So the drought is off then?

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.

No Manuel... it's drought substitute

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..

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:

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

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!

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

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

From today's Western Star newspaper in Roma:

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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! :{

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

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

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.

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",,,,

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:

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

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.

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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