Yesterday's storm

[Sigidi]

I hope everyone down in Brissy weathered the storm well without much heartache or damage.

Also hope the tree's which mother nature felt the need to bring down, will get a proper respectful slicing up instead of burial, cremation or worse still chipping.

Up here, we had a fair bit of rain (30mm in 15 mins) but the wind was worse, really blowing, I was a bit worried about one of our roofs which is still yet to get is last row of screws on:o

Apparently, a bit further south - Tamborine way copped a battering.

Again hope everyone here got through ok.

[Andy Mac]

We missed out on the worst of it, although power was out for a couple of hours in the mid afternoon. Had about 20mm of rain, some gusty wind but no trees down, and a good lightning show.
The main system moved through south of us, then swept up the coast. I was following it on the BOM radar, and when it got to that Tamborine area I could see widespread rain in the black, (most intensive) and knew they were copping a right bucketting! The creeks and waterfalls would be looking good there now.
Cheers

[Groggy]

You Brisbanites bragging about your fine weather again? :p

(hope no-one got washed away)

[Cliff Rogers]

You Brisbanites bragging about your fine weather again? :p

(hope no-one got washed away)

They reckon it was the worse storm in 25 years, I was living down there when they had that one & it was a pearler.

It was one of my boys birthday yesterday & when I rang him last night, he & his brother & sister were sitting in the dark eating Thai take away 'cos there was no power & there was crap all over the roads so not easy to drive anyway.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/17/2421265.htm


They lost power to 230,000 homes & this morning there were still 70,000 without power.

[Cliff Rogers]

.... (hope no-one got washed away)

A 20yo man got drowned in a stormwater drain/pipe, I don't know the details.

[derekh]

It was wild alright. Last night I carved up a Poinciana to get it off the road, boardshorts and barefoot, not the safest I know. Today, I've just spent the last few hours dismantling two 20m Tallowwoods into manageable but still heavy sections. I also lost a small Illawarra Flame Tree that I'm keen to use my green woodworking skills on. There is a ton of Lemon Scented Gum down in the nearby park.

I plan to play with my Alaskan but I cannot get back to them for a week or two. Is Tallowwood suitable for slabing for bench seats and the like? I'm definitely a newbie in all things timber so it will be a learning exercise.

I also lost 19 Silver Perch from my Aquaponics system :( With no power for 9 hours, they died due to oxygen deficiency. They would of been ready for the dinner table late Summer.

cheers
Derek

[Sigidi]

Hey Derek, I know how you feel about your silver perch. the last real rain we got, flooded our dam and my 100 perch went for an excusrsion, 'cept they must have missed the boat back :(

What park is close to you? the gums any decent size?

Definately worth chucking your bar through tallowwood, it's not like pines, it won't get a heap of stain in it as a log, so you can cut it at your leisure

[derekh]

The Tallowwoods are about 600mm at the base and the gums about 300-400mm. It's a young park so the timber is not overly large. All the trees fell inwards into the park, not into the fence and houses behind, very lucky. I struggled with the Tallowwoods, moving them without machinery is hard work. We didn't move them far because I thought I'd mill them where they fell.

[derekh]

Without hijacking this thread, I'd thought I'd post a picture of my aquaponics system to explain my earlier comments. It's like hydroponics except fish waste provides the nutrients. So you get to eat fish and veges. I have Silver Perch but friends have Barra, Trout, Murray Cod etc.

[Sigidi]

Hey Derek, most of your Silver perch look to be about 12 months old, is that right?

I really like the info on silvers, was looking forward to catching a few for Good Friday, not to be:( Also was looking forward to going down the dam and have a relaxing catch and release session to let the worlds worries pass me by - hmm that'd be nice....

[derekh]

Correct Sigidi, I got them as 50mm fingerlings just over 12 months ago. My other lot got eaten by some visiting Ibis, hence the new shadecloth cover. Other aquaponics friends lost between 10 and 50 because of no electricity to run pumps. One did have a backup battery and inverter setup and saved the majority. Anyway, I seem to be hijacking this thread but I try to promote aquaponics at every opportunity. It, like woodworking, can be very addictive. Sorry.

[munruben]

Bad storms again last night, hope everyone got through it without any damage or injuries.

[flynnsart]

Had nice storm here last night, felt like getting under the bed with the dogs tho, I hate lightning when you have no ceiling:-.

Nice rain, both our dams are just under the full line :2tsup:

Donna

[mic-d]

Just checked the BOM site and areas out around Rosewood had close to 250mm in the last 24 hrs. We had 81mm in here at Kenmore and a bit of water in the house from a blocked SW drain. Fun cleaning those at 1.30 in the morning:rolleyes:. Hope everyone's fareing OK.

Cheers
Michael

[petersemple]

Where we are we missed the majority of both storms. Got a bit of water into the garage last night but nothing to worry about. The rain has been nice for the garden and that's about the only effects we've had. Work was flooded after the first one though. Heaps of water down through the ceiling. They are doing some construction work on top, and I guess it's not as watertight as you'd want.

Peter

[damian]

Had to divert a bit on the way to work. Brisbane river is up about 15 - 18 feet at the Mt Crosby weir and of course colleges is under. Everytime someone sneezes colleges goes under :)

The water isn't comming from wivenhoe, apparently it's runoff downstream of the dams. If 10" does this can't wait till we get some serious downpours....

[mic-d]

Our pony club didn't do so well. We lost most of our jump poles, they're probably floating down the river now and two horse floats were washed onto their sides, why are they called floats? Still don't know if the arena is where we left it. And another storm on the way now.

Cheers
Michael

[weisyboy]

we mised the bad storm on sunday here althow i drove from gold coast to brisbane in it all the way.

when i got right up to brookfield i had to stop adn the wind was strong it was rocking the ute almost rolling us over. i parked in the middle of the local show grounds away from all the trees.

we got 9" rain last night braught the creeks up really quick. lots of mising fences and 3 mising horses form next door.

the creeks were within 18" of the 1974 flood height. but went down quick.

[mic-d]

Seems horse floats do float... for a while. The far one's about 50m from where it was parked


Cheers
Michael

[weisyboy]

they sure do we have pulled 3 out of the creek up here.

one was warped around a tree so tight i had to cut the free and pull the lot out. its going to the scrap metal yard.

[mic-d]

they sure do we have pulled 3 out of the creek up here.
one was warped around a tree so tight i had to cut the free and pull the lot out. its going to the scrap metal yard.

hehe, good excuse to cut a tree down!:)

Cheers
Michael

[weisyboy]

pitty it was only a wattle.

[dai sensei]

pitty it was only a wattle.

:? Wattle is usually a beautiful timber, was it too small to use?

[tea lady]

Without hijacking this thread, I'd thought I'd post a picture of my aquaponics system to explain my earlier comments. It's like hydroponics except fish waste provides the nutrients. So you get to eat fish and veges. I have Silver Perch but friends have Barra, Trout, Murray Cod etc.Hey! I've read about that. Looks really cool.:cool: RIP fish though.

Heard the report about Norfolk Island pines comng down at Scarborough, and all i could think was wood............:club: I am a shallow shallow person.:C

[weisyboy]

yep and i saw them being blocked up on tv tonight.

what a colossal waste of timber.

[Sleeping Dog]

A few pics from around my yard last Sunday.

Guanaba - eastern foothills of Tamborine Mtn. No damage, except the bird netting over the veggie garden is trashed, and the Fig tree mentioned in the milling forum.

Sleepy

[tea lady]

We're supposd to get snow on the alps tommorrow. Isn't weather wonderful?:rain: :cold: :sweat:

[Bluegum]

I thought I was seeing things when I emtied the rain gauge out on Thurs morning. 245mm just didn't seem right, but there it was. The new bridge buit at the 3 mile creek was a metre underwater and it was built about 3 metres higher than the old wooden bridge that it replaced. The Bremer river in town was lapping over the road and rising.

[AlexS]

Munro's Law. (After Prof. Crawford Munro, Hydrologist)
If you've had a flood, you'll have a bigger one.