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Only 9mm up here this morning.
At around 17:45 last night I noticed a small tree laying on the power lines that run through our place
so I rang ergon and they said they would send a crew out. They got here around 19:00 just as the rain
started, so they went off and turned the power out and came back and cut all the tree off the lines
in the dark and then had to turn the power back on. Was around 22:00 when they left.
I said to one of the fellas, I could of left it till morning and hoped it didn't fall any more but
since I pay $1.30 a day just to have power I felt like I was entitled to the service. lol ..
They do a great job in [censored]conditions. Much respect.
No Scott never got around to it, bit going on in our lives. We are both good for A/B
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Hmmmm. In Bowen atm and have to drive to Cairns Monday morning.🤪
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Picked up another 32mm this morning :)
Looks like most of the good stuff is off shore again.
Not looking forward to a trip to kans today.
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30mm at Green Hill since around 6am this morning and staying steady. Cairns seems to be taking the brunt of it for us at the moment. Ended up with 70mm by the time it started to clear about 3pm. Edited by user Monday, 29 December 2025 3:38:34 PM(UTC)
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After a dry day yesterday, we ended up with 28mm this morning. Finally made it to the 3000mm mark. That's the third time in a row and fourth since 2011. Rainfall is light to steady here at the moment.
I won't be connecting the generator to the house wiring Scott. Will run appliances direct. It will be handy to run the larger appliances if we ever get an extended outage like you had after Yasi.
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315mm for us...almost half of that fell in an hour and ahalf yesterday afternoon which caused the creeks to flash flood but no damage apart from having to get out beside the shack and polesaw up a larger log that had caused an obstruction across a small creek threatening to dam it up...not fun in floodwater and p!ssing down rain..
Today it looks like the whole coast is at risk from cairns to Ingham if we get some serious convergence happening...SM I bet you are hoping for some trees over the power lines to test out the new genny...lol..
and yeah Bunyip those ergon emergency crews and linesman have always been fantastic particularly with some of the conditions they have to work in.....the tree trimming crews can be a bit of rabble around here though from my own experience...
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Another 152mm in the past few hours making 569mm in the past 48hrs..
The only saving grace is that it actually is moving on through ..and back to just light rain and receding creeks again...
At least till this point all my drainage and levees are working very well...
Have to wait and see what the evening brings..I hope it doesnt converge back onto the coast..that would cause some real dramas.
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Great falls in your area Scott. More to come I think with the forecast saying heavy rain coming back in tonight with the convergence.
The weather has lifted a bit here for the moment. 89mm for this event so far.
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Absolutely hammering down Tully to Innisfail, the rest of the trip was basically deciding whether it was worth it to put the intermittent wipers on. Despite that only just through at the Seymour R. The water was lapping at the road and it looked like the council were preparing to close it. Edited by user Monday, 29 December 2025 4:37:01 PM(UTC)
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I see Cowley Beach has had 298.6mm since 9, it could be an interesting number by tomorrow morning.
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Well you are pretty keen driving around in this Weary..!..
SM the real heavy stuff seems to have been my area and the coastalfringe north and south of Mission beach.....thats actually really good because its not over the catchments so much on the ranges which cause major flooding on the coastal plains....
Like you say though that might change if the convergence area moves a little west from currently off the coast between Tully and Ingham and parks itself on the coastal plain and ranges tonight..then we will be in a spot of bother...
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Good morning folks :)
Only 70mm up here this morning.
I was in the last lot of traffic going south when they closed the Capt Cook hwy for 45 mins yesterday.
All the money they have poured into that bit and still streams of water and rocks come down onto the
road after a bit of heavy rain, It was heavy rain but I've seen and driven in worse.
The road should not of been effected as much as it was.. Anyway buy the time I had to head home it was
clear and travel was smooth.
Wow Scott that is some good totals down your way, just imagine what it would be like if that had of been
20 or 30km west of you.
I don't think the sea would be to salty out to the east of the cassowary coast atm , the amount of rain
sitting just off the coast the last few days.
Home day today making soup and doing the house work that I've been putting off.
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39mm in the gauge this morning. A quiet night overall with a bit of steady rain falling at the moment from the edge of that blob just offshore. Looks like the T'ville area got a nice drop last night.
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another 323mm this morning over the past 24... Pretty wet but could be worse....the way the forecasters were talking i was expecting a Jasper -like event or the one that hit Ingham-rollingstone area last season with back to back 500-700mm daily totals.. Thankfully this is pretty steady in comparison and as mentioned , limited to the coastal fringe so no major flooding aside from localised flash flooding...but similar to that of the Capt cook highway there are some roads closed with landslips of trees, mud and rocks on them down Mission beach/Bingil bay way which is too be expected when you cut a coast road into very steep cliffs... Hopefully it will start lightening off a bit during the day ... and not sure what happened but the BOM gauges at Tully, Tully Mill and Bulgun have all been offline for a week or more...Tully Sugar was at 4630mm before this event...I imagine Tully would be similar with us getting 740mm so far.. I see one model there predicts a spinner off the coast next week... Edited by user Tuesday, 30 December 2025 10:46:56 AM(UTC)
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That's a good rain event Scott. 300+mm two days in a row is quite rare. I can only remember that happening once here, back in 1994 just a couple of years after we moved into the house. It made me change a few things to do with drainage. We're sitting around the 100mm mark out of this so far. Edit: I looked it up, in 1994 the culprit for that flood event was Cyclone Sadie in the gulf. Edited by user Tuesday, 30 December 2025 8:30:15 PM(UTC)
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SM we could well end up with 300+ 3 days in a row looking at the radar ATM...Holy cows...with the convergence already around innisfail towards our place and whats moving in from the west anything could happen tonight...
Bunyip you could probably just about drink the seawater off the coast here the way its just been constant off the coast here for days now....Imagine if that had of been all dumped over the land...!!
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Morning everyone. Looks like we might get a very wet Wet.
I drive the Range regularly, and wonder how long the band-aided bits will last, or which bit will come down this season, and all the other bits that could easily let go. I drove the Captain Cook highway on Sunday, hadn't been up it for years. Noticed the spot you mention Bunyip, not surprised more came down. Some of that road there's not much edge to the sea.
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Morning folks 39mm in the gauge this morning.
This gives me 694mm for December , about 200mm up on Avg ..
Total 3954mm , about 300mm down on Avg.. All in all probably about as close to Average as you could get.
Tully have certainly reclaimed it wet this year. :)
Back to Cairns again today :(
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Well the weather gods were somewhat kinder last night with that convergence area being pushed offshore..
Just 184mm which makes 924mm in the past 4 days..Interestingly as Bunyip says Tully has beaten Daintree for rain this year though Tully sugar has recorded 5142mm for the year almost 4000mm of that fell during the first 3 months and the last week of the year which actually makes a very dry 7.5 month dry season inbetween..In fact one of our best for good dryish weather..
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