November's mean rainfall in one Canberra day

dungfungus said :

pink little birdie said :

Just back from Broken Hill where the Menindee Lakes have all but dried up. Unheard of. I’m sure this brief exceptional rain, not really that much, will have been welcome by more than my parched garden.

Any chance of Lake George showing any surface moisture except on the far horizon?

The storms nicely demonstrated along with the concurrent Tsunami maps released by State Emergency services in NSW exactly what rising sea levels will do, and its vast cost:

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/people-freaked-out-after-the-nsw-ses-posted-tsunami-evacuation-maps-coinciding-with-a-major-storm-2016-6

Large swathes of Sydney and the Central Coast will go under. My brother will have lost all the neighbours in front of his house and will be living on the third island of six in a new North Sydney archipelago.

But Tim Flannery will still be high and dry…………………..

Bit we are still high and dry as far as overall annual rainfall which is falling and has been for decades. You confuse a very intermittent storm with overall rainfall.

Reminds me of the Sean and Patrick joke:

“Are the indicators working Patrick?”

“Yes Sean, No Sean, Yes, No, Yes, No…”

Mordd – IndyMedia said :

Late last year I spoke to scientists surveying the Northern Sydney Beaches to determine the ebbs and flows of the sand and shoreline and future prospective changes if rising sea levels eat away at the land.

I am wondering if they had their research funding taken away?

Their answers may well have made a few unhappy.

The current problems are due to weather conditions, not rising sea levels. It’s nothing to do with withdrawal of research funding.

pink little birdie said :

Just back from Broken Hill where the Menindee Lakes have all but dried up. Unheard of. I’m sure this brief exceptional rain, not really that much, will have been welcome by more than my parched garden.

Any chance of Lake George showing any surface moisture except on the far horizon?

The storms nicely demonstrated along with the concurrent Tsunami maps released by State Emergency services in NSW exactly what rising sea levels will do, and its vast cost:

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/people-freaked-out-after-the-nsw-ses-posted-tsunami-evacuation-maps-coinciding-with-a-major-storm-2016-6

Large swathes of Sydney and the Central Coast will go under. My brother will have lost all the neighbours in front of his house and will be living on the third island of six in a new North Sydney archipelago.

But Tim Flannery will still be high and dry…………………..

wsw said :

pink little birdie said :

Just back from Broken Hill where the Menindee Lakes have all but dried up. Unheard of. I’m sure this brief exceptional rain, not really that much, will have been welcome by more than my parched garden.

Any chance of Lake George showing any surface moisture except on the far horizon?

The storms nicely demonstrated along with the concurrent Tsunami maps released by State Emergency services in NSW exactly what rising sea levels will do, and its vast cost:

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/people-freaked-out-after-the-nsw-ses-posted-tsunami-evacuation-maps-coinciding-with-a-major-storm-2016-6

Large swathes of Sydney and the Central Coast will go under. My brother will have lost all the neighbours in front of his house and will be living on the third island of six in a new North Sydney archipelago.

Years ago during an open day at the ANU I saw an interesting flood map for Canberra should Googong Dam ever break. Where I was living in Narrabundah at the time would have been about 6 foot (yes, the measurements then were in old imperial, despite metric being used for years) under water. The Leagues Club (if I have that correct) in Queanbeyan would have been completely underwater. The National Library would have been flooded. I was told that during construction of the dam it was in danger of capsizing, which I was told was not publicised. Apparently the dam was at the critical time in construction and this time was chosen because it was statistically the driest day of the driest month. Anyway it poured and there was great concern the dam would not hold. Someone though to cover it with wire mesh to protect it and it held up. I was told this at the open day. It was very interesting, and there was a computer program where you could put in your address and see what the risk was from flooding. My house would have six inches in a 100 year flood across the garden, but Googong Dam was more worrying.

Narrabundah is floodplain, a single glance shows that.

The Sydney event is a 30 year event, so really there are no excuses. A 100 year maybe, but as the insurance actuaries can tell you 100s are the new 30s.

There were a number of reasons I got out of architecture but probably one of my last clients who built a mansion on inner Sydney foreshore, subverting and altering my plans at whim and I am sure doing the same to the Council, was one of the final straws.

They’ll raise the price of water as people won’t need to water their gardens as much.

The SMH has posted a story on the Collaroy storm damage:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-storms-narrabeencollaroy-teetering-houses-an-accident-waiting-to-happen-20160606-gpcjq6.html#ixzz4AnBkyvEv

An excerpt which reinforces what I have said:

“Professor Short said the council bought properties along the beachfront and turned them into parklands in the 1970s and attempted to put a moratorium on redevelopment in the 1980s, but lost its case in court.

A Coastal Zone Management Plan, adopted by the council in 2014, made property owners responsible for protecting their property from the impacts of coastal processes.”

Late last year I spoke to scientists surveying the Northern Sydney Beaches to determine the ebbs and flows of the sand and shoreline and future prospective changes if rising sea levels eat away at the land.

I am wondering if they had their research funding taken away?

Their answers may well have made a few unhappy.

In Western Sydney where councils and developers conspired to develop flood prone areas as suburbs, despite clear and loud warnings, the tales of woe are being broadcast by the tabloid press.

How obtuse can you be to build at ground level right next to houses that were jacked up one storey after the last floods?

Will anybody learn anything from this? Can’t say I am hopeful. Not if there is a buck to made out of it.

A taste of what is to come.

See the news about what is happening in Collaroy.

Unfortunately the Councils, the developers and all those who bought with their blinkers on are all pretending nobody could foresee this.

Not true, and an object lesson in ignoring reality does not make it go away.

There is another King Tide coming tonight so this is not the end of it.

pink little birdie said :

Just back from Broken Hill where the Menindee Lakes have all but dried up. Unheard of. I’m sure this brief exceptional rain, not really that much, will have been welcome by more than my parched garden.

Any chance of Lake George showing any surface moisture except on the far horizon?

The storms nicely demonstrated along with the concurrent Tsunami maps released by State Emergency services in NSW exactly what rising sea levels will do, and its vast cost:

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/people-freaked-out-after-the-nsw-ses-posted-tsunami-evacuation-maps-coinciding-with-a-major-storm-2016-6

Large swathes of Sydney and the Central Coast will go under. My brother will have lost all the neighbours in front of his house and will be living on the third island of six in a new North Sydney archipelago.

Years ago during an open day at the ANU I saw an interesting flood map for Canberra should Googong Dam ever break. Where I was living in Narrabundah at the time would have been about 6 foot (yes, the measurements then were in old imperial, despite metric being used for years) under water. The Leagues Club (if I have that correct) in Queanbeyan would have been completely underwater. The National Library would have been flooded. I was told that during construction of the dam it was in danger of capsizing, which I was told was not publicised. Apparently the dam was at the critical time in construction and this time was chosen because it was statistically the driest day of the driest month. Anyway it poured and there was great concern the dam would not hold. Someone though to cover it with wire mesh to protect it and it held up. I was told this at the open day. It was very interesting, and there was a computer program where you could put in your address and see what the risk was from flooding. My house would have six inches in a 100 year flood across the garden, but Googong Dam was more worrying.