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Did all our SE Queenslanders get that lovely rain.
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Posted by mistymorn Brisbane Qld (My Page) on Fri, Jan 20, 06 at 7:37
| So far over the past 24 hours we have received 85 mm ( over 200mm further south ) but why does it have to come down so hard and fast. It came down so heavy on our block that we had to dig a trench across the driveway to the Garage/Shed as the water started pouring in, thank goodness everything is up off the floor, except the car, lawns mowers and wheelbarrow wheels, we had about 30cm or more dept of water down at the back fence.
Found out later it was caused my the back neighbour he had built a fence across the boundry fence and the water could not run away but once he got out with his crow bar and did something the water started to drain away, mind you I had a ball splashing around in it, I felt like a kid again. I hope all the Bearded Dragons are Ok especially the very small ones as I seen one running for its life. But most of all I hope the water catchment areas are getting a lot of this beautiful rain...Cheers....MM. |
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RE: Did all our SE Queenslanders get that lovely rain.
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| Lucky you with all that rain (sorry about the problems though). We had 34mls (in 20 mins) on Friday but since then only 5mls and most of that was overnight. Been only nuisance showers - just enough to make me run to get the washing off and close the windows. By that time it has stopped so then open all the windows again :( Hopefully we will get our share soon. Better down the Sunshine Coast (as if they need that much - send it this way please). My daughter was complaining about trying to get to work in the rain - poor thing. She is one of those young ones who only think of the inconvenience, even though she was raised on tank water so knows about wasting it! Sorry about the whinge. |
RE: Did all our SE Queenslanders get that lovely rain.
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| g'day mm, not this is spot rain not general rain so like in the case of munduberra on thursday morning i think? it got 8"s in 1 hour but that was about the only real rain in the region. then last week i think nambour and sunshine coast locales where getting flooded and have been getting good rain off and on since most of it double figure stuff. so far this month up to the 17th we had around 100mm yesterday we had 4.75 in the tube and this morning (haven't read it yet) but it looks like about 22 odd mm for the past period and i would say more to come. nothing heavy and sudden but very good soaking stuff. len |
RE: Did all our SE Queenslanders get that lovely rain.
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| seventy plus at Dicky Beach in the last couple of days - it looks as though the copious amounts of mulch has slowed down the "creek" we get whenever it rains hard. Everything is saturated but no water lying above the level of the mulch There's a team of kiwi builders one block back and one across (if that makes sense) and they've started digging away all of the top soil on a tiny block of land to put in a huge house and a pool. They also took away a lot of roots from the jungle behind my place so I'm expecting some of the big trees to say enough when we next get high winds. The block where the new house is going is one of those "wonderfully" sub-divided blocks of land - cut a normal house block in two and build two monsters with pools. The building of the second house had to wait until the first house was almost completed because there just isn't enough room to build two houses at the same time. In the new house there's less than a metre between the boundary and the foundations and when the pool goes in I'll be able to sit on my fence (in the corner) and dip my feet in the pool. Some people call that progress. |
RE: Did all our SE Queenslanders get that lovely rain.
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I'll say we've had rain! The lawn still squelches when I walk across it. Plants are enjoying it, though, particularly thr gingers and ferns,
Tony |
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