Why not to drive on closed roads

It's in the country...better suited to the Dukes

Mmm...good point.

The approaches to the gap may look like this though

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Would make for an interesting attempt ;)

Hmmmm, bit of a case there for some warranty work on that piece of road I reckon. The contractor who laid it obviously didn't do a very good job....hahaha

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Just looking at your pic Sir Kev ....

... and Im surprised the highway patrol isnt there waiting to book people for being on the wrong side of the white line ....

It not me in the photo LOL

Gooday,
You should send those great pictures off to aALL the TV Stations so they can show them to all "THE MORONS" who attempt flooded raods.
Cheers,
Boroma604.

Boroma604,

The photo of the Troopy was on the front page of yesterdays Courier Mail.

Cheers Kev

Nice pix SK and D - keep 'em coming...W

So stop leaning on your shovel Kev & start using it to fix the damage. B...... council workers. LOL

Barry,

I am just enjoying watching all those Cane toad tadpoles get wash down south hehehehe


Cheers Kev

Fred,

There has been a fair bit of loss to the cotton crop they are less than a month from harvest so the bols are starting to form which are now waterlogged with muddy water which has ruined the crop.

I just drove to Toowoomba and back and it appears the crop around Dalby has faired pretty well.

Cheers Kev

Daza,

All roads around that area currently have a 5T load limit as the road is just crumbling under the weight :(

I think Mr Rudd will need to spend some $$ as well to fix it as there is a heap of railway lines washed away as well :(

Cheers Kev

I wouldn't have walked in that water. Just the speed of the water would be enough to know not to cross. Even if you walked it would you walk it again on the return trip??

As the road might be fine on the trip there but it might not be there on the way back, even if it was only a 1 hour turn around.


Cheers Kev

It isn't just vehicles, all private boats are also currently grounded unless the operator has written consent from the Council as the fast flowing water is a hazard to ill equiped boats for the water currents being experienced.

Cheers Kev

Problem with Road Closed Signs is leave the sigh there even when the road is passable. Same as Road Work Ahead signs still displayed with the 40kph when there is not a sole in sight.

This type of thing makes people ignore the signs because they cant see any reason for them being there. Eventually they get caught out particularly driving on a road covered by muddy water. Not a sensible thing to do

Cheers
Wayne

Agreed that can be an annoying possibility but if their is a large road closed sign and fast running water most intelligent people would not drive past the sign at 60kph and plunge into the flooded road at speed.

Nor would you expect an intelligent driver to totally ignore an SES volunteer waving a large stop sign to try to get past a truck crash then abuse and threaten the SES volunteer for stopping him form getting to where he wants to be untill police are called away from the accident scene to arrest the offender.

I have also seen a woman try to drive through a roadblock where emergency crews were working to extract injured people trapped in a car wreck scream at the SES staff because they have ruined her day by being so inconsiderate.

I was also involved in a search for 4 men who set of in dangerous floodwaters in a tiny 10ft tinny just on dark with no torch, no anchor and no life jackets. We found one alive in a tree the next morning his 3 companions had all drowned the night before.

That is the kind of plain stupidity I was referring to, the kind of idiots who put the lives and safety of others in danger because of their impatience.

Better a few hours or even days late than dead.

and I thought the Nullarbor Nymph was a myth....