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gday craig

what you have said about the dams filling up is great news! water restrictions are hard enough let alone tryin to water trees on top of that! it definately is a scary issue with having floods go through though.

Jamie

Jamie, the good thing from a water perspective is that Melbourne's catchments are saturated, which means that all of this rain is going to reach the dams. Should be good inflows when the snow starts melting on the Alps too.

Noah, we had 220mm here in August, you pipped us by 15mm . Luckilly we live on top of a mountain, the only thing that would cause flooding here is if a comet landed in Port Philip Bay. Your creek might be a bit of a worry, but it is at least 5m below your house isn't it? I bet those waterlogged wooly cows are still cute.

It will be flooded in the Yarra Valley again this year, I might have to drive the tinny to bonsai club this month and the cops will have to set up speed camera bouys which I wouldn't put past them

For Victoria, they are predicting a warm and dry spring and a warm-hot summer with good rainfall which should have our trees powering along.

Cheer,
Mojo

Been rainig here sing last night

Just a light steady drizzle
Stuck at work, so will not get to go on my pine dig

Ken

145mm since last night with another front expected 4.30pm i have lost some fencing, moved all cattle to higher ground. hopefully my pump house holds. some of the old plum trees are gone some quick pics of my usual 2metre wide creek. on the up side bonsai are all ok atm

Hi noah78,

I am sorry to hear about the fencing and plum trees. I hope you have mentally prepared for this and
it was not such a shock to you.

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Hi Craig,

How is it going at your place? I hope no damages?

Best regards.

Been raining all day in Canberra as well.

All the rivers, drains are flowing very nicely. Our catchment was allready 65% so I imagine we will be 75% after this episode.

Grant

Hi Noah78 , mate we only got 40mm in town but the area is saturatedSpeaking to an old timer ,he has never seen Barrwidgee Creek flow like this in his life time .The water was travelling at around 70klm as we drove along the road .With the bushfires and clear felling of the pines in the area there is nothing holding the water back , erosion will be a major concern for a lot of folk .Still yet to recieve the water from the mountains as it melts the snow .Tomorrow will be the threat . A heart felt sympathy to anybody effected by this Downpour .Alpineart

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alpine that is alot of water moving fast my neigbours dragline pump worth about 5k is in my middle paddock atm, those cherrys we collected the other day on the flat near the creek has gone. Guess we saved them as they would be a mile down stream by now. It has eased off last hour but raining quite heavily now

Looks like a Yamadori downstream Noah when things calm down.
Like Ken said, just showers here but it's sure nice to see full dams and tanks down your way.
Good luck guys and take care.

Hi Noah, hope the damage is not too bad for you and your pump and fences are repairable.
Craigw

Hope all is KO Noah but lice glenn says, take walkd down the river an dsee what you can collect when the water drains away

Is the gate open to let the water out

Ken

Hard to believe that with good rain north, west and south of us we still didn't get a drop (and we could sure do with some!). They try to tell us that the Snowy Mountain cloud seeding has no significant inpact on surrounding areas; yeah, right. We didn't miss out altogether; we still have the northerly gales for the last few days.

Best of luck to those impacted by the weather; keep safe people.

Jan.

Hey Alpine, I hope your place is high above that lot!!!!