Blue Moon

[shorty943]

That is part of what caused the problem in the first place.
After WW2 we had a lot of migration from war torn Europe. Almost all men worked under a 3 year contract on major capital infrastructure works.

The Snowy Mountains Hydro-electricity Scheme, was a big bunch of holes drilled through the mountains, to divert water to dams for the power stations.

Oops, now the water mostly goes where Mother Nature didn't intend.
We don't want to make it any worse if we can help it.

We've been trying for years to make the other states realize, what they have done to the biggest river system in the country, and one of the biggest in the world.

It's borken. In New Guinea pidgin english.
She's all buggered up proper good boss.

In strine.
She's cactus mate.

Most of us mere mortal Aussies reckon, the whole thing needs blowing up, and starting again.

But, there are the Departmental procedures we must follow.

Once in a blue moon? Get it right? Government?

[Greg]

It sounds like plumbing on a huge scale!

After all, diverting water to your shower is making water go "where Mother Nature didn't intend." But then, Mother Nature doesn't do things by intent; She just fools around and if things die, they die.

[shorty943]

Originally Posted by Greg

It sounds like plumbing on a huge scale!

After all, diverting water to your shower is making water go "where Mother Nature didn't intend." But then, Mother Nature doesn't do things by intent; She just fools around and if things die, they die.

Ain't she a dear sweet little old girl?


Latest on the floods.

The lesser flood of 6.5 meters in the Warrego River Basin, has done its job. Flooded every town in the basin then stayed there. To get any water from that system down into the main Murray system we need to see 7.5 to 8 meters there.

For an idea of the extent. Draw a rough line about half way along the east coast of a map of the USA, east\west, meet that with another running north\south taken about 1\3 of the way west, from the east coast. That top right 1\6 of the country is pretty much under water at the moment.

The coastal sugar port of Rockhampton is going to cop the worst of it. The Nogoa River, which is flooding at 15.1 meters above mean level, in the town of Emerald, flows into the Fitzroy River, which runs right through the center of Rockhampton.

There are dozens of towns suddenly under water, with thousands of people now homeless having lost, like those in New Orleans, almost everything. The farmers are the worst hit of all, stock, crops, fences, sheds, homes, all gone. And this, right on the heals of one of the worst droughts in living memory.


Luckily, this only happens, once in a blue moon.

A much loved Australian poem by Dorathea Mackella.

I love a sunburnt country
a land of sweeping plains
Of ragged mountain ranges
of droughts and flooding rains.

I love her far horizons
I love her jewelled seas
Her beauty, and her terrors.
A wide brown land, for me.


Sums it up well.