Tiger Posted June 30, 2005 Report Posted June 30, 2005 Being this site is mainly QLD based... I just saw on the news about the floods up north.. How's everybody coping with these? No members have been hit with this? They look pretty bad the roads/houses out there now! Hope everybody is ok! :thumbsup: Quote
Ruts Posted June 30, 2005 Report Posted June 30, 2005 all good here - southern areas of brisbane and the border between NSW and QLD were worst affected hell they even closed the theme parks !! Quote
Jason Posted June 30, 2005 Report Posted June 30, 2005 aspleys just had rain on and off for a couple of days. Quote
Redwarf Posted June 30, 2005 Report Posted June 30, 2005 I'm airlifting some scuba gear for Super Jamie! :thumbsup: Quote
TRD ke70 Posted June 30, 2005 Report Posted June 30, 2005 we've put floaties and a sail on the rally car for rockhampton. Quote
Ruts Posted June 30, 2005 Report Posted June 30, 2005 Even tho it has been flogging down I still managed to get out ths arvo with the lawn edger. Would have mowed if the damn mower wasn't playing up OK who here is a small engine specialist ? Quote
Super Jamie Posted June 30, 2005 Report Posted June 30, 2005 roads have been closing all day around here. i'm around alstonville/wollongbar area, which is between lismore and ballina, currently i can't get anywhere except goonellabah, which is ok cos all my friends are there, and there's a coles there, and an iga in my village so i can buy food and stuff :y: we're up on a mountain plateau here, so the water gathers but runs off pretty quick. the pedestrian underpass near my work was totally submerged by 10am, the amount of standing water was amazing to see the highway is closed southbound and north of ballina, byron bay is totally shut, the highway to ballina was closed last i heard but is probably open now, and just about every minor road i can think of has been shut down or is underwater. it stopped raining about 2pm, they reckon it'll clear up tomorrow and be sunny from saturday for the next month or so they've been evacuating lismore all day, emergency calls all day on the radio. we got a call at work to rescue the expensive parts of an ATM which was due to go under, and there's already a call in to rebuild a bank branch where the tellers hastily ripped out all all the equipment and stashed it upstairs. almost all the schools and stuff are closed, so people can have their kids with them in case they get cut off. lots of people out of town just bought heaps of groceries and alcohol and are making a weekend out of it :thumbsup: lismore is half underwater, schools and servos and churches and heaps of houses are submerged. the flood levee can hold 10.95M of water, and it's already up over 10, they expect it to peak at 5am tomorrow. the shots on the news are mad, you might have seen the shell servo on dawson street with water up over the pumps, or the building next to katie's school with water almost up to the top of the doorframe my boss always jokes how he wants lismore to wash away, he might just get his wish. i hope it doesn't, we'd have SO much work on if it did! my friends went for a drive and got some camera phone pics, just incredible to see. now there's just this eerie THICK fog over the whole area, you can't see two lamp posts in front of you Quote
Xany Posted June 30, 2005 Report Posted June 30, 2005 we actually didnt send a truck to lismore tonight....we sent one last night and when he got back i had a bit of a chat to him and he reckons its like a bloody ocean down there atm....he was driving a fairly big taughtliner truck, he said the water he went through was just unbelievable....at least a metre high in some spots....lucky we have snorkels on the trucks.. :thumbsup: he said that the highway was cut in about 13 places. Quote
Super Jamie Posted July 1, 2005 Report Posted July 1, 2005 (edited) haha half lismore is still underwater, i've been running round all morning plugging things back in which were ripped out incase of flood. i went to the flood levee wall and climbed up on top of it, looked down, and found where i was on the other side of the wall would have bean about waist deep in river. they just finished that new wall a few months ago too, the cbd would still be knee-deep if it wasn't there if you know the town, oakes oval from lismore square, past maccas, out past trinity is just one massive dirty brown lake. it goes back into town as far as the 24 hour ampol. i've never seen the river this high before, it's incredible Edited July 1, 2005 by Super Jamie Quote
demuire Posted July 1, 2005 Report Posted July 1, 2005 Cool, I've like, walked around Lismore before. Quote
Northen Rolla Posted July 1, 2005 Report Posted July 1, 2005 we actually didnt send a truck to lismore tonight....we sent one last night and when he got back i had a bit of a chat to him and he reckons its like a bloody ocean down there atm....he was driving a fairly big taughtliner truck, he said the water he went through was just unbelievable....at least a metre high in some spots....lucky we have snorkels on the trucks.. :y: he said that the highway was cut in about 13 places. Snorkels won't help much, get the diff oil and wheel bearings checked, cause if the breathers aren't high enough... boom bye bye diff/gearbox!! Had that prob earlier this year. :thumbsup: I seen the pics of it all on the news, damn that's a lot of water, haven't had a decent flood up here in ages! Quote
MissSydneyCruising Posted July 1, 2005 Report Posted July 1, 2005 grrr i knew it would take a heavy rain to make me care about our clients up north!! now they all causing troubles cause none of their phone systems work! (duh, it was under water)... Quote
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