Fires now Flood in NSW

Startrek (Martin) · #1 09-02-2020, 10:28 AM

After nearly 3 months of bushfires , now our state is being hammered by a massive super low pressure system dumping huge rainfall from the coast to beyond the ranges with flooding in most low lying areas
Talking about extremes of weather, this is it !!

Looks like another month the scopes stay indoors , back to reading books and watching movies etc....maybe some maintenance on Astro equipment, housekeeping on laptop ?

Rainmaker (Matt) · #2 09-02-2020, 10:36 AM

I'm thinking of selling all my scopes and taking up Nephology as a hobby......

Much less equipment needed, can be done at day or night.....

multiweb (Marc) · #3 09-02-2020, 04:39 PM

Loving that rain. Falling hard here and it hasn't stopped. Hoxton park road is cut off and all the creeks around are over flowing. Ground is saturated. Lots of trees uprooted and eucalyptus branches cutting off roads.

GrahamL · #4 09-02-2020, 04:57 PM

A little patchy today near the NSW/QLD border still some heavy falls coming through and heading south , My aunt just told me its very heavy atm over both the big dams inland from brisbane .

glend (Glen) · #5 10-02-2020, 12:41 PM

My observatory floor carpet is wet, because I forgot to put some duct tape over the threshold gap, and the wind blew the rain in there. Still it is much better than fire. My tripod box was in the garden shed and I fear it is ruined, the box not the tripod, but I have it sitting in the sun now so fingers crossed.

LewisM · #6 10-02-2020, 02:44 PM

Opened the front door this morning to be greeted by thongs afloat...easily 6” of standing water in the yard.

Flooded under one of Parliament House bridges today - knee high. Closed road while they siphoned off the over-blocked drains/gutters. Creeks around Belconnen/Crace region heavy and fast flowing.

More would be nice

Startrek (Martin) · #7 10-02-2020, 03:24 PM

After the deluge over the weekend, the sun has peeped through this afternoon
Backyards a mess, small branches etc.. everywhere , pool is a light brown to orange coloured swamp
Repaired a leak above the lounge room ( cracked roof tile ) buckets and towel brigade last night

Great to see some decent rain putting the remaining fires out and filling our dams but not the aftermath of flood damage etc..

We can never get a happy medium in this country...............
" I love a sunburn't country a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mountain ranges . of droughts and flooding rains".

Dorathea Mackellar 5th September 1908