FNQBunyip wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 7:56 am
Good yarn Marakai ..And some good falls around the place, can't for the life of me understand why Bushy has not been upgraded.
How hard would it be to put 100m of box culverts down on the cement base and build up the road. Damn stupid being closed at .3
Well only 14 mm here this morning .
Looks like something similar brewing for later next week
will just have to keep watching the charts and the sky..
Hoping to get the mower over the yard today , missed last weekend with other things on and now it looks real bad all shaggy,
'ave a good weekend all
Cheers
Hey All
Bunyip they actually close it (Bushy Creek) at .2 , and the reason it floods is because the creek is blocked down stream from the crossing before it flows into Rifle Creek, which then flows on into the Mitchel River. Basically it is local Politics which involves a local land owner stopping the Local Council from carrying out remedial works on their freehold property that involves a natural water flow.
Don't really know which side of the argument I am on myself, I am all for freehold property rights, but I do sort of lean towards the greater good when it comes to such issues for the larger community.... But then who the hell are the local council to come in upon free hold land and change the water course???? Maybe they should just flood proof the Bushy Creek Crossing once and for all ?
Wouldn't take too much of an effort really as it only ever get's to a meter or so at worst and it is the most northern route to the coast from the Tablelands outside of Kuranda and the Gillies, outside of Quaid's that is if you count that one.
Happens every year though, our Girls go to both Julatten State and Mossman High and without fail they miss school due to flooding at Bushy Creek each and every year, along with that the Missus also work's on that side of Bushy from us as well and also misses work due to the annual flooding there. Though quite often, both the Missus and the Kids are surprisingly UN disappointed when that happens.... Diametrically opposed to my reaction .....Sigh!
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We don't take money from Tourist's just on the point that you made, that What Go's around Comes Around. I have been helped out multiple times myself on the side of really empty highway's in some really remote places in Aus while looking like something right out of Deliverance by some really Nice people, have also spent day's on the side of the same empty Highways due to looking like that as well though with things as simple as a flat battery. Me and the Missus once spent a whole three day's down near Newman in W.A after pulling off the so called Highway to camp for the night, chose to listen to the statically impaired ABC radio to catch up on world events and woke up with a flat battery, with the Subaru Stationwagon pointed up hill. Three day's later a Dutch Fella in a Hiace took pity on us and decided to pull over, he was nervous as while driving the 200 meters into the camp site that we had chosen, we had spent the two day's before hand on the side of the road with a cardboard sign saying flat battery on it but he was the only person to stop and offer to help out. We caught up with the same Fella a few months later in Alice Springs and shouted him a Meal and Drinks, kept in contact for a few years as well but don't know where he is now. This was all before the internet and Mobile phones etc way back in 1999...
Last time we took a trip over that way I had a PLB + Satellite phone with us, along with recovery insurance and both two way and HF radio communication on the vehicle, things that just weren't available without a huge budget back then. Even then we ran into an elderly couple who had blown a tire on their trailer right on dusk on the Gibb River road on the turn off to Drysdale river on their way to Mitchell Fall's up in the North Kimberly, Turned out that they were both on their bucket list tour of Aus as he had Cancer and both had recently retired. They were well preped and all and had all the insurance and gear they needed etc but the old fella just couldn't break the wheel nut's that their local tyre company had screwed on with the ratchet guns they all use before they keft home. RACV had told them that somebody would be with them within 24 Hr's, fat lot of help that was to them where they were.
All of us need a little help now and again, just have a look at our brothers and sisters to our south right now, they might not have experienced 250 Km hr winds tearing their roof's off or destroying their homes, flooding in their lounge rooms up to their heads or watching their stock washed away into their neighbours fencelines, but at the same time we may not have experienced a firestorm coming out of nowhere and achieving the same result that destroys all we had and owned as well.
A little bit given by all of us , even just a couple of dollars here and there can make a difference, just like pulling over and making sure a fellow traveler is ok on the side of the road.
A little bit soppy for a Redneck I guess, but by the look's of things about to eventuate in the near future I think we all need to look out for each other.
Oh yeah the weather... 1.5mm to report over the last 48 hr's....