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You guys never disappoint.....
Well despite the media coverage of Emerald, Condamine and Rocky, the folk in Rolleston seemed to be missing out. And running out of some essentials!
Plenty of Beer and Bundy although the Coke is rationed
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So here is a look at a great day out after a good friend of 185skywagon's spoke to me on the phone about the towns shortages. Meat was not too plentiful, fresh fruit becoming rare or not so fresh, and sufficient non perrishable foods, but some basic foods, Aeroguard and Dunny Rolls were completely out!
So with roads not expected to be open until the end of the week, and they have been cut off for 2 weeks already, this small load of a few hundred Poo Ticket Rolls, Bugs Spray (which we needed the instant we arrived) flour tomatoes etc seemed to be a welcome sight.
Base leg for 14 YRLL
And just what you need.......
Thanks to Ross and Peggy for a cup of tea and a sandwich
Well despite the media coverage of Emerald, Condamine and Rocky, the folk in Rolleston seemed to be missing out. And running out of some essentials!
Plenty of Beer and Bundy although the Coke is rationed
.So here is a look at a great day out after a good friend of 185skywagon's spoke to me on the phone about the towns shortages. Meat was not too plentiful, fresh fruit becoming rare or not so fresh, and sufficient non perrishable foods, but some basic foods, Aeroguard and Dunny Rolls were completely out!
So with roads not expected to be open until the end of the week, and they have been cut off for 2 weeks already, this small load of a few hundred Poo Ticket Rolls, Bugs Spray (which we needed the instant we arrived) flour tomatoes etc seemed to be a welcome sight.
Base leg for 14 YRLL
And just what you need.......
Thanks to Ross and Peggy for a cup of tea and a sandwich
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And the town of Theodore is still under water..........
Not sure what the problem was with the airstrip, but the northern end seemed to be closed, which is the high end. Perhaps it was damaged.
Be a while before the locals here will get back.
Not sure what the problem was with the airstrip, but the northern end seemed to be closed, which is the high end. Perhaps it was damaged.
Be a while before the locals here will get back.
Grandpa Aerotart
Enroute AKL-BWN today we were painting lots of cells around Taroom that completely blanked out what was behind them. Very obvious shadowing...not something you see all that often. Tops around 37000' and they were obviously very powerful cells.
Didn't hear Arsewipe 1.
Didn't hear Arsewipe 1.
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O.K., don't stop after one trip Jaba. Do a dozen and you will get an idea how difficult it is for a local charter operator to cover all the overhead costs trying to make a living with small aircraft. Country folk will have to live with locusts, bushfires because of the grow from this, then it will be drought again before another flood rolls around to reduce the income further. Not much cash left over to support a local operator, so donations from the city cousins who aren't directly affected would always be welcome.
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Probably around 1000 if I had to!
Frigatebird
No way that would be hard work! If you could do shorter legs than 2hrs it might be possible to do 12 in a day.
As for what the farmers and town folk have in front of them your summary is just the start. Some of the stories are hard to believe. The recovery will be long and some will not make it. Some not wiped out by floods will do well. It's not a Fair game!
CC did not hear you either. Was back around 4pm
Probably around 1000 if I had to!
Frigatebird
No way that would be hard work! If you could do shorter legs than 2hrs it might be possible to do 12 in a day.
As for what the farmers and town folk have in front of them your summary is just the start. Some of the stories are hard to believe. The recovery will be long and some will not make it. Some not wiped out by floods will do well. It's not a Fair game!
CC did not hear you either. Was back around 4pm
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Seriously mate, well done You put your money where your mouth is. As a bloke who comes from the land, I know how much your helping hand is appreciated.
I know this couldn't be the furtherest thing on your mind but you will be re-paid ten times for this
You put your money where your mouth is. As a bloke who comes from the land, I know how much your helping hand is appreciated.I know this couldn't be the furtherest thing on your mind but you will be re-paid ten times for this
Hey Jaba,
We got a drought over 'ere.......wots the RV like at boring holes thru rock, sand etc to dig a chunnel and drain some of that stuff over 'ere.....
Good Effort Bloke..
p.s. Is any of that flow S/SW enuf to get into the Murray/Darling system eventually?
Cheers
We got a drought over 'ere.......wots the RV like at boring holes thru rock, sand etc to dig a chunnel and drain some of that stuff over 'ere.....
Good Effort Bloke..
p.s. Is any of that flow S/SW enuf to get into the Murray/Darling system eventually?
Cheers
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Griffo the Murray-Darling basin starts on the western slopes of Mt Mowbullan (where the TV towers are) in the Bunya Mountains, and also 20 miles north-east of Roma, so am sure there will be a flushing of Queensland sewerage downstream..
Just for interest, the water that falls 20 miles south of Hughenden has a long way to go to Lake Eyre, and never makes it to a sea.
Just for interest, the water that falls 20 miles south of Hughenden has a long way to go to Lake Eyre, and never makes it to a sea.
Thanks 'FB',....
Was loooking at a chart of the major rivers, and was just wondering how 'beneficial' this overload might be to other places, far far away from the actual rainfall and immediately affected areas....eventually...
Cheers
Was loooking at a chart of the major rivers, and was just wondering how 'beneficial' this overload might be to other places, far far away from the actual rainfall and immediately affected areas....eventually...
Cheers
the Murray-Darling basin starts on the western slopes of Mt Mowbullan (where the TV towers are) in the Bunya Mountains, and also 20 miles north-east of Roma, so am sure there will be a flushing of Queensland sewerage downstream..
Dr
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Hey C185 Skywagon - hear things got a bit hot at the local watering hole in Charleyville!
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You are right...nothing in it for me and thats fine....watching the news tonight the folk at Surat now and St George and Dirranbandi are next.
It bothers me they are spening an hour or more in 15' tinnies ferrying food in raging flood waters when say, half the airstrip is available and a couple of 185/206/RV10's or better still Bongo Vans could be used to carry more quicker with far less risk.
Where is the public co-ordination????
Charter guys could be paid or us folk who don't care could do it for free.....but it does not happen.
Might phone some cutomers of mine in those parts and ask.....if anyone is watching phone your friends out their, you may not do a lot but it may just make their day!
Griffo
The FTDK is correct, the water that starts up near Killarney and through Warwick, plus all the catchment downstream of the Condamine is what goes down there.....its a truly amazing system, and when it all gets wet.....look out!
NEWS FLASH 8.30pm
Just been talking to a mate/ customer at Dirranbandi and the town is cut off already, just like Rolleston the media / guvinmint does not talk about small places like that. The floods have not hit them yet.
At least they have had the foresight to beef up the levy bank around the airstrip.
I reckon in a day or two I will get a call back...
You are right...nothing in it for me and thats fine....watching the news tonight the folk at Surat now and St George and Dirranbandi are next.
It bothers me they are spening an hour or more in 15' tinnies ferrying food in raging flood waters when say, half the airstrip is available and a couple of 185/206/RV10's or better still Bongo Vans could be used to carry more quicker with far less risk.
Where is the public co-ordination????
Charter guys could be paid or us folk who don't care could do it for free.....but it does not happen.
Might phone some cutomers of mine in those parts and ask.....if anyone is watching phone your friends out their, you may not do a lot but it may just make their day!
Griffo
The FTDK is correct, the water that starts up near Killarney and through Warwick, plus all the catchment downstream of the Condamine is what goes down there.....its a truly amazing system, and when it all gets wet.....look out!
NEWS FLASH 8.30pm
Just been talking to a mate/ customer at Dirranbandi and the town is cut off already, just like Rolleston the media / guvinmint does not talk about small places like that. The floods have not hit them yet
.At least they have had the foresight to beef up the levy bank around the airstrip.
I reckon in a day or two I will get a call back...
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I reckon in a day or two I will get a call back...
Dr
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I guess that is one way of looking at it, but I would have said that the Murray-Darling starts in the headwaters of the Condamine R, in the mountains east of Killarney in SE Qld.