Rain at last!

[BrisVegas]

Hello Springfield!!!!

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR503.shtml

[BrisVegas]

doh, now it's hailing.

[AndyP]

Nothing here yet, but can't be far away.

edit: As I posted, I just heard some thunder.

[BrisVegas]

easing off here..

typical really! I spent all day today shovelling gravel OFF my paths around the house in readiness for the concreter to do the drive and paths etc... Now it's a bloody mud pool...

[Iain]

Thunder and lightening has just started over here.....

[gazgolf1]

just copped 10 mins of nice rain at Holland Pk.

[goughy]

Damn rain ruined my doo as I was walking out of the hairdressers.

[Jarro]

didn't get bugger all here last night

[3oneday]

That subject heading should be enough to scare it all off

[AndyP]

Looks like it did.

As we can't wash our cars with hoses due to the water restrictions, I washed our car on the Sunshine Coast on the weekend. They don't have any restrictions at all.

[drew74]

My lawn is no longer straw coloured!!!

[Grunt]

We even got some light rain over most of Sydney last night, While at work last night we looked at the weather bureau web site to see that there was a great night of falls in the Pacific Ocean Catchment area. All night there were heavy falls about 50km off the coast of Sydney.

[amanda]

Desalination plant here we come

[connico]

maybe...well just have to see, mother nature is just bring a real *****, still we pretty much deserve it hey

[Grunt]

I heard Noah was builing an ark, I reckon we will be whinging about too much rain soon. This drought just has to end sometime.

[3oneday]

I heard Noah was builing an ark

Grant, I hate to break it to you mate, that was a little while ago now

[Grunt]

Was it? I had not heard of the guy before I heard a rumour going through work last week. Am I stuck behind the times with this stuff too.

[MAZA68]

Nice bit of rain for SEQ, drought conditions should ease up now and some green grass might return to the course!

[Daves]

Nice bit of rain for SEQ, drought conditions should ease up now and some green grass might return to the course!

We got about 70mm over Friday/Saturday which was sorely needed. Went out to Reddie Bay Course today expecting it to be very wet, but it was barely damp. The only casual water I saw was where they had just pumped out a few bunkers. Still hasn't filled all the lagoons, but looking much better.

[Steve57]

We had 115 mls which filled our dam again nicely. Funny how a bit of rain seems to green things up more than any amount of watering!

[MAZA68]

What the hell, no Saturday golf, this hasn't happened in weeks.

[Jarro]

Good falls here in Brissy.

Long overdue an greatly appreciated.

[MAZA68]

Too true Jarro, many golf courses and others will be welcoming the rain.

[jimandr]

170mls of rain in Ballina yesterday, after a fair bit in the previous week.

At least I found out that my house isn't flood prone, even though the cheapo insurance companies won't quote for house insurance that include flood damage.

But I did find out that the road leading to my estate does flood. I took a big risk going out in the tempest last night, and found myself in a Point Of No Return but got through. The water looked even deeper by the time I came back, so I parked the car and walked the last kay. Some 4wd's were getting through, but there was one dead car that was still there this morning.

I went for a bit of a drive this morning. A fair bit of water is still lying about. The cane fields on the southern outskirts of town are an inland sea.

[3oneday]

Yep, rain can fick off right now.