More rain and more flooding

12:37 AM 2013. rain, flooding No Comments

More rain, bucketed down again. some of the surrounding areas rain related tidbits here As it happens: the Valley prepares as floodwaters rise | Clarence Valley Daily Examiner The weather radar snapshot is telling Phone screen weather radar snapshot What a wet month, after late January early Februaries floods, detailed here  we received a whole heap more rain and while we might not have received quite as much as earlier in...

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after the rain

1:15 PM 2013, cooking, garden, tamarillo 1 Comment

After the rain some minor repairs were needed and a few things didn't survive, most noticeably the recently planted new Tamarillo Tamarillo seedling went toes up but our wonderful neighbour Chantel provided us with another, we planted this one up on a large mound in the sweet potato patch to help keep it's roots a little drier. The orchard area can get a little damp with lots of water, which we had ! Thank you so much to our wonderful neighbour Tamarillio redux. ! Some...

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Wet, wet, wet

7:13 PM 2013, floods, rain No Comments

Wet, wet, wet - January 2013 Floods Continuing with the musical theme from the last post, wet it was... We copped some 600mm over four days (estimate as the gauge went over the top one day) from the residual of ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald Weather Radar Image Capture We weren't alone though, with much of the Queensland and Northen NSW east coast similarly affected and it was apparently the largest recorded flooding of the Grafton river The Dam overflowed Dam, full to capacity the...

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