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Folks, having not yet even fully recovered from the deluge and flooding of Jan 2011, not only Brisbane, but the whole eastern Queensland and a good part of New South Wales is being inundated, even as I type, thanks to a cat 1 cyclone (hurricane) which started in the Gulf of Carpentaria near Darwin, and then rolled down and through the eastern seaboard dropping huge amounts of rain, and this time made worse by 70-80 mph winds, and more. This on top of widespread and devastating bushfires of only a week or so ago. What a country of extremes.
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I went down to the marina today to check on Lotus. Fortunately our marina s well protected being on the west side of Moreton Bay with many islands between us and the open ocean, but even so the storm surge coupled with extra high tides made for an interesting situation. I feel very sorry for those who own less well-protected vessels. There has and will be, a lot of damage.
Below are some pics of the marina, the first being how it usually looks in terms of height to the bank at a normal high tide. The 2nd pic is what it was like just 30 minutes before the others, when we first arrived and before the surge came right up over the land arm between us and the adjoining part of the marina, which is under development. The others speak for themselves. In the 30 minutes we were there, from just being surface rain water in the car park, with a raised path edge still clearly visible, the sea surged right over. Compare pic 1 with 3. Note the finger ramp going upwards in 2, where normally there is always a downward incline to the finger. Yeah, sorry, that's me with the naked sensual caucasian knees. (with apologies to the Goons...RTF will get it anyway....)
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Flood Disaster 2013 - Full Coverage - Yahoo!7 News
I went down to the marina today to check on Lotus. Fortunately our marina s well protected being on the west side of Moreton Bay with many islands between us and the open ocean, but even so the storm surge coupled with extra high tides made for an interesting situation. I feel very sorry for those who own less well-protected vessels. There has and will be, a lot of damage.
Below are some pics of the marina, the first being how it usually looks in terms of height to the bank at a normal high tide. The 2nd pic is what it was like just 30 minutes before the others, when we first arrived and before the surge came right up over the land arm between us and the adjoining part of the marina, which is under development. The others speak for themselves. In the 30 minutes we were there, from just being surface rain water in the car park, with a raised path edge still clearly visible, the sea surged right over. Compare pic 1 with 3. Note the finger ramp going upwards in 2, where normally there is always a downward incline to the finger. Yeah, sorry, that's me with the naked sensual caucasian knees. (with apologies to the Goons...RTF will get it anyway....)
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