Here we go again, another flood???
Submitted by carnarvonite on Sat, 2011-02-12 18:19
Another flood warning has been issued for Carnarvon and the Gascoyne river catchment. The latest predictions have given a guesstimate of 5 metres for tomorrow [Sunday] afternoon with a real good chance of it going higher depending on the severe weather warning issued this morning for thunderstorms, possibility of very heavy rain and flash flooding, so its not looking too good.
Rain , who wants some, you're welcome to it, take as much as you like, take some extra for you mates, take.....................
allrounder
Posts: 1853
Date Joined: 10/11/08
Sounds like you may be better off to sell the van and get a
houseboat.Not good news i hope all the farmers havent replaced the top soil yet.I have a farm in the wheatbelt that will take a bit if you are offering will let you know when
I will pick it up if required.Hope it pans out ok for you guys
So tell me have you got your info from years on the water or hours on the internet?
snappermiles
Posts: 2100
Date Joined: 05/11/10
good luck mate
we had one hell of a thunderstorm and a fair down poor this morning and its been drizzling most of the day!! im just north of onslow its a pity we cant channel it south to perth they could do with a drop
ALL FISHERMEN ARE LIARS EXCEPT YOU AND ME! AND IM NOT SO SURE ABOUT YOU!
Faulkner Family
Posts: 18026
Date Joined: 11/03/08
thats not good news for an
thats not good news for an area that has wet enough ground as it is. i would say most of what you get will just run off the top.
hope it doesnt get as bad this time round
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
hemi
Posts: 349
Date Joined: 17/01/10
not good bloody weather
not good
bloody weather lately has been shocking
roberta
Posts: 2773
Date Joined: 08/07/08
Just heard from
friends in Carnarvon and they've cleaned everything in their onsite van, everything back to normal, they don't need anymore rain thats for sure or you for that matter John.
Yes send some down to Perth we need the rain, our dams are crook at the moment.
Never had so many days with a easterly or south easyly blowing all the time, old fart reckons we'e moved north a bit more especially after that 9+ earth quake a couple of years ago at Arche, Indonesia. Weather seems to have altered.
Ginger Tablets Rock
soupster51
Posts: 2724
Date Joined: 29/11/06
Water
Hope you fared okay. Nothing like a natural disaster to put us in our place.
The best reason for doing what's right today is tomorrow.
Faulkner Family
Posts: 18026
Date Joined: 11/03/08
any news on the predicted
any news on the predicted floods
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
carnarvonite
Posts: 8668
Date Joined: 24/07/07
Levels
Predicted to go to 4.0 metres today and up to 4.6 tomorrow and if they get more thunder storms inland it could go again later in the week
Faulkner Family
Posts: 18026
Date Joined: 11/03/08
not good at all. just when
not good at all. just when things were drying up a bit. hope there isnt going to be any more damage up your way
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
carnarvonite
Posts: 8668
Date Joined: 24/07/07
Bonus
As of Friday those of us who were involved with the flood get a $1000 for adults and $400 each child the same as the flood victims over east, the fire victims down your way are also elegible. It will be a huge help in getting things rebuilt and back to some sort of order.
Faulkner Family
Posts: 18026
Date Joined: 11/03/08
a help , yes but a big help
a help , yes but a big help , no. i dont think $1000 will go far when it comes to replacing furniture and other belongings.but i spose every little bit will help
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
downsouth
Posts: 15
Date Joined: 15/01/11
more rain on the way again i
more rain on the way again i heard,pretty sure they've had enough up there
JezzaXC
Posts: 47
Date Joined: 25/08/10
im in carnarvon on a fishing
im in carnarvon on a fishing trip at the moment water everywhere got some pics of the river today yesterday it was dry today flooded
*****A rod and reel for any occasion.******
Bodie
Posts: 3758
Date Joined: 05/11/07
rain started yet mate?? Looks
rain started yet mate??
Looks like you have some wet weather ahead up there!
carnarvonite
Posts: 8668
Date Joined: 24/07/07
Rain
Got another 16mm in a magic thunderstorm last night and 22mm the night before.
Getting like Broome weather, afternoon thunderstorms and heavy showers, andd bloody muggy during the day.
The river is running at 4.8 metres, just below flood level so we hope that they don't continue to get heavy rain inland.
pale ale
Posts: 1755
Date Joined: 02/01/10
Well here in Karratha, it has
Well here in Karratha, it has pissed down all morning.
Must be 4 inches by now!
Bodie
Posts: 3758
Date Joined: 05/11/07
yeah have heard 200mm in
yeah have heard 200mm in K-town over the past 2 days.
Looking at the radar, there is some heavy rain still to come, which is up at port headland now.
Tony Halliday
Posts: 2500
Date Joined: 14/06/07
Well looks like rice could be
Well looks like rice could be the new export crop of the Pilbra if this carries on!
with the outlook now being that Darwins little blower could drift over west to us in the enxt week as well..
Hope you guys get some slack from the rain gods, as this has gone from drought to undersea world in no time!
Tony Halliday: ~Meals on Reels ~
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it
"It is always in season for old men to learn." Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
"In a mad world only the mad are sane." Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
fishintruckie
Posts: 198
Date Joined: 22/07/08
How did you go yesterday
How did you go yesterday Carnarvonite? I arrived in Carnarvon on Thursday evening on my way home from Broome, floodways around Manilya Roadhouse all flowing, as the road south was closed I booked into Gateway Motel for the night, got up this morning and the road from Gateway back to the Palms BP Roadhouse was flooded, Main Roads told me the river went over early in the morning, went down to the roadtrain assembly area and the water was 500mm deep over Memorial Dve and flowing very fast all coming down from the river! I hooked up and left in a hurry as they were letting roadtrains go south out of town, 2 floodways down near the old stockyards had about 150mm of water over them so I dont understand why the closed the road south out of town.
carnarvonite
Posts: 8668
Date Joined: 24/07/07
Evac
Packed everything up high in thee bus and took all the other stuff with us . Couldn't crank the bus up to drive it out because after all the rain in the last month would have gone about 10 feet and down it would have gone losing the added height needed to keep everything dry. Even if I had got a big loader to help I don't think we would have succeeded, probably just dug bloody great holes in the park.
And to really rub salt in to the wounds I cooked the motor in the Patrol towing sons van out. I must have kicked not only a chinaman but his dog as well with all the things that have gone wrong in the last couple of months
till
Posts: 9358
Date Joined: 21/02/08
At least you don't have to
At least you don't have to worry about the annexe this time mate ;)
carnarvonite
Posts: 8668
Date Joined: 24/07/07
Floor level
If my reckoning is correct the water SHOULD!!! have been about an inch below the floor level of the annex. Just as well I started rebuilding the cupboards in the bus first and left the annex floor and putting the new vinyl down untill later.
All the stuff left in the annex is up two milk crates high off the floor so it all again should be ok.
Billcollector
Posts: 2080
Date Joined: 16/05/09
Brace yourself for Carlos.
Brace yourself for Carlos. It's pissing here at the moment and is on its way down.
The way it's going we might just float the boat down the highway for AIBT &
Gamex
marble
Posts: 775
Date Joined: 03/09/09
Better bring a shovel too . .
Better bring a shovel too . . . might have to dig a hole in the mud to find a fish
PMY 25 Centre Console DF300 Suzuki
Billcollector
Posts: 2080
Date Joined: 16/05/09
Heard it's a bit dirty at the
Heard it's a bit dirty at the moment. Hopefully it settles by AIBT.