Severe Thunderstorms Se Qld

[Mud]

Well if you live in the suburbs as most of us do, and your house wasnt designed to have tanks retro fitted then your gutters would fall in all different directions to their nearest down pipe. Now when you come to install a tank you are either going to have lots of little tanks all over your yard at each down pipe, pull down all of your guttering and re-install it with correct falls to your tanks location. Or just leave it be and position your tank in the area where it will collect the most amount of rain fall. Its just not cost effective.

ok I get ya.

its just that we installed a tank, tapped into the down pipes and ran them all to the tank.

no wastage,

but I see where you're comin from now.

[FineLine]

Instead of getting bent about washing your car just do as I do.

Whilst we arent getting decent rain we are getting storms periodically. i just came in from washing my car in pure rainwater and i dont have a tank. Just squirt a little detergent on the sponge and wash away. then set back and watch the rain wash it all off.

When it stops raining just give it the old chamois treatment and !PRESTO! clean car....Easy peasy.

[n15m0]

Instead of getting bent about washing your car just do as I do.

Whilst we arent getting decent rain we are getting storms periodically. i just came in from washing my car in pure rainwater and i dont have a tank. Just squirt a little detergent on the sponge and wash away. then set back and watch the rain wash it all off.

When it stops raining just give it the old chamois treatment and !PRESTO! clean car....Easy peasy.

Noel, I hope for ur sake ur not using dishwashing detergent on your line!

[dangerous_daveo]

i would never take my car to/use a carwash... purely for that fact - i won't wash my car with recycled water.

the amount of chemicals etc in it does more harm to the paint than good.

only way around it is to get a tank... and are the government going to pay for me to get a tank? not f**kin likely, so therefore, i will be using tap water.... call it selfish, call it whatever you want, but it is MY posession, i'm not going to let it depreciate MORE in value (more than it does currently anyway) due to having shit paint due to some knobend in parliament

Because I know for a fact that Peter Bettie created this 100 year drought with his own bare hands...

BTW, the qld govt will give you $1000 for your tank, and currently brisbane city council will give you $750 for a 5000L tank or $500 for 5000L and under. So your going to be forking out maybe $500-1000 and doing some good, so the govt to some degree are paying for them. And I dont see why you should be allowed to wash your car and justify not being part of the community, when the rest of us have worked out how to put up with it.

But just a suggestion, in our family we save our shower water, such as while your waiting for the water to get to the right temp etc. Maybe you could do the same, by the end of the week you should have a fair few buckets of water to wash your car with.

Recycled water and how 'bad' it is, is 99% media hype. It wont hurt your car anymore than the stuff you use to wash it.

Sorry to be harsh, but thats the reality of it. Level 6 in Septemeber... Keep that in the back of your head too while your washing your car, that will be the worst water restrictions of any major city in the world ever.

End of the day man, its going to come down to the do you want to continue to live. We all need water to live, sure as hell we all dont need your car.

[AzzurrA]

no, peter beattie didn't create the 100 year drought with his bare hands...

who the hell said anything about a '100 year' drought anyway? AFAIK we've only had anything to worry about in the last 5 - 10 years....

and what about all the 'foward thinking' politicians who actually banned water tanks in brisbane in the first place? now there's a stroke of genius.

i'm sorry... but i pay my taxes, i work damn hard for my money, i don't see why i should have to suffer and be financially worse off because some politician didn't have the foresight to perhaps even think that we may run out of water, until it was well beyond too late, and now he's trying to 'bandaid' the situation, just like everyone else in government.

They have also jacked the price of water up 150%. i don't see how the hell they can justify that.

end of the day, if the level 6 water restrictions come in and the government is getting all gestapo like (not that they're not there already) then i'll simply move to another state/country.

[AzzurrA]

oh, and btw dave/everyone else here... this isn't aimed at you guys... i just get my back up a bit when people start trying to tell me what i can and can't do, how to live etc. We don't live in a dictatorship ffs.

This is a democracy

[R33S2]

You can pay all the taxes you like, they cant pull water out of thier arse not matter how much you pay, if you cant stand the heat get of the kitchen, go find a town somewhere that has heaps of the stuff, either that or do your thing and get caught fullysiculleah.

[AzzurrA]

seems nobody seems to be worried about getting screwed over at all, so rather than continue arguing, i'm out

later

[FineLine]

Noel, I hope for ur sake ur not using dishwashing detergent on your line!

WTF. I hope not too John.

[Bunta]

seems nobody seems to be worried about getting screwed over at all, so rather than continue arguing, i'm out

later

Thats because when you turn on the tap and nothing comes out you will realise that a clean car isnt that important

[AzzurrA]

well, i'm sorry, but they should have thought of that years ago, instead of waiting until now and going "OHNOES! WHERE HAS ALL OUR WATER GONE!?!?!!!111one1" it obviously didn't dissapear overnight... it's been going for years, yet they chose to ignore the fact.

The finger is pointed squarely at a lazy government

[O.I.C Napster]

No washing cars, FU*K THAT!!! just drive to the sunny coast. All good for cleaning ya car here. Just borrow some fallas hose lol

[AzzurrA]

and for the record, i'm not a heartless bastard who is going to wash my car regardless, i will probably conform just like everyone else and get a rainwater tank to use to wash the car (though stuffs me where the hell i'm going to put it... live in a townhouse).

I'm just airing my opinion about how stupid this whole situation is, and how i'm not very happy about having to lose EVEN MORE money... not like the government doesn't f**k us at every other opportunity that they get... why not f**k us to just live as well?

[Bunta]

well, i'm sorry, but they should have thought of that years ago, instead of waiting until now and going "OHNOES! WHERE HAS ALL OUR WATER GONE!?!?!!!111one1" it obviously didn't dissapear overnight... it's been going for years, yet they chose to ignore the fact.

The finger is pointed squarely at a lazy government

The WRP process has been in place for over 12 years

It also doesnt help that people vote against recycled water

[AzzurrA]

still, it was too little, too late

[Bunta]

still, it was too little, too late

It isnt easy when the worst drought on record hits

I wont go into the complexity of the water resource modeling process but basically it is all based on previous record...basically there is solutions coming and it is amazing they have been so fast, but in the mean time we all have to use a bit less so that we give the solutions time to get in place.

And as for your whinge about "people in government" not doing anything...I have spent the last 3 years working my ass off in an attempt to come up with solutions only to have misinformed people badmouth our efforts every day...thanks for adding to it.

here is one you dont hear every day......it is the general publics fault for thier selfishness ans nearsighted views.....our department wanted level 1 restrictions in place ALWAYS...the public wouldnt go for it so it got canned. And yes this was when the dam was near full supply in 2001

[Bunta]

anyway opinions are opinions, just gets a little bit dissapointing at times when no one is on your side! The cabinet or the public!

[AzzurrA]

It isnt easy when the worst drought on record hits

I wont go into the complexity of the water resource modeling process but basically it is all based on previous record...basically there is solutions coming and it is amazing they have been so fast, but in the mean time we all have to use a bit less so that we give the solutions time to get in place.

And as for your whinge about "people in government" not doing anything...I have spent the last 3 years working my ass off in an attempt to come up with solutions only to have misinformed people badmouth our efforts every day...thanks for adding to it.

here is one you dont hear every day......it is the general publics fault for thier selfishness ans nearsighted views.....our department wanted level 1 restrictions in place ALWAYS...the public wouldnt go for it so it got canned. And yes this was when the dam was near full supply in 2001

Andrew, if you feel the need to take this personally, go ahead, just know that i wasn't aiming anything i said at you or anyone on this forum (as mentioned previously), i'm just having a general rant.

[Silver_R34_GT-T]

Its totally bullshit how we are not allowed to use a few buckets of water to clean $$$ cars, yet old Cu.Nts are/were allowed to use a hose for plants...

We are all equal, wah wah if ya plants die, get a new hobbie..

I will continue to wash ym car with buckets, as i dont like recycled water, (mainly as i watch people hosing off dirt, and hosing off boats) etc etc

this government sucks that it has done nothing, and since when did a first world country ever have to worry about clean fresh water??

[Bunta]

Andrew, if you feel the need to take this personally, go ahead, just know that i wasn't aiming anything i said at you or anyone on this forum (as mentioned previously), i'm just having a general rant.

when you are talking about this facet of government you are talking about me wether you mean it or not