Southside of Brisy - 5mm rain - YEAH

Nope, real rain!

Rain guage is 2 metres off the ground, don't have a dog that big.

Bush turkey's maybe?

It's changing every where.
Season seems to be getting later everywhere, when you gat a wet season.

Moorooka, not far from you.

Bit patchy isn't it?

On the coast - e.g. Manly - and Beenleigh / Gold Coast are getting up to 25mm.

Indooroopilly only got 3mm...talking to parents (mothers day) this AM

20mm at Hollywell northern end of Gold Coast last night.

Also first decent rain for a couple of months , though its still under 1 inch.

Read yesterday that Brisbane will run out of water 8/08 if no flood rains and Gold Coast a couple of months later.

Not good.

Pedro

All those listings are are in millimetres

Pedro
Another 1974 will surely happen one day, as sure as the Sun rises in the East and who in thier right mind would buy or build a house near the Ocean amid all the canals as like the Gold Coast, A disaster just waiting to happen, one day a large weather System like 1974 will come down, drop big heaps in the G/C Hinterland combined with a King Tide, there will be 1000s of homes inundated ,

Out by 8/08, that is using rain from 2006 levels, which is 50% of normal rain.

This year so far, 50% of that again at a rough guess.

Our rain water tank has only overflowed once so far this year.
Overflowed about three times in the same period last year.
Grateful for town water, but it will only last so long.

Still remember the flood of 1974. 12" in one day, 36" in two weeks.
In Brisbane, other areas like Tamborine and the hinterland had more.

Problem is, if we had rain like that, most of the top soil would be washed away, nothing there to hold it any more.

2004 was about the last 'normal' year.
Last time the dams were full was 1996 I think.

We need some country people to show us how to really stinge on water.
Talked to a friend last week who was 'down' to 1000 litres a day usage and thought that was good. Three teenage daughters though.
He couldn't believe that the four of us are under 300 litres a day.

Maybe we should cut the heavy users off and supply a tanker at the front gate and a bucket. When you have to carry the water in, you soon realise how much 300 litres is. (Of course, a padlock on the valve and they get the only key.)

To think when the wife and I are camping, we go quite well on 100 litres a week for everything.

Big wake up call coming in the next 6 months for all of us I think.

Doug, we have just purchased a property up in the mtns nthn nsw, one day it will be waterfront.

Big Mike
Don't sell yet, it's gonna happen , get the board and wax out ready.

Big Mike,
Hang on. Good place.

Thanks for the figures Doug.

Major floods in 1893, 1896, 1931, 1950, 1974 with minor flooding inbetween.

Rain is going to come.

Definitely a 20 to 30 year cycle.

Not going to give up my nsw farm for anything. 100 inches of rain last year and with 5 springs, it took a lot of finding. As doug says, just have to wait a while till the tide comes in and surf is up before I can throw the board in.

Hey Vince,

We'll show you where it is really greener when the Sate of Origin kicks in.

Have a good one.

We are the same.
Maybe one talk half full.

I tihkn this drought will change Brisbane's attitude to water fora long time, maybe for ever.

With the increase in population, we won't ever the water to splurge like we used to.

Maybe a change for the better.

Good to see you getting some rain.

For the weekend, 5mm was it.

About 3mm 2 weeks before.

Maybe 10mm in the last 2 months.

Being on the western side of Mt Gravatt, we seem to be in a rain shadow for the coastal rain.

Even worse for the people in the Lockyer valley and further west.

We are putting our washing water out to try and control the cracks, and stop the ground moving too much, and cracking the house. Advantage of timber houses, they can take a bit more movement.

Some friends have cracks in thier yards you can put hands down. Was green grass only a few years ago.