Flood pics from 27-12-2010

Here what we got for christmas. Sum dirty water! Out of Kings creek which is south of the town of Toowoomba. This is the second biggest flood thats been through our place in the 60 years it been in the family the last one being in may 1987. There was 3ft of water through the dairy and 16 inchs went under the house and in the lundery. Every shed has had water through it even the hayshed hopeing the round bales that are stacked on there end havent absorbed to much water and get hot. Lost about 50 ton of silage that got washed away and about half the fences on the home farm are flatend. Lucky it was raining on boxing day night and i didnt unhook the trailer off the tractor and put it in the shed because the speed the water came at when it peeked we wouldnt of had a chance to save all the tools and power equipment out of the workshop befor it went under. Also blowed our dam on another farm so we wont be irragating out of that for a while. This was caused by 8 inchs of rain in 36 hrs on already sterated country thats been getting rain nearly every week for the last 6 months. This time last year when we couldnt even get a shower to lay the dust. Least we didnt get water in the house and we havent found any thing thats been washed away yet. Now we just have to move all the unharvested barley that washed down from upstream and is piled up around every thing.

Nobody said it would ge easy. If you prayed for rain you must have not said how much.

WOW!! Might look like that here in 3 months. In 1987 we had the biggest drought since the 30's ..................

wow ., sorry for the bad news, wish you the best from now on, keep us posted we like hearing from you.

How things change was the worst drought last year. Wettest one this year

I am a dairyman as well - my prayers go out to you.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to you and yours. How well I remember 2008 in eastern Iowa.
Ya some hard work ahead but believe me it will get better and lives back to normal.

How did you milk ? Can see that would cause all sorts of problems with the cows.

That is nasty.I can't imagine having to deal with all that water.
Good luck with the cleanup.

They didnt get milked that evening was dark by the time the water level droped in dairy so we cleaned it up and did them early the next morning

Wow, what a mess. How the heck are you dealing with milking with the milk barn flooded that bad? Did you have to farm the girls out?

Greg

Seems to me you are getting more of these rain depressions this year than I can remember from previous years.These from the Pacific and the others from the north west.Looks like half Queensland is afloat.
I see our vegetables down south are going to skyrocket in cost due to your growing areas being submerged and we can expect the locally grown will also rise in sympathy.

Not good at all. Monday night was the big one for us. I stayed up most of the night watching the level come up. Peaked around midnight but we managed to stay out of it. There's record levels in the Condimine and our water treatment plant has packed up. We're going down to Brisbane for a few days until things settle down.

That has to be miserable to say the least! I was living in California back in 1996 and there was a similar situation for a lot of the dairy farmers there in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley when the rains came and the stupid rodent tunneled levees gave way. Many cows were lost when they were mired in mud in the cow lots and barns that were flooded and semi-flooded, to say nothing of all the other losses. We used to say California had 4 seasons but they were differnet from the regular spring, summer, fall, and winter, they were fire, earthquake, flood and drought. Anyhow, I'm sure sorry to see your situation there, may God see you throught this tough time.