Does Beach King & 185Skywagon need Floats

[Jabawocky]

I know they need it out west and its not unusual, but I do wish our friends out west well in the recovery.

Rising floodwaters hit Charleville | Toowoomba News | Local News in Toowoomba | Toowoomba Chronicle (http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2010/03/02/rising-floodwaters-hit-charleville/)

A few fellow ppruners in Charleville and Roma!

How are the airfields holding up? Might be the only way in for help and supplies.

J:uhoh:

[Cessna Capt]

From memory the Charlie-vegas airfield is at the highest point in town. Hopefully not too much damage to the rest of the town.

[BEACH KING]

Thanks for your concern Jaba.
It sure has been a trying day for 185Skywagon and me..as well as many others. Lots of wading and boating through floodwater and avoiding brown snakes! (They swim real good). My family haven't fared too badly, but C185 has had about 1ft of water ingress into his home, and many of my staff and friends have had a lot more.
What a bloody mess:(.
The flood level appears to be dropping at present...and if this rain stops tonight...the clean-up will start in the morning.

[185skywagon]

thanks blokes. Off to assess our house in a bit. There is a fair bit of mud from what I saw yesterday.
Airfield ok here at YBCV. I am not sure about Roma. Still drizzling here, but shouldn't be too much more rain.
We have no grocery shops functioning at the moment. Don't know what is going to happen with that.

will try and get some photos up today.
Probably 1/3 to 1/2 of houses affected.

185

[tinpis]

Hope someone got the E-type to high ground? :uhoh:

[Jabawocky]

I reckon he must have driven it onto high ground out of Next G range coz he has not been all that visible here!

Come the weekend if more hands on deck are needed let me know folks, can probably round up a load of blokes supplies!

The RAAFies might bring their shiny new Boeing B-Double in! Has been no talk yet about relief efforts.....I hope some of the morons in the castle of BrisVegas has noticed its wetter further west of Ippy :rolleyes:

Still p!$$ing down here. Next problem out west will be finding enough Cattle to faten up on all that pasture that will bloom.
J

[Monopole]

And you guys still manage to find the time to respond on Pprune...... That's hard core :ok:

I hope in the end, that it's not as bad as it first seems. Good luck.

[185skywagon]

a few shots of home.
http://www.skywagon.info/webshots/2009/gully100303.jpg
http://www.skywagon.info/webshots/2009/living100303.jpg
http://www.skywagon.info/webshots/2009/lounge100303.jpg
185

[185skywagon]

Our house yesterday arvo.
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http://www.skywagon.info/webshots/2009/frontroom.JPG
We've got our place as clean as we can for the moment.
We appear to have insurance at this stage.
Beds, couches dirty and soaked.
Fridges will probably be ok.

[Jabawocky]

The Double Base?:uhoh:

Nahhhh its probably the highest anything in town could get! :ok:

[185skywagon]

Jaba,
all basses were placed in suitably safe places. Lost one speaker cab though.
just waiting for the sandflies to come.:eek:
cheers,
185.

[BEACH KING]

http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo89/leesnide/IMG_02461.jpgSome flood pics.
http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo89/leesnide/IMG_02451.jpg


Chez Beach
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[Jabawocky]

..............well at least Sophie and the dog are having fun! :ok:

Few days off school and all!

Any of the transport methods for the tinnie! :D

[Torres]

Roma two days ago. Water rose another meter above this level:

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Beach King and 185Skywagon check your PMs. I'm desperate to know whether our Charleville office now has an indoor swimming pool!

[tinpis]

Do E-types make good canoes?:rolleyes:

[Jamair]

Jeez Torres, is that Shadys Lagoon??:eek:

How did the spa fare.......:ooh:

[Torres]

Tinpis. The E Type and my beer fridge are definately high and dry, as is the spa at Casa Torres - don't you worry about that! :=

Jamair. The Big Rig got water through it. Shady's Lagoon and the Big Rig Duck Pond are now one very large slow moving lake! Bottom end of Station Street is a lake, dotted with houses. At one stage the bridge on the Warrego, over Bungil Creek, between town and the sale yards was closed due to flooding (second last photo above was taken a couple of hours before the bridge flooded.) Houses at the northern end of Charles and Edwarde Streets were flooded. The Warrego Highway west is closed at Currey Street. Would you believe the shops were flooded at the corner of McDowall and Quintin Streets, the site of Roma's only traffic lights?

The ex Mayor's house (BG) is for sale at a reputed $960k but as it is now underwater, may be "on special" this week! :}

And would you believe it - Lake Nevafill is over flowing!!! :}

[Chimbu chuckles]

Geez Cracker/Snide! Never rains but it pours hey!!!

You guys got enough rum and coke to see you through? I suggested to jaba he do an airdrop but difficult in the Retard Vehicle - unlike an A36/C185 - in the RV the door would be the first thing airdropped:E

Rumbo's at Beachy's place!!!!!!

[185skywagon]

Another 3" in the gully catchment last night.
roaring through town at present. Unsure as to whether the peak will be as high as a couple of days ago.

A bit worrying at the moment.

[Jabawocky]

So long as I can get AVGAS from Cracker, I can get 18 cartons of Bundy & Coke in to help recovery efforts! :}

And no unlike some folks aircraft mine is not set up for aerial baiting!:E

[Peter Fanelli]

So the drought is off then?

[185skywagon]

It is here. My parents have had 24" since Xmas eve south of Blackall.

I think we've had 18" since end of January here at YBCV.

[BEACH KING]

So the drought is off then?
No Manuel... it's drought substitute

[frigatebird]

Would offer my 172, but I wouldn't be able to get it there VFR at the moment.. Am at a bit of a loose end.. Went alright spreading a bit of buffel on a sister's property in the Territory a few years back.. (was a beggar to get the stray seeds out of the carpet, and from under the floor later tho..) Glad your droughts broken. Its either a famine or a feast..

[Checkboard]

Used to fly a Baron on a freight "bank-run" into Roma and Charleville, three times a week, in 94/95. The photos of the pub were taken near a cafe I used to have lunch at (don't remember a solicitors there, though!). The cafe owner once pointed out a mark on the wall where the previous flood had reached. :ouch:

I used to get a ride back out to the airport with the Charleville Chemist (who also owned a Bonanza, I think).

Hope the clean up and insurance goes smoothly guys! :cool:

[Jabawocky]

I used to get a ride back out to the airport with the Charleville Chemist (who also owned a Bonanza, I think).

That will be him!...Usually found with a Rumbo in hand around sunset......Alive and well on this thread too!:ok:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Hey Jaba!

Why don't you get off ya bum and go do a food drop in the Retard Vehicle?

Dr :8

PS: That'll be really interesting!

[Jabawocky]

Be Quite Easy........at the end of the RNAV is a long black road with numbers on it, can land there, and if it goes under....well no point taking food!:eek:

I might be going to YTDR though, however the Dawson is flooding and roads are cut, diverting to TNG is no good as the folk cant get through anyway. And its still raining in parts of the catchment :uhoh:. Might not be going anywhere.......

Hows Charleville going folks?

And Torres DOES NOT make a very good secretarial service either, sneaky bugger! Hope you got your staff back home in one piece, must have been a long day!

J

[185skywagon]

All going ok here. Beachy, the mayor and I went for a blast up the river this morning, in the 185. The Warrego isn't a problem now, but we were a bit dismayed to find yet another peak in the gully. So it is on the way back up again after 1" at Lesdale and 2" at Joylands. Should be only minor to moderate flooding this time.

Skies look fairly good this arvo. might get a night without rain.
Mightn't get power on to our house till next week.
Yet to be tested.

sounds like YSGE is about to cop it. They reckon the Airstrip will be under water.
Poor buggers.

cheers,
185

[Torres]

From today's Western Star newspaper in Roma:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/Woomera/PPRuNe/Romaflood.jpg

A nice barramundi, caught right outside the KFC shop in the middle of Roma.

I wonder whether KFC will now be offering fresh Barra Burgers in Roma?

185, clear blue skies here - please don't send any more rain! We're totally rained out after the rain and flooding in Roma for the past week and yesterdays trip to Charleville! :{

[185skywagon]

torres,
sorry i wasn't there to help yesterday. I'd had enough by the time you got there.
all fine here, weatherwise.

cheers,
185

[morno]

Geez 185, that's a LOT of water!

Can just see my old joint in the corner of one of your photo's, looks like it may have just missed out on being inundated.

Maybe it's time to build a levee bank for the gully now! Or just divert the damn thing outside of the levee bank.

Here's to a speedy recovery.

Cheers

morno

[185skywagon]

morno,
with a surname like yours, probably best that you stay away.:ok:
I think that your old house was ok.
The main problem with the gully was having 8" of rain all over the catchment.

Has anyone seen the hatchet/set-up job done on our mayor, by Channel 10 last night? would appreciate a copy of it if anyone has got it.
:yuk:Gutter press.

[tinpis]

You must almost warrant a KRudd entourage visit up there?
"And can I tell you something? I remember floods like this when we were living in the car",,,,

[Torres]

240,000 sqr kilometers of this part of Queensland now covered by flood water. By comparison, that is larger than the State of Victoria; same size as the United Kingdom; and six times the size of Holland.

It is far from over. The Weather Channel is forecasting rain out here for the next seven days.

The resiliance and optimism of the residents is amazing. Some areas have been in drought for up to thirteen years. The rains guarantee the grain crops and stock fodder for months to come. The Ballonne River at St George feeds the Murray - Darling system, thus guaranteeing water down stream in NSW and even Victoria.

Whilst there is little highway damage at this stage, it will come. Hopefully Government will find major funding to rebuild the Warrego Highway (a major highway servicing Mt Isa and the NT), one of the worst National Highways in Australia.

I fertilised my lawns and gardens just before the rain. Machettis out this morning to cut a track from the front gate to front door, through the jungle...... And I need to drain the lake under my house. :ugh:

[frigatebird]

Delaying and ruining the cotton harvest !?! (further south)

[Torres]

Nature intended the land to flood. This country has flooded since time began and the top soil is still here, not in NSW or Victoria. One of our problems is the land is so flat, the water is not draining quick enough; no fast flowing water = very little errosion. Aside from minor errosion on road embankments, half kilometer total errosion of the rail embankment between Barcaldine and Longreach etc, there is very little errosion that I've seen.

What cotton harvest? There is cotton at Dalby, largely unaffected by the rains. There has been no large scale cotton plantings west and south of Dalby for a couple of years due to the drought. Why do you think Cubby got into financial problems? A couple of grape farms at St George are innundated, but that won't do too much harm as the grape harvest is over.

Just had a call from St George. The flood will peak around 14 meters. The main highway through town is not flooded, most of the flooding being along the weir banks and at the weir end to the west of town.

Aside from the personal tragedy of having some homes and businesses flooded, the flood will be good for this country. 32% of employment in the Maranoa is still agricultural based.

[Jabawocky]

from Today and a little further North........And just talking to Beachie he says there may be more again in the next week :{

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