Jump to content
SAU Community

So Dry, Really Need More Rain.........


Recommended Posts

Jeesus fcuk we had some rain! i recorded over 900mm in 2 days! Hope you lot close to the border are ready, this is pretty full on. I cant get to the farm, the river is approx 4 metres over the bridge, awonga dam has been going over for ages and last night it peaked at over 7 metres over! Good thing we have campbell newman to clean up the state...........maybe

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/418644-so-dry-really-need-more-rain/
Share on other sites

we've had over 300mm since yesterday morning in gympie. has cleared now (still a bit of cloud about, but no rain since lunch time). we are isolated though. highway is cut north and south, east and west. we are expecting a flood peak of about 21m (the river doesn't break the banks till about 11m). but gympie is a town used to floods, so not many houses are affect, but half the CBD goes under water. this is our 3rd flood in 3 years. this time last year i was at work in noosa when the highway was cut. managed to get home the following day by taking a heap of back roads

Bundaberg is pretty much cut off from the north and south now and much of the town is underwater. It will be worse than the 2010/2011 floods by mignight tonight peaking around 8.5. (it was 7.95 during the 2010/2011 floods)

We just got power back on after 30 hours out at bargara after a few tornados hit yesterday at lunch time. Many houses are missing walls and roofs now and the local shopping centre is missing a fair chunk of it's roof.

I live roughly 500m up the road from where the tornados went though at bargara and we were lucky enough to not have any damage but some people were definitely not as lucky.

My brother lives in Bundy, but he's on the south west side (not far from where the highway comes into town). He doesn't get affect by the flooding and didn't get any of the tornados, etc. Said it was pretty darn windy even where he is though.

Got pretty windy in Gympie last night though. There were unconfirmed reports of tornados here. When I went into the kitchen this morning one of the screens from a window had been blown out, and another was half out.

Yeah we have an investment house in the higher parts of bundy that is fine and will never flood but so many other parts of bundy are just so easily swallowed up by floods. Some parts of the town just should not have anything other than parks in them. We know our tenants really well and they said the wind was fairly intense in town too.

A lot of the winds down in gympie would have been just the intense wind we had out at bargara on friday night and all day saturday but it is definitely the right conditions to have tornados. A lot of trees were just pushed over from the wind and they were not small trees at all.

Most were a good 15-20m tall and the ground was just that soft that they were knocked over pretty easily.

A few houses down from us lost a few windows on saturday that were blown out by the winds too.

Shits not looking to crash hot here in gatton, all the bridges are over and granthams Main Streets under again... Stupid car is also bogged :rant:

I had the same problem in the last floods.

Got the skyline bogged while doing a u-turn in a part of town where the sealed road wasn't the full width of the road. 3 hours of waiting for the tow truck later..... :domokun:

a few other pics of gympie

196297_10151655673483356_1653547060_n.jpg

somewhere under there is the highway, and my way to work......

556520_10151655578448356_1115932359_n.jpg

the aircon units you can see are on the roof of the telstra shop

554452_10151655511803356_1278096529_n.jpg

the main street of gympie

734530_10151655497708356_619270448_n.jpg

the rotunda in the park behind the main street (same park as the fallen tree)

182206_10151655487893356_1456715323_n.jpg

I have this strange sense of déjà vu with the (mis)reporting of the flood updates, the SEQ dam levels last reported at midnight, yet showing 5am *cough* whatever....wonder what the REAL level is.

Riverside restaurants being told that they were spared in 2011, yet expect to get done over this year (even though the peak is 2m lower????) by the SES personnel.

The water grid overall has had a longer and larger deluge than 2011, the catchment is still flowing, the creeks have been pre-saturated by dam releases (funnily enough the dam is now closed)

Newman reports the river levels are dropping...err technically yes as it was low tide just before 5pm he made the call at 2pm, but now levels are actually going up and peaking both tonight at 10:40pm and tomorrow at 10:40am

So I call shenanigans, this is possibly going to be a serious flood again, and wait for it.......be bigger than 2011, Newman is covering up!

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Even more fun, leave all the ADAS stuff plugged in, but in different locations, hopefully avoid any codes!   And honestly, all these new cars with their weird electronics. Pull all the electronics out Duncan, and just shove an aftermarket ECU and if needed a trans controller in, along with a PDM. Make it run basic but race car styled!
    • To follow up a question from earlier too since I had the front bar off again (fking!) This is what is between the bumper and the drivers side wheel And this is the navigator side, only one thing but its a biggy! So basically....no putting coolers in the wheel arches without a lot of moving other stuff. Assuming I move to properly race prepping this car I'll take that job on and see how the computers respond to removing a whole bunch of ADAS modules
    • So I prepped the car for another track day on Wednesday (will be interesting to see coolant temps post flushing out and the larger reservoir, with a forecast of 3-14 being 20o cooler than last time I took it out). Couple of things to mention; since I am just driving the car and not taking a support vehicle, I took the rear seats out and just loaded the back up Team Trackday style. Look at all that space! To cover off removing the rear seat....it is weird (note the hybrid is probably different because it wouldn't have folding rear seats) Basically, you remove the lower seat base, very similar to a r series but it is a clip that pulls forward to release the base rather than it being bolted down. Easy Then, you need to remove the side section of the rear seat on each side. There is a 14mm head nut at the bottom of the side piece, the it slides upwards off a hook at the top to release; you also need to unhook the seatbelt from the loop at the top. Then the centre piece is weird. You need to release/fold the seats forward with the tab in the boot on each side From there, there are 2,x12mm headed bolts holding the rear of each seat to the folding bracket, under the trim between the rear seat and the boot (4x christmas tree clips there, they suck). The seat is out but you can see where the bolts attach to the bracket
    • As discussed in the previous post, the bushes in the 110 needed replacing. I took this opportunity to replace the castor bushes, the front lower control arm, lower the car and get the alignment dialled in with new tyres. I took it down to Alignment Motorsports on the GC to get this work done and also get more out of the Shockworks as I felt like I wasn't getting the full use out of them.  To cut a very long story short, it ended up being the case the passenger side castor arm wouldn't accept the brand new bush as the sleeve had worn badly enough to the point you could push the new bush in by hand and completely through. Trying a pair of TRD bushes didn't fix the issue either (I had originally gone with Hardrace bushes). We needed to urgently source another castor arm, and thankfully this was sourced and the guys at the shop worked on my car until 7pm on a Saturday to get everything done. The car rides a lot nicer now with the suspension dialled in properly. Lowered the car a little as well to suit the lower profile front tyres, and just bring the car down generally. Eternally thankful for the guys down at the shop to get the car sorted, we both pulled big favours from our contacts to get it done on the Saturday.  Also plugged in the new Stedi foglights into the S15, and even from a quick test in the garage I'm keen to see how they look out on the road. I had some concerns about the length of the LED body and whether it'd fit in the foglight housing but it's fine.  I've got a small window coming up next month where I'll likely get a little paint work done on the 110 to remove the rear wing, add a boot wing and roof wing, get the side skirt fixed up and colour match the little panel on the tail lights so that I can install some badges that I've kept in storage. I'm also tempted to put in a new pair of headlights on the 110.  Until then, here's some more pictures from Easter this year. 
    • I would put a fuel pressure gauge between the filter and the fuel rail, see if it's maintaining good fuel pressure at idle going up to the point when it stalls. Do you see any strange behavior in commanded fuel leading up to the point when it stalls? You might have to start going through the service manual and doing a long list of sensor tests if it's not the fuel system for whatever reason.
×
×
  • Create New...