140% full? I heard "nearly half full" earlier today. Apparently it can reach
200%, so does that mean the "half full" means 50% or 100%? Either way, it's
filling incredibly quickly. I'm not joking with all these percentages, by the
way, even though they sound silly.
I just read it's at 175%, and that article is dated 12.05pm.
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Carl Clifford
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 January 2011 1:03 PM
> To: Tom Tarrant
> Cc: Birding-aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Re: Toowoomba/Lockyer Valley, SE Qld
>
> Tom, et al,
> Sorry about the truncated previous post. As I said, they have had
> approx. 100 mm in that area since 9 AM. I have just looked at the
> Sydney Morning Herald website and there are terrible scenes of water
> and damage throughout the area. Communicar=tions will be difficult
> with all that water in the Telstra system. I just hope that
> those who
> built Wivenhoe Dam knew their stuff, with what Anna Bligh
> describes as
> "an 8 metre wall of water" heading towards it, and it is at 140%
> capacity. It certainly a dark time for a lot of Queenslanders and my
> thoughts are with all affected. A terrible, terrible disaster.
>
> Carl Clifford
>
> On 11/01/2011, at 8:52 AM, Tom Tarrant wrote:
>
> Has anyone heard from Bill & Eileen Jolly or John Hadley? I'm hoping
> that
> they have been evacuated but they are in the thick of it at
> the moment.
> Fortunately have spoken to Michael Atzeni from the Helidon
> area, he is
> OK
> but the power is cut.
>
> If anyone hears any more news can you keep us posted?
>
> Tom
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Tom Tarrant
> <> wrote:
>
> > If anyone has any news from birders in the Lockyer Valley/Helidon/
> > Toowoomba
> > area would be great to hear from you.
> > I've tried to contact several individuals and heard nothing,
> > apparently
> > Grantham is a disaster area, houses have been swept over a
> kilometre.
> >
> > I'm sure that you will be seeing reports on the media in
> the coming
> > hours
> > but be prepared for some bad news.....
> >
> >
> > Tom
> >
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