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3rd February 2019, 11:14 AM #1
Townsville woodturners
Just wanted to send a call out to the Townsville turners on the forum hoping they are managing to stay safe during this major rain and flooding event. I have family there as well and am in constant contact and following all updates. One sister lives in a house right at the southern end of Aplins weir so she has a front row seat. Our son still has about 18 inches of freeboard in Deeragun. Rest are safe ing dry areas and high houses.
Stay safe guys and girls and know that there are people thinking and caring about you.
Cheers,
Mac
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3rd February 2019, 04:33 PM #2Senior Member
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Thank you for your thoughts, I’m good, been blocked in for 3 days now
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4th February 2019, 10:37 AM #3GOLD MEMBER
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Thanks for your thoughts Mac. For those who don't know, we have had over 1.5 Metres/ 5 feet of rain in the last 7 days and our flood mitigation dam is about 220% full so they opened the floodgates fully at 8.30 last night to coincide with the low tide and to protect the dam. We went to the riverbank at 1 am and the peak had arrived and in this photo we still had 2M/ 6.5 feet to go before we flooded. This bikeway under the bridge is usually 4 M/ 12 feet above the water level. Sadly a lot of the people downstream of us are underwater.
Rgds,
Crocy.
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4th February 2019, 10:54 PM #4
Thank you for your concern. We are also well out of the flooded areas. Not even water above the kerb here, even though we have now had in excess of 1300mm of rain since the 25th Jan. I saw on FB that Dengue is OK.
For OldCroc - on the news this evening SES evacuated Steve & Deena Clements by boat in Hermit Park.Mobyturns
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5th February 2019, 01:01 AM #5SENIOR MEMBER
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Take care Croc. I just read a few minutes ago that crocs and snakes have been seen floating in the waters.
Yesterday and today we are having some rain. All day yesterday, and it didn't even register in my gauge. It's still dark now so haven't check to see if there is anything in it as it rained all night. .............. Jerry (in Tucson)USA
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5th February 2019, 07:43 AM #6
Good to see Townsville still has a sense oh humour. Found this on their Facebook siteIMG_0320.jpg
Cheers,
Mac
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5th February 2019, 08:59 AM #7
Stay safe you chaps. What a crazy country we live in with floods, fires and dust storms to contend with.
Hope you are out of harm's way.Life is short ... smile while you still have teeth.
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5th February 2019, 02:02 PM #8Senior Member
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