Floods in Mid-Summer

@JudyEv (325758)
Rockingham, Australia
February 12, 2017 11:35pm CST
We took our Taiwanese visitors to Nannup in Western Australia. I've written about the rainy weather we've had here and the flood warnings. Nannup is one town that has had a number of major floods over the years. Rain which is falling in the catchment areas many miles from Nannup will eventually find its way into the Blackwood River which flows through the town. In the photo you can see the flood levels marked on a tree in the river-bed. The original tree which bore these markings fell over during the last flood and the markings have now been transferred to this tree. When the levels have been at their highest most of the town was under water. It will be interesting if we return to our summer weather and 40C heat and suddenly the river comes down in flood.
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Always smiling
@allknowing (130066)
• India
13 Feb 17
Reading through posts here many are witnessing rare happenings vis-a-vis weather. No exception here either.
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Always smiling
@allknowing (130066)
• India
13 Feb 17
@JudyEv It is pitch dark here at 6 in the morning which was never the case before
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
Certainly weather patterns seem to be changing - and not for the better.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
@allknowing I can't imagine that sunrise and sunset times would have changed unless it is because of cloud cover.
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dreamertink
@dfollin (24172)
• United States
13 Feb 17
Wow! We got a lot of floods here in the fall, matter of fact there were town destroyed. When is your summertime there?
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
It's summertime now. This rain is very unseasonal.
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dreamertink
@dfollin (24172)
• United States
14 Feb 17
@JudyEv I wish it was summertime here too!
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Feb 17
@dfollin If you wait a while, I'm sure summer will come again. :)
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Notlilie
@prinzcy (32322)
• Malaysia
13 Feb 17
That is a good way to record flood happening in the area. It could be use as learning purposes.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
That is true. Hopefully the authorities can learn from previous years.
Anna
@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
13 Feb 17
My goodness, looking at the flooding of 1946 I can easily imagine that the town was under water.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
13 Feb 17
@JudyEv It's "only" 71 years ago, a very short time for OLD Europe.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Feb 17
@LadyDuck But quite a long time for some of our smaller towns.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
Possibly at that time there wouldn't have been much town to be flooded.
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Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
13 Feb 17
that 1946 flood must have been a doozy
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Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
14 Feb 17
@JudyEv I hope they had time to make it to a boat!
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
15 Feb 17
@Jessicalynnt We've had two deaths with the latest floods.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Feb 17
Indeed. Everyone would have been looking for a boat I think.
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Manju vishwakarma
@Bodyandbrain (13797)
• Gurgaon, India
13 Feb 17
Do people still live in those town?
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
Yes, it is only a small town but quite vibrant with a busy community.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
@Bodyandbrain I'm really not sure. Perhaps they go to friends in the district who aren't under water.
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Manju vishwakarma
@Bodyandbrain (13797)
• Gurgaon, India
13 Feb 17
@JudyEv where do they go when flood happens?
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snowy
@snowy22315 (169965)
• United States
13 Feb 17
It never floods near my property, but surrounding areas sometimes flood. Low lying creeks and rivers will overflow their banks.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Feb 17
That's pretty much what happens here. We are too high to have any problems.
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changjiangzhibin89
@changjiangzhibin89 (16534)
• China
13 Feb 17
According to the markings on the tree,You had a wide range of the flood levels over the years.We live close to the Yangtze river,now hardly have flood due to building water conservancy project.
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changjiangzhibin89
@changjiangzhibin89 (16534)
• China
14 Feb 17
@JudyEv I wonder if there are many families evacuated from their homes,as you have a flood.
Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
It is good if measures have been put in place to stop flooding. Water from the catchment areas are expected to arrive here in the next few days. It will be interesting to see what level the water reaches.
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Jellybelly
@CookieMonster46 (13447)
• United States
14 Feb 17
wow you have had some big flooding there.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Feb 17
Yes, it has been very bad sometimes.
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Inlemay
@Inlemay (17714)
• South Africa
16 Feb 17
wow - those are some flood levels - we have laws here that nothing may be built under the flood level of rivers which makes river houses quite a distance from the river edge as a safe guard.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Feb 17
That's a good idea. There might be something like that in place here now but when the houses were built the idea of a flood of such magnitude was never thought of. The car-park from where I took the photo is now under water.
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James Higgins
@JamesHxstatic (29242)
• Eugene, Oregon
13 Feb 17
I am hoping that flood does not happen. I know there is the Oroville dam in California that is under threat and some evacuations have been ordered.
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James Higgins
@JamesHxstatic (29242)
• Eugene, Oregon
13 Feb 17
@JudyEv It remains to be seen if they can really.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
We've just been hearing about this. They are talking 188,000 people to be evacuated from lower down. It staggers me how the authorities can deal with such numbers.
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Valerie J. Routhieaux
@just4him (306234)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
13 Feb 17
The highest mark, if I read it correctly is 1946, followed by 2005. Those were mighty high flood waters.
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Valerie J. Routhieaux
@just4him (306234)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
15 Feb 17
@JudyEv That could be.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Feb 17
Yes, that's correct. I guess in 1946 there wouldn't have been so many houses.
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Scott Ganschow
@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
13 Feb 17
Floods are definitely not fun. We had some major flooding two years in a row a couple years back. Wrecked quite a bit of the downtown area, including several businesses and apartments.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Feb 17
I think I could face cleaning up after one flood but a second one would break my heart. I'd be moving.
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Kandase
@Kandae11 (53679)
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13 Feb 17
That would be very scary and dangerous.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Feb 17
They are putting out warnings about the rivers rising over the next few days.
katsmeow1213
@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
13 Feb 17
Wow.. that was some major flood in 46!
Silvermist
@silvermist (19702)
• India
13 Feb 17
@JudyEv Those markings are really high.Hope no more floods happen there.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
They are forecasting minor flooding in Nannup over the next few days. It takes time for water from the catchment areas to reach the town.
Shadi
@Madshadi (8849)
• Brussels, Belgium
13 Feb 17
That seems like a nice place for visiting but not for living
Judy Story
@jstory07 (134460)
• Roseburg, Oregon
13 Feb 17
Those are high marks. Floods are never any good.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
Some of the marks are very high aren't they
Juliaacv
@Juliaacv (48437)
• Canada
13 Feb 17
That's a pretty good idea that they came up with here. Some real differences in the levels over the years isn't there?
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
It is amazing where all the water comes from. And whatever the level reaches, it spreads over the whole area at that level.
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Laurel (L_B)
@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
13 Feb 17
The tree is a very interesting idea. By the looks of it there has been high waters and lots of flooding some years,
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Feb 17
Water from hundreds of miles away eventually finds its way to this river which is why it floods so often.
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