Cally, do you have many sick days stored up? I say milk it for all it is worth lol
Cass, that is good news that your Opa is alright. The bits of footage that I have seen of the floods look terrible! We used to live on the Brisbane/Ipswich border - DH's work was right next to the Bremer river which is apparently bursting. It is just crazy!
It's just unfathomable, how huge the scale of it is now...it was bad last week but now it's just exponentially worse! I've been alternating between wanting to know all the details (cos my sis is there) and wanting to stay in my happy little bubble. So glad your Opa is safe Cass, I hope they don't get any more water through there. Really shocking when it's a place you've spent time and it's part of you personal history.
Cally - hot tip for killing the cough: take codeine (provided you're not sensitive to it).
Cally, nearly everyone I know who had a cold or the flu over winter had a terrible cough for weeks after the illness had actually gone
Cass, I did get spoilt. I gots me a shiney pandora necklace - I"ve been hinting at one for years and he finally listened LOL, plus a cookbook and some bench cannisters. And I'm so glad that your Opa is safe It's just as tragic as watching the footage from Black Saturday only in a horrible reversal.
MD, I'm so peeved that they aren't saying anything on the news about the north of NSW - my little brother is in Grafton staying with friends and was due to leave to come home on Thursday, but called me today in a panic saying they'd been given evac orders, but they didn't have to go as the house is 2 storeys. But when I talked to him later, he said that the panic had passed and that he was alright and they are safe where they are, but it is still a bloody great worry and Mum is beside herself and frustrated with being stuck in hospital and knowing there is nothing any of us can do kwim.
Trill , I think the area of effect is so large that they're having trouble getting across all that info...I only watched ABC tonight and they pretty much just showed the same stuff over a few times, NSW was mentioned but only in passing. I think everyone is freaked out that not only is it flooding in a huge way, but about to be in one of our larger capital cities...we are so accustomed to stuff happening in far away places, it's a shock when suddenly it's happening right in the middle of things.
BTW I had assumed your mum would've gone home from hossy by now, how is her recovery going?
Its like pulling hens teeth trying to find any current info too. But he has promised he will keep his phone charged and call me if anything happens.
Mum is still in hospital and still at least 10 days away from coming home - and that's being optimistic!! Her recovery is going well and the foot is healing well - then her Dr comes back from his christmas break and decides that he wants to do another dye test to check the stent in her groin (for circulation) and maybe take some more of her toe - which would take the healing process right back to the start again!! So she had the dye test done - they realised that they screwed up and poked through one of her veins, on Monday the top Vascular surgeon from St Vincents in Sydney comes out to Wagga and does it again for her. Now her Dr wants to send her for another scan to see how the new stent is going. It is just so frustrating that the Dr wont give her any definites - it's maybe this and maybe that. It's giving her the ****s. She's been there since December 10 and all she wants is to come home. So it's been a blessing in a way that J has been at his mates on holiday so he's not been here but now that's turned into a drama too.
Trill- Are you watching the news? A guy from the BOM just said they are worried about Grafton today and the flood will peak at about 9pm tonight. Just wanted you to be up to date, not intentionally trying to worry you.
I just found an ABC news online article that said areas around grafton have been given evac orders this morning - that includes Bushgrove where my brother is. But they think grafton itself will be protected by the levy around it.
ARGH! this is all so confusing. I just spoke with my brother who said that they were still fine where they were - it was just the lower part of the town that has been evac'ed BUT the road between there and Grafton is closed till at least 9pm tonight - so it's not cut, but just closed I suppose for safety and they weren't expecting the peak till 9pm apparently. So we're crossing fingers that the road will open and he will be able to catch his train from Grafton to come home tomorrow at 6am because rail services are still operating at this stage.
can i ask a dumb question? i'm just trying to get my head around it all and i don't really understand it. where will all the water go? i mean, i guess what i'm asking is, what will happen next?
Ginger, I think it's a case of waiting for it to run off naturally through local watercourses (eventually to rivers and then the ocean) or evaporate. It's the reason Brisbane is going to flood - because of the sheer volume of water moving down from further up river, rather than just from rain falling directly on that spot. That's why they kind of have some idea of when to what extent the rivers are likely to peak over the next few days (with a lot of clever understanding of how much water will soak into the ground, how much will run off, how much will flow into river systems & some very high-end computing programs). It will take a couple of days for the water to peak and then receed.
ETA - I don't know about the NSW stuff, but on the ABC News site there is a map of brisbane with the suburbs that are expected to flood, so you get an idea that the areas affected are those in the natural depression from the river's original valley.
Last edited by AnyDream; January 12th, 2011 at 09:51 AM.
thanks md. i just can't get my head around the enormity of the water and where it will all go iykwim?
i also heard on the weather channel on foxtel that qld will be receiving continued rain until autumn. i can't take it all in.
G: the water will eventually head to the ocean. they just found a cow swimming 12kms off the coast near keppel island poor poor creature...
i am quite distressed. so many family and friends that are evacuating right now. but mostly i am distressed about grantham. i have travelled through that town twice a week for 10 years and always stopped at the hotel there...i cannot believe it.
G a lot of the water from around Rockhampton will find it's way into the Murray Darling basin and then a lot of it will find it's way out to sea along the QLD/NSW coast. In about a month, all the water from Rocky will flood all the places along the Darling river system - so Bourke and those areas. Its something that is going to be affecting people for a long time yet. But at least they have time now to prepare for the water well in advance.
Spoke to my brother after seeing reports they were door knocking houses in bushgrove, but he said they are still fine and it was only voluntary. I just don't think that the people he is staying with are taking all of this very seriously kwim? I mean, when I called he and his mate and his siblings were at the house while their mother was off who knows where!
poor poor creature...
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