Thread: Metal Talk - Please

Glad to hear you came through without too much heart-ache. I was talking to one of my customers up your way today and he was saying that he got up at the crack of dawn and went out to his overflowing rain guage that holds 11", emptied it, and an hour later it was 2/3 full again!!

Apparently, by the time the news footage was taken, a fair bit had already drained away, so what we all saw on the news was not nearly the worst of it.

He was also telling me the insurance assessors were using the your vehicles' ashtray as the guide... If it had water in it, they wrote the car off.

It was interesting to say the least.
I was told that someone gauged 180 mm in one hour.
That is raining.
some mildy amusing moments

We were sitting in the sun room looking out at the verandah at the floodwaters.In the flotsam coming out from under the house was what we later recognised as the contents of our laundry tub sink.

The multiple bottles with half empty contents floated inside the cabinet enough to tip it over as it was not screwed to the wall. The laundry is on a slab. The house is on short stumps and we were commenting some poor bugger uses the same brands as we did,while they floated by.By the time we twigged half of them were a block away.
the water was flowing faster than you could walk.

Someone spotted a little crocodile up the street. At the same time kids were riding around in the water on their bikes. I chased them off home as they risked stepping into the gully grates and we weren't sure there wasn't sewerage in the water. Some parents are bloody dills ,really!.

Cheers
Grahame