Sideways photo of the driveway...went through the other day when it was way lower and still had water over the bonnet of the 4wd so we wont be going anywhere for a while..

Rain looks to be converging over Innisfail/Tully area this arvo...

To 24 hours 6am this morning we had 127.4mm and got an extra 80 from the big dump this afternoon.

Our pressure has been bouncing around between 999 and 1001 for days now and the humidity has not dropped under 95.

Virtually all of our wind has come from the NW.

February total is at 358.4mm this afternoon and YTD is 1131.3.

The creek next to our house has run over and cut us off this afternoon for the third time in a week.

Gotta love the tropics 😀

Yeah Scott, GFS saying the focus of the rain south of about Innisfail again for the next week. No pesty lows off Brisbane any more which is great.

Thanks Dribbles, that's a good rain gauge check. You've had 1131.3mm YTD, with our 44mm so far today we've had 1131.5mm. Amazing.

Edit 1933hrs: That nightly rain train could be building again by the radar.

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I'd love to see 500mm in 3hrs Scott. Apparently the highest ever recorded in the world in that time is 600mm so it is possible. Just another case of 'never let a lie get in the way of a good story' I reckon.

Pouring here again, Unbelievable almost.

Edit: Beautiful spot South Mission I must say, my grandfather and grandmother lived there for years. Spent a lot of time on that beach.

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0037hrs: Around 100mm here. Still raining steady to heavy.

91.4mm. Back to dry ol Gordy lol
471mm MTD

142mm at 0715hrs

Only another 2mm since 0400hrs. Do you even bother counting it with this amount of water!

Radar's the clearest I've seen for ages. Wonder how long that will last.

mate the thing i most object to is he, like others purporting to be a well credentialed news source, just lift an unverified FB post and posts it as fact...wouldnt you check other nearby gauges(including an official one about 1km away) to gauge the likelihood of something being true or not first..?



and yeah SM I know that would technically be possible but when every other gauge around the same town has measured less then half then maybe the old grannie that posted it made a boo-boo with her measuring...

anyway 160mm for us in the past 24 hrs and have even seen the sun trying to peek through a couple of times....I think the worst may be over..

Might even go and try the supermarket but i fear I may be dissapointed..

107mm in the gauge here. That's 100+mm 3 days in a row and 5 100+ totals in the last 9 days with a top of 222mm. A bit unusual for White Rock.

Just got back from woollies G'vale and the shelves are very empty there.

Feb; 518mm
YTD: 1194.5mm

Looks like nothing is getting through from Georgetown way by the look of this.

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It's like that on the Tablelands too. People don't panic. Possibly so many transients in Cairns I guess that wipe everything out. I'm one of them at the moment, I had enough stashed at Chillagoe to last me weeks, now I simply do not have space, although I have enough.



Ha ha, and years ago, maybe WZ days, you all laughed at my cute green 40mm guage on a skinny stick. Never had to empty it til it was time. I did eventually upgrade to a $10 stick in the ground Bunnings item, and the most in that was 85 or 90mm. I do have the records somewhere in storage.

The Range roads concern me. We'll be lucky if we see the current two landslips fixed within the next 2 years, and maybe even luckier if we don't lose the whole road somewhere.

It's not just us though, the shortcut from Gatton to Warwick runs along a creek and there's roadworks repairing landslips into the creek, with only half the road left. The road from Dorrigo down to Coffs Harbour has similar problems. Stop/go's and traffic lights. No money being spent on keeping roads usable. Did I mention the Leichhart Highway? It's a complete mess, a mass of patched potholes small and large, literally. The Camry kept bottoming out and you couldn't do more that 85/90kph. There were very few sections of more than a couple kms that were actually intact. Too many heavy vehicles the road was never engineered and built for. Enough said, I guess...

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