Just 7mm here this morning.

Solar dave the dickhead has always taken his boat out each and every day, why it was left there and why he was there
in the middle of the night is anybody's guess.
The PUBLIC wharf was built by prisoners up at Lotas and was for the community, the commercial vessels should not
be using it as a mooring and should only be on it for loading or unloading passengers, but they think they own it
and make it hard for people to fish or use for private boats.
Go fund Me's for operators like this are just a scam as far as I'm concerned. AS a commercial operator they have
to be insured, if they are under insured it's his problem. He can put as many sob stories on facebag as he likes
it is a con..
It is also looking like the ferry was not secured to it's moorings. More negligence..
It was eazy to see we were in for a flood, we had had 170mm during the day and no sign of it stopping, the gauges
were on the way up.
Nothing done yesterday, now because it is owned by council everything is to dangerous, they have closed off the
areas both sides of the river so people can't go and see what they are not doing :) ..
In the past when it was private someone would of been sleeping on the ferry and they would of had it moving again
with a couple of big reef boats or a few tinnys.
Last night 2 large boats were trucked up from south so they can recover it, so it is a salvage crew to do the job.
Could of put a cable on it and pulled it with a loader. But it's all red tape and self important fwits holding up
what could of been done.

Anyway I'm sitting back , baking hot cross buns and other good foods and laughing at the whole situation..

Yeah Scott could of been interesting if it dropped out in a creek crossing :) :)

Kathrine is having a big flood, was a shame to see their levee go over yesterday.

What's in store for the rest of the month?


Cheers

16.5mm here in the last 3 days. It was very humid out there while mowing the grass this morning. It looks like showers ahead by the forecast.

I saw that low on the GFS Scott, sitting off the NTC late next week at 934 hpa. It would be a good one if it happened. The 10 day forecast is very hit and miss though.

Mar: 118.5mm
YTD:: 949mm

Scott, only one mention of cyclone for Cairns. The rest of them are too busy trying to drum up subscriptions from the much larger SE Qld population base with ⚠️FLOODING posts.

I see they are predicting flood levels in Bundaberg similar to 2013. I hope for those poor [censored]it doesn’t happen again. I was in bundy straight after the 2013 floods doing community recovery* the destruction on the north side of river opposite the city was unbelievable, the river instead of following the meander just floods straight across at high velocity and it’s not pretty, the water gets under the bitumen roads and just lifts huge sheets of it and houses get washed off their stumps etc.
Also around Gayndah we went to a citrus farm where the house had flooded up to roof. It was on the high bank and you looked down about 20 metres to the river, very hard to imagine that there was that much water to flood the house, but there was ( it rose very quickly in the middle of the night and they were stranded on the roof and fortunately got choppered off)

* community recovery is when you design an emergency payment system that is so complicated that you have to fly in a heap of public servants to assist every claimant that is trying to fill out the forms. Good business for the local motels hotels and restaurants though.

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I grew up with floods on a farm in western Sydney. We had one or two floods over our farm *every* year. Mum & Dad would chuck us kids in the car and we'd drive to see other flooded areas, like the Nepean at Camden, the Hawkesbury at Yarramundi with the highest banks I've seen, and McGrath's Hill as you couldn't get over to Windsor.

The big rivers north of Sydney used to regularly flood, especially Lismore, Grafton, and Singleton. It was NORMAL. None of the more recent flooding has been "unprecedented".

People used to build highset houses, it wasn't just for the heat. It's what you do when you live on a floodplain. Now they build on slabs...

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Weary thats amazing that that boat was found so far out ..normally you would have thought it would have ended up washed up onshore somewhere but I guess all that water spilling out of the rivers created its own current heading east huh..!

Interesting memories guys..dint realise there was a couple of bogan westies on here..lol....I also had the lovely experience in 1988 of living in the Richmond/windsor area for a couple of years whilst attending hawkesbury ag college for Horticulture...there was 2 floods one was major and the other not far below....I think the larger of them is the biggest in the past 50 years if i remember correctly...Holy cow its hard to comprehend how far reaching the water from the Hawesbury reach..Till that day i always wondered why there was so much farmland, turf farms, horse farms and vacant paddocks around there..On that day i found out why...Terrible climate there as well... so hot in the summer and bone chilling in the winter...at least it was nice to escape up into the mountains for a bit of hiking to get away from the rat-race....where were you guys living...?
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Lived in lismore in 1987 \, my first year away from home,and went back there for a few years after hawkesbury...saw a few good floods there as well with 2 Majors in 1987...so that combined with the major and slightly smaller one the next year in Sydney i'm surprised people back then werent screaming about armageddon and climate change causing it..~!...but no people just realized it was a natural occuurence and got on with things...

and yeah we will have to see if anything comes of the current low signal in the Coral sea..i still find it weird that anyone would even try and make predictions or copy track maps when even if it does form something it could go anywhere from new guinea to new zealand...

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