OT - Rain!
Submitted: Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:12
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Al & Mrs Al (Vic)
Hi all, woke up this morning to go for my early morning walk got about a km into it when it started to spit, the sky look really heavy so I thought I mightn't make the next 5km without getting dumped on [wishful thinking..haha] so I turned around, about 30 mins later the heavens opened and the rain came down and it's lovely, the ground is having trouble coping at the moment with the amount of water, but I'm sure the trees are loving it.
here's a couple of snaps of the driveway....and...I would have been absolutely saturated had I kept going...
!MPG:18!
!MPG:19!
I hope other
places are getting some rain as
well..
cheers
Lyn
Reply By: Leroy - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:17
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:17
It seems to go around us where we are or we only get a drop of less than a mm. It's hardly worth the clouds effort!
Leroy
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Follow Up By: Al & Mrs Al (Vic) - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:22
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:22
I'll try and send some your way...
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Follow Up By: Member - Dale A (VIC) - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 21:56
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 21:56
hey Leroy,
You should come over and enjoy the rain here then, was bleep down from 11pm last night till 1pm this arvo, bloody muggy though.
My water tanks nearly full again....woo hoo
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Follow Up By: Leroy - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 23:47
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 23:47
Thanks Lyn we got it this afternoon. A decent downpour but could we have some more pls?
That's not a
water tank Dale> I carry more water than that on a trip!
Leroy
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Reply By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:30
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:30
Sounds fun Maaaaaa, we got a light sprinkle. The track looks just damp. 3 mm in the gauge
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Follow Up By: Rock Crawler - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:43
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:43
hey bud , were can I get a rain gauge?
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Follow Up By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 11:09
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 11:09
Hardware store. We have a simple type to measure and empty each day. Have thirty years of records. Like a measuring beaker under a measured funnel. Somewhere for a huntsman
spider to live and birds to bleep in. They aren't expensive.
You may do with a more sophisticated type though. They have computer connected ones in some
places at $500.
Sounds like you need to do an inspection mate.........
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Follow Up By: Bonz (Vic) - Saturday, Jan 20, 2007 at 18:30
Saturday, Jan 20, 2007 at 18:30
61 mm here
John another 17 today
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Follow Up By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses - Sunday, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:16
Sunday, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:16
76mm to this morning mate. Nice if it's the break but gives us a fire break for a while. We found lots of scorched leaves and bark round the garden from the Fram fire. One spot looked like had scorched the neighbouring plants just a little :-(
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Follow Up By: Bonz (Vic) - Sunday, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:17
Sunday, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:17
82 mm here to 9am this morn, not too bad eh? Yer lucky about that Fram fire stuff eh
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Follow Up By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses - Sunday, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:34
Sunday, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:34
It was a message from our relieving guy that said "wind change here am going fishing" that forstalled a sudden fast 4by trip from
Robe. Bruddy fortunate you may say. I was talking to a mate on Occupation Lane as the wind change took the fire out of the forest. He didn't get his mobile back charged again for a day or so as he headed off.
Was nice relief and cool today.
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Reply By: Member - Boo Boo (NSW) - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:40
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:40
Al
Its Blokes like you that really help me out.
Scone has not had rain for that long that we have forgotten what it looks like.
Everything had turned so brown that my wife and I have taken to buying garden mags to see what our garden use to look like.
We have put our pot plants out for agistment and hope to get them back in a year or two when it rains.
Now you come along, and not only show off your photography skills, but have to do it with photos of all that lovely water.
Jeez, thanks Al. LOL
Regards Boo Boo
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Follow Up By: Al & Mrs Al (Vic) - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:18
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:18
Hiya Boo
it's Lyn taking the pics, Al was still in bed!
cheers
Lyn
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Follow Up By: Al & Mrs Al (Vic) - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:22
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:22
sorry Boo, didn't mean to make you feel miserable - I'm a nice person really :)) haha..
if it's any consilation, it's stopped raining..hope there's more though
cheers
Lyn
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Reply By: Ozdyssey (QLD) - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:44
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:44
any water diviners thinking of moving to SE Qld?
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Reply By: OldMike2 - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:21
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:21
Up here in Nth East Vic, It has just settled the dust (not for long ). Hume weir rapidly becoming a tourist attraction at 4%.
Here are some interesting (can't remember Gore's words) facts.
Site Link
Don't know how to make fancy links (computers are only my profession)
Regards
Mike
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Follow Up By: OldMike2 - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:23
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:23
Ohhhh,
It turned out OK
Mike
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Reply By: Des Lexic - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:35
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:35
Just 10mm here last night Lyn. thought we might have got more but still overcast so may get a bit more.
looked at the
melbourne radar picture and the storm cloud is still showing up. The best thing was that its over your catchment area.
I'd love to see a couple of hundred mm drop over the Murray Darling catchment area and wash away all those cotton farmers dams and let the Darling flow again.
Have you heard from the Sydneyites yet?
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Follow Up By: Al & Mrs Al (Vic) - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:38
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:38
hi there Al
15mm here so far and still raining a bit, not heard from them yet, if they ring and I'm not here there's an answering machine...
cheers
Lyn
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Follow Up By: Kev M (NSW) - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:25
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:25
Rain in
Sydney, Get real we don't want any until they start construction of the desalination plant ha ha ha
There is only very light cloud cover ATM in sunny
Sydney
Kev
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Reply By: Member - Boo Boo (NSW) - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:43
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:43
Lyn
My humble apologies ........ Its ladies like you that really make a bloke feel miserable....'suppose someones got to get the rain though.
SeeYa
Boo Boo
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Follow Up By: Peter 2 - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:48
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:48
Hey Boo Boo don't want to rub it in just pop up over the tops towards
Gloucester, it is pretty green and lush on our side of the mountain, about 50k in straight line.
Was around at Muswellbrook late last year and it was dry round your side then.
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Reply By: Turbo - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 23:50
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 23:50
Hi, AL & Mrs Al, its 11.10 pm & we have had 90mm today."yahoo" we had most of it from 7 pm -11 pm thats a lot of rain in one go. but we are happy people floods & all. oh' im from corny point SA. wounder how Rochies going up at Kadina. anyway cheers & i hope everyone gets some. Dave.
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Follow Up By: Turbo - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 23:58
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 23:58
Sorry, that was [Roachie] cheers Dave.
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