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Michelle
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 Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:01 am Post subject: Wet, Wet, Wet... |
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Wow! We've had hardly any rain to speak of in the sixteen months since we've lived here....and bang!
It's been wet all week here in C.T., non-stop yesterday and today. Woohoo! It's been great and has kept the temp down to the mid to high 20s and low 30s. I'm not looking forward to fine weather because temp will be back up again.
How's this for a lot of rain!
We're going for a drive to the river in the morning, 20 kms out of town, because we've never seen a great deal of water in it and it's usually between 12 to 15 metres under the bridge. We've seen evidence of massive floods because of the tree trunks caught up under the bridge, and the big post with flood levels on it, but we never thought we would see it in flood.
Latest heights from the Flood Warning Centre...
| Quote: | Burdekin R at Sellheim 6.00pm Thu 5.65 rising 7.85 below bridge below minor
Burdekin R at Sellheim * 12.07am Fri 18.09 falling 4.59 above bridge major |
I'm taking the camera!
It's a bit like a desert here. Every time we get a couple of days of rain, everything grows. It's too wet to mow at the moment, so the grass will be waist-height by the time the rain stops! 
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Yay Michelle is back and she's WET!!!!!! 
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| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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ooooo do we get to wear raincoats...
Wink wink nudge nudge
know what i mean?
 
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| Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:00 am Post subject: |
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Hey Michelle, when you've had enough, send some down here. 
Pretty please? 
Pretty Please with a cherry on top?
It's dryer than a dead dingos donga down here...
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Michelle
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| Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:42 am Post subject: |
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Sir Loin, it's one extreme to the other isn't it and if I could send some of it down your way I would. It certainly would help to get things growing again after all the fires down there. The rain was desperately needed up here so it's a good thing, except for all the floods along the coast.
John and Cohiba - Naughty! Respect yer elders.  
Went and had a looky at the river this morning. It had gone down a bit but was still just over the bridge. Going by the flood marker right beside the bridge it was about 0.1m over at that time, so the river level would have been around 13.something m. I checked on the net later and at 6pm the river level was 14.3m and around 0.8 over the bridge and rising again. The info hasn't been updated yet, but after a day of drizzle it started bucketing down late this afternoon and has been raining solidly since. Might go and have another looky tomorrow.
Some piccies. We haven't had it as bad as the coastal towns.
I just got a cnn breaking news email...
| Quote: | | At least 14 people were killed in the storms that smashed through central Florida this morning, emergency officials tell The Associated Press. |
Not nice. There's been some crazy weather everywhere. *shakes head* All this water here has cut off roads and caused some problems but at least nobody has been killed.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:15 am Post subject: |
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Wow some pics there!
| Michelle wrote: | | John and Cohiba - Naughty! Respect yer elders. |
What did I do? 
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| Sir Loin wrote: | | It's dryer than a dead dingos donga down here... |
A dead dingo's what??
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| jonnyv wrote: | | Sir Loin wrote: | | It's dryer than a dead dingos donga down here... |
A dead dingo's what?? |
Obviously we haven't enabled the aussie verbal abuse/profanity filter!!!!
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I say we all go to MacKay, where they got >136mm of the wet stuff. 
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I feel for you Michelle. Living in an area that is not accustomed to large deluges can be quite a challenge. The landscape is simply not accomodating to handling so much water.
Of course, I live just outside a rain forest so the water here is well accomodated. If not it would be a lake.
Rainfall for last year was roughly four meters. And while we did have flooding it only occurs in areas where people expect it, Wanna trade?
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Michelle
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| Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| John wrote: | | What did I do? |
Did I misinterpret your comment? 
| jonnyv wrote: | | A dead dingo's what?? |
Donga, as posted by Sir Loin, or donger, as I would have spelled it, = willy.
"Drier than a dead dingo's donger" is an old saying that has been around forever.
| Dags wrote: | | I say we all go to MacKay, where they got >136mm of the wet stuff. |
Mackay (little k) is a nice place, but from Innisfail north is more scenic. I wouldn't advise anyone to try to go anywhere along the N.Q. coast at the moment though. The highway is cut in heaps of places, and the rail service is cancelled until at least Monday. A lot of the places that are flooded now, as well as the places that were wiped out by Cyclone Larry last March, are places that I was thinking of buying a house until I bought this one here. It's just a darn shame that the summer heat in Charters lasts for about eight months of the year here, and there's nothing much for the kids.
And it's a darn shame that we've now found more termites that we have to battle before I can sell it.
| Shrubz wrote: | | Rainfall for last year was roughly four meters. And while we did have flooding it only occurs in areas where people expect it, Wanna trade? |
Yeah. I love the rain, but maybe not quite that much of it.
I'd say we've now had more rain in the last week, than we had all of last year and it's been great.
Not long after we moved here, old Jack next door was telling us that he used to have his trucks up the back and they couldn't work for 2 - 3 months of the year because the ground was too boggy from the rain. He's the man who originally moved a lot of the houses here to this end of the street on the back of his truck. The older half of my house was part of his mother's homestead originally, and then he got another small house from another part of town and joined them together on this block of land.
I don't think it's rained like this here for many, many years. Wouldn't it be nice if the drought has finally broken, and it has a rolling effect and spreads further south to the agricultural areas and southern states that really need it desperately.
Australia isn't a very big country compared to a lot of other countries, but it's really only the coastal fringe that gets a decent amount of rainfall. The interior is mostly arid.
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| Michelle wrote: | | John wrote: | | What did I do? |
Did I misinterpret your comment? |
I believe you did.
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| Michelle wrote: | Maybe....then again maybe not.
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Methinks (rarely I know ) that my reputation is a bit strange.....
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