Gorge Flood
Mar. 29th, 2011 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithYou're seen this before. Wait! No. you haven't. I haven't seen it quite like this.
Reading the Examiner today, it seems the Bureau of Met guys were expecting a 1 in 50 year flood (water levels were similar to that of a 1969 flood, until just before the city) which I guess explains the evacuation warnings, but then the Meander didn't flood so the flows in the South Esk had somewhere to go.
(See the South Esk starts up in the north east, curls around and comes in to the meet the Tamar from the west, so most of the rivers in the north/north east/northern Midlands flow into it, except the North Esk with flows straight into the Tamar just above that junction (and it is on the plain where the three rivers meet that our little city lies) So the rain from any and all of that area comes rushing down to this one point. The Meander comes in from the west, and it didn't rain as much out there.)
So here it our lovely river in all its spectacular, almost-50-year-flood level glory. Also rainbow water.
(Insert usual grumble about still photos reduced to web size not being worth putting up. Maybe you can imagine yourself as being equally reduced in size?)
People for scale.
Rainbow water!
Looking back towards the CBD.
Hmmm.
Care for a swim?
This is where I got wet. Actually, the second time. The first was downriver a bit and it soaked the back of my jeans. This time, it went all over me and camera. But it was sunny so I dried quickly (except for the back of my jeans.)
That's the First Basin, the usual swimming hole. My plan is to walk around to the Alexandra (Swinging) Bridge on the other side there, and see if there's anything interesting over there.
But probably not this way.
Strangely enough, it's closed at the other end too. Sign says No Dogs and No Bikes. I don't think either would be too happy about going along that path.
Those yellow signs are new. The other one temporary.
Distracted from water by a posing skink.
End of the road.
There's even a guard on either end of the bridge. So I'll go up to the lookout above for a photo.
And one more shot on the way back. (That guy on the edge did seem to be having fun with his camera.)
Reading the Examiner today, it seems the Bureau of Met guys were expecting a 1 in 50 year flood (water levels were similar to that of a 1969 flood, until just before the city) which I guess explains the evacuation warnings, but then the Meander didn't flood so the flows in the South Esk had somewhere to go
(See the South Esk starts up in the north east, curls around and comes in to the meet the Tamar from the west, so most of the rivers in the north/north east/northern Midlands flow into it, except the North Esk with flows straight into the Tamar just above that junction (and it is on the plain where the three rivers meet that our little city lies) So the rain from any and all of that area comes rushing down to this one point. The Meander comes in from the west, and it didn't rain as much out there.)
So here it our lovely river in all its spectacular, almost-50-year-flood level glory. Also rainbow water.
(Insert usual grumble about still photos reduced to web size not being worth putting up. Maybe you can imagine yourself as being equally reduced in size?)
People for scale.
Rainbow water!
Looking back towards the CBD.
Hmmm.
Care for a swim?
This is where I got wet. Actually, the second time. The first was downriver a bit and it soaked the back of my jeans. This time, it went all over me and camera. But it was sunny so I dried quickly (except for the back of my jeans.)
That's the First Basin, the usual swimming hole. My plan is to walk around to the Alexandra (Swinging) Bridge on the other side there, and see if there's anything interesting over there.
But probably not this way.
Strangely enough, it's closed at the other end too. Sign says No Dogs and No Bikes. I don't think either would be too happy about going along that path.
Those yellow signs are new. The other one temporary.
Distracted from water by a posing skink.
End of the road.
There's even a guard on either end of the bridge. So I'll go up to the lookout above for a photo.
And one more shot on the way back. (That guy on the edge did seem to be having fun with his camera.)
