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Title: Little damp up here at the moment.
Post by: Matto on January 23, 2013, 09:01:39 AM
Thanks, Oswald.

Hope that everyone further south than us is ready to get a drenching over the coming days.

Cheers,
Matto :)
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Post by: McGirr on January 23, 2013, 09:18:03 AM

There is so much rain even my hair is growing  O0

Mark
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Post by: xcvator on January 23, 2013, 09:47:32 AM
Aah Queensland, perfect one day, drowned the next  8) ;D
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Post by: ewwreckers on January 23, 2013, 11:34:05 AM
Glad we left Mackay yesterday!
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Post by: Mace on January 23, 2013, 12:30:08 PM
Just saw Tully on the 1PM news.

Looking particularly wet, with water 1m deep over roads.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains

Says it all really.
Title: Re: Little damp up here at the moment.
Post by: sol on January 23, 2013, 12:41:08 PM
Just saw Tully on the 1PM news.

Looking particularly wet, with water 1m deep over roads.

Yes mate it's a bit wet here alright.
Heaviest rain I've seen in years in Tully.

    :cheers:
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Post by: Jeepers Creepers on January 23, 2013, 03:54:26 PM
Can i have some please.... very dry around here.
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Post by: bullfrog on January 23, 2013, 04:00:53 PM
gday Matto
Send South any you don't need!! Even as I type a big storm has rumbled it's way from Nymboida  to the west of Grafton & not dropped a single thing on us. It's as dry as a dingo d!ck in the Simponson here, we really need an 1" a night for the next week just to settle the dust. At work, we spend about $600 each night we irrigate, doesn't take long for the water bill to get scary!! :o
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Post by: bullfrog on January 23, 2013, 04:06:46 PM
I spoke too soon. It's just started to spit rain. I reckon if I lay really still on the lawn, I might get hit by a rain drop.......
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Post by: Hairs on January 23, 2013, 04:22:27 PM
Have ya luck Bevan, I can hear a slight rumble, than again it's getting close to Tucker time so it might just be my gut protesting  ;D
I'll go get another can and watch it go by yet again  >:D
 :cheers:
Title: Re: Little damp up here at the moment.
Post by: Matto on January 23, 2013, 04:51:23 PM
Will do Jeepers and Bullfrog.

Jeepers - I suspect you'll be seeing this rain in a couple of days :)

Here's a photo snagged from the "NQ Flood Update" facebook page. This is taken down near where family of ours live. The road starts at the bottom left, curves around where the marker posts are, and then goes over the bridge (start of the bridge is about level with the two trees just right-of-centre). Across the other side, you can just see some white guide posts - the bridge terminates with a T-junction onto the highway. 

The photo is taken from "the wrong side" of the river - they'll all be stuck in for a few days until it goes down. We were down there on Saturday and drove over the bridge, was probably 2m clearance down to the river below. Got a message from Damo earlier, he's been sinking cans and walking around in the rain/mud with his girls.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/774956_475942832466386_1877861287_o.jpg)

Cheers,
Matto :)
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Post by: rockman on January 23, 2013, 05:29:51 PM
See they where saying that it is approx 5 mtrs over the Cooktown crossing ..... a good flush out of the river system .
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Post by: Barrabart on January 23, 2013, 06:49:10 PM
I'm up at work missing all the rain action,,,,,,, am hoping the rain stops next week, and the fishing in the inlet picks up. Its been ordinary the past few months (for me anyway)..... good rain is my last hope, to improve the fishin'.... if that doesn't work, i'm selling my bloody tinny!!!
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Post by: speewa158 on January 24, 2013, 02:53:12 AM
Bullfrog if its rain you want then l will book the camp site you buy the  :cheers: & it will pi5555555555555 down  :cheers:
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Post by: Jeepers Creepers on January 24, 2013, 05:15:02 AM
Geez Matto, i asked for rain and you sent it... what a guy....  :cheers:

Looks to be about an hour away by the radar.
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Post by: Coolblue80 on January 24, 2013, 05:46:25 AM
We've had about 105mm since 7.30 last night till now(5.30) & still raining heavily.
Our first real rain this summer.
Cheers, Mike.
 
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Post by: Jeepers Creepers on January 24, 2013, 08:33:13 AM
Gotta love the sound of rain hitting grass.

Been light rain here since 7am and its gunna hang around by the forecast for a while yet.
And, mowermen don't work in the rain.... got 2 cartons of beer on hand, so i'm set up for the wet season for the next 2 days.
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Post by: hainess on January 24, 2013, 05:52:51 PM
Gotta love the sound of rain hitting grass.

Been light rain here since 7am and its gunna hang around by the forecast for a while yet.
And, mowermen don't work in the rain.... got 2 cartons of beer on hand, so i'm set up for the wet season for the next 2 days.

Yep. fridge is full.

Hopefully i can get tomorrows dozen lawns done before i get too wet. If not, they'll have to wait.
SWMBO once asked,"How is it you can't work in the rain, but you can play golf in a cyclone?"
"Priorities".

Rod

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Title: Re: Little damp up here at the moment.
Post by: sol on January 25, 2013, 06:31:07 AM
812mls of rain in 4 days in Tully.   ;D

        :cheers: