Flood zone

**agr071** · 02-12-2010, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by wbute

Hey Agro I think 100% at Burrendong is only 100% irrigation allocation. It will go to 150 I believe and then she is full.

Looking forward to that!!
BUT i hope you don't lose any crops.

**jennie285** · 03-12-2010, 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by agr071

Holy snapping duckshit batman!!!!
Some of the vans out Mudgee end will be under water.

at 150% we have water lapping our van, it is very likely to happen too.....Forbes will likely flood now, as the Lachlan is rising, Belubula is flooding Carcoar....which joins the Lachlan....well I am not completely complaining we have to drink....

We have had nearly 2" from 4.30am this morn till now....

so sorry for the farmers though.....

**wbute** · 03-12-2010, 11:11 AM

Sounds like it is very wet over your way Jennie. Too much rain really. It has stopped here and all rivers are going down again.

**jennie285** · 03-12-2010, 03:18 PM

We have now had 6inches from 4am, it is official the most rain ever recorded in December, or at once I think...Forbes will go under shortly and pretty much all roads are now cut...so sorry for the farmers...

**wbute** · 03-12-2010, 06:18 PM

Just listening to the local news Jennie. It sounds like it is pretty bad over at Parkes. Hope you are high and dry.

**GTS** · 03-12-2010, 07:56 PM

I really feel for the poor buggers on the land. My Grandparents, parents, Uncles/Aunties/cousins all have/had properties around West Wyalong, Ungarie, Tallimba and Beckom and I used to spent my holidays driving a tractor around in ever diminishing circles....and loved it. I was out west a few months ago (Griffith via Temora) and the crops looked spectacular to say the least...I thought for sure the cockys would be in for a bumper year...then the damn rain. Hope you guys, and gals, can hang in there for another year and if you want a free tractor driver for next years harvest let me know (I've got a pop top van and my own esky so I'm self sufficient)...I'm a little rusty but nothing 5 minutes back in the seat cant fix.
This is a genuine offer....you just tell me what gear and how many rpm and I'm off until sunset....hell, I'd even be happy to sit on an old tractor with just a sunshade and a McCormick pto header.

**hxbunny** · 03-12-2010, 07:58 PM

Was talking to a mate today in Tumut and he said that Blowering was 650mm over the spillway, that's 60 000 litres/second flowing into the Tumut River that flows into the Murrumbidgee which is already flooding upstream at Jugiong and Gundagai, if you would have said last Christmas that we would be in flood this Christmas then you'd have been locked up with the long sleeved jacket on

**jennie285** · 03-12-2010, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by wbute

Just listening to the local news Jennie. It sounds like it is pretty bad over at Parkes. Hope you are high and dry.

Yes it is bad, but we are on a hill, the van is in a shed, and everyone is okay....just wet as, we sent our young carpenter who lives in Forbes home at lunch....

the flooding was just localized, we are not on a river, just a creek, Rodney's parents had a drama with getting cattle onto high ground, they were hidden in the high grass and got left behind 2 days ago when they got the rest out.....glad we are builders but it does have a ripple effect as we rely on the farming community...but as the saying goes it never rains but it pours....

**Rolla** · 03-12-2010, 08:27 PM

Such a tragedy. But as they say, the fury of mother nature is one force you just can't outrun... There is aparently a cold front coming in from the west that will be hitting SA by Monday and Vic/NSW etc by mid-week. The last of the wet weather. There is indeed brighter days ahead soon enough.

@Jennie. Be sure to get your Sandman to higher ground. We wouldn't want to see all that hard work and such a fine specimen of Australian motoring engulfed by the rising flood waters. Same goes to any other enthusiasts here... May the force be with you :Stormtrooper: