Queensland Flooding

[annette]

Best wishes for your niece Brian. I'm sure she will be fine.

[briansworms]

Thank you. Her and the family have done it tough. 1 flood in a life time would be enough but 3 times in 3 years. Hopefully by then end of this year her husband would have completed his country service with Education Qld and they can re locate.

[Michaelangelica]

Thank you. Her and the family have done it tough. 1 flood in a life time would be enough but 3 times in 3 years. Hopefully by then end of this year her husband would have completed his country service with Education Qld and they can re locate.

Something is seriously wrong with our climate.
Lake Ayre will now fill three times in as many years; this is unprecedented!
Broken Hill looks more like Ireland than a hellish scene from Mad Max.

I don't know how people cope with being flooded this many times in such a short period;
and floods will continue for another month as rains make it down the inland river systems!

[Spidermonkey]

Does anyone know how the PRI Institute at Zaytuna Farm came through the floods? I see through the course information that they have a watercourse nearby.

[juhill]

Here it is a year on from the floods and I'm still affected, I have lost some plants due to being in water for too long but it may have been the shock more than anything we've been here 20yrs and for the most of it in drought so prayed for rain well we got 20yrs worth all at once. The drive washed away having had over 2metres of water over it and so much rubbish including huge trees and stumps hit it, several dams upstream broke and we copped the lot.
I have trouble sleeping now every time there is a spot of rain.

[Michaelangelica]

Sorry to hear of your loss
Can we do anything to help you replace the plants you have lost?

[juhill]

Thanks for the offer but most of what I lost that can be replaced has been, but there are lots of trees that we used for stabilization of the gully and privacy just washed away and I haven't got it in me to redo it all, I'm getting too old to be carting water long distances up hill down dale now.
We need it to stop raining so the gully will dry out enough to allow us to replace the pipes and drive so we can get things delivered like a water tank we have total storage of 1500gal so any rain now is wasted.... I do know when it will go back into drought as soon as we get a tank delivered and hooked up the house.

[Michaelangelica]

Have you looked at the new "Long Stem Planting" techniques for trees?
Bush regenerators are using it locally and trees need little or no water to get established.
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s2655211.htm
http://www.australianplants.org/Long...%20Welcome.htm

[juhill]

I have heard of that technique but until the driveway/causeway is fixed it will be a waste doing anything as we need to get heavy machinery in and I think even a few more trees will be going.
I am going to get about 50 lomandra to put in as they seemed to hold on a bit better than some of the other plants will start by putting them upstream near the fenceline, then when the excavator is here I'll get the gully cleared out a bit ..... might even find some gold LOL then I'll start planting the sides with some of the melaleuca that have come up there was a good stand of them in the bed of the gully before, I just have to be patient and wait for the work to be done. We still have to clear the rubbish from downstream if the darn gully will stop running.

[Pakanohida]

Thanks for the offer but most of what I lost that can be replaced has been, but there are lots of trees that we used for stabilization of the gully and privacy just washed away and I haven't

I wish I had a bunch of willow and bamboo to send you.