16 October 2010

It's just that kind of day in Canberra

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[First filed: Oct 15, 2010 @ 13:23]

umbrella inside out

It’s pretty foul out there right now. (as warned)

We’ve been advised of the following road closures:

    — Oaks Estate Road
    — Sunshine Crossing Road
    — Bendora Dam Road
    — Angle Crossing Road

Also having been out with an umbrella I’d ask motorists to be very careful of pedestrians in built up areas. while wrestling brollies in the wind it’s harder than usual to be as aware when crossing roads as one would like to be.

Below is a picture of Sullivan’s creek running its banks taken around 12.40. If you’ve got pictures of the wild weather send them in to images@the-riotact.com

UPDATE: Thanks to Dannybear sending in some photos of a usually dry drain in Gordon there’s now a slideshow below.

Also the discovery trail at the Cotter is closed for the weekend.

Further Update: The slideshow now has a picture of the big tree down in Glebe Park.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Davesact has sent in some video of the flooded point hut crossing. (below)

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I am about to drive to Kippax. Where is this new creek running?

Alongside florey drive down towards ginninderra creek. Every time we get a good downpour it becomes a torrent of white water.

I might try and getg a photo of it tomorrow if i could be bothered.

Oh you mean where the stormwater rubbish collection weir is? Not surprising it turns into a creek everytime it rains heavy, it is the whole of idea of it.

Hi nanzan. The Rural Fire Service work with the community in a much wider range of services than their in town versions.

georgesgenitals3:40 pm 16 Oct 10

ActewAGL now reporting dam levels are above 85%!

Thanks for pics oddball508. Tanker driver and crew must have balls of steel!!

nanzan have a look at Google maps… there is a whole swag of country west of Angle Crossing ie. between the Murrumbidgee and Gudgenby rivers that is simply not accessible by road if the rivers are up.

It just snowed a little bit in my backyard in farrer

Woke up to snow falling in Gungahlin this morning – amazing sight.

oddball508 said :

Medical assistance required for one family that had to get out. This was the only crossing. Man on the back because the cabin was full.

Sorry to press the point…but I am just genuinely curious…when someone requires medical assistance isn’t normal that an ambulance responds, not a fire truck…or was there some problem with an ambulance accessing the patient’s house? Is there a 4WD NSW ambulance (at Queanbeyan, I presume) that can access a situation like that, as there is in the ACT? Hope everyone was ok, though.

snow in the air from 7.30-8.00, northside. and freezing!

Who tasked the RFS to provide medical assistance?

In over 15yrs of flood response and management, I find it incredibly stupid to have taken the tanker over a bridge in that situation. Darwin must have been asleep yesterday, because there was a prime example of his theories being played out.

OK so the weight of the tanker may have given it stability against the current (although in one photo water seems up past chassis), but stability and structural integrity of the bridge would be questionable. And to have kids in it too?

If it were a true medical emergency, SouthCare is a safer option than losing a tanker and a family joyride through the floodwaters.

Medical assistance required for one family that had to get out. This was the only crossing. Man on the back because the cabin was full.

oddball508 said :

I have also added an older photo of the Sunshine Road Crossing (but still in flood) for nanzan. It is hard to find on Google maps because they will not fix their map. Angle Crossing Road runns from the Monaro Hwy to Smiths Road, then it should be Sunshine Road from Smiths Road to NaaS Road. But Google still have the entire road named Angle Crossing Road. Follow the maps of the photo linked above and you’ll find the crossing.

Thank you oddball508 – now I know where it is.

Great photos you posted – amazing. By the way, what was the story with the Smiths Road fire truck – why was there a man standing on the back of the truck, and why were there two kids inside the truck?

Captain RAAF7:44 pm 15 Oct 10

Rollersk8r said :

Huge tree down in Glebe Park! Would have been fatal to anyone walking by.

Plane landed at the Airport, Would have been fatal to anyone walking by.

CoppIn’s crossing closed just before I wanted to drive over it, about 630.

More photos. The Gudgenby river bridge now has water flowing over the top!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25223017@N00/
I have also added an older photo of the Sunshine Road Crossing (but still in flood) for nanzan. It is hard to find on Google maps because they will not fix their map. Angle Crossing Road runns from the Monaro Hwy to Smiths Road, then it should be Sunshine Road from Smiths Road to NaaS Road. But Google still have the entire road named Angle Crossing Road. Follow the maps of the photo linked above and you’ll find the crossing.

Pommy bastard6:47 pm 15 Oct 10

LOL!! Nope 🙂

Pommy bastard said :

This weather makes me feel homesick.

If you all chip in for a ticket, I’ll go.

Deal? 🙂

Can’t you swim?

Pommy bastard5:38 pm 15 Oct 10

This weather makes me feel homesick.

If you all chip in for a ticket, I’ll go.

Deal? 🙂

Muttsybignuts4:34 pm 15 Oct 10

if it stops raining i’ll go and take a photo of the recently formed Kippax Creek.

I am about to drive to Kippax. Where is this new creek running?

troll-sniffer4:01 pm 15 Oct 10

Now one has the pic but there’s no email address in your Contact area anymore. Some things are not meant to be…

troll-sniffer3:54 pm 15 Oct 10

workin on a pic but no card reader etc…

oddball508 said :

Dam wet!

boom boom!

Where’s Sunshine Crossing Road (see list of road closures)? I can’t find it on a map or any reference to it on the Internet??

Huge tree down in Glebe Park! Would have been fatal to anyone walking by.

So it the rain gauge at the airport broken? Or just overflowing? It’s showing 9.2mm from 9am, while Tuggers is showing over 40mm.

Dam wet! The most water seen out this way in about 20years (according to some locals). Over 90mm between 7am and 3pm today here at Smiths Road (south of Tharwa).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25223017@N00/5082333119/in/set-72157622921790403/

Yep take care motorists. Driving changes in the wet!
As the van sliding sideways across Monaro Highway near Duntroon found this morning (bringing down the light pole).
He(?) was lucky to limp away from that one…

To the sucker on Northbourne that was too close to that puddle as I was going past you made my day. MOAHAHA!

Gungahlin Al2:50 pm 15 Oct 10

So will we still have snow tomorrow? In two minds on this. Snow is good, but not for all my vege seedlings…

I had to pick my GF up from work after she slipped in a puddle on her way to belco for lunch. She was covered in mud and drenched…also busted my new umbrella 🙁

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

a tangle of umbrellas

Is that what you young people call it these days?

when it gets a bit rough?

Woody Mann-Caruso2:26 pm 15 Oct 10

a tangle of umbrellas

Is that what you young people call it these days?

It’s a crap day.

Also, watch out for other pedestrians… two of us nearly had a tangle of umbrellas at lunch 🙂

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