Batten Down the Hatches Qld

[Fizzie]

Everybody OK this morning

[jclures]

Still raining here, we missed the wind though.

[jclures]

Plenty of rain up here.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-17/far-north-queensland-flooding-tropical-cyclone-jasper/103238820

[Spada]

Looking at the news feeds this morning jclures, and every road up the range is closed (possibly for quite a while too), looks like the tablelands will be isolated for a while? Is that real world, or just media beat up?

[jclures]

That is what it is, no roads open, and might be awhile for some.

[Bird]

Plenty of rain up here.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-17/far-north-queensland-flooding-tropical-cyclone-jasper/103238820

wouldnt want to come across this in teh dark

[NZMarkb]

wouldnt want to come across this in teh dark

Good to see the pub and bottle shop still open 

[Fizzie]

Well there's obviously no possible way of getting to work, so may as well go to the pub!

[jclures]

That is the normal way of going to the pub in wet season at Euramo I think.

[Wazza999]

Looking at the news feeds this morning jclures, and every road up the range is closed (possibly for quite a while too), looks like the tablelands will be isolated for a while? Is that real world, or just media beat up?

I think that it will be a few days after the rain stops, probably a day or two longer than the 'old days'. I remember being stuck for 4 days at Smithfield then getting home via the Kuranda Range and Gillies Hwy. To get up the Kuranda Range we had a front end loader clearing a lane, letting a couple of vehicles through while the landslide slowly slumped a bit more, cleared again, rinse and repeat. No way that would be done now, a complete reconstruction would be required. Australia Day 1974, that was one of my more exciting fishing trips. Went up the coast for an afternoon's fishing, got back a week later. In the HR ute, towed across the then causeway at Oak Creek, teamed up with a couple of blokes in an old Telecom swb Inter ute, chainsawed trees, rolled boulders out of the way, head out the window to see as the rain was so heavy, water sloshing on the floor of the cabin. All to no avail as the road was cut (as usual) at Tomatis Creek.

[Foo]

The 3rd storm in 18hrs about to roll through here. 

Foo

[Bird]

The 3rd storm in 18hrs about to roll through here. 

Foo

Are you in an area with flooding?

[Foo]

Are you in an area with flooding?

No, not at the moment, I'm at Fernvale, just below Wivenhoe Dam.

Foo

[Bird]

No, not at the moment, I'm at Fernvale, just below Wivenhoe Dam.

Foo

nuthin to  worry bout

[Fizzie]

& it's been pouring rain & storming on the GC since 8pm last night (as we were walking back from looking at the NYE fireworks! ).

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR664.shtml#skip

We've broken 100mm & still raining.

[Spada]

You got your floaties on Fizzie?

[Fizzie]

Just about!

Over 10 years of records, our average for Jan is 199.7mm, with an annual average total of 1478.4.

Last year was overall dry with only 126.8 for Jan.

Yesterday we had 119mm + ~110 since 9am, so we've already smashed the monthly average & are at ~15% of our annual total!

So are we in for another wet one, or is it going to go dry after this, as it did last year

How much of it are you getting

[Spada]

How much of it are you getting

It's all passed through just a tickle south of us, only 100mm over the last 24h here. 15min down the road around Beaudesert & Canungra have been getting smashed though. Friends near Jimboomba haven't had power since Xmas Eve & Energex are saying it could be another 10 days yet.

[Fizzie]

It's all passed through just a tickle south of us, only 100mm over the last 24h here. 15min down the road around Beaudesert & Canungra have been getting smashed though. Friends near Jimboomba haven't had power since Xmas Eve & Energex are saying it could be another 10 days yet.

Good to hear you're OK

Talking to a bloke on another forum who's at Clagiraba (between Nerang & Canungra). They lost power on Christmas Day, & last estimate from Energex is 5 Jan!

He's lucky because he's got a gennie which is keeping their fridge & freezer going, but lot's of others are much worse off

Our power went off for 4 hours on 27/12 (so not connected to the storms, so buggered if I know why ), so the Engel went on to battery & the van fridge on gas, in case we needed them for food, but came good again without needing them

[Bird]

 fark........ That old digger is lucky those young blokes are lookin after him 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDIQXJC3S5k

[Foo]

I couldn't sit through the 2 minutes of that stupid add prior to the vid starting. 

Foo

[Bird]

I couldn't sit through the 2 minutes of that stupid add prior to the vid starting. 

Foo

I feel your pain..
I usually refresh the window couple of times it sometimes allows you to click after 5 seconds.

or use an ad blocker..
https://www.wikihow.com/Turn-Off-Ads-on-YouTube

[Fizzie]

& it may be about to happen again!

http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/

Even though up till yesterday, they were saying that it's likely to keep moving away from the coast, posing no risk to Qld 

[Fizzie]

& hat's off to BoM again!

Yesterdays foreguess for today was possibly 5-20mm.

Well, they updated that just a bit overnight to 35-100mm , of which we've now had ~60!

[Bird]

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