Via my wholesaler there is a CS01 ( could be mistaken for a 7 ) , A GS01 & a GS07
No CS07 .
I am on the Nepean so we we dodged the worst of it
They were predicting 18 meters & my floor is 16 meters but we only got to 12.
But I still had to spend last night off site, & I am happy with that, no one should be forced to risk their life because I did not want to protect myself .
Maximum recorded height is 22 meters .
Road is cut off both ends & unlikely to be open for another 10 days so the natives will run out of beer shortly .
There is a car in the creek about 2 meters underwater & the divers were here this arvo but thankfully it is empty
The poor souls on the NSW QLD border copped the worst of it.
But it goes back what I have been saying for decades, we are the stupidists people on the planet .
No shortage of land in the foothills & hinterlands but the estate agents can get more money for level beachside riverside property and there is only one reason why it is level .
All of the beaches are in the flood planes .
All OZ rivers are just stormwater drains so when we get a good bit of rain they flood.
There are very good reasons why the blackfellas never bothered building permanent housing , floods & bushfires are two of them.
However I still do feel for them , but Lismore for instance floods every 18 to 24 months
They just keep on building the levee banks higher, then the pumps fail & the town goes under ,again & again.
We grew sugar cane , bannanas & rice on the costal strip because it always floods then the regions became popular so they built houses on top of the cane fields & rice paddies .
Most of the beachfronts from Brisbane down to Coffs Harbour were mangrove swamps so they built inadequate sea walls, pumped out the water. tossed in some fill & sold off deep water front Miami style channel housing , if you were lucky. If not your idlic seafront property only existed at low tide . lots of them sold in the 60's & 70's .
Brissie is a problem like New Orleans, it was built up around the ports where the costal shipping & the river shipping crossed paths , because there were so many small rivers that flooded regularly roads were too expensive to build till eventually they build some bridges and plonked houses where none should ever have been built .
However Brisse council has been doing the right thing & buying river frontage & converting it to entertainment & public open space so when it floods all that happens is a few pontoons get washed out to sea.
Right here the local council has a plan that actually makes sense .
Whenever a property is sold on the flood plane, the new owners have X years to either raise the existing building above the maximum recorded flood height or rebuild further back & higher off the river .
But most of the towns flooded this time simply keep on building the exact same type of houses at the exact same height and they suffer the exact same fate.
