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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: toad on January 13, 2011, 02:55:36 PM
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It's good to hear flood waters are subsiding in Quensland, but what is happening further south? There seems to be little coverage of the situation in northern NSW.
Bevan, how are things up your way in Grafton?
Hope you, Mrs Bullfrog and the tadpoles are safe and well!
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they are high up on south hill Toad......reckon he could be partaking in the usual evening ritual of fluid intake right about now........and nothing to to with flood water either ;D
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It's the Hemi's I'm wondering about.
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It's the Hemi's I'm wondering about.
Duchess
reckon he would be doing the exact same thing too :D
where Hmi lives is out near the golf club high up so they will be fine. me thinks that Golf club will be his 2nd home.
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Gday Gary & Deb
Thanks for the thought of checking on us up here on the Clarence, but I thought you would know that water doesn't worry us amphibians ;D
All is good with Grafton, the town is well protected by the levee system. The levee is sposed to be good for 8.0m ( some say 8.2m). I went down to the Fry St boat ramp for a look mid arvo yesterday, river was reported as 7.65-7.7m & there was one Besser block ( wall here is made from concrete Besser blocks ) left above the water level. This area is a known low spot, I think at 8.0m it would overtop the wall there easily.The river can vary by about .5m from the Prince St recorder (main one people take any notice of) to the Fry St marker, but at that time of day with the river still rising, I was pretty happy about living up on the hill in Sth Grafton (we're not that from the Golf club if you know Grafton). Sth Grafton is now protected by a levee ( been built for about 10-15 yrs, so not new), you drive up & over it on the Pacific Hwy near Bunnings as you come in from the North. The low parts of the Southside would flood fairly early, cutting of the X roads ( Pacific /Gwyder Hwy intersection area), so no driving over to the Northside of town.The down side of keeping all of this water out of South is it has to go somewhere, hence towns like Ulmarra, Brushgrove, Cowper & Maclean now get more water sent downstream towards them & seem to get a higher peak than "the good ol days " for the same sort of peak in Grafton, if you get my meaning. Just the same, I think it's not a matter of if, but when our number comes up. A flood of 8.0m + would be very interesting..... :cheers: Bevan.
PS.... Bloody woman has left me to go shopping (better bring back my "flood rations" hehe), will sort out some floood pics when she gets back. :cheers:
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Nav,
Yes I was & I bet he is. :cheers:
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Good to hear you didn't have any problems mate. I was a little concerned.
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Gday Gaz,
All good thanks mate, it's the poor buggers downstream that cop it now. :cheers:
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Good to see all is well up in Frog Hollow. You lot are a plucky bunch and I wish the communities there a speedy process back to normality. :cheers:
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Gday Snow,
thanks for the thoughts, all good mate.
If I may, a couple of bits of info that may be of interest to swaggers who may not even of heard of this Clarence River place...
The Clarence is a BIG system, I remember from school being told it was the biggest on the Eastern seaboard,
Grafton was the first city on the north coast of NSW,
The headwaters of the Clarence start in QLD, tributaries more or less take care of a large chuck of the country from the boarder to about Dorrigo & east of the Great Divide,these feeders are fair rivers in their own right,
What all this dribble means is that we usually get something that the poor buggers in QLD didn't get, that is time & warning. We don't really get "flash floods" in Grafton, takes about 2 days for water from the border to come down, it also takes a lot of water to fill the system to flood point.Living in a river valley means living with floods, it's just the way it is. From this, the residents of the Clarence have learnt what to be worried about & what we can get away with. Sure, we dodged a bullet again. but to think that we can't get wet is like sticking you head in the sand. It will happen one day. The Clarence was lucky, QLD was not.
I don't want to sound like a smart ar$e, or to make light of the flood situation, just share some info on our area. There is no such thing as a " good " flood. People have died, doesn't get much more serious than that.....
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Good to hear you and the other Myswaggers are ok up there.
Sorry about the warped humour, But did anyone else see the funny side of a Toad asking a Bullfrog if he is ok with the water. Not trying to make light of a terrible disaster.
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We both must be a bit sick Steve, I had a little chuckle as well. I was going to say that the water was a bit more than knee deep, knee deep ;D
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:cup: :cheers:
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Bevan,
Thanks for the call last night but missed you as we were "across the road"...if you can guess where, you can have a drink.
Duchess, thanks for your thoughts and provided the Beer truck can get in soon, we should be right...I would hate to have to start drinking XXXX!!!!
Hem
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Mate, if it gets that bad, I know some friends with helicopters, they're based over at Coffs, I'll get them to bring beer...good beer not that stuff made from four eggs... :cheers:
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Hey All
Well I have been told that :worthles: and that I have to put some photos up...
haven't taken too many but the ones that we did take are below...
So now can I get out of the bad books....one day I am going to show him how to add photos......one day....... >:D
:cheers:
Judy
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Great shots, Judy!
Hmm...the campsite did get a bit wet didn't it! :o