Victoria: Troughy thundery humid rain event. Jan 9th -14th

[HarleyB]

107mm here total. Whiteheads Creek, despite the BOM's graph for it saying it peaked lower than in September, is actually higher in parts, though the flood guage on Delatite Road is only reading 1.2m, down 0.2m on the September level. Goulburn River has gone over and is all the way up to the soundshell. The river came from the back of the caravan park. In the part of the park where the main water will flow in, from the side, there is only about three inches before it will go into the park.

Hope Rhino and everybody in Carisbrook is ok. Keep safe everyone

[johnno]

Yeah ditto hope all is ok with Rhino and the people around there

[Didjman]

so Goulburn park is under water?? Harley.
Peter

[Dc449]

Agree hope all is well. Well the sun is out and not many clouds in the sky.

[HarleyB]

Sorta Peter, it's filling up the lower sections of it eg. all the way up adjacent from the caravan park to the soundshell, but the bbq area and the old pool are ok for now.

[jmw2207]

Rochester is going to be hammered.....lucky they have a bit of warning. Eppalock is pounding over....secondary spillway is in use as well.

[johnno]

Theres talk of the Princess Fwy/Hwy (Geelong rd) Between Geelong and Melbourne may have to be closed later due to Flooding predicted along the road from the Werribee River

[Lily]

Rain finally seems to be stopping here, just a light mizzle now so hopefully we'll see the end of it soon, still quite humid though, 22.7C.

Went for a drive to Alex, some roadside puddles/water partially on the roads, but nothing at all to worry about. Rubicon is swollen but going along fine, moving quickly and very muddy down in the reserve that's been redone since the council fixed it after the September floods.

18mm here since yesterday evening when we arrived, I expected a bit more, but there you go.

Rhino and all other members caught up in this situation over in the west, please take care and tell us if there's anything at all we can do to assist you. Lara, thanks so much for the photos - brilliant stuff to actually see "first hand" through your eyes.

[gerta]

Ended up with 190mm for the system here, and the Inlaws just up the road got 203mm.

Massive amounts of water around, Bridgewater, Charlton in the firing line, and then everywhere downstream.

Some quick photos from around the Marong area.

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[cutofflow]

215mm for event. Wettest week, wettest month, wettest anything in 133 years of records. Have pictures of Carisbrook but cant put them up just yet

[nafets]

Hard to believe sun is out here

I no!!

[Soxy]

Great photo's Gerta. to steal a great line " I think we're gunna need a bigger Indicator"

[HarleyB]

Does the Coliban River go into the Campaspe or Loddon River? Because Lachlan Quick from the SES just said something about it, missed it though

[johnno]

Still humid guys just not the humidity out of this world! But still temps in the low to mid 20's with Dp's in the high teens

[jmw2207]

Coliban goes into the campaspe just upstream of eppalock

[fireone]

Not bad round here (Alexandra region) as Lily said. Minor flooding. Yea seems to be worse with quite a few roads affected. CFA has had to evacuate the Yea caravan Park which is always flood prone. West of here to the border seems to have copped it much more with all the current "evacuations". We have had 60mm here for the incident, still quite warm and humid.
Very windy at Marysville overnight with quite a few trees down.

[gerta]

Anyone on the Loddon River is in trouble

From the Flood Warning

Currently its estimated that Laanecoorie is releasing 147,000 Ml/day (Major Flood Flow 43,000 ML/day). Indications are that there
will be further increases in the outflow from Laanecoorie during the afternoon/evening to around 155,000 Ml/day.

Areas of Bridgewater going under

[HarleyB]

Is that higher than the flow in September/November?

[cutofflow]

Anyone on the Loddon River is in trouble

From the Flood Warning

Currently its estimated that Laanecoorie is releasing 147,000 Ml/day (Major Flood Flow 43,000 ML/day). Indications are that there
will be further increases in the outflow from Laanecoorie during the afternoon/evening to around 155,000 Ml/day.

Areas of Bridgewater going under

Considering the one in November was major and releases were only ~75,000ML/D. The amount of water feeding into Laane would be insane. Could hit 6500ML an hour and it only holds 8000ML. Literally filling up every hour, VERY curious to see if the dam wall will cope!

[gerta]

Is that higher than the flow in September/November?

Don't have the exact figures in front of me but due to the places in Bridgewater flooding I would say comfortably.

Literally all major highways North of Bendigo are either cut or going to be cut in the not too distant future.

Charlton flood expected to peak at least 60cms higher than in Sept.