the water flows into the Bremmer & the creeks causing them to back up .
Well that is my rant for today , every one take care & don't drive through flood water & stay safe.

We have records from 1975 until 1985 living at Daisy hill in Brisbane,and the maximum for any 24hr period is 180mm on 10 th May 1980.

I am pretty sure the last few days have blown that figure well out of the water.

Glad you guys are all ok. Looks pretty crazy. None of the photos are loading for me

Originally Posted by scarry

We used to call them dual purpose vehicles

Work trucks,and umm,recreational vehicles,if you know what i mean.

Anyway,back on topic,its still hosing down,hasnt stopped since Thursday.Not just drizzle,pouring at times.
The Logan river is way up,not quite up to 2011 levels,but not far off.See how it goes in the morning with a high tide,and its around 2.5M,so up a bit as well.

Niiiiiice. Could do with a bit of H2O here now but summat is % forecast for the next few days so fingers crossed.


A bit of a weird Summer so far but no out of control Bushfires. Yet.

Originally Posted by scarry

We have records from 1975 until 1985 living at Daisy hill in Brisbane,and the maximum for any 24hr period is 180mm on 10 th May 1980.

I am pretty sure the last few days have blown that figure well out of the water.

Pun or no Pun intended?

Originally Posted by 1950landy

Here in Westlake my 150 mm rain gauge overflowed during the night & the pool which I emptied down to the bottom of the skimmer box has come up to just under the coping over night which would be around 250mm. We are having steady rain at the moment but it has just started to thunder. We live on the side of a hill with the river on one side & the lake on the other, we will be OK but the

Centenary suburb's started flooding yesterday morning & Wivenhoe again has opened the flood gates & the water is due to reach Brisbane at the high tide yet again but that's OK peoples insurance will foot the bill. Surely by now they can calculate a time frame where the water reaches Brisbane at low tide & the BOM can give the Dams more accurate information about how much the weather is going to impact the dam so they can start releasing some water earlier so it dose not impact those living below the dam. Wivenhoe was built to stop flooding but it has become a sauce of revenue & they hold the water until it is too late which causes a lot more flooding .
One of the problems with the Brisbane River is that the Bremmer River & most of the creeks enter the River heading up stream instead of down stream so when there is when the river floods the water flows into the Bremmer & the creeks causing them to back up .
Well that is my rant for today , every one take care & don't drive through flood water & stay safe.

I can sympathise with that. I seem to recall a hell of a lot of indecision being made by folk who should have known better. Seemed to be a lot of he said, They said, I said **** going on.



Meanwhile residents were the losers.

Insurance may cover a lot of it but they will always up next year's Premiums so really residents can't win eventually..

Originally Posted by trout1105

Never owned a PV (always wanted one) But I seemed to do OK in various other vehicles in my younger days

Did you happen to own an A30, Morris Minor, Mini? Talk about being behind the 8 ball.