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Jo & I have been away for Christmas.

Here is what we came home to.

Luckily enough we are 20 Klms. outside town on high ground.

Bundaberg-Queensland Floods.

I hope your place survived OK Frank
Both my kids are allright thank goodness
How high you think the banks of the burnet river are Frank about 12 or 13 mts , thats a lot of water there
Glad you are OK

They reckon the river will peak tonight at 12óclock, at 7.8 mtrs.

They have closed all the bridges going north. The IGA supermarket is completely surrounded by water. We had to get home today via Rosedale rd, Bucca RD and Birthamba Rd. The main Gig Gin Rd has been cut for 3 days at Splitters Creek.

Our place is OK except for waterlogged paddocks.

There are quite a few houses that have been flooded,

The Melbourne Hotel is 1 metre under and will get worse by morning.

Glad to hear you are okay Frank. Guess you wont be riding for a wee while.

Glad to hear you're out of the hot zone Frank. Don't wish this kind of weather on anybody. Keep safe.

Not good having a flood takes a long time to get back to normal.Glad your place seems it will be ok. But have to say the ashes have floated away to good old blighty atb geoff

Floods near me here too at times and I lived near a very bad one in 1972. Buildings had water in the 2nd floor then. Lucky ,like you, I have always been living on high ground. Hope none of your friends got caught up in it.

Glad your place is okay Frank, but it doesn't sound good for a lot of people. Here's hoping the rains let up sooner than later.

Better start roundin' up all those animals two-by-two there, amigo! That don't look good at all!

You DO know the exact measurement of a cubit, don't ya?! It's the length of your forearm, dude!

(...hope you and yours continue to stay high and dry!)

and you can loose the rear tire and make a stern drive out of the speedy.

hope you have a few dry days so ti will run off.

Back on line again after 2 days with no phone line due to broken fibre optic cable under the flooded Burnett River.

The river has started to go down after peaking at 9 metres.

Over 400 houses were flooded around the CBD and North Bundaberg.

I don't know when we will be able to go into town again as the roads are still closed.

We were one of the lucky towns, Emerald and Condomine have been evacuated as the water is still rising out West.

It's the highest flood levels for over 50 years.

We were lucky, the water stopped rising about 200 metres from our bottom paddock.

I do not envy all the people in town that will be returning to their homes and having a nightmare of a cleanup.

Do you have horses in those paddocks,or are they for your bikes???

Yep, The floods in your area made the CBC news last night. Not pretty at all. At least our winters don't destroy our roadway in a couple of days.

I thought you guys normally had a shortage of water.....

I only know 3 things about horses.

1, They eat a lot.

2, They sh*t a lot.

3, I back them and they loose.

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We have a 4WD with 31 inch tyres (Note the y in tyres) all we get is a large jolt.

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Wow... 31 inch tires (note the "i" in tires). Those potholes sound rather treacherous. When I lived in Africa where you could go fishing in the potholes they were so big we used to say, "if you see a someone driving down the road in a straight line, they must be drunk!"