Ford Blitz Restoration/Rebuild

[Private_collector]

Went into town this afternoon, to get a look at what's happening with the water there. Took a few photos on the way.
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I posted this photo of Bells Bridge, showing the flood level in January 2011.
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This is the same bridge today. Compare the 100km/h speed sign in both photos!
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Another road on the way into town, which always goes under with a decent rain spell.
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These are in Gympie itself. More to come.

[Private_collector]

Flood 17.jpg Flood 18.jpg Flood 19.jpg Flood 14.jpg Neerdie Rd eroded.jpg
And this is, or at least WAS the quickest way home from town. Good ole council decided to raise the road surface. Original surface was a concrete sort of causeway that often had water over it with heavy rain. The road builders decided it would be best to add gravel to raise the level of road, then pave over that. The water decided it didn't fancy the new road surface and thought it best to remove it all. Did a good job with the removal too. When the water is running over the road (as it obviously was today) you cannot see what the road surface is like beneath the water. Another very good reason NOT to go through a flooded road. Tell your friends! No doubt there would have been some heroes that attempted to cross this when flooded. Wish I was there to see their faces when they hit this hidden gem. Schmucks! Thought the guys in this photo were thinking about doing just that. They did look like they were considering it for a while, but I think our presence put them off. Perhaps they didn't want any witnesses to the stupidity.

[cliff]

4th photo was taken at the end of my street looking towards the cricket grounds. Water views again from the front door tomorrow I guess

Tony so close and you did not call in

[Tony Smith]

Another 12 mths of Flood Levy coming up, unless the Mad Abbott gets in, then you'll get nuthin'.

[Bob McNeill]

Sure do hope all those around Gympie and Townsville have kept your feet dry, lots of power out and no phones, seeing the logs going down the rivers, cars and people don,t stand a chance.

[Private_collector]

Cheers Bob,

Gympie has major flooding, but nowhere near the extent of Bunbaberg. Those poor bastards.

Might be something in this global warming business.

I took a large number of flood photos in Gympie yesterday. I'll get some posted tonight.

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Private_collector

Might be something in this global warming business.

Don't worry Tony, the mad monk assures me that climate change is crap. Mind you, I suspect he failed Climate Science 101:

"To a certain extent the temperature of the earth's surface is conditioned by the properties of the atmosphere surrounding it, and particularly by the permeability of the latter for the rays of heat. If the quantity of carbon dioxide in the air should sink to one-half its present percentage, the temperature would fall by about 4°; on the other hand, any doubling of the percentage of carbon dioxide in the air would raise the temperature of the earth's surface by 4°. The enormous combustion of coal by our industrial establishments suffices to increase the percentage of CO2 in the air to a perceptible degree. Although the sea, by absorbing CO2, acts as a regulator of huge capacity, which takes up about five-sixths of the produced CO2, we yet recognize that the slight percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere may by the advances of industry be changed to a noticeable degree in the course of a few centuries." Svante Arrhenius, 1896.

(atmospheric CO2 circa 1900: 280 ppm. Presently: 400 ppm and rising)