been pretty dry lately the farmers need it and we need it to move the gold. so much for my water powered equipment that im still making the water wheel won't turn without water. 
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We are finally getting some decent rain down here in Esperance. Just last week I was out fighting bushfire. One of four we have had in the past three weeks. It gives you an idea of how dry it is down here. It is the first time in 19 years that I have ever been to bushfires in winter.
wow - never ever in 19 years then 4 in 3 weeks
What are the Odds ?
What are the Odds ?
Yup its dry alright but the WIND is what drives me mad
meanwhile in western coastal parts it feels like its been raining since Easter :|shakergt said:
Dust storm warning for most of S.A. today. Getting very gusty already.
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Seen this morning that NSW is 98% :brokenh: drought stricken and VIC is over 60% 8.(
That sort of dry must crush farmers and also be very bad for the states economies,it can only have an upward price on some produce if it is even produced,I think that lamb is at an all time high.
Sadly I think the time for major rain events is closing with winter soon coming to an end
Thankfully the NSW state government and Federal government are finally doing more,who would want to be a farmer today.
Not me :|
That sort of dry must crush farmers and also be very bad for the states economies,it can only have an upward price on some produce if it is even produced,I think that lamb is at an all time high.
Sadly I think the time for major rain events is closing with winter soon coming to an end
Thankfully the NSW state government and Federal government are finally doing more,who would want to be a farmer today.
Not me :|
It is a sorry sight seeing the results of the drought in other parts of the country. Especially for the farmers and their livestock.
In Perth 32 mm of rain on first day of August, the annual rainfall is up but of course the dams are down???
Well the doomsayers reckon so.
Took a photo last year of the Serpentine Dam level, will take another in September and compare.
In Perth 32 mm of rain on first day of August, the annual rainfall is up but of course the dams are down???
Well the doomsayers reckon so.
Took a photo last year of the Serpentine Dam level, will take another in September and compare.
Yep. Feel sorry for the people trying to make a living farming atm. I live in a very good farming area and even here things aren't looking good. Very poor rainfalls so far. We have a strong NW cold front coming through today and its supposed to get to 22 C today would you believe, at the end of winter. Dust is tarting to kick up now. Hopefully this change will bring widespread rains. Fingers crossed.
Spoke with my brother this morning at Coffin Bay, strong wind and horizontal rain, no dust.
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Hopefully the rain we have been getting makes it some parts of SA and VIC. I really feel for the guys in the east at the moment.
I remember the 1983 drought and this is worse, 150 weeks without rain in some places. Plenty of blokes shooting stock in the Central West, it's heartbreaking seeing how dry it is, and it only get's worse the further you go. I sent 5000 .22lr rounds I no longer need out to a friend I grew up with at Dunedoo because he was too broke to buy any to put down his and his neighbour's sheep not strong enough to survive.
The missus and I are in the process of moving to Bathurst and I saw quite a few dead sheep in paddocks out there, of course, its lambing season too. I don't think many of them will make it this year. I can only imagine what it's like up Turondale, it can rain on one side of the hills there and be dust dry the other.
I called into a produce store to see oaten hay small bale prices and at $19.50 a bale it's hard to say if it's futile buying a few bales for some folks struggling to feed their stock, or is it just putting off the inevitable for a few days.
Hopefully, the state governments promise of a billion dollars can help and actually be expedited to get out there and do something fast. Always seems to be red tape and some sort of profiteering when this kind of thing comes up.
The missus and I are in the process of moving to Bathurst and I saw quite a few dead sheep in paddocks out there, of course, its lambing season too. I don't think many of them will make it this year. I can only imagine what it's like up Turondale, it can rain on one side of the hills there and be dust dry the other.
I called into a produce store to see oaten hay small bale prices and at $19.50 a bale it's hard to say if it's futile buying a few bales for some folks struggling to feed their stock, or is it just putting off the inevitable for a few days.
Hopefully, the state governments promise of a billion dollars can help and actually be expedited to get out there and do something fast. Always seems to be red tape and some sort of profiteering when this kind of thing comes up.
maybe the answer is to put down a few wells just in case as ground water won't run dry as quickly as a dam will on the surface and purify the water that comes out so its drinkable for the stock and people.
because laying a pipe line and piping it miles from a huge dam/lake to where its needed won't happen anytime soon with our gov
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yep they should have done it when they talked about it. A few years back when Lake Argyle overflowed at the spill way they estimated that 85000 litres of water flowed per second. That's a fair bit of water flowing per hour
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I'm out in Broken Hill , the country side is looking real crook .
Heaps of desperate Emu's & Roo's coming into town looking for a drink & feed , many of us are filling buckets out the front of our houses .
There's a big old buck Roo I've been feeding for a week who's camping close bye , the poor bugger was on his last legs at first & now seems to be getting a bit better
And yet we keep sending billions in overseas aid to countries that not only don't give a sh*t about us '' but will never return the favour ! :N:
Heaps of desperate Emu's & Roo's coming into town looking for a drink & feed , many of us are filling buckets out the front of our houses .
There's a big old buck Roo I've been feeding for a week who's camping close bye , the poor bugger was on his last legs at first & now seems to be getting a bit better
And yet we keep sending billions in overseas aid to countries that not only don't give a sh*t about us '' but will never return the favour ! :N:
A few million tons of SA topsoil is now on its way to Antarctica.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-223.94,-32.16,1203
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-223.94,-32.16,1203
Outback said:I'm out in Broken Hill , the country side is looking real crook .
Heaps of desperate Emu's & Roo's coming into town looking for a drink & feed , many of us are filling buckets out the front of our houses .
There's a big old buck Roo I've been feeding for a week who's camping close bye , the poor bugger was on his last legs at first & now seems to be getting a bit better
And yet we keep sending billions in overseas aid to countries that not only don't give a sh*t about us '' but will never return the favour ! :N:
yeah I hear you its amazing when you open up an old mine that's been closed off for years and contains a large amount of ground/spring backed up water inside and in summer you see roos bids lizards almost every animal around the area drinking the water because there's no dams nearby or any other water source and the creeks are bone dry too. yet the spring/ground water coming out of the mine is all year flowing I measured it with a 20l bucket it filled it in less than 15mins.yet once it reaches the creek it flows underground out of reach of all the animals.
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Shakergt that's 306,000,000 million litres per hour which equates to 7 billion 344,000,000 million litres per day. That's some serious water do you know how long those flows lasted. Funny thing is I was at a waste water treatment plant the other day and had thoughts of it being piped inland, it's class "A" water treated with chlorine and pumped into the ocean
8) . If the infrastructure was put in place it would have multiple benefits for many communities by way of the need of water and creating job's :Y:.A lady from Bendigo has started a fund raising venture called Parma for a Farmer :Y: pub's are taking it up hopefully it'll go national. I'm not sure of the specifics it was only introduced this week and is gaining momentum :Y:.
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