Cool pic of flooded town

Started by Freuds_Cat, October 15, 2010, 07:17:51 AM

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Freuds_Cat


I thought I'd post this pic just because I thought it was such a great picture and it tells a lot of stories. It shows the main street of what could be a great many Aussie country towns. I did a show once back in the 80's in a town called Murrayville just over the SA/Vic border out in the mallee country and the locals told me that it hadn't rained with any seriousness in 8 years. The gutters were about a foot high which would look weird in a desert town to the uninitiated during the drought. As we drove through Pinnaroo (the town before Murrayville) after a rainstorm the gutters where within an inch of bursting and only 3 feet in the middle of the road was not under water. It looked amazing.

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That's something!  I lived in Alice Springs for a few years in the late '80's - when that place flooded it was a mess - the Todd River ran literally through the center of town and the main street between the north side and south side was paved right through the river.  We experienced a "100 year flood" in '88 - quite a sight.  I lost a decent sized record collection that weekend.  Great 4-wheeling for about a week afterward!
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In the 1960's the house I'm presently living in had over a foot of water in it where I'm sitting now...

I've been in flood conditions whilst driving and I've never been more scared in my life... up in the Midlands of England I was driving home and a storm hit hard - I used my knowledge and dead-reckoning but I ended up in a village where a river had burst it's banks - to my left was a Transit van same as I was driving, in a ditch, with water well up to the mid door... anyway, the r/h side of the road was much higher and I saw a vehicle coming towards me and I thought... the vehicle was a Landy 110 with a snorkle belonging to the river authorities - they told me in no uncertain terms I would not get through - so, the passenger got out (fishing waders on) and helped guide me backwards towards the river so I could turn round - the exhaust was underwater at this point and I kept the revs high, knowing that if I let the pipe fill I would not get her restarted... that was the moment... the river was in full flow and angry... not a pleasant place... the River guy was hanging onto the side of the van roof to ensure he was not pulle away by the water... anyway, I got turned round and they told me a route... by the time I got to Banbury (in Oxfordshire) I came to a junction where a river and a canla run side-by-side, with a road between them - the road had over a foot of water and the police were about to close it as there was only a gap about 1+half vehicles wide where several others had conked-out - they saw me and told me I was free to follow but told everyone else to not take the risk - he gunned it through in another Transit van creating a real bow-wave and I followed, noticing a Porsche in the middle with the driver still sitting in it; water up to the window...

The trip home should have taken me about 2 hours, maybe a bit more... I took 8 hours to get home 120 miles...

That last stretch of road was under 6 foot of water in the reports the following day - worst flooding the area had had in living memory...
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We flood constantly here in the Houston area - low elevation, clay soils and everything is paved!  The problem we have is that water is slow to absorb and you just can't have enough drainage - we had a storm a year or two back that dumped something like 19" in one afternoon and it started on a rising tide which pushed water into the bayous and creeks.  I've hauled a lot of wet, fetid carpet, sheetrock and household goods out of lots of friends houses over the years and I've had enough - I'm heading away from the coast when I retire!