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Yep, you would need mid to low 20's to do that, have you any grass there, our place is all dirt but nothing to mow.
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Bit of tragic ryegrass, too many weeds.
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At least there are no horses.
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Currently 10km north of Wangaratta 34 deg and smelling smoke.
Yikes, there's a bushfire in the Strathbogie Ranges. Possibly evacuations for Boho, Lima south and Badaginnie. VT under watch and act currently. https://emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#!/warning/36973
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Hope everyone around Brisbane has secured everything they have and prepared for the cyclone.
Looks like the NSW north coast will cop a heap of rain shortly.
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DIY Tragic
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Mid-twenties and spitting with rain as I dig in a natural mixture of hard yellow clay and bushrock. Better than full sunlight for hard yakka.
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Im near the coast and its flamin warm here. Can only imagine what its like in the hills. Extreme risk of bushfire.
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It takes lots of it for it's end users to basically p*ss it up against a wall.
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Feeling for those in SE Qld dealing with the incoming cyclone. I have family there.
From reports, no food in supermarkets. People price gouging and profiteering off others misfortune. Airports closed. People preparing for floods in all areas.
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I just checked the radar, looks like cyclone is heading straight for Brisbane!
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Starting to get pretty windy here, up and over the Dividing Range. Can only imagine what it's like down at the Coast and in Brissy. Be safe everyone.
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Where wuz the outrage and support for us people in Central Qld?
We went through the same a few dazes back. The wind was so bad I had to use hair gel. |
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Angry Dub Driver
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I was only telling a mate the other day, everyone from Central & North Qld must be shaking their heads at the carry-on and palaver over this.
Cyclones roar through with regularity up yonder and nobody gives a sideways glance.... It gets a bit windy in Brisbane and we get the P.M visiting, ceaseless messages on the radio to not get our feet wet. Supermarkets stripped bare by Effwits...(Even in Toowoomba, 130km away and at the top of a hill). People are a bit silly... Cheers, Tony |
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Looks like the cyclone has stopped moving west, starting to track slightly north now. |
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Yeah, I suppose that's right and I can understand people on the Coast and in the lower areas panicking a bit, as it may get pretty wild down there. It's the geese in relatively safe areas carrying on like, well, geese that irks me.
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Poor old Lismore looks to be headed for some serious rain again.
Has never recovered from the 2022 flooding with large areas of the town still boarded up and abandoned.
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Really hope the damage is not too bad and that everybody stays safe over there in Queensland
All the best of luck to you all from NZ
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But most of them can’t get flood insurance |
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Angry Dub Driver
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Lismore is the perennial whipping boy when it comes to floods. Has been forever and seems set to continue the tradition. (Maybe they should pick it up and shift it a few km away?)
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Yeah
I read the Aborigines never lived there pre white fellas But the Brits obviously had to put the town next to the river |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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I hope for the best for our SE QLDers and north NSW brothers and sisters.
We are all Aussies at the end of day. |
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We are about to get some rain now, so far we've only had 0.3mm today but a bit of wind. We've got maybe 12 hours before the centre goes past us, and I expect the dam to be full by the end of it.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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We've gone from 40 to 50 to 60 to 25 to 1mm forecast on Sunday in a couple of days down here in Canberra. Alf all over the place so who ****en knows.
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RS The Faster Fords
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...and now a simple thread about the weather has been politicized
![]() Dribble your shit somewhere else fella's, facebook, reddit theres plenty of other places if you're that way inclined. Good luck to everyone in that part of the country theres certainly alot of people in the West thinking wishing well, we even woke to a shower of rain this morning which I thought a little poignant (and well needed)
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HSV - I just ate one!
Join Date: Dec 2004
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What I am really fed up with when it comes to the more serious weather events is how many "experts" and storm chasers are so damn sensationalistic with their "advice" that they seem to screw it up so spectacularly.
IMO these sensationalistic scum, the first time they screw it up, need to be restricted, if needs be, with a bullet from being able to communicate ever again.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Report from gc
Light med heavy and light med winds most of last three days High winds overnight Currently light rain Bris apparently dodged it Lots of power outage 280000 Nnsw rivers look like moderate floods A toddler cyclone? Three days of wet windy Wellington winter weather be worse |
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Rob
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Woodcroft S.A.
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All the people carrying on like it's a bad thing that the cyclone didn't hit Brisbane
![]() Sure, the media hyped it up a bit, but isn't it better to be over prepared than to not be prepared. So many can no longer think rationally for themselves. So many like to point fingers and play the blame game as though predicting the path of a cyclone is easy. Humans... We're a strange species.
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