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...