Lots of rain in Tasmania. Not just the East Coast but all over Tasmania. One minute we are experiencing droughts and now floods. Fortunately not too much damage todate but certainly slows down the work program. Oh well such is life! … Continue reading →
from my friend Chris Zandee ‘It is madness but it looks you are nice and busy. We have distributed food and will help with pumping water. business has been paused as the whole valley has been paused and stopped for now 2 weeks. It will take months and some years to recover. Financial loss is high. Agricultural loss is also huge to trees animals … Continue reading →
After a particularly dry spring we are now having a very wet spell with some flooding last week. The wet weather here last week is certainly a mixed blessing. Obviously you do need rainfall especially as the dam empties which happened last year. But once I get my irrigation going in many ways I can do a better job supplying water than coping with … Continue reading →
We had several more floods mainly after I arrived back from India. Anyhow it didn’t take much to get run-off as the land was saturated. It did however give us an opportunity to see how well the modifications to the spillway stood up to these overflows. You can see from this photo that the spillway is still in reasonable shape. This is further evidenced … Continue reading →
19th February ground already saturated from previous deluge. Another 100mm in about 4 hours caused a repeat of the damage of the first flood. Further damage to spillway although cleanup in anticipation reduced the damage in surrounds. Roads a mess and stonefruit have great trouble with brown rot especially the late nectarines. … Continue reading →
380mm of rain in 36 hours or over 200mm in 12 hours. I have never seen so much rain. We go to bed after some rain all day but nothing extraordinary and wake up to find the valley flooded. All the apricots not picked were destroyed. Most of the internal roads had developed major gutters. But the worst damage was to the dam’s spill … Continue reading →
