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Better than a drought.
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I remember when the 'experts' told us that the drought was permanent, the rains wouldn't fill the dams - so we had to build a desal plant that costs $1.8 million per day even when it's doing nothing.
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Even if it doesn't spill they will have to keep releasing. Goulburn will be high for weeks.
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I think Echuca will get the worst of it. Everything coming from Wang via the Ovens plus Lake Hume/Dartmouth will be there in 3/4 days plus all the above. Then further downstream the Murrumbidgee flows will continue for weeks.
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Yeah they are releasing 38,000 m/l per day atm. It’s 100.3% full.
You're not serious are you?
Is that the sole metric you're using? Very narrow minded.
It's not like they weren't warned. 1974 vs now.
I wouldn't tell someone who lost their house to a flood that. I know people who had to leave their houses due to drought too. Both are bad, but if you're saying this flood is worse than a drought, which is what I thought you were saying, then I have to say that's fairly outrageous.
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It's kind of strange that we are going through bad flooding while on the other side of the world UK is going through drought at this moment. It's like it takes in turns between droughts and floods from one side of the world to the other.
Drought threatens England’s fruit and vegetable crop next year, says report
Scorching summer left reservoirs depleted and unlikely to recover, as growers warn of supply chain collapse in leaked meeting
I know our wet years (east coast) coincide with dry years on the other side of the Pacific and vice versa, but not sure the weather patterns of the Atlantic. As sure as the sun comes up, they will be drenched again one day, and we will be dry. Floods, as bad as they are, do serve a purpose in that the aquifer's and water tables fill up again to help us survive the next inevitable drought.It's kind of strange that we are going through bad flooding while on the other side of the world UK is going through drought at this moment. It's like it takes in turns between droughts and floods from one side of the world to the other.
Drought threatens England’s fruit and vegetable crop next year, says report
Scorching summer left reservoirs depleted and unlikely to recover, as growers warn of supply chain collapse in leaked meetingwww.theguardian.com
I would have thought that properties are subject to a LSIO (Land Subject to Inundation Overlay) need to be prepared for inundation.
As for "crazy stuff to alter a natural waterway to protect a [insert property here]" would you say the same about the urban drainage system in general? What about the artificial banks along the Yarra in Southbank and Docklands?
It's a one in 50 year flood that's caused this heartache and humans wanting to yell at other humans for it is a peculiar ego-driven condition that is best summed up by this image:
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Nah mate, we will need desal plants everywhere just to survive.
I like the security it provides, but its very costly security considering its been run properly once in the last 15 years, and with dams full now wont be needed in the foreseeable future.
They put in a flood wall to prevent the incursion of water into billions of dollars of assets, just like the way the Yarra's been banked up to prevent incursions.
Ya'd think this is the first time anyone's done anything to the river systems of Melbourne, yet the damn things practically don't look anything like they did when Batman cough "bought" Melbourne! Our harbour wasn't even underwater FFS!!
You like making unprovable claims!
Like how the non-implementation of blanket indoor mask mandates would cause the spread of Covid, despite the fact that it has demonstrably exponentially gone down in every facet with no spikes, in direct correlation with those areas that had blanket indoor mask mandates.
Similarly, this wall might have made a difference in the following range: slim to **** all!
Anyway, this was brought in by Labor's Mary Delahunty, who said:
“Melbourne Water’s modelling confirms that, provided the compensatory works are in place, there is no increase in risks to people and property in the river valley.”
I'd be enquiring what the "compensatory works" are above. Do they have a pump system in place? Avenues of redirection? What if these works actually reduced the height of the flooding?
I obeyed the overkill of our ultra-conservative experts led by Sutton for 2 years during Covid. I think the least you could do is do Melbourne Water a favour and give them the benefit of their expertise.
Just highlighting how disproportionate your responses are to a number of issues, pal.
Always wanting to blame others for ‘acts of God’. Says a lot about you to be honest!
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