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« Reply #50 on: January 11, 2011, 06:04:23 AM » |
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Now there's talk of power cuts to up to 10,000 homes/businesses starting at 7am.
This is due to the amount of onground/underground high voltage transformers that are now underwater.
Another young child has been found dead, taking the toll to 10 dead, and now 78 missing.
75% of Queensland has been declared a "disaster zone".
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« Reply #51 on: January 11, 2011, 06:50:30 AM » |
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Now there's talk of power cuts to up to 10,000 homes/businesses starting at 7am.
This is due to the amount of onground/underground high voltage transformers that are now underwater.
Another young child has been found dead, taking the toll to 10 dead, and now 78 missing.
75% of Queensland has been declared a "disaster zone".
It's unbelievable, I hope they can find those missing people. It had dropped to 59 people earlier today then it jumped up to 78. I heard on Nine News that it was 100 thousand people losing power at 7am tomorrow. |
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Mackay, Australia.
MY AREA IN JULY:
- Chilly mornings (anything between 30 F and 45 F mostly)
- Pleasant days (anything between 60 F and 70 F mostly)
- Dry, low humidity
- Very little rainfall (usually not much more than 2 inches)
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« Reply #52 on: January 11, 2011, 07:06:56 AM » |
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I might have got that wrong, but I thought it was homes, rather than people... but 100,000 people would be closer to the mark considering the areas underwater.
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« Reply #53 on: January 11, 2011, 07:16:05 AM » |
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Now there's talk of power cuts to up to 10,000 homes/businesses starting at 7am.
This is due to the amount of onground/underground high voltage transformers that are now underwater.
Another young child has been found dead, taking the toll to 10 dead, and now 78 missing.
75% of Queensland has been declared a "disaster zone".
It's unbelievable, I hope they can find those missing people. It had dropped to 59 people earlier today then it jumped up to 78. I heard on Nine News that it was 100 thousand people losing power at 7am tomorrow. Mackay, looking at your signature's Month to Date rainfall of 27.3 inches equates to over 2 inches per day for almost 2 weeks. And your area isn't the hardest hit. Jeeesch! Just saw this article. "up to 6 inches rain fell in a half hour" and "lifting houses from their foundations"  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40996681/ns/world_news-asiapacific |
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« Reply #54 on: January 11, 2011, 11:04:53 AM » |
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wow, what a bummer. I sure hope all the dam's hold, number one loss of life when a dam gives way.
A boat of some kind might be a good backup item just incase, anything that floats, a small raft can be made by roping large 5 gallon empty water jugs together. Not so much for people but to keep things out of the water Also, if I had power I would be making Ice, storing potable water, etc.
good luck, keep us posted Mackay
oh, and Dan, how many hits to that site of yours? Maybe no one has seen it yet to reply. good luck with your efforts also.
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« Reply #55 on: January 11, 2011, 08:47:06 PM » |
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What is the record for most rain in one month: 43 inches?? If so, watch out, that could be broken in the land down under...
Hope that floodwaters fall below floodstage soon
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« Reply #56 on: January 11, 2011, 08:50:58 PM » |
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It's fine and sunny, albeit slightly overcast today, but the flood levels are still rising.
There's an expected peak to happen tomorrow morning 4am, which is about 16 hours from the time of this post.
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« Reply #57 on: January 11, 2011, 08:53:25 PM » |
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How many meters or feet above flood stage is the expected crest, and is it a record????
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« Reply #58 on: January 11, 2011, 09:11:50 PM » |
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How many meters or feet above flood stage is the expected crest, and is it a record????
They're expecting it to hit a record of 5.5 metres, and today in around 4 hours it is expected to hit 4.5 metres. Still more than 90 people missing. |
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« Reply #59 on: January 11, 2011, 09:25:19 PM » |
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Now reporting "100,000 Brisbane homes expected to lose power".
This is due to the trend towards underground power, where transformers are now ground based, and subject to flooding.
Seems like the clear message is that whilst underground power is great, it ain't so great in flood affected areas. Even if you house doesn't get flooded, you may be supplied from a ground transformer that is in a flooded area.
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« Reply #60 on: January 11, 2011, 10:53:57 PM » |
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Currently there are 70,000 without power in the South East of Queensland, with 56,000 without power in Brisbane and Ipswich.
106 road in the Brisbane City area are closed, along with the Inner-city bypass.
2 more bodies found in the Lockyer Valley today.
Brisbane CBD is fast becoming a ghost town with almost all government offices closed, along with other private offices closed down.
Over 3500 in evacuation centres already.
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« Reply #61 on: January 12, 2011, 07:39:07 AM » |
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The media here in Australia have been absolutely fantastic with bringing everyone the latest information on the flooding in Brisbane City.
Channel Nine had cancelled it's entire program line up for today and had News on continuously from 4:00am to 10:30pm, they are also going to do the same tomorrow.
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Mackay, Australia.
MY AREA IN JULY:
- Chilly mornings (anything between 30 F and 45 F mostly)
- Pleasant days (anything between 60 F and 70 F mostly)
- Dry, low humidity
- Very little rainfall (usually not much more than 2 inches)
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« Reply #62 on: January 12, 2011, 08:07:00 AM » |
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I believe everyone in the area has the right to know what is going on in your area
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weatheroz
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« Reply #63 on: January 12, 2011, 07:13:35 PM » |
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Fortunately it did not get to the original predicted heights of 5.5m.
The Brisbane River got to 4.6m so it was less that the 1974 floods. The Bremer River at Ipswich got to 19.4m, also lower than the '74 floods.
36,000 homes affected with 2500 home inundated
118,000 homes and businesses are without power.
Search and rescue efforts are still underway from 'inland tsunami' in the Lockyer Valley.
So far 13 dead with grave fears of another 12 missing. There's concerns of backpackers who do fruit picking in the area to make contact with the police or their families to confirm their safety.
A 30m section of the riverside floating walkway, which is concrete, broke away overnight and headed down the river. Luckily a tugboat operator found it before it got to the Gateway Bridge (part of Highway 1), and managed to prevent it from hitting the bridge.
There is still another peak level they are watching out for at 4pm local time when the next high tide is due.
Something that is coming up now is where solar panels were installed, many inverters went underwater, and now that the sun is out the panels are producing hundreds of volts down to the water affected inverters.
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« Reply #64 on: January 12, 2011, 08:03:58 PM » |
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Latest radar for the area appear to indicate a break from the rains for a while anyway. That can't hurt.
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« Reply #65 on: January 13, 2011, 12:10:59 AM » |
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« Reply #66 on: January 13, 2011, 12:35:48 AM » |
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Latest news is that there are now 15 dead, and 61 missing. The latest death was in the suburb of Durack, where a young bloke of 24 was trying to investigate his parents house and got sucked down a storm water drain. 120,000+ homes without power Brisbane will stay flooded for days. Someone is streaming the emergency services stuff via their scanner on the net :- http://www.ustream.tv/channel/south-east-qld-flood-scanner30 minutes from now is the next expected peak. |
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« Reply #68 on: January 13, 2011, 06:25:36 AM » |
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They're talking this one way down at the moment. We can certainly do without a resultant rain depression from any cyclone down this way after all the rain we've had. Whilst only 40km away from Brisbane, we were lucky here that the Logan River catchment didn't get the amount of rain that the Brisbane river catchment, but there's still minor flooding around here... another big dumping of rain won't be good at all. The new Wyaralong dam was only just plugged in December, and that's upstream from us, but now from being empty, it is now at 80% capacity, so it stopped a lot. Not too bad considering the detractors of that dam said that it would NEVER fill up!  Still a lot of clean up to happen in Brisbane and Ipswich. |
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« Reply #69 on: January 13, 2011, 06:54:23 AM » |
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they reported on the news tonight that the Wivenhoe dam (in the Brisbane River catchment) has helped Brisbane avoid an extreme flood.
During the big 1974 floods Wivenhoe dam was not built and the city got the full force of all the water with a peak of 5.45 metres.
In 2011, Wivenhoe dam is there and has helped hold back most of the water causing Brisbane to only reach a peak of 4.6 metres, without the dam being there they predict that the city would of seen a peak of about 6.8 metres.
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Mackay, Australia.
MY AREA IN JULY:
- Chilly mornings (anything between 30 F and 45 F mostly)
- Pleasant days (anything between 60 F and 70 F mostly)
- Dry, low humidity
- Very little rainfall (usually not much more than 2 inches)
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« Reply #70 on: January 13, 2011, 08:32:14 AM » |
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Im glad to hear something positive out of a situation that has been very negative
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« Reply #71 on: January 18, 2011, 07:15:08 AM » |
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Moved over to Victoria now. Several towns cut off by flooding there.
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weatheroz
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« Reply #72 on: January 18, 2011, 06:44:00 PM » |
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« Reply #73 on: January 19, 2011, 05:45:06 PM » |
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Those pictures sure do tell a story... |
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« Reply #74 on: January 19, 2011, 06:57:08 PM » |
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Those pictures sure do tell a story... I'll say they do. Thanks for posting those. For those that didn't know, like me,  if you slide your mouse over the pics it shows a before and after. |
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