Fires in Oz

[ChloeTzang]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-06/funnel-web-spider-dubbed-the-rock-handed-in/11936056

Uhhhhh. Screams. Throws can of Raid away, runs away, and calls in air strike. Preferably a thermobaric bomb. Maybe half a dozen just to be sure. Keeps running.... There’s a reason you guys have these Bush fires.

 

[ishtat]

50mm to 100mm(4") of rain in the Sydney area yesterday. Forecast to be 160mm to 300 mm(12") in various parts of Sydney today. Flash flooding alerts! More rain to continue into all of next week.

Most of the fires, except in the south west of NSW appear to be out.

And over in WA a Category 4 Cyclone (Damien) is just about to cross the coast at Karratha this Sunday morning.

 

[ElectricBlue]

50mm to 100mm(4") of rain in the Sydney area yesterday. Forecast to be 160mm to 300 mm(12") in various parts of Sydney today. Flash flooding alerts! More rain to continue into all of next week.

Most of the fires, except in the south west of NSW appear to be out.

And over in WA a Category 4 Cyclone (Damien) is just about to cross the coast at Karratha this Sunday morning.

Just another weekend in Australia. Although they say the cyclone's a big one.

 

[Handley_Page]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-06/funnel-web-spider-dubbed-the-rock-handed-in/11936056

Me? I'm half a pace behind Chloe and away down the road like a good'un.
And they want humans to CATCH these bloody things ?
Pity they cannot synthesize the anti-venom, tho' . . . .

 

[Rustyoznail]

Just another weekend in Australia. Although they say the cyclone's a big one.

It's a good thing cyclone season backs onto the fire season.

Says he who is yet to see a summer this year.

 

[ChloeTzang]

It does look a bit wet down there. Just read about the guy who took his jet ski thru the McDonalds drivethru- love it.

Rain might wash the spiders away too. Bet there’s some happy farmers.

 

[Bramblethorn]

It does look a bit wet down there. Just read about the guy who took his jet ski thru the McDonalds drivethru- love it.

Rain might wash the spiders away too. Bet there’s some happy farmers.

Funnelwebs like it humid, so the wet weather has them out and about: https://www.news.com.au/technology/...a/news-story/e11f3d7a9e1bbcb7a844424acd959f09

 

[Rustyoznail]

50mm to 100mm(4") of rain in the Sydney area yesterday. Forecast to be 160mm to 300 mm(12") in various parts of Sydney today. Flash flooding alerts! More rain to continue into all of next week.

Most of the fires, except in the south west of NSW appear to be out.

And over in WA a Category 4 Cyclone (Damien) is just about to cross the coast at Karratha this Sunday morning.

Waiting for the 4.52 train replacement ferry at Narrabri...

https://i.imgur.com/Xn79LG8.jpg

 

[ElectricBlue]

Waiting for the 4.52 train replacement ferry at Narrabri...

https://i.imgur.com/Xn79LG8.jpg

I flew up to Cooper Creek after a big wet a decade or so ago. Walking along the sandy shore the creek water line was five metres below me. The high water line, on the other hand, as marked by rubbish in the tree tops, was probably five metres above my head. So, flood water ten metres deep. The nearest high ground was probably five or six kilometres away on each side. That's a lot of water. Lake Eyre filled that year.

Australia gets more water than it knows what to do with, sometimes. The problem is, people don't like dams. But that will change over time, I suspect, when the world runs short of fresh water.

But Narrabri? How wide was that river? I mean, it's not like the place is in a valley!

 

[Bramblethorn]

"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
In accents most forlorn,
Outside the church, ere Mass began,
One frosty Sunday morn.

The congregation stood about,
Coat-collars to the ears,
And talked of stock, and crops, and drought,
As it had done for years.

"It's lookin' crook," said Daniel Croke;
"Bedad, it's cruke, me lad,
For never since the banks went broke
Has seasons been so bad."

"It's dry, all right," said young O'Neil,
With which astute remark
He squatted down upon his heel
And chewed a piece of bark.

And so around the chorus ran
"It's keepin' dry, no doubt."
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out.

"The crops are done; ye'll have your work
To save one bag of grain;
From here way out to Back-o'-Bourke
They're singin' out for rain.

"They're singin' out for rain," he said,
"And all the tanks are dry."
The congregation scratched its head,
And gazed around the sky.

"There won't be grass, in any case,
Enough to feed an ass;
There's not a blade on Casey's place
As I came down to Mass."

"If rain don't come this month," said Dan,
And cleared his throat to speak--
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"If rain don't come this week."

A heavy silence seemed to steal
On all at this remark;
And each man squatted on his heel,
And chewed a piece of bark.

"We want a inch of rain, we do,"
O'Neil observed at last;
But Croke "maintained" we wanted two
To put the danger past.

"If we don't get three inches, man,
Or four to break this drought,
We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."

In God's good time down came the rain;
And all the afternoon
On iron roof and window-pane
It drummed a homely tune.

And through the night it pattered still,
And lightsome, gladsome elves
On dripping spout and window-sill
Kept talking to themselves.

It pelted, pelted all day long,
A-singing at its work,
Till every heart took up the song
Way out to Back-o'Bourke.

And every creek a banker ran,
And dams filled overtop;
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"If this rain doesn't stop."

And stop it did, in God's good time;
And spring came in to fold
A mantle o'er the hills sublime
Of green and pink and gold.

And days went by on dancing feet,
With harvest-hopes immense,
And laughing eyes beheld the wheat
Nid-nodding o'er the fence.

And, oh, the smiles on every face,
As happy lad and lass
Through grass knee-deep on Casey's place
Went riding down to Mass.

While round the church in clothes genteel
Discoursed the men of mark,
And each man squatted on his heel,
And chewed his piece of bark.

"There'll be bush-fires for sure, me man,
There will, without a doubt;
We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."

- "Said Hanrahan", John O'Brien (Patrick Joseph Hartigan)

 

[ishtat]

But Narrabri? How wide was that river? I mean, it's not like the place is in a valley!

If that is the railway station (mind the edge signs) that is probably flooding from Horsearm creek a tributary of Narrabri creek which is on the other side of town. Both are dry or just intermittent water holes most of the time.

I assume that this is an old photograph because only two days ago after some rain, the Keepit Dam on the Namoi well above Narrabri was only holding less than 2% of nominal capacity

 

[oggbashan]

If that is the railway station (mind the edge signs) that is probably flooding from Horsearm creek a tributary of Narrabri creek which is on the other side of town. Both are dry or just intermittent water holes most of the time.

I assume that this is an old photograph because only two days ago after some rain, the Keepit Dam on the Namoi well above Narrabri was only holding less than 2% of nominal capacity

That picture is marked as taken on 8 February 2020.

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ed-from-floodwaters-as-rain-lashes-east-coast

The town of Narrabri, 521km north-west of Sydney, went from “drought to flooding in a day”, the local SES said. Heavy rains made lakes of paddocks and flooded the train station.

 

[Rustyoznail]

If that is the railway station (mind the edge signs) that is probably flooding from Horsearm creek a tributary of Narrabri creek which is on the other side of town. Both are dry or just intermittent water holes most of the time.

I assume that this is an old photograph because only two days ago after some rain, the Keepit Dam on the Namoi well above Narrabri was only holding less than 2% of nominal capacity

Nope. Today.