Flooding

**Andres** · 01-14-2011, 11:26

Originally Posted by pevergreen

The flood missed our house by about 50 cm.

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

Originally Posted by pevergreen

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...

Hahaha awesome.

Nature knows its place when it comes to you!

Sorry to hear about your neighbors though, hope all is bearable for them.

**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.

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:

A few hours after the peak:

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...

I agree with Megas Methelusa. Go loot and pillage! There is money to be made

**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.