Extreme Weather
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@NTA said in Extreme Weather:
@mariner4life said in Extreme Weather:
I've bought a gas bottle and beer
So yes
And yet again, I question Mrs TA's decision to go to Cairns in high summer...
Cairns, where the ladies are very very hot.
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@Nepia said in Extreme Weather:
My Mum who lives in Coolangatta:
Two days ago - this is all a media beat up.
Today - power's been out for 24 hours.
As long as she is ok is the main thing
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It's feeling like a bit of a non event from where I sit - Brisbane's North. A bit of heavy rain overnight and the odd wind gust but there have been numerous times during the last few years where things were worse.
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Brisbane gets worse summer storms.
Media still trying to whip up a frenzy of panic. Pathetic.
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@NTA said in Extreme Weather:
Mrs TA had the TV on this morning. Channel 7 Sunrise is trying their best to still paint it as a monumental disaster, with 6 reporters out on the ground, and TBH while it looks bad, it is hardly the apocalypse.
It isn't. Seen much worse. Only people disappointed are the media.
Surprised the usual dickheads hording toilet paper and baked beans still didn't have stockpiles left from Covid.
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Plenty of posts showing this type of erosion and then comments saying it happens all the time?
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So I fly out of Hervey yesterday for Cairns after multiple delays, via Melbourne. Yes Melbourne (but that's not my point).
And so it rains there this morning
And I mean rains.
200mm in 2.5 hours. And more. And more.
Am currently on a plane and only on the phone so it's fairly rudimentary figures but looking at the rain fallen and the BOM IFD website seems to be pushing something over 1 in 1000 year event. I may be wrong about that ... but ...
It's basically the back end of Alfie, dragging rain in from the north stalling over Hervey Bay.
Who said Alfie was over dramatised?
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.95565.shtml
http://www.bom.gov.au/water/designRainfalls/revised-ifd/?multi -
@Nepia said in Extreme Weather:
48 hours without power now for my Mum, they've been warned it could be another 3 days before they get it on again.
My parents are still without power too. Fair few jobs to fix for energex https://www.energex.com.au/outages/outage-finder/outage-finder-map/
Rain finally turned up for Brisbane with the low stalled, but none of it has come north enough to the farm yet.
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@antipodean said in Extreme Weather:
@Nepia said in Extreme Weather:
48 hours without power now for my Mum, they've been warned it could be another 3 days before they get it on again.
My parents are still without power too. Fair few jobs to fix for energex https://www.energex.com.au/outages/outage-finder/outage-finder-map/
Rain finally turned up for Brisbane with the low stalled, but none of it has come north enough to the farm yet.
Speak for yourself...
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@antipodean said in Extreme Weather:
@Nepia said in Extreme Weather:
48 hours without power now for my Mum, they've been warned it could be another 3 days before they get it on again.
My parents are still without power too. Fair few jobs to fix for energex https://www.energex.com.au/outages/outage-finder/outage-finder-map/
Can't win. Either overhead powerlines are under threat, or subsurface pits flood and risk shorting or physical shifting due to slide
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Thargominda - about four hours east of Cameron Corner (border point between NSW, QLD and SA)
