Flooding [Archive]

a completely inoffensive name

01-11-2011, 03:30

You need to act in the same way people in Southern California do when there is impending disaster. Flooding? Get some sandbags and build a small wall, cuz you ain't leaving your house. Fire? Break out the garden hose and start saving that house cuz you ain't leaving. Clearing brush optional.

pevergreen

01-11-2011, 03:41

Sounds like rural australians.

May not have an option. People in the same area as us have already been evacuated by police. Uploading some footage of it, will look like nothing, but its massive if you know the normal height of the river.

And the king tide and dam are gunna hit later today.

This is what happened in Toowoomba yesterday:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/01/10/3109884.htm

drone

01-11-2011, 03:50

If you stay, make sure you keep an ax in the attic. Good luck.

Heard about some of the other flooding earlier. Apparently the snakes and crocs invaded. :croc:

Yoyoma1910

01-11-2011, 03:55

Flooding is awesome... especially when the toilets start pushing back, a sewerage start pouring out of them. Or when you realize you are completely surrounded by water that you cannot drink, which has burning natural gas lines sticking out of it, and random electrical currents.

F it.

I'd evacuate.

Edit: And don't forget to empty the fridge.

Oh my god, don't forget to empty the fridge.

pevergreen

01-11-2011, 04:03

Good idea.

Woooooah big thunder.

No natural gas. :beam:

Yoyoma1910

01-11-2011, 04:06

Good idea.

Woooooah big thunder.

No natural gas. :beam:

Uh oh!

Unnatural gas is the worst!

And not eco friendly, might I add.

pevergreen

01-11-2011, 04:12

No gas at all in this area.

Video is processing, but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Xj3SqvG64

There normally about 5-6 metres of grass before the trees and stuff, and its about 6-10ft higher than normal.

That was nearly 2 hours ago. Roads are being cut off around us. We may not be able to leave the area eventually.

Hooahguy

01-11-2011, 04:23

That is some brown water you got there.

naut

01-11-2011, 04:25

That's a monumental amount of water.

PanzerJaeger

01-11-2011, 04:39

Are you prepared for the total breakdown of social order? ~;)

Fragony

01-11-2011, 09:16

Haul in some Dutch engineers when it's over, plenty experience dealing with it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97gwh6KQz0

pevergreen

01-11-2011, 10:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WpyYx1e1Mo

An hour ago.

Fragony

01-11-2011, 10:55

If a tiny stream like that gets you into trouble, where does it come from anyway Australia has no mountain area's. Water is really bad you can rebuild everything affected by it, all wood and concrete is going to have to be replaced or it will rot away. Nice job on not building some basic barriers costs only a fraction of the damage done now

pevergreen

01-11-2011, 11:10

Yeah, thats why we are the 'smart state'

All the people across the road leaving. :laugh4:

Tiny stream indeed. >_>

If a tiny stream like that gets you into trouble, where does it come from anyway Australia has no mountain area's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dividing_Range

The Great Dividing Range, or the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the third longest in the world. The range stretches more than 3,500 km (2,175 mi) from Dauan Island off the northeastern tip of Queensland, running the entire length of the eastern coastline through New South Wales, then into Victoria and turning west, before finally fading into the central plain at the Grampians in western Victoria. The width of the range varies from about 160 km to over 300 km.

The river goes into a dam, Wivenhoe dam:

Wivenhoe Dam is already at 173 per cent and levels are rising. Its maximum capacity is 225 per cent.

Last night releases from Wivenhoe's five gates were at about 236,000 megalitres, but that level will be increased today.

Fragony

01-11-2011, 12:58

Yikes this is much worse than I thought, 9 dead 66 missing, thought the ozzies were just getting their feet a little wet. Where do I chip in

@Pever get water, lots of it

pevergreen

01-11-2011, 13:42

Yikes this is much worse than I thought, 9 dead 66 missing, thought the ozzies were just getting their feet a little wet. Where do I chip in

@Pever get water, lots of it

If you're serious:
http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html

pevergreen

01-11-2011, 20:42

Well, after a night of keeping watch to make sure nothing weird happened, the water seems to have...

multiplied.

There a lot of water. Before it was happening elsewhere in the state. Then it was just a bit. If it did what its done in the last 90 minutes alone, some houses will be getting water inside. If it does what it did in the last 12 hours, half my house will be underwater.

Will edit this with link of latest footage, uploading now.

For those who just can't wait (:tongue:) the pavillion thingy in the last one, that you see on the preview. You can just see the top of that now. Thats... 2-3 vertical metres from where it was. And the worst won't come for another 12 hours or so. Then its gunna stick around for several days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxWn-MOXfE0

Csargo

01-11-2011, 21:35

Be safe pever.

Romanic

01-11-2011, 22:13

Yikes, good luck pever.

pevergreen

01-11-2011, 23:06

Bugger.

Stayed up all night, decided to try to get some sleep at 6:30am.

7:30 police come, tell us to evacuate.

Saving what we can.

Until next time, .org!

Ironside

01-12-2011, 00:08

Be safe. That's one massive flooding.

Reenk Roink

01-12-2011, 02:18

Take care. :bow:

Motep

01-12-2011, 03:12

Be well, pever. I hope you don't lose your home. Floods can be terrible beasties, but they eventually die.

pevergreen

01-12-2011, 09:44

Take care. :bow:

Reenk!

I'm safe. Staying with friends but power is out to 115k+ homes including this one. No idea when back.

PershsNhpios

01-12-2011, 10:39

What gets my goat is those damned pillow-biters standing around filming rising water instead of assisting their fellow citizens in need.

There are videos on the television of rows of young men standing around in surf gear filming the torrents with seniors in the background trying to evacuate alone.

The weather has been rough as a Scot's breakfast out here in the central hills but we are all very sympathetic to our countrymen in the south-east.

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EDIT: Once again Fragony shows that he is a flying Dutchman.

Beefy187

01-12-2011, 12:11

I hope your all safe:dizzy2:
Sounds like things are going really bad there, but hope you'll pull through.

Fragony

01-12-2011, 19:05

Reenk!

I'm safe. Staying with friends but power is out to 115k+ homes including this one. No idea when back.

Have fun! Things like that really bond, out of solidarity we had the province of Limburg flooded http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1298421/65e30295/hoog_water_2011_limburg.html

pevergreen

01-14-2011, 06:46

Hey guys, we've managed to move back home, but the ETA on restored power was an hour ago, its now been updated to midnight sunday.

The flood missed our house by about 50 cm. Reached 17m here. Back at friends place, they have power now, on the way here, entire streets went under...its horrible.

Elsewhere in this area, the lake feature where we live missed an entire street of like 40 houses by 5 cm...except one house. Poor guys...

Hooahguy

01-14-2011, 07:29

Thats great news, Pever!
Sorry to hear about everybody elses house though.

Andres

01-14-2011, 11:26

The flood missed our house by about 50 cm.

:sweatdrop:

Thnx for letting us know you're allright.

Louis VI the Fat

01-14-2011, 11:38

FAKE

I'm not buying this. My Global Warming awareness leaflet told me Australia will become a scorched desert.

PershsNhpios

01-14-2011, 12:16

That's what it is! Scorched desert. We have 680mm of rainfall in less than three days and a week later everything is dead and thirsty as ever.

10 months without a drop of rain, then flood, then average rainfall, then flood, then drought, then flood.

It's not warming or cooling, it is Australia..

Gregoshi

01-14-2011, 17:23

Glad to hear your house escaped the flood waters pever.

Reenk Roink

01-15-2011, 17:54

pevergreen

01-16-2011, 05:17

Its getting better.

Its frustrating seeing the restoration of the power grid go by each day. Its slowly coming along a street, and last night streetlights on the same road as us, but 100m away, had power. We still don't.

The latest update we had said last night, then tonight, then wednesday afternoon (an entire week without power). Now its a blanket 'no ETA for anyone anywhere'.

We've had small surges of low power, enough to dimly power lights, but that ceased. While we were at my brothers last night, our neighbours had full power, but not when we came home 2 hours later.

:no:

We're still a lot better off than a lot of other people.

Motep

01-16-2011, 05:22

Well, your home is not lost to the waters. That is good to hear.

Megas Methuselah

01-16-2011, 06:32

You will be fine fine. Go loot some stores or something.

pevergreen

01-17-2011, 13:54

And I'm back online.

Will upload videos and such tomorrow.

Area in which I live on a normal day:

https://img413.imageshack.us/img413/9236/beforeor.jpg

A few hours after the peak:

https://img338.imageshack.us/img338/395/afterzj.jpg

Looking at the pictures, the water had receeded about a vertical metre in the second photo.

Populus Romanus

01-17-2011, 20:18

Well, at least you don't live near a nuclear power plant... :tnt:
I agree with Megas Methelusa. Go loot and pillage! There is money to be made :pirate2:

Togakure

01-17-2011, 23:18

Doesn't look like fun to me. Glad to hear you are well, Pevergreen. So no damage to property?

In '86, heavy rains flooded the Sacramento area where I live, in a valley at the merging of two large rivers. It overwhelmed the drainage systems and water started coming up into living areas. I lost my autographed James Blish Star Trek book collection and a couple of yearbooks to that flood. Flood = not fun.