One major difference is the rain up till now has been sporadic and has allowed the water to run off/soak in between sittings. The water isn't rushing down the throat as fast as it did on it's way to the stomach, so though diarrhoea will squirt out hard as fast, hopefully there isn't as much to squirt.
Guess it might depend where you are, but I'm at Mt Gravatt and its nowhere near the rain that there was here last year. Its just overcast and not even raining atm.
"Southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales are in for a prolonged deluge of rain, with the potential for widespread falls of over 200mm for areas between Bundaberg in Queensland and Port Macquarie in New South Wales by the end of the week," said Alex Zadnik, senior meteorologist at Weatherzone.
"Some towns will see even higher rain totals in the 300-400mm range over the next six days, bringing a significant threat of both flash flooding and river flooding," continued Mr Zadnik.
It's bucketing down where I am (Gold Coast hinterland) but we didn't get anywhere near the amount of rain Brisbane did last year. I just hope the power doesn't go out, it's switched on and off a couple of times the last few days and our Genny is cactus.
Wish more people would turn their lights on in heavy rain, it makes a huge difference in how fast you can 1.see cars and 2. determine roughly how fast they are travelling.
While on the topic of rain, was gonna do a big ride today and I don't wanna let the rain stop me - what sort of post ride treatment should I be giving my bike? (Scott Roadie)
Last time I just toweled as much shit off as I could and sprayed some WD40, is that suitable or not?
Lights in rain are important because my side mirrors don't have wipers so cars which already look washed out against the grey road (reflecting the clouds) kind of stand out.
Last time I just toweled as much shit off as I could and sprayed some WD40, is that suitable or not?
Not really.
I go through about a can of Isopropanol or degreaser cleaning the chain and cassette, then lube the chain back up. Coating the surface of the frame with silicon spray will stop it accumulating crap from the road, or mud.
Generally though degreaser on a chain is a bad idea.
Main thing is make sure no water goes in to bearings - that means headset, bottom bracket, pedals and hubs.
Yeah another 1-- on using WD40.. bad stuff! it's a very light lubricant, and as a dispersant will suck the water right out, drying out your drive chain. $2 bog standard degreaser from Supercheap, avoiding hubs, bottom bracket, pedals, headset, then use a thicker lubricant like silicon / teflon, wash off with hose/rag, and finish up with polish which as Raven says coats and stops crud from accumulating. Bike Lust is good if you can find it!
Im being so soft today. I initally waited for the rain to die down before motoing into work. Now I'm just not going in. I figure why risk riding in such conditions if I don't need to.
Im being so soft today. I initally waited for the rain to die down before motoing into work. Now I'm just not going in. I figure why risk riding in such conditions if I don't need to.
I'm glad I now have a tumble dryer for school uniforms now as I prefer to sun dry mine and my children's clothes except in devastatingly wet periods of time.
Im being so soft today. I initally waited for the rain to die down before motoing into work. Now I'm just not going in. I figure why risk riding in such conditions if I don't need to.
Le Piss! I went out to get something from the shops in Spring Hill...the water on the roads is like up to your ankles...now I get to sit around in fucking wet trousers and socks :p
Im being so soft today. I initally waited for the rain to die down before motoing into work. Now I'm just not going in. I figure why risk riding in such conditions if I don't need to.
My gear is still soaked from riding last night. So I had to drive today ....
Bah.. I will trade you your wet Australia day for my melting Australia week...
From BOM (Perth)
Wednesday Very hot. Sunny. Min 24 Max 40
Thursday Very hot. Mostly sunny. Min 26 Max 40
Friday Very hot. Partly cloudy. Min 25 Max 39
Saturday Very hot. Sunny. Min 26 Max 42
Sunday Very hot. Sunny. Min 24 Max 40
Monday Very hot. Sunny. Min 23 Max 39
Last year just up the road from there, it took ten minutes to go 40 meters, when we saw that there was a tree blocking the road and people were crossing the lines around a blind corner to go around, I stopped, hooked up a chain and towed it off the road.
im pretty sure you see the SES all the time on the news, throwing tarps over houses with full roofs that just have one or two holes
or you know, a few tiles missing
lol, the funniest bit is there is probably a remote button on his key the closes the roof without him doing a a thing, other than press the button..... but he decided not to :/
Also, with cars so fancy these days with rain sensing wipers etc, you think a $1m+ Rolls would sense rain and automatically close its roof.....
no im pretty sure 132500 is for when you have no roof anymore, not just ooh pass me a couple of pots and pans
Pains me to say it but once again teq is right. Give us a call if you've sprung a leak, we'll prioritise it and check it out in due course. I've been to a house once where they had water running down the internal chimney. Got up into the roof space and a tile had cracked. Luckily they had spares under the house so I got in there and replaced the broken one from the inside. That was fun.
Other times it's a matter of blocked gutters being overwhelmed by the volume of water (especially where roofs meet at the bottom on town houses). We tell them to clean their gutters and call the insurance company to fix the damage.
lol, the funniest bit is there is probably a remote button on his key the closes the roof without him doing a a thing, other than press the button..... but he decided not to :/
one of our reps unknowingly let her windows down over night and her car is saturated. i say unkowingly because what we've figured is that it's one of those cars where if you hold the key button down a bit extra it opens, or closes, all your windows as well as lock/unlock.
she found her keys under her laptop bag on the motel table near the window so we figure she's triggered the "all windows down" action accidently.
we are all suitabily pissing ourselves laughing at her misfortune!
I have a small umbrella, but have to go through a rainforest, and it's an hour walk. :(
No one is above walking in the rain.
I bet the shopping centre would say otherwise if I rocked up dripping wet. :P
a sure indication of uselessness
Out of two dozen examples that I can think of, everybody I know who does or doesn't drive correlates exactly with whether their parents paid for their car or not. Don't give me this judgemental bullshit, it drives me up the wall.
Out of two dozen examples that I can think of, everybody I know who does or doesn't drive correlates exactly with whether their parents paid for their car or not. Don't give me this judgemental bullshit, it drives me up the wall.
level railway crossing on beams road was closed when i tried to go thru there just before :(
cops were turning everyone around n it was pretty congested.
gah!
sandgate road is bullshit fucked atm. was stuck in nundah tunnel for over half an hour before bailing off at toombul and going back around to wavell. ridiculousness. a little bit of rain and everyone turns to retards.
Out of two dozen examples that I can think of, everybody I know who does or doesn't drive correlates exactly with whether their parents paid for their car or not.
how old are you nerfy? I thought you were early 20's or something? bit to old to be blaming your parents surely?
how old are you nerfy? I thought you were early 20's or something? bit to old to be blaming your parents surely?
Late 20s now, what do you mean by blaming? Are you saying that I should feel ashamed of myself when I have, financial-wise, done better than any single other person I've known from my background? People who judge as if people's characters are entirely reflected in what they have, make the fallacy of presuming that everybody starts on an equal playing field, which plain and simply is not true.
Ftr, of my public school peer group, I'm the only one who has managed to get a degree, managed to maintain a professional career for years. Of my higher class peer group, I'm the only one who has managed to save tens of thousands of dollars, and the only one who has taken a stab at starting my own business, even if it's in the shits right now. I'm sick of people telling me that I should feel shit for not having owned cars or travelled or played instruments or had a huge social life, when as far as I can see, these things are only had by my peers when they were given to them. Judged by what I've actually done myself, I'm subjectively kicking ass, but it's impossible to remember with everybody judging by their conventional wisdoms of how things naturally go, instead of the observable reality. Maybe I just have a really bad sample group, and actually am super shit as some would like me to believe.
Late 20s now, what do you mean by blaming? Are you saying that I should feel ashamed of myself when I have, financial-wise, done better than any single other person I've known from my background? People who judge as if people's characters are entirely reflected in what they have, make the fallacy of presuming that everybody starts on an equal playing field, which plainly and simply is not true. Of my public school peer group, I'm the only one who has managed to get a degree, managed to maintain a professional career for years. Of my higher class peer group, I'm the only one who has managed to save tens of thousands of dollars, and the only one who has taken a stab at starting my own business, even if it's in the shits right now. I'm sick of people telling me that I should feel shit for not having owned cars or travelled or played instruments or had a huge social life, when as far as I can see, these things are only had by my peers when they were given to them. Judged by what I've actually done myself, I'm subjectively kicking ass, but it's impossible to remember with everybody judging by their conventional wisdoms of how things naturally go, instead of the observable reality. Maybe I just have a really bad sample group, and actually am super shit as some would like me to believe.
It is better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Learn from where you went wrong and just keep going at it! You're doing better than your school buddies if you've gone out and set up your own business instead of just working for the man.
Got a text before from my Duty Officer for Level 3 Flood Rescue personnel to go up to the Richmond-Tweed region to assist, unfortunately they picked two other swiftwater technicians from my region :(
Of my higher class peer group, I'm the only one who has managed to save tens of thousands of dollars, and the only one who has taken a stab at starting my own business, even if it's in the shits right now. I'm sick of people telling me that I should feel shit for not having owned cars or travelled or played instruments or had a huge social life, when as far as I can see, these things are only had by my peers when they were given to them.
whoa, calm down nerfy, just cause you're a failure doesn't mean you have to take it out on us. :P
but seriously, you've saved thousands of dollars but can't afford a $300 piece of shit to take you down to the shops (which are about 5k away) while its raining? a car is well worth the investment for the sheer convenience it provides.
its not about having a status to throw around, its about helping your self out by having a useful device.
I brought up the parent thing because I got my first car without any aid.
Pains me to say it but once again teq is right. Give us a call if you've sprung a leak, we'll prioritise it and check it out in due course. I've been to a house once where they had water running down the internal chimney. Got up into the roof space and a tile had cracked. Luckily they had spares under the house so I got in there and replaced the broken one from the inside. That was fun.
Other times it's a matter of blocked gutters being overwhelmed by the volume of water (especially where roofs meet at the bottom on town houses). We tell them to clean their gutters and call the insurance company to fix the damage.
Then there's this,
nice pic red, I had my fair share of that fun post gap storm, and again in yasi
i'm only just home, (fatigued so I tapped myself out,) most of the jobs around my area (i'm based at petrie depot, but cover s'pine, to the edge of north lakes, and inland past kobble creek,) and apart from two evac's (home flooded, and roads getting cut off fast,) and one pass it on to the swift water rescue guys because it was beyond me, I have done the following
5 roofs, where they really just needed to clear the gutters, and the real estate agent for 2 of the was just trying to get us to do it for free.......I cleared the blockage, but not all the gutters, not my job
one that had just gotten the skylight fixed (from the little hail storm in s'pine a couple of months back) but the guys who fixed the skylight must have had lead feet, as there was a clear line of freshly broken tiles from the gutter to the skylight, (moved the tiles, made one big hole, covered that hole up, done)
and cleared a drain for an old guy whos house was flooding (it had about 5cm of water lapping at the back of the house, but all that was needed was the side drain cleaned out, then the water just flowed)
one tree across a drive way, only a smallish thing, easy job,
the guys are still going, but me being up since 2am this morning means at this point i'm no good on a roof, or welding a chainsaw, or much of anything but sleep
What a cunt of a day, I should have just abandoned my vehicle and stopped working, that was some seriously unsafe bullshit especially around Burpengary/Deception Bay.
Don't know what I was thinking driving that fucking unco Post van through flooded roads to get someones shitty mail.
There are many cities and countries where you don't need a car. There are some places in Australia you can get by without a car, but Australia really isn't setup for not having a car or two or three.
Got a text before from my Duty Officer for Level 3 Flood Rescue personnel to go up to the Richmond-Tweed region to assist, unfortunately they picked two other swiftwater technicians from my region :(
(figured copius might be jelly)
that I am, I did get a little play before i made way for the paid boys and their much nicer toys (and boots)
did give one of the techs shit for wearing a raincoat over his wetsuit.......didn't make sense to me but hey, i'm not in the fire service
And piss off you could afford to buy and maintain a car for $300,
I could get you a working car for $300, you might have to do a little bit of maintenance to get it roadworthy, but part of being frugal is getting your hands dirty.
it'd cost more just for the learner's+lessons+exam+license.
if this is your hurdle though I understand, this is now hugely expensive if you can't get hours up with parents.
100 hours, or 33 with a professional, last lessons i got was $55 per lesson and its probably gone up since then so that's $1815.
my missus had 5 or something lessons from family, 5 or so from professional instructor, and got in just before the laws changed over.
Was she ready for the road when she started? not really, but I don't think any one really is, which is why we get them to wear warning signs now.
Before you are eligible to take a practical driving test you must have held your learner licence for at least one year within the previous three years (not including licence suspensions or cancellations) and have completed and recorded 100 hours of supervised on-road driving experience (for drivers under 25 years of age) in your learner logbook.
I think it's more revealing that he hasn't got his license yet, plenty of kids get their license way before they get a car
I think not having a car is a direct result of not having a license, not having a license is the actual issue here
it's not at all unheard of, but it is unusual in this country
Uh wouldn't registration and insurance (even if only in case of hitting somebody else) be in the thousands per year? Before petrol? By getting your hands dirty, do you presume that the person already somehow knows what they're doing? I don't know the foggiest about cars except that some are manual and some are automatic.
I think it's more revealing
Again, what's with this? Revealing of what? Nobody was going to pay for it, so I had to make an unnecessary purchase if I were to get it. It's revealing of that I have some money sense unlike most people? If I bought even half the shit I'd like to buy, from health insurance to even a single trip overseas, a license would still not make the cut lol.
rego = 400/6 months on a 6 cyl, so presumably a bit less for a 4 cyl
insurance on a clapped out dunger is no more than $500, you only want third party because your insurance would otherwise cost more than your car
so yeah all up no more than $2k for an entire years worth of driving, not including the petrol - which really is dependant on how much you use the thing.
the more you use it, the more fuel you consume, but the more value you're taking out of the investment
you can't really argue this one, cars are very valuable and very useful to too many people
you've already demonstrated that you could benefit from having a car on a day like today
the point about not having a license is still more valid, however - because you could have done that about 10 years ago (roughly) when it was easy, cheap etc
if you had normal parents who were willing to teach you, you don't really have a leg to stand on
Again, what's with this? Revealing of what? Nobody was going to pay for it, so I had to make an unnecessary purchase if I were to get it.
my license didn't cost me more than a few hundred dollars over a 4 year period, from L's to Open's
It's revealing of that I have some money sense unlike most people?
most people have a license and a car, some even have money sense too.
if you had normal parents who were willing to teach you, you don't really have a leg to stand on
You literally cannot grasp the concept of not having money to spend can you? Where would the money for that have come from? Every cent I could muster from jobs I could get in the sea of suburbia where I grew up, was focused on trying to be able to afford to go to uni without having to take a gap year. And, as I expected, everybody who did do that, ended up either not going to uni, or dropping out when they did.
Why the fuck are we even talking about this. Bloody car people and their car judgements about car things.
I'm not buying it, my L test cost something like $14
parents gave me lessons and I even paid for a few from working weekends while studying
after 12 months on my L's I had to fork out something like $35? (been a long long time, so I can't really remember)
we are really talking about pittence here, if you can't afford max $200~ over the course of 4 years from L's - Open license, you need to get your ass down to centrelink
I had an Ls for a few years, there was no way to take it further, and it was costing me money to renew every year.
Discussion over. You guys just keep going in circles with "you're bad because you won't spend money which you don't have on something which you don't need to fit some sort of pre-expectations standard"
Open license, you need to get your ass down to centrelink
Hah, actually, it turns out that I actually was eligible for centrelink for a few years as a student where I wasn't getting it, but the first time I'd asked they'd said I wasn't due to a mistake, and they didn't do backpay. Eventually found out and my last two years at uni were a lot less hectic. Being a noob who had absolutely no help from anybody when I moved out on my own, I had no idea about half the things that were available, still don't really.
Wasn't there a whole thread on this with the same points
Pretty much, I don't understand why people start it, or why they keep re-using positions which I've already answered. "Maybe if I just say it louder, the reality of the situation will stop mattering in my argument!" Guess it's compelling stuff when you're one of the types who have an urge to call people shit all the time for some god unknown reason.
Rego is cheaper if you pay it by the year, rather than every 6 months. Last rego statement thing for my corolla was: $655 and for the Evo: $641. That's for an entire year including CTP.
Insurance can be cheap if your car isn't worth much, is garaged, isn't a well sought after brand by thieves and you have an impeccable driving record and an alarm/immobilizer that meets their requirements (though they're not cheap).
we are really talking about pittence here, if you can't afford max $200~ over the course of 4 years from L's - Open license, you need to get your ass down to centrelink
Or get yourself a high interest bank account & use the interest you earn to pay for the car maybe?
Pretty sure you're wayyyyyyy under estimating the costs there teq.
yep, very possible - but it's still within a few hundred bucks (plus I was talking about back in the day, not recent prices)
ie, not even a dollar per day
If you can get by without a car more power to you! I'm on foot patrol more often than not, and I have a massive golf umbrella - crank the beats, all good. :)
I can smell a QGL meme cooking... and it's almost done.
In all seriousness, and not just aimed at Nerfy... Getting your licence does a number of things the least of which would be the capacity to drive a vehicle in the event of an emergency.
Grats on the 'doing it yourself' mate, and the time and finances might be a little tight at the moment, but if you're plus of 25 and haven't got the 'tick in the box' to drive a car, the only person you are letting down (for now) is yourself.
Being educated as you claim to be, you should consider the upside of having a licence (regardless of whether or not you buy a car)
did give one of the techs shit for wearing a raincoat over his wetsuit.......didn't make sense to me but hey, i'm not in the fire service
I can kinda understand it. Wet wetsuit, no sun, any kind of breeze = reasonably chilly. especially if you're standing around for a while waiting for the next task.
Heh, it's always funny to see little cars try to drive through water I wouln't even drive through in my Jeep.
Camping is pretty much a no-go now. It started yesterday with people asking "how muddy is the campsite when it's raining?" and turned into "Waah Waah I'm a little bitch that doesn't want to get wet" within a few hours. Was down from 12 to 3, so we decided to just go to a mates place for a BBQ then head out camping if the weather is better (yeah... that looks likely.)
Do any of you guys have wet weather plans for Aussie day?
You can buy (water proof) battery operated Heating Wetsuits, I was thinking of getting one for diving. The ones the SES guys would need were like 1/2 price compared to the Diving (up to ~40 meters) ones.
But yeah, when Diving in winter I always take a wind jacket for the surface interval and trip out/back. Cold wind on a wetsuit is very chilly.
I said it will squirt hard and fast, but hopefully there wont be as much to squirt. With dam at 76% and with the ground drier than it was last year it shouldn't be like last year. When it rains like this there will always be flash flooding, but Brisbane shouldn't flood like last year.
Swag and I have a Shelter as well. I was planning on getting wet (Water Skiing) anyway... so how I get wet isn't much on a concern. Camping in the rain just involves a lot of sitting around drinking and keeping the fire hot enough to dry the next log so it starts burning.
There was talk of a Sundown trip too, but I think it's fallen under the same situation...
I can kinda understand it. Wet wetsuit, no sun, any kind of breeze = reasonably chilly. especially if you're standing around for a while waiting for the next task.
but it was the nice rain, (about 24 degrees, and the water was lovely
about to head back out, kinda wish i had those trick boots right now (opting for the old dunlop volleys as there is some roof work and the at much nicer that the ole boots)
red I think he means that the swift water guys should get a heated wetsuit,
it should be noted that in QLD the SES plays a pretty minor role in water rescue, we are not technicly swift water trained, that training goes to the rural fire fighters I do not know why, (that is also part of the reason i'm jelly at red, not only does he have the cool boots, but many more training op's as well)
if you want an idea of how well your local group is supported, have a look at the gear they use one day, brisbane city really supports their groups, and they have good gear, and good training,
other groups lack the council support and will not do anything unless the voters really hammer them, or they are lucky to have a good community to support them where the council can't
(I've meet one group that fund raised for new tire for the only vehicle they had, and members had at times paid for the fuel because they didn't have any other means to re-fuel other than the depot, despite the council cars all having fuel cards)
hell my group when i was deputy fought to get a second 4wd because we could no longer use the council cars, (back when it was just pine rivers, in an "event" we would make some calls, and borrow the council cars/trucks etc to get the jobs done, when they made the "super" council of moreton bay, that ended, but it meant that a group of 50 people had one troop carrier that was meant to cover a massive area and over 33,000 people)
I've been hounding for this training for a year now and have been told that the only training ops is with Perm Urbans....
Which is rediculous on the fact that Rural fire fighters know the terrain they are working on and already have harness points worked out on slipway crossings and trouble spots.
Can you guys post locations where these photos were taken?
Helensvale Gold Coast. About 5 mtrs below the M1, near Movieworld. Probably going to close the shop up and go home. Have knocked all the staff off already. Its been pretty relentless for the last two days.
One of our guys rocked in this morning with photos of his roof collapsed in his bedroom. Needless to say we sent him home.
Took these this morning at some locations close to home.
The old Cashs crossing at Draper. Was originally washed out in the 74 floods and closed ever since .
By et1965 at 2012-01-24
And Drapers crossing (at Draper). You can see the mud line on the road showing just how high the water got last night. Thats at least as high as it got during the floods last year.
By et1965 at 2012-01-24
looks like my camping trip is probably back on, it has been decentish weather (ie. not raining) all arvo and the radar shows really just the dregs left to come through
Nice Pave, where are you headed?
Everyone has officially chumped out of mine... not even any talk of 'If it gets better' any more...
its nothing too rugged lol as we have no gear of our own
we organised the missus parents to take their caravan up to cotton tree, they got up there last saturday and we will rock up there (meant to be tonight, but now will be tomorrow morning) and leave sunday and they are going to stay on for another week
my bday on friday so that was why we decided to organise something, spook and family were meant to come up but they pulled out because of the rain
Does anyone know if Wet & Wild is going to be opened or are they flooded?
Nothing on their website but from the looks of those photos from across the road, it doesnt look good.
Does anyone know if Wet & Wild is going to be opened or are they flooded?
Nothing on their website but from the looks of those photos from across the road, it doesnt look good.
Not enough wetness and wildness for you E.T.? Hahaha Needs moar wild.
I'm between a rock and a hrad place on this one. I promised my 8 year old I'd take him there on Oz day and since then the weather has gone to poo. I dont like not meeting my promises even if its not my fault.
Poor little guy wont understand.
Does anyone know if Wet & Wild is going to be opened or are they flooded?
Nothing on their website but from the looks of those photos from across the road, it doesnt look good.
Never amazes me some of the stories that I get to hear.
Some guy said he tried to cross "really shallow water" and then decided to turn back, but when he decided to turn back water "rose really suddenly... like like 3-4 feet and i was stuck"
ET just get a big black tarp and some dishwashing liquid + a hose :) That was my wetnwild brah.
Thats exactly what we did on xmas day :)
Everyone had a good time. This was a special deal for the little guy though.
Oh well, I'll see what the morning brings.
It has but it is meant to turn ugly again this afternoon
excellent. i love the huge storms and rain, reminds me of bris in the 70's. sydney has just been showery shit. was hoping i hadn't missed the best of it.
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The immediate threat of severe thunderstorms has passed, but the situation will continue to be monitored and further warnings will be issued if necessary.
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for DAMAGING WIND and FLASH FLOODING
For people in parts of the
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Issued at 2:23 am Friday, 27 January 2012.
Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce very heavy rainfall and flash flooding in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Brisbane, Moreton Bay and islands and Caboolture.
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