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Hahaha classic stuff Lewis.

This sound like anyone's captain?:

The standard of batting in the local side was very low. Even at the net practice, they couldn't hit a thing. Finally, the captain rushed forward and grabbed the bat.

'Now bowl me some fast ones!' he yelled. Six fast balls came down in quick succession and the captain missed them all. Not to be put off he glared at the team and shouted,

'Now that's what you're all doing. Get in there and hit them!'
 
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The Judge asks the little girl, “Now that your parents are getting divorced do you want to live with your mummy?” Little Girl: “No, my mummy beats me.” Judge: “Well then, I guess you want to live with your daddy.” Little Girl: “No, my daddy beats me too.” Judge: “Well then, who do you want to live with?” Little Girl: “I want to live with South African Cricket team for they don’t beat anybody!!!”

(substitute Australian if you wish)
 
someblokecalleddave said:
What happened in Rockhampton? Was that rainfall or something to do with coastal flooding coming in-land?
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Not so much Rockhampton, they were flooded but not so badly. It was more Emerald/Chinchilla/Blackwater area if you look want to look it up.

Out there it's dead flat everywhere and the towns are built on the river for the obvious reason of water. They dammed the river, though, called Paradise Dam, and it's nowhere near a paradise. Emerald floods are pretty normal, in fact floods all over the state are normal and planned for, residents know it's going to happen (we got flooded too, but it was pretty minor), but because of the vast flatness of the town water would only be 20cm or so deep, maybe peak at 1m but it would cover most of the town and leave no way in or out.

Ever since the dam, however, flooding has gotten worse. This dam fills up really quickly because it's a small dam on a big river, and once it fills they have to let the water out. Due to the dam's shocking design it means water flows out of it very quickly for a long period of time, much more than what would be considered normal. So instead of 1m floods, they now get 8m floods that engulf the town.

The rest of the flooding, like in Rockhampton is pretty normal. There was a cyclone (one of many each year) that devolved into low pressure system that just dumped water down everywhere. Over December in my region we have broken all records as rain fell for 20 of the 31 days and I can't remember the figures, but a lot of rain. Then the cyclone hit and died out and just stopped pretty much over Northern Queensland and dumped a lot of rain. A place called Tin Can Bay not far from where I lived got 400mm of rain in 3 hours, just to show what it was like. We had a very wet Christmas.

So to answer your question, it was a bit of both. There was massive rain, but mostly on the coast, but all the rivers flow inland so they were the ones that copped the usual floods. I've got family and friends in Emerald and they are trapped in with little food and having to rely on the Red Cross. We're pretty used to it all but, my town is literally built to be submersed, we are in a very hilly area and there are points where we get flooding to a depth of 20m when the river is only 4-6m deep normally, normally about 5m over the town itself, just fills up the valley. We know when it's coming as the water takes a couple of days to flow down the river so everyone just gets the stuff out of their houses/businesses and moves to high ground, then once the water goes down you just sweep up and get on with it, natural way of life here in town.

Mind you in Victoria they only need 50mm of rain to flood a lot of places. Lucky for them they rarely get above 20mm in a sitting. After living in the sub-tropics for my whole life 50mm is practically a light shower :D

EDIT: Just discovered how bad it really is in Rockhampton, I hadn't noticed it still hasn't peaked. Later today or tomorrow sometime it's meant to peak so it's still rising. Rocky has it pretty bad because of the population of the town and its tourism. Tourist levels would have been pretty low this year, but still there's a lot of tourists that come every year in the middle of cyclone season (which just happens to be the best time of year to go) and end up losing everything in whatever disaster unfolds.

Like the three Brits who decided to go for an adventure on a thickly forested Island only to be hit later by the cyclone and were stuck there for three days. [Insert own Pom joke here] :D:D

I also believe LtD lives around that area somewhere, so our favourite ex-BC user may just be underwater.
 
I've only been to QLD once for a holiday in the late 90s and we got caught in the Townsville floods, had to spend a couple of days just sitting in the casino hotel. When it rains up there it RAINS!
 
Sounds like one of those places you need to have new builds on stilts? Do they do that - or do they just stomach the floods every 20 years or so? Don't know if our news ever reaches you, but with the supposed 'Global warming' all our weather's a bit crook and seems to be set to get worse, yet they still build new housing estates on flood plains next to rivers. When it happens you get all the residents on the tele - looking gutted that their house sat bang next to a river built on what was a water meadow sounding surprised and looking for sympathy that their house and contents are ruined. I don't get it myself why would you buy a house on a flood plain or next to a river that floods unless it was on stilts or on a rise that survives the floods.At least most of the people I've seen on the tele and on the net over in QLD seem to accept that it's something that happens there.
 
someblokecalleddave said:
Sounds like one of those places you need to have new builds on stilts? Do they do that - or do they just stomach the floods every 20 years or so? Don't know if our news ever reaches you, but with the supposed 'Global warming' all our weather's a bit crook and seems to be set to get worse, yet they still build new housing estates on flood plains next to rivers. When it happens you get all the residents on the tele - looking gutted that their house sat bang next to a river built on what was a water meadow sounding surprised and looking for sympathy that their house and contents are ruined. I don't get it myself why would you buy a house on a flood plain or next to a river that floods unless it was on stilts or on a rise that survives the floods.At least most of the people I've seen on the tele and on the net over in QLD seem to accept that it's something that happens there.
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Up north they build most things flood and cyclone proof. They've even been given a name to the style the "Queenslander". Most of them are old wood houses with big verandahs and up on stilts. They look flimsy but they withstand just about everything and are very cool in the summer, although incredibly cold in winter (not that that is much of a worry). The new buildings don't seem to withstand as much, though, which makes me wonder why the ignore the fact there are 100 year old houses (a lot for Australia) still standing perfectly when the new ones are falling down?

I know of one house down the road from me that is in a flood zone, and it looks quite funny to the unknowing. It's a really big house about 5m in the air with a massive staircase and nothing underneath. Looks funny in the dry, but come flood time they just pull out the small inflatable boat they keep in the storage closet and off they putt to get supplies.

This weather is in no way strange. People aren't happy and a bit shocked that it's happened but they don't really go out and complain about it and look for sympathy because everyone else is in the same predicament. And if your house isn't flooded then be prepared to provide shelter for 5-10 people, even if you don't know them. Plus we don't have looting or anything like that. There's just an unwritten rule, in Queensland anyway, that if there is a natural disaster then your enemies and strangers become friends and you go from house to house helping everyone. Then as soon as the floods gone everything goes back to normal and the crime rate goes back up. I guess that's one really good thing about natural disasters here.

It's law here when you are selling or leasing a house you must disclose whether it is in a natural disaster zone, most notably for floods. Do you have a similar thing in England?
 
Kram81 said:
I've only been to QLD once for a holiday in the late 90s and we got caught in the Townsville floods, had to spend a couple of days just sitting in the casino hotel. When it rains up there it RAINS!
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You wouldn't bloody believe it but the very afternoon after I wrote this we got biggest thunderstorm then downpour I've seen down here for at least 10 years. Didn't realise the central drain in middle of the roof was partially blocked then overflowed causing water to start pouring out of my ceiling vents and light fitting. Thankfully it stopped just before it got too bad, 5 - 10 minutes more would've been I would've been in real trouble.

Apparently it was 1/5th of the year's average in about 15 minutes. It really is a strange feeling praying for rain to please stop when usually we are so short of water.

2 minutes to climb up and pull the leaves out will now means at least a day or 2 of patching and painting :(

(yes I realise this is silly whinge when there is people with really bad water problems.)
 
Kram81 said:
You wouldn't bloody believe it but the very afternoon after I wrote this we got biggest thunderstorm then downpour I've seen down here for at least 10 years. Didn't realise the central drain in middle of the roof was partially blocked then overflowed causing water to start pouring out of my ceiling vents and light fitting. Thankfully it stopped just before it got too bad, 5 - 10 minutes more would've been I would've been in real trouble.

Apparently it was 1/5th of the year's average in about 15 minutes. It really is a strange feeling praying for rain to please stop when usually we are so short of water.

2 minutes to climb up and pull the leaves out will now means at least a day or 2 of patching and painting :(

(yes I realise this is silly whinge when there is people with really bad water problems.)
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Do you normally get much rain where you are? Don't know any of the climate patterns over there.

Seems like WA is a pretty dry place though, only hear of the odd cyclone up North. If you ask me I'd prefer constant downpours to drought any day. Are you north or south?

I'll save you the scientific details of why, but where we are we get a lot of electrical storms. January/February normally sees one every week for about 5 weeks, and where we used to live was up high on a hill so you could just see the lightning everywhere, very frightening but rarely dangerous because they're predictable and you just go inside. The worst part is the sound, when you have 5-10 strikes within 20km of you the thunder cracks really start hurting your ears.

One time lightning struck a gate right next to the house and when we went out there afterwards to have a look we found that the chain we used to keep it closed was actually welded to the gate itself and a big scorch mark around it. Took me about a week to gain enough hearing back to hear everyone else's stories of that particularly bad storm :D

Anybody got some good storm tales?
 
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