North Queensland rain/floods

[Patrol351]

TOWNSVILLE AIRPORT

[Mechan1k]

Jeeez ... getting a dumping up there at the moment.

[Jock260]

Originally Posted by Armageddon

There is at least one ex-Townsvillian on here that I know of!! LOL!!!

Traitor!!! lol

[normxb]

Just showed my daughter Townsville Airport pic's , don't think I should have done that : she didn't seem real impressed , lol , like I posted before , she's due to "Land There ?" on the 15th , told her to make sure she has her "Cozzies" and thats just to wear at the Airport .

[naddis01]

Hey Patrol351, when were those photos taken of the airport?

[AC/DC]

Those photos of townsville airport are of the airport "land" , , which backs on to the Town Common. There is no pictures of the runway and taxi-ways, , as they are all PERFECT.....

On another note, , FYI, , the Burdekin Dam has got 800 000ML going over the spillway each 24 hours, , , that 800 000 million litres in 24 hours, , ( a lot )

AC/DC

[Armageddon Designs]

Originally Posted by Patrol351

TOWNSVILLE AIRPORT

Holy crap that is deep, I remember those drains well from my time there!! Any chance of getting some from the back of the 5Avn RPS?

The second runway looks like it only just kept it's head above the water!

[LUXO_8]

this is like a mirage to all us southerners..........all that water..... :sm_drool:

[normxb]

Originally Posted by AC/DC

Those photos of townsville airport are of the airport "land" , , which backs on to the Town Common. There is no pictures of the runway and taxi-ways, , as they are all PERFECT.....
AC/DC

Thanks AC/DC , (but it was worth the look on her face :evil_laug ) We'll check with you guys up there closer to the date . I take it the planes are still landing ?

[smciner1]

Originally Posted by MADNC_8

this is like a mirage to all us southerners..........all that water..... :sm_drool:

Yeah, if only they could pipe it down here!

[LUXO_8]

Originally Posted by smciner1

Yeah, if only they could pipe it down here!

haha i already said that somewhere....:S

[Armageddon Designs]

Tell me about it, still hard to get used to driving to work and seeing nothing but brown!! Even our black and white dogs are brown from rolling around in our dust bowl backyard!

[AC/DC]

Yes the planes are fine....

this aint a hick town like some think...

AC/DC

[normxb]

Originally Posted by AC/DC

Yes the planes are fine....
this aint a hick town like some think...
AC/DC

Sorry mate , wasn't thinking that , just concerned as she's NEVER been in a plane before , she's going up to visit an old school friend who works on air at the local radio station there .

[Patrol351]

i believe the photos were taken on friday

all the water has subsided now ... there were no planes landing on friday

[*rayman*]

It sort of is a hick town, no offence to anyone that lives here.

Just heard on the news update that there is a 3m croc hanging around cattle creek on the highway to ingham, where the traffic is all waiting for the waters to subside so they can cross. Would be a tad scary.

I'm surprised no one has offered to show your daughter around while she's here normxb.... :hihi:

[S3SR]

heres some picies from innisfail









wasnt even that much during cyclone larry....lol

[FTE19]

And now there is a low off Cairns heading east /south east developing into a cyclone within the next 24Hrs they think , so more rain on the way ! :1syellow1

[XWildGT]

gee i wish we could get some of that water down here in Albury (n.s.w ) just curious to where all that water goes dose it go out to sea or thur the river system in land does anyone know myby some old dryed up lake might come to life like lake eyre did in outback SA

[Patrol351]

FalconSR ... the date on your camera is wrong .... :the_finge :hihi:

[Armageddon Designs]

Originally Posted by bbcoota

gee i wish we could get some of that water down here in Albury (n.s.w ) just curious to where all that water goes dose it go out to sea or thur the river system in land does anyone know myby some old dryed up lake might come to life like lake eyre did in outback SA

Everything in Townsville flows back out to sea.

Patrol351 - That is one of the good things about all the drainage work they did out there, the speed at witch it runs off, you sometimes forget how much rain you actually had.

[northey]

Originally Posted by bbcoota

gee i wish we could get some of that water down here in Albury (n.s.w ) just curious to where all that water goes dose it go out to sea or thur the river system in land does anyone know myby some old dryed up lake might come to life like lake eyre did in outback SA

Most goes back to sea but a lot fills the underground water table as it seeps in to the earth. Bloody hard to catch a fish here for weeks to after all this; too much fresh in the tidal streams.

[DanXR6T]

Originally Posted by bbcoota

gee i wish we could get some of that water down here in Albury (n.s.w ) just curious to where all that water goes dose it go out to sea or thur the river system in land does anyone know myby some old dryed up lake might come to life like lake eyre did in outback SA

You see the Burdekin scheme is on the coastal side of the Great Dividing Range, water can't travel uphill...

However theories back in the day postulated that by building a tunnel under the Dividing Range water could be diverted into the Cooper River in North Central Qld, which forms the upper park of the Lake Eyre catchment... this water could then be allowed to flow down these creeks, forming massive irrigation areas, and ultimately into Lake Eyre, then into the ocean.

If the Dividing Range was on the west coast of Australia, then we would have a mass inland farming/agricultural zone similar to the USA.

Water COULD be diverted from Nth Qld down to southern Australia, how many trillion dollar cheques should John Howard write?

[protd]

Originally Posted by FALCONSR

heres some picies from innisfail









wasnt even that much during cyclone larry....lol

i have seen it over the roof of the ski club shelter (not that one pictured but the old one with the flat roof which would dtill be to the gutters of the new shelter..) and the pics at the esplanade there's a day care to the left i have seen it halfway up the walls and neck deep at leonard motors ( my mates dad owns the shop and we were loading gear in the boats) that would be in 98 there was 2 floods 1 month apart

[XWildGT]

Originally Posted by Axeman82

You see the Burdekin scheme is on the coastal side of the Great Dividing Range, water can't travel uphill...

However theories back in the day postulated that by building a tunnel under the Dividing Range water could be diverted into the Cooper River in North Central Qld, which forms the upper park of the Lake Eyre catchment... this water could then be allowed to flow down these creeks, forming massive irrigation areas, and ultimately into Lake Eyre, then into the ocean.

If the Dividing Range was on the west coast of Australia, then we would have a mass inland farming/agricultural zone similar to the USA.

Water COULD be diverted from Nth Qld down to southern Australia, how many trillion dollar cheques should John Howard write?

what a good idea somone should let whoever about that the amount of money that is spent on farmers aid thur the drought would be halfed so theres a saving

[S3SR]

all of this piping water from the north is only gonna make things worse, everything adapts to the climate changes (animals, plants) but when theres double the water or water when its not suppose to be...then no water anywhere when there is suppose to be some then things will die off rapidly... the study of environmental science!!
hence why we have such crappy weather lately its only gonna get worse, but i aint giving up my Falcon for some smart car that runs on 240volt

de-salintising plants and recycled water is the only way to go.....either that or ill sell you a house in Innisfail for $3million take it or leave it?? LOL

[DanXR6T]

Originally Posted by FALCONSR

all of this piping water from the north is only gonna make things worse, everything adapts to the climate changes (animals, plants) but when theres double the water or water when its not suppose to be...then no water anywhere when there is suppose to be some then things will die off rapidly... the study of environmental science!!

I agree about the water pumping thing, and I said the same thing about the Murray Scheme earlier in the thread I think (or maybe it was another thread?), too much water being pumped over land that ecologically can't support it... so any massive pipeline isn't going to be any better...

Originally Posted by bbcoota

should let whoever about that the amount of money that is spent on farmers aid thur the drought would be halfed so theres a saving

Halving the amount of money spend on farmer's aid during the drought would barely fund the environmental impact scheme such a task would require. Contrary to popular belief, Australia spends very little in farmer aid, as opposed to the US and EU who both spend in excess of a billion dollars a day on supporting their farmers... Anyway another topic for another place.

So it's raining huh?

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[Patrol351]

i think it might get a bit wet here in the next few days
i don't thinkg normXB's daughter will be impressed ehehehehehehe

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65004.shtml

[normxb]

Originally Posted by Patrol351

i don't thinkg normXB's daughter will be impressed ehehehehehehe
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65004.shtml

You're pretty "bang" on there

When I showed her the map there were things said like :-
"Just my luck"
"Not happy Jan"
and a few other words I won't bother typing because the "word checker" would only leave this ******** , ***** , *******..... heheehehe

[Jock260]

now we have this cyclone to deal with, its blowing like Pamela Anderson over here