I sure looks bad on the telly... .. It's a shame they can't pump that water down to Vic.

DJ

Thanks for the lookout MickV,
The news about Coffs Harbour, our worst ever flood.. I have had the kids at home for two days, My wife is in Brisbane and I was stuck on the Hway for 4 hours on Tuesday night and the kids were at school flooded in. The workshop had water thru it and I have checked it out this arvo, not too bad, about 30 buckets of water. I had raised everything off the floor, the water was flowing past my shop but coming into the shop thru the flooded box gutters, the street was flooded with knee deep water at my gate,I just got my car out. The worst was going thru 100mtr of knee deep water to get to the kids, I have naturalised my little Hyundai Elantra, so many other cars conked out in the flood water. Maybe it was just me having owned a 4wd in WA and learning how to drive thru water and soft sand.

Rod

Thinking of taking the family to Coffs for a week in the school holidays, after Easter. Less than two weeks away. Ya reckon it'll have subsided by then? Is the whole place a write off (traffic issues, damaged buildings)?

There is a story I always tell about the weather on the north coast of NSW. It comes from years of school holidaying up here as kids. The grandparents lived at Urunga, on the edge of the golf course and they had one of those river boat sheds, so every school hol we were at Urunga.

The things I remember most about the north coast are, in the Xmas summer hols it was always blowing a gale from the North East. In the Easter hols it was always wet or flooded.

Casso, things are nearly back to normal. The insurance work is moving along. The worst flooding happened in the CBD along the Hway stretch. The water in the ocean is brown and we had our first SW for nearly a week today, there is nearly a surf.

How are things up your way First point? You joined the Flood club yesterday.

Rod

boardbumps said...

There is a story I always tell about the weather on the north coast of NSW. It comes from years of school holidaying up here as kids. The grandparents lived at Urunga, on the edge of the golf course and they had one of those river boat sheds, so every school hol we were at Urunga.

The things I remember most about the north coast are, in the Xmas summer hols it was always blowing a gale from the North East. In the Easter hols it was always wet or flooded.

Casso, things are nearly back to normal. The insurance work is moving along. The worst flooding happened in the CBD along the Hway stretch. The water in the ocean is brown and we had our first SW for nearly a week today, there is nearly a surf.

How are things up your way First point? You joined the Flood club yesterday.

Rod

My memories of going to Coffs as a kid was that if it was raining in Brisbane, it would rain in Coffs...and if it was raining in Sydney, it would rain in Coffs. Just always seemed to rain there, and rain big.

Well hopefully it is all gone for my couple of days in the area next week.

yo Ian

whats the river mouth looking like

i heard its been on

every time my band has played at the pub we all have been keen to get a few waves down there but it has been flat

a mate of ours Flano raves about it all the time

dogman

yo robbo

yer jason is a bit of a character

all the boys around here get boards off him

dogman

robbo

i run a sup/surf school

and today with the level of water flowing out the clarence river i had to cancel sup school sport with a high school in grafton so just been hanging around home(minnie water) looking at all my unfinished jobs i have to do on the house

its still lumpy and raining

tha dogman said...

robbo

i run a sup/surf school

and today with the level of water flowing out the clarence river i had to cancel sup school sport with a high school in grafton so just been hanging around home(minnie water) looking at all my unfinished jobs i have to do on the house

its still lumpy and raining

Gday Dog,
I am a youthworker.I worked for PCYC Kempsey for years,and helped the cops with kids who had been refered to them as part of their bail conditions,so through that we used to take them to the surf school at the rocks.Damo(owner) is good mate,so Iam now doing my level 1 flat water SUP accreditaton so I can do his SUP lessons on the weekends,
Robbo,
PS,just surfed the Bay wall again,not as good as this morning with the tide being high,but still some good bombs,
Robbo

robbo

who is the accreditation through

didnt think surfing aust. had their sh@t together yet

the swim is 500m in 10 minutes

Its the equivalent of swimming one lap of a 50m pool every 2 minutes. Or 3 kmh. Its doable if you're in reasonable shape.

Thorpies splits for 50m are about 25 odd seconds

Hi Lobes
sorry on the maths but it is 50m every minute. Very doable if you plod along and don't stop.