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The high level bridge ?
Dont think they will need the header for a while oops !! at least it makes a sand bank support .Dosent seem to have helped view across the river
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Bloody water!
Water everywhere, Wagga Wagga expecting major flooding tonight...
To the Yass boys, You may be sending all of that water this way, but look at what is heading your way right now! One or two 'hoppers to keep your pastures under control!
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That will be right . Keep this rain up it will drown them mid flight
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The Gundagai Antique Motor Club's Christmas party was yesterday. We were going to have a picnic on the river flats but changed our minds.
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Had to have a little chuckle when I went to work this morning and went to go in to the carpark For some reason the business park's name is apt today Usually the river is about 400m to the west The row of gum trees in the distance is the usual river channel
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We've been off line for a few weeks as the computer is out of action and now we are borrowing Emma's. We sure had some rain here as well, one advantage of this hilly country we can't get flooded out only the poor people down stream in the flatter country cop all the water and flooding, we went for a drive to Gundagai and saw the water, there sure is a lot there spread out right across the flats under the bridge. We were flatout making hay before the rain came and now we're at a stand still as the paddocks are too boggy to get the machinery onto, now they are predicting more rain in the next couple of days maybe another couple of inches.Hope everyone is OK and not affected by the flooding too much.
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Max you did well to get hay this year, I didn't try as it was too risky and I still had hay in the shed. Also the cattle are grasing the best hay paddocks as the floods have washed all the balks out on Mum's side of the property,
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A couple of photos of the bridge that is being built just round the road from here. The first was taken with minor flooding and the second was taken at about the peak of the flood.
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... ooops, do they also plan to build a 4way highway to your farm ;-) That's quite a big bridge.
Greetings Chris PS Got Xmas present yet?
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It's for all the CMP's Max still has to bring home
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The road at my entrance yesterday morning after 92.5mm of rain overnight. I had to remove some branches off the road so Vicki could go to work.
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New bridge is across the creek in a tempory position so I can catch up on some stock work before building new headwalls. Vicki and Mum want sides on it they dont think it's safe as a flat deck.
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That should do the job, Robert.
Might be a bit too close to that tree though. Still the tree might stop it washing down stream. Rick
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The constant flooding of the little creek behind my house this year has finally damaged a stacked rock wall that held a road in place for log trucks to cross the creek when timber was taken from the property during WWII.
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We had rain hail and wind last night, I left for work in the dark this moening so I didn't see the snapped off power pole till late this afternoon. Sorry about photo quality but I wasn't going any closer.
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Bloody Rain
Meanwhile in Ganmain... Over the last 5 days we have received half of our annual rainfall! (Over 11 inches!)
Up until February 2012, Boggy Creek has flooded 3 times in my lifetime. Now, four days into March, it has flooded a total of SIX times! Many homes and a few businesses inundated including the local historical society. Thankfully we were able to remove the majority of the Historical Societies valuables before the banks broke the first time last Tuesday. Also, everyone is safe and no serious injuries have been reported. Boggy Creek Before & During... Also have a look at This Video by the local news service was taken before the major flood of last night. I know most of Eastern Australia is copping a hiding from the rain at the moment, Here's hoping everyone is OK. How's the flooding around the rest of the country, Lads? H
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A couple of pics from downtown Ganmain
No I wasnt there .A few pictures were posted
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Water has receaded here in Gympie although the Mary River is still higher then normal from last weekends flood. Only moderate this time at about 17.5metres thank goodness. Got more rain coming in now which is part of the belt giving New South Wales and Victoria a bit more then they can handle.
Keep the chin up you southern guys because if you don't you will probably suck water of course if you want to shift all those CMP's and MCP's up here to dry out quicker I can make room honest
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Wind and Rain
231 ml in seven days, about a quarter of our average annual rainfall.
But it was the wind coming from a unusual direction that did the damage
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Whoops
Should have kept my mouth shut about rain moving away.
News reports here now indicate expected rainfall of >150mm in next 24 hours. Here we go again. Poor bastards in lower businesses near Gympies main street have only just unpacked their trailers/trucks/containers that were loaded Saturday last week, when their properties were flooded to shallow depth. This getting monotonous. Tomorrow, I start building an ark. Painted flat green, of course! P.S: Robert, about that barn............Jeezus!!!!!!
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I'm finally back on internet again, after draining water from my satellite transciever case.
Since Sunday night, there has been more than 340mm of rainfall. Can't give a more accurate figure becuase the rain gauge overfolwed on two occasions before I could empty it. Severe flashflooding has occured here, and one man has died crossing flooded road. This was two roads across from me at Glenwood. Some news reports have stated this was at Gympie, but it is actually Glenwood, 1/2hr north on the Bruce Hwy. You just can't tell some people! This guy walked part way into a fast running creek crossing to see if he could drive through. What he didn't know at the time (nor did I), was that the road surface was washed away in places and buckled / lifted up in others. This was only evident once waters went down. The silly bugger could have tripped, fallen, and been swept away. It's a beautiful day here now, but news reports are talking about small possibility that the low pressure system that caused the rainfall, may develop into a Cyclone. Gympie expected to receive minor flooding today to several of the especially low areas. This includes the folks I wrote about earlier, who were loading their businesses onto removal trucks, containers and trailers. This will be their second pack-up in less than a fortnight. The workshop had some leakage through the roof where the very high winds drove the water under ridge capping. Totally expected under the circumstances.
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people won't listen
Tony, we all know what you mean about people who won't listen..... One elderly couple here refused to leave their house as flood became inevitable. T they were given SEVERAL hours warning by locals but stayed put. What happened when their yard flooded? You guessed it... The SES then had to mount a rescue in deep and fast flowing water. Made all the more difficult by three fact that one of the residents is not small and very limited mobility... Plus the dozen or so wet dogs that were also in their yard!
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I have heard that the fellow who drowned in flood waters in Glenwood was 82 y.o. with an invalid wife who he was sole carer for. He died returning from the roadhouse, where he had bought the daily paper. A witness said the car BARELY made it through the rapidly rising waters on the way to the shop, and of course, it didn't make it through on return journey.
I feel sorry for the guy, his wife, witnesses and the local bloke that got into the flood water to try & rescue him. I'm about to cause a rumble with this next statement. At his time of life, the body has many limitations, so does the brain. Reflexes slow, alertness dulls, cognitive abilities become questionable etc.. The only one that doesn't seem to be aware is the individual themselves. I'm not saying the man that drowned was not of sound mind or body. I didn't know him at all, BUT I did see my own Father, who had once been a TREMENDOUS driver with exceptional reflexes and intuition, slowly turn into a driver of such poor abilities (physical & decision making) that I wouldn't allow my family to drive in his car. Some believe that as we were once, so we shall always be. Driving abilities stands out as a classic example of this. Bet you have heard a version of the old phrase "i've been driving for XX years & i've never had an accident/ticket"! Don't think i'm dumping crap on a dead man, cause i'm not, but it was in hindsight a very bad decision. Here's an amusing & true story: About a year ago, we had steady rain for many days, which reactivated either a spring or raised water table beneath a major access road in/out of Glenwood. Most people used this road to go south towards Gympie. Over several days, the road surface got worse and worse, until the bitumin started to buckle badly and breakup. Council erected signs. Firstly "Rough Surface", and later this was replaced with baricades and "Road Closed". By this time the road had turned to absolute mush! Despite the closure signs, some half-wits went around them and carried on through the slop. This just accelerated the deterioration. An elderly couple I know, who lived nearest to the closed road, would get a steady stream of drivers wandering up their driveway (all hours of day & night) asking a tow for the inevitable bogged vehicle. For a while, the farmer (in his mid 80s) would gather ropes in his old Land Rover and go to the rescue. As I said, this happened only for a while. After several days of coming to the rescue, he had enough of these stupid idiots. About that time, so he later told me, a guy came swaggering up his driveway & said "I don't suppose you could give me a tow, could ya?" The farmer agreed with him, and said 'NO, I don't suppose I could. You got yourself into that situation by ignoring a blocked road, so get yourself out!' For that he got abused by a fool, who lets face it, would best be considered a candidate for Natural Selection. The car sat in the mush for two days. It was already down beyond the axles when it got bogged and only got deeper in the next 48hrs. Driver got a ticking off by the council and a fine was threatened but not issued. The positive thing was that with that vehicle stuck, no other cars could try going through and cause further disruption for the old farmer. I believe the VAST majority of those ignoring the road closed signs were considered to be in their 30s to 50s! There is a special kind of stupidity reserved for middle aged men. One last thing, NO WOMEN attempted to get through. At least none that asked the farmer for asistance!
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Snowing in Batlow today, the bus kids were sent home, Vicki was also sent home from work and followed a grader out of town.
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We have had strong gusty wind from the west all afternoon, it's no fun outside.
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