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Title: Flash flooding Kellick Creek S.A.
Post by: Muso on May 11, 2011, 06:12:51 AM

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=kellick+creek+flash+flood&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-au:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GPEA_en&prmd=ivns&source=univ&tbm=vid&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=uJvJTfvpNI_mvQPlnPXoBQ&ved=0CDYQqwQ

Quite awsome. I was checking out the road conditions for Parachilna Gorge and ran across this warning about camping in or near creek beds. We're going in September and hope the rains have stopped.

Title: Re: Flash flooding Kellick Creek S.A.
Post by: albyback1 on May 11, 2011, 01:40:23 PM

it can happen and not a drop of rain has fallen in your area.. so you have no warning at all... just noise!

Ive bogged a Coaster bus with a trailer on the Oodnadatta Track near Curdimurka in a mud flow that was left over the crossing... took us hours to get out. The backpackers thought I was joking when I told them to get out and push!

serious at the time.. but funny later that night at William Creek pub

Title: Re: Flash flooding Kellick Creek S.A.
Post by: Fivid on May 11, 2011, 05:08:43 PM

We camped in Parachilna Gorge about 10 or 12 years ago.  The river that winds down the gorge was a few metres wide at best with trees, shrubs, scrub, etc growing along it.  When we were there a few weeks ago it is obvious that there has been huge water down there in the last couple of years, in places the river bed was10 times as wide, massive trees and rocks have been moved and virtually no small trees and definitely no scrub, etc left....
 
:cheers:
Dave