Weather where you are?

Steve G. said:
5c and sunny again, Vancouver Harbour, and Harbour Air terminal busy as ever. Looking north to the richest neighborhood in North America, the British Properties of West Vancouver.
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If I squint I can just about see where we used to live back in 2002 (just off Lonsdale). And I love that there's still the massive pile of Sulphur on the North Shore. Great place, great memories
 
CJMAC said:
If I squint I can just about see where we used to live back in 2002 (just off Lonsdale). And I love that there's still the massive pile of Sulphur on the North Shore. Great place, great memories
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Ah yes, the sulphur pile of North Van! BTW, my dad’s friend lost his life in that in the early 1960’s, he stupidly went underneath that with a long pole when it got stuck from moisture. He got it moving well. They found him 3 days later,,,,,,
 
Good eye! I didn’t even see that! I know the name on the ‘fuel tank’, “Ciulator” is a play on the term “See Ya Later”. De Macross appears to be a high end sports car company, with a phone # starting with 82,,,,not sure which country that is?
 
So typical for a very hot day in Sydney to end in what is known as a Southly Buster, cold front from the south involving a Thunder Storm. Yesterdays was a doody, easily the most intense I have ever seen. All the local big Gum Trees were whipping nearly horizontal, drowning rain and big hail. That was storm number one, we got 4 over the next 3 or 4hrs. Yesterday was 40c, today 22c.
 
I'm back home in Brisbane, after dragging 80 tonne of road train across from Perth to Brisbane, trucks outside temp gauge showed 48c while doing 100kph. Not the hottest I've experienced, but pretty warm, none the less. No buster like Vince got, just remained hot until dawn, then rinse and repeat.
 
piranha-bro2 said:
How long do you do in a stint before a sleep break, Chris. I know from 'Convoy' that truck drivers have to stop and get weighed as well :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
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I have Basic Fatigue Management and can do 14 hours driving in 24. And WA Fatigue Management which allows 17 hours a day😳

But mostly I do 12-13, because I don’t like driving in the dark …. there are some ‘not so white drivers’ that scare me when they are heading straight for you and veer off at the last minute. 🇮🇳

Re Convoy: I need to get weighed on a regular basis…. my gut is bulging!

I do get a chuckle over the radio when oncoming oversized pilots tell me what’s following them, most drivers just say “copy” or “thanks” but I respond “Roger, copy, 10 4, over” my verbal tribute to Convoy. 🤣
 
Chris, where do I get the idea that the usual road limit was 40 tons? I did some work at The Power House Museum once and they were looking to rebuild a Steam Locomotion. They got replies from Engineering shops, but it weighed more than 100 tons so road transport was a no-go. They needed track access. And then you see those Space X rockets being moved on multi-wheel transporters.
 
Did some Googling
  • In 2019, a 663 tonne energy transformer was transported from Geelong to Haunted Gully, Victoria. The transformer was towed by three trucks on specialized trailers.

  • A Saudi Arabian logistics company moved a 4,800 tonne water desalination unit, which is considered the heaviest load ever transported on the road
 
Awesome!
Would love to be standing there watching that mighty Burdekin River in a major flood.

Many thanks Peter, as I hoped to spot a video sometime soon.
How's the crocs wandering about the cane fields about your place?
 
markQLD said:
Awesome!
Would love to be standing there watching that mighty Burdekin River in a major flood.

Many thanks Peter, as I hoped to spot a video sometime soon.
How's the crocs wandering about the cane fields about your place?
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We haven't had the huge rain around here, just had constant monsoonal wet with fairly normal flooding, so crocs being swept passed the back steps is a bit further north:D
Local roads have been a day to day proposition often depending on tide and the Bruce highway just south of here at Goorganga Plains has also been closed at different times over the last week or so which of course means plenty of people fishing for Barra off the roadside there. One bloke caught one, looked like must have been close to a metre but from pic it was a real bronzy colour so doubt if it would have been any good eating - too long in those freshwater muddy channels!!
BTW Mark, Groper Creek would be an interesting spot at present don't you think:eek:

piranha-bro2 said:
Sounds bloody scary! Where the fork is all that water gonna drain to? i hope they're safe downstream. 6m over the top of the spillway!!!
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This much water in the Burdekin certainly causes some widespread pain! Charters Towers has been cut off in all direction but I think is now clear over the Macrossan bridge.
Plenty of other flooded areas, a bit of concern that Home Hill could be flooded with all that water coming down the river, certainly caused flooding at Plantation Creek at Ayr.
If you have ever crossed the Burdekin bridge at Inkerman when the Burdekin river is in flood, it is a sight to behold!!
And of course discounting the Burdekin, shouldn't forget the main disaster areas around Ingham and Cardwell with the Herbert River reaching record peaks:(
 
For those that are interested in this type of thing, I have attached below a map of the Burdekin River catchment area. The catchment covers an area of over 130,000km2 which is roughly the same size as England or Greece. (Inset shows map of Qld for position) It is quite fascinating because the feeding waterways come from all directions - it basically extends from behind Tully in the far north to south west of Emerald in the central west.. I have highlighted in the middle where the dam is located and the direction the river flows after that into the Coral Sea at Upstart Bay south of Ayr. Also highlighted are some towns which will give some scale!
A lot of this of course is generally pretty dry country..........
I have also attached a photo from a similar lookout to where video was taken of what the dam looks like normally, when we camped out there in 2020.
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Hope some find this interesting.................
 
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