Moree Floods 2011

[NC1183]

A few pics for everyone of the floods currently happening in Moree in the North-West of New South Wales.

Over the past 2 weeks we've have a few storms and a little bit of rain, how ever as of Tuesday this past week, we've had rain non stop till around 10am Saturday morning with around 200mm falling around Moree and its surrounds. Currently (14:50 on 27/11/2011) Moree is completely isolated form the rest of the state and the township is cut in two.

[mik]

200 mm , that`s a lot of water , so hows it looking up there now, rains finished for the foreseeable future?

[NC1183]

We have the peak running through town at the moment, 10.11m and steady, however there appear to be storms over the Warialda/Bingara area which feed into the river here in town.

The 4th, 5th and 6th pics are of my work.... looks like i will get wet feet in the morning

[mik]

good luck mate.

[dave351cid]

hi nathan.
i hope that your house is up out of the way.

thats a lot of water flowing around there.
i seen the news headines on tv this morning and was wandering how you would get on there.

[NC1183]

Thanks Mik, I should be right, if I get flooded Moree is in a lot of trouble.

[my_gxl]

Looks like i might be having some issues getting to NSW next week

[nutter_x]

Mate I'm in Narrabri - the water caught a few people unawares. Nothing like Moree, but we've had 165mm so far, and a few roads and bridges are submerged entirely.

[my_gxl]

I guess we will see where the water goes and see if it affects the new england hwy, or the coast road.

Hope everyone is ok...although I did see the news about the young boy

[blueoval]

Geez its that time of year again for freak weather isnt it?

Hope no one is hurt and there is minimal damage.

[dave351cid]

Originally Posted by nutter_x

Mate I'm in Narrabri - the water caught a few people unawares. Nothing like Moree, but we've had 165mm so far, and a few roads and bridges are submerged entirely.

put up some pics if you can.
i travell that way a fair bit but mostly only see it when its dry.

hope everyone plays smart and gets through it ok. guess it will spoil a lot of crops.

[NC1183]

Well its happening again. Second coming, we have the Gwydir River at not quite 2011 levels, its currently 7.27m and rising and in November last year it hit 7.45m. The Mehi River in town is at 5.15m and rising.

We've currently had nearly 8in(IIRC) of rain in a little over 36hours, and has been raining on and off all day since Friday.

[blueoval]

Our thoughts are with you guys up there doing it tough.

[Miss_XR6]

Hope everyone affected by these floods is ok.
I just heard on the radio Taree is now expected to have big floods and I have a few friends there
Its terrible loosing houses, your belongings, live stock ect due to this

[NickyN]

Stay safe.......sending warm sunny weather your way!

Weather all over the world seems crazy lately.

[Corzza]

Mate thats a lot of rain

[Burnout]

Originally Posted by NC1183

Well its happening again. Second coming, we have the Gwydir River at not quite 2011 levels, its currently 7.27m and rising and in November last year it hit 7.45m. The Mehi River in town is at 5.15m and rising.

We've currently had nearly 8in(IIRC) of rain in a little over 36hours, and has been raining on and off all day since Friday.

You know you're in for it when Barraba goes under; that means the Upper Horton has come down.
The biggest floods in Moree, in my experience always occur when the Horton & Mosquito Creek come down.
We were on the river at Biniguy and had rainfall and flood records going back to 1891, these records show the Horton was always the big flood.

[NC1183]

Originally Posted by Burnout

You know you're in for it when Barraba goes under; that means the Upper Horton has come down.
The biggest floods in Moree, in my experience always occur when the Horton & Mosquito Creek come down.
We were on the river at Biniguy and had rainfall and flood records going back to 1891, these records show the Horton was always the big flood.

The Horton and Upper Horton have been going up and down a little all day. We've had reports of over 200mm of rain in the Upper Horton area alone. Uncomfirmed local rumors that the Tycannah Crk and Hall's Crk have broken banks and are running overland towards the Mehi, after the Chinock gauge. Mosquito Crk was running a banker last time i heard anything about that.

The Moree side approach to the Gwydir River bridge at Gravesend has been all but washed away.

edit: That looks like the Warialda/Inverell side of the Gwydir River bridge

[Burnout]

It will be a good'un then..

[blueoval]

stay safe guys. roads can at least be repaired.

[Pedro]

Hope you come out of it OK NC1183. That plains country floods pretty quick with the slow run-off. By contrast we had 26 inches/650 mm (no typo) last week on Mt Tamborine with no damage at all, but it took out a major river crossing down below near Oxenford.

[NC1183]

I will come out of it ok. I'm on the southern side of town which is higher then the northern and i'm not caught between two rivers, but i have family and a lot of friends on the northern side of town, one who's place will definitely get water inside.

We've had nearly the same about of rain since Oct last year, half of which seems to have falling in the last fortnight.

[DJM83]

Stay safe mate

[TheSneakiness]

Good luck with it.

My in-laws are on the Clarence River and it's been receding slowly...