Rain

[BernieQ2]

But when it's not there?
Every dam in the world holds back water
Not rocket science.
Bernie.

[Busman]

Remember after 2011 a couple of retired engineers drew up a plan, and costed it to put a 80 k pipeline to the dam up Murgon way (forgotten the name of it), huge pipeline and pumps. And raise the wall of the fogotten name dam by quite a bit. Flood times, pump the water up the hill to the other dam. Drought times, let it run back down the pipe. Pretty simple huh ? Cost $3 billion. Way too expensive they screamed.

Can we still say that after blowing billions on covid ?

[jon_d]

Or the billions on the insurance bill for these floods.

[Greynomad]

As Dorothea MacKellar wrote,
“I love a sunburnt country…
… of droughts and flooding rains.”

[Newcastle George]

Or the billions on the insurance bill for these floods.

Unfortunately, a large number of the homes flooded would not have insurance as the insurance companies class them as being in a flood zone so don't offer insurance or increase the fees to an unaffordable level.

George

[T1 Terry]

A dam does not stop a flood once it is full.


PeterH

I hear Warragamba dam is already spilling giga ltrs over the spillway, just a trickle compared to what is coming, but the river is already up, so I hope Peter has his gumboots ready if he's staying in the flood plains of Chipping Norton .... there is a reason that was the market garden area for Sydney after all.

T1 Terry

[Newcastle George]

Chipping Norton is also where Ivan Milat used to live and hang out.

George

[Newcastle George]

I heard on the radio about 30 minutes ago that all residents and businesses of Chipping Norton have been asked to prepare to evacuate.

George

[supersparky]

Sounds like Peter is going to have to wait a bit longer for a functioning sound system. Stay safe everyone.

[T1 Terry]

Chipping Norton is also where Ivan Milat used to live and hang out.

George

Thought it was the little village of Minimurra near Kiama, or was that where they found his rifle hidden in the wall cavities .... or am I getting mixed up with another serial killer?

T1 Terry