American reacts to Australia is FLOODED (relentless rain)
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Evansville, IN 47714
'I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!'
from 'My Country' by Dorothea MacKellar
My best mate is on a farm on the Hawkesbury River. They have been flooded (and had to evacuate) 5 times in 18 months.
They have managed only 3 crops in that time, where they would normally had gone to Market 8 or 9 times.
I was watching this with those words playing in my head. Australia is a land of extremes however a recovery period of some normality would be welcome. The new government has just cut all of the previous government's infrastructure plans for the regional areas in last week's budget, so no help there.
I was going to post that myself. But one thing Aussies do in times of fire and floods will donate or help in any way we can. This is a tough one indeed, but our farmers are incredibly tough positive people and anything us Aussies can do, we’ll do to help them out. They’ll need money to feed their families - donations will fly in and other, with other ideas will help in different ways. We always have and always will. Makes ya proud to be an Aussie during others gigantic tough times 💞
@@ladymanners618
What? Cut the budget for help? Unbelievable, that’s insane. We all need to put pressure on them to undo the cut and help our farmers. The average person is willing to help via donations or somewhere to live if homes are flooded. So our government better get it’s act together - they will eventually - only to look good in the eyes of our country
These were the words I thought of as well. Australia is a rugged, harsh land, and yet so beautiful and inspiring. A quote from the Monet exhibition at the LUME in Melbourne fits well here too: "Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting."
Bless those farmers who seem to be the ones who are hardest hit every time.
Life has been really hard here
This is devastating and not only affecting New South Wales. Queensland and Victoria have also been badly affected. The two weather patters of La Nina and the Indian Ocean Dipole have really hammered us. As an ex-pat Canadian living in Victoria I am loving your reactions to all things Australian. Keep it up. Thanks for tackling this hard subject.
Don’t forget Tasmania
@@HMAP792 and South Australia
@@HMAP792 Whats happening in Tassie mate?
And to this SAM Southern Annular Mode as well
Where has Queensland been badly affected?
Today was the first day in 3 1/2 weeks it hasn't rained on my property in Victoria. Took the dogs into town so they could go for a walk, rather than having to wade or swim through the orchard and paddocks for some exercise. Nearly got the old ute bogged in the driveway trying to leave, while ducks and geese swam around me. There are yabbies swimming around under the cherry trees. On the upside, the power has stayed on the whole time; the house is warm and dry and I still have internet, which are usually the first things to go in bad weather. So long as the fruit trees don't drown, we should have a really good crop in the Summer.
Yabbies under the Cheery Trees! That's insane! Invest in more ducks & geese in the short term? Where have all the creepy crawlies gone? Hopefully not up into your dry house?
@@linmonash1244 There are a _lot_ of mice getting into the house. One particularly large rat swam up to the porch in broad daylight the other day and got as far as the front door before the dogs ended his quest for sanctuary. There are also a lot of hares out and about..... something we don't usually see. There haven't been many dry spots for them to hide.
@@anserbauer309 I was worried more about snakes & spiders! One time it was so wet here found a frog 1/2 way up the wall in the laundry. Too wet out for frogs?!
@@linmonash1244 Frogs are everywhere.... hanging out in the standing water near trees, mostly... more than we've ever heard; evenings are a cacophony of frog song and fighting possums. Spiders don't bother me at all and while they're everywhere, they're not breeding, so it's not too bad. Very rarely see snakes on the property. There have been 3 in 8 years I know of. All copperheads. Ducks will eat the juveniles and guinea-fowl see off the adults before they settle in.
Glad you’ve seen a Landline video. This program is basically an essential service to the farming community provided by our national broadcaster. It gives farmers great information, inspiration etc and is probably the only time farmers can feel heard and relevant
Yep. Agreed. And Murdoch wants us to sell off the ABC.
It’s a must watch for me every Sunday, even though I live in the city.
It's a great show for people who want to actually know $hit. I haven't had a TV for over ten years now and I don't miss it...BUT Landline is one of a few shows I watch online.
I'm 63. Been watching landline for over 40 of them. Moved from Melbourne to Dimboola in the Wimmera. All our crops are wretched too. Hay might be a dream. Landline has been a constant source of the news country wide all my rural life. Hats off to them.🙂
Aussie farmers are some of the toughest people I have ever met. Takes a lot to break them. But these conditions are pushing them to the brink. Farmers are also stubborn and don't like to ask for help. Some would rather take their life than ask for help. Break my heart seeing this. The government needs to do more for these farmer as they are the backbone of this country.
" I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror- the wide brown land for me! "
The Poet knew of which she spoke......
Dorothea McKellar is a "she" and the poet whom pend the poem "I love a sunburnt country".
I didn't see your comment and posted the same thing!
@@echofoxpaw73 The proper name is "My country", but I always think of it as that. 🙂
Fun Fact. This is the 2nd verse. And the only one that anyone knows. Correction, the one that “Everyone” know’s.
We all looking at a Christmas with no fires this year. no matter how bad things look, you can always find what is good that has came out of the bad
...and that is what makes us Australians :)
That's true. Nothing holds the country folk down for long. This is a constant cycle of drought, fire & rain 👍🇭🇲 They are tough people who have come from tough stock ❤️ We're expecting all the water that flowed into & down the Macquarie & Murray River to flow through Sth Aus & down into the Coorong shortly. It's already crossed the border & the river banks in Riverland towns are overflowing in some places. Loxton copped it a couple of weeks ago but I haven't heard about anywhere else yet We haven't had the intense rain but we always feel the effects of flooding in the eastern states.
Totally agree with this - as someone who lives in an area that got absolutely slammed by the bushfires of 2019-2020 (we're surrounded by national parks, but thankfully our house was spared by a couple of kilometres), hearing that it will be a largely wet summer has been a massive relief. That being said, my heart really goes out to all the folks in northern and rural NSW who are being affected by these floods. :/
Give it a week and it'll be the worst drought in 100 years 😉
Yeah but when all that grass dries out and hot weather returns- back to the fires 😢
The place I’m working at the moment has had 5 floods since the beginning of 2020. 3 this year alone. And that was after the massive bush fires of 2019/20. We are currently rebuilding the road that has been washed away on 4 seperate parts, over 3 years. Hoping to be done by Christmas and give all the locals an early Christmas present 🤞🏻🤞🏻
We begged and prayed for rain for so damn long .
Just incredible .
My aunt and cousins are basically trapped in their home in Victoria all roads around them cut off … but they are fine , their home was higher ground and they have food . They just can’t go any where right now .
Your very compassionate, Ryan. Nice to see.
He is. And he's a rational, considered thinker too.
I agree, that really struck me about his reaction too - you don't see it too often in reaction videos: the genuine empathy.
Sick of the rain here in Victoria. From fires to Covid to floods….
There is a song....I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rain. Toss in the bushfires and you have Australia! We have had 3 years of La Nina weather system. El Nino brings droughts. La Nina brings floods.
Isnt that i am you are we are australian?
@Agent SMITH actually, it's Dorathea McKellar.
All through the pacific that's why Queensland floods regularly and its now pushing south for the past 3years and a few more to come ...last event lasted 11 years ...the drought
@Agent SMITH Dorthea McKellar...
@@crashq8784 mate, you are right, Doretha McKellar
What is also friggin crazy is that it's November here in Australia, right.... December is the beginning of our summer, so only a month away... and there was SNOW in Victoria just this weekend. SNOW. And I'm pretty sure it was the same last year too.
gotta love the climate crisis !
Climate crisis? What climate crisis? says the woman with a towel over her head....hehehe
The ripple effect is huge. We were just flooding in Victoria as well, we had a lake at our back door, luckily all we lost were some fences. There are alot of people worse off. I am a Wool Classer (work in shearing sheds) we can't shear wet sheep. And because everything is so wet the flies are effecting the sheep, so we need to shear them to treat the fly blown area before it kills them. But they need to be dry. We can't get to alot of sheds due to flooded roads or roads that have been washed away. Its supposed to be a wet summer, so no bush fires. But with all this rain, once we get plenty of sunshine the fuel loads will take off and next fire season will be a huge one. Wish us luck!
Terrible about the sheep suffering. What can people do to help? Can they be transported to drier land to dry out?
@@linmonash1244 it would be nice but we are talking about thousands of farmers and 100s of 1000s of sheep. All we need is a few days of sunshine and some nice wind to dry them out. Then shearing teams can do their jobs.
Was evacuated out of my town with the insanely frightening bush fires, and then evacuated again for the just-as-deadly rising flood waters just recently.
You are right , we have had our share , and need a reprieve for a couple of years for sure.
Time to refocus , and get grounded again.
An American actually summed it up for me a few years back , when Don Johnson came out here into our hinterland to make some movie , and the local newspaper sent out someone to interview him . Of course the woman asked him what he thought of our beautiful country since he had been here for about a week at that time.
He said , " well , i've learned one thing - if you don't like the weather you just go back inside and put a different hat on ." !
That is so very true , we truly do have 4 seasons in one day.
Just put a different hat on , lol.
Here in Cairns we currently have had severe heatwave warnings and very little rain for the last couple of weeks - down south is a different story with the rain and floods - we here in the Tropics rely on a lot of our supplies that come from the south- these floods affect those poor farmers but also many towns that rely on their supplies- not a lot coming up this way right now I guess because of the floods - we will cope but feel for those down in the flood areas that lose everything they have spent their lives building for- life is so precarious here in Australia especially with the weather conditions affecting everyone in someway or another- I’m sure no different than in the USA 👍🏿🇦🇺
My home town (St.Marys, Tasmania) has a weather station nearby at Gray , effectively an outer suburb you could say . That weather station recorded 544 mm or 22 inches of rain for October.( It made the news) and was literally the wettest place in Australia for the month of October .. Just ridiculous rainfall...
My husband & I have been warned from someone from New South Wales-since we’re driving from Adelaide to Sydney. I have relatives who are farmers so I saw some of their hardships.🇦🇺
I saw a family in 1974 the day before they were leaving their farm for good.
Thanks for showing this video
its pretty rough in rural victoria. The maribyrnong river in central melbourne flooded last week also
Been pissing down big time. Here where I am, we got the most rainfall in Victoria (I'm near Strathbogie), which didn't affect us up here in the hills that much apart from fallen trees The rain from here affected Euroa and Shepparton as Sevens Creek starts just a few k from here. Shepparton was virtually cut off from here unless you went to Shepparton from the north. I like the rain but I wish I could see that fire ball in the sky longer than a few hours or one day!
Benalla here, I'm over the rain.
@@birdley9577 Youse copped a fair bit there as well. Saw that the stockbridge went under as well as Bridge Street being closed. As I have to go to Benalla a fair bit, I was lucky I didn't have to go when that happened.
You're a good man, Ryan - you can see and hear the genuine empathy you have for these people's predicament, and it's really touching and sweet to watch. Love your videos! :)
i live near Lismore northern NSW and last flood we had the water up to the roofs of 2 story homes, after the water went down enough for us o go food shopping we had to traven an extra 40/50 klms each way
I live about 2 hours away from Forbes which is currently surrounded with little access. We had a severe mouse plague which lasted for 9 months. The worst plague in living memory. Mice running around in the tens of thousands, everywhere. Every night in my bed, in my hair, nibbling at my feet and elbows. The smell is sickening, they eat everything except plastic and steel wool. Check out our recent mouse plague, it will blow your mind.
Mate....
This IS Australia.
A land of extremes, and something we take in our stride....
We're accustomed to it.
It is these extremes that forged the famous Aussie spirit.
In January a submarine volcanic eruption occurred near Tonga - the largest ever eruption measured by man, thought to rival the explosion of Krakatoa.
This eruption sent a shock wave around the world 4 times and vaporised 168 gigatonnes of water into the atmosphere, up to 65 kilometers high.
Given all this extra atmospheric moisture this eruption has impacted the Antarctic polar vortex - causing it to be become more focused around Antarctica - leading to fewer southerly fronts impacting Australia and increased easterly weather streams which allows increasing rain event across Eastern Australia.
La-Nina hasn't helped and the IOD hasn't helped - but the severity of this polar vortex event has massively increased the rain over eastern Australia.
This is my take on Dorothea MacKellar's poem.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains and flooding rains and flooding rains .......
I live in Renmark, South Australia, the peak is expected to hit around christmas, The water is already really high and it's going over a few roads, everyday i walk to work and see it, along with the flood levee's it's an ominous sign of what's yet to come
Australian weather is always extreme... but on top of all the covid stuff of the last few years we are absolutely fatigued by disasters.
Lake Eyre must be looking pretty impressive. Usually a huge dry salt lake. It comes alive after a decent rainfall.
The reason this is happening is we have had a couple of really harsh la niña years. The bush fire years were really bad El niño years.
I can remember mum and dad talking about Fairbairn Dam(near Emerald in central Queensland) when it was built in 1972 it was 6 times the size of Sydney Harbour and they predicted it would take 10 years to fill, the 1973 summer wet season it filled it in 1 year, so shows the amount of water we can get out west it just happens rarely, i do feel for the farmers this year.
Here in Queensland it's been 9yrs of almost no rain, at all, an then 2019 fires, then just rain since early 2020.
Rona dies quicker in humidity, and when it was particularly dangerous El Nino switched dramatically to La Nina (or something), just in time.
We are blessed.
Right when the world is being coaxed into famine the dry country becomes a wet place. Despite the troubles.. ..We are blessed.
It's been said many times, this is the lucky country.
Not very blessed, or famine-easing, to have farmland flooded and destroyed...
@@nathanielpillar8012 we catch the water and use it for years to come. This place is a dessert, man. It's hard, andsome ppl are really hurting. But starving to death all over the continent would be harder. It's a no brainer. And even the people hurting are thankful. We look after eachother.
That's the Aussie spirit, Ry. In the face of adversity, Aussie can generally find something to laugh and joke about, and we always try to look for the positive. And Aussies will always rally to help others. That being said, suicide rates in our farmers has been horrendous for a long time. Make no bones about it, this weather is being manipulated. The truth will come out really soon.
They’re not the only ones Ryan. I’m in Melbourne Victoria and I live in a suburb that is on a bit of a hill. 3 kilometres away in a suburb called Maribyrnong, hundreds of homes were drowned a couple of weeks ago. A beautiful old Aussie pub known as the Anglers Arms sits on the flat riverbank of the Maribyrnong River. That river that flooded and caused hundreds of homes to be underwater, saw a water level of the old pub right up to the beginning of its second floor.
In country Victoria, the Murray River and a couple of others also flooded and turned a number of country towns into Lakes. There’s pictures of hundreds of school kids and local people filling sandbags or prior to being told to evacuate whereby they lost so many belongings on their properties. Another suburb of Melbourne known as Lilydale also copped it with 3 feet of water destroying shops and businesses in the Main Street.
was in lilydale when that shit happend it was crazy
@@yeahbutno It really did look shocking on TV.
I missed it. I was visiting my hometown of Lismore for the 1st time since covid. OMG it is so bad there still. Whole blocks empty and waiting for demolition. 2 huge "pod" communities on sports fields and they're living in little tin shacks. 1,000's still homeless. So sad.
@@petethundabox5067 Lismore seems to cop everything, fires, floods, the lot.
@@RickyisSwan Not so much with fires (though they did have a 1st fire go into the rainforest in 2019). These recent floods were something new though. The first was 2m higher than the record '74 flood, and the 2nd almost as big. It almost flooded while I was there a week ago too.
Albo is buying up 2,000 homes and shifting part of the town to higher ground.
It’s hard to describe the magnitude of the 2022 floods, some of our biggest cities went under water. I live on the Gold Coast and the rain was relentless in February, Brisbane river rose over 12 ft flooding the CBD.
2022 Floods will go down in History 🌧🏙
🇦🇺 Oz here...go on, say it Ryan..."nature is pissed off". Love your interest in the land of Oz 🤙, cheers mate...🤙🦘🇦🇺
You should look up the story about the crayfish leaving the river due to de-oxygenation. Also were you aware of the Lismore floods in northern NSW? Devastating stuff.
My hometown. I was there 1 week ago for my 1st visit since covid.. Devastating. Whole blocks empty and ready for demolition. Less than 10% of businesses reopened. So sad.
We are in echuca/moama. Got the water coming from the Goulburn and campaspe, joining at the murray river. The water won't go for some time.
Mozzies and the stench of the very slow flowing rivers.
Crays and fish are suffocating and the river is full of poop, dead animals and junk. Very sad
@@petethundabox5067 Poor Lismore. Keeps going under. Start to wonder whether the whole town should be moved to higher ground. At some point - if not there already- the Ins. Co's will either stop providing cover in 'flood-prone area' or inc. the premiums so high - is effectively the same.
@@linmonash1244 I live an hour from lismore. There are talks about moving what they can out of the flood zones and not allowing any new development There. But its only talks, lots of money and land would be needed.
@@jessyanna8954 True. No doubt the Local and State politicians will just leave it - and leave it; - sitting in their 3 year electoral cycle, hoping it will become SEP ( Someone Else's Problem ) in future, & forcing individual property owners and businesses to make the hard decisions - & wear the cost. The cost of moving the whole of Lismore is very small change compared to what is coming at us via global warming & ocean level rise - where whole cities - of millions of people - will need to be moved / abandoned.
This is the second verse of a poem written over one hundred years ago by Dorothea MacKellar
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!
Life in rural Australia is a tough one filled with harsh realities. A few of my friends sold their farms and moved to the city this year, after the devastation of the droughts and then the fires in our region they just couldn't face another cycle. We've also decided to pack it in at the end of this year and move to the city, we know too well what comes after the rain, and we just don't have another season in us. Our farmers need all the support they can get, if we don't support them, we don't have food.
I was just on a school central australia camp and it even rained for 5 days there. Back home in Melbourne my whole town was underwater still. This rain is insane.
You ought to read the poem “My Country”, by Dorothea Mackellar. Really.
It’s a bit old-fashioned now. I’m not sure that they teach it in schools any more. But it expresses a thing that has been important to Australia culture for a long, long time.
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
- Dorothea Mackellar, “My Country”
@@brettevill9055 My favourite poem. I have travelled most of Australia and have found it to be a country to be proud of. I am so happy to call this country my home.
Being in this area it really hits home watching while its going on
what u need to grasp ryan , no matter the odds , the aussie spirit shines
There has been so much rain over the last couple of months in parts of Victoria that Lake Eppalock has gone from around 55% capacity to holding just under 110% and overflowing in a space of 2 months. The resulting overflow travelled down the Campaspe river, at speed basically down hill, and put the town of Rochester underwater. Almost simultaneously the city of Shepparton/Mooroopna about 70 km to the west suffered a similar fate as the result of large volumes of water coming down the Goulburn River.
Both the Campaspe and the Goulburn rivers flow into the Murray River which forms most of the border between Victoria and NSW. A town by the name of Echuca sits on the Murray in between all 3 rivers, the Campaspe divides the town. In the language of the Yorta Yorta people Echuca means "meeting of the waters".
The flood water from the Campaspe reached the town first, it was been described as a 1 in 1000 year event. When the water from the Goulburn river hit the Murray there was so much volume that it reversed the rivers current. The town, along with emergency services and the ADF (Australian Defense Force) worked hard and long hours to sandbag property and reenforce levee walls and for the most part the town was protected. Sadly a very controversial decision was made to build a new dirt levee wall down a road which left part of the town trapped between the wall and the flood water. There is just so much water still laying around still, who knows how long before a full assessment of the damage can be done.
Sadly the floods are so much bigger than this video describes. I did a video on my channel a couple of weeks ago in our local area 30 km's from Melbourne. We had floods in Melbourne, check some videos of our Murray River, particularly Echuca.
They made a 3 km flood wall out of sand bags. Bushfire, Covid and Now Floods. Australia is experiencing La nina. 🇦🇺
Yep, and east of the Great Decide too.. From Brisbane, Mullumbimby, Lismore, to Coffs, Western Sydney...
Records tumbling every day.
@@petethundabox5067 our records go back a couple of hundred years, in the grand scheme of things i honestly believe we need to turn to the indigenous populations and learn from their teachings.their records go back centuries.
Stay safe guys.
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@@rallymum5246 yep. Many millennia. The old joke in Lismore (My hometown) is:
Q: What is Lismore in Bundjulung?
A: Don't build it there.
Still, earth core samples show these floods are as big as the biggest they can find.
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Hey Ryan. There is a famous Australian poem, written by Dorothea Mackellar. It's called, 'I love a sunburnt country'... look it up, it paints a perfect picture of what this Great Southern Land is to a tee..
I think that this poem sums up what Australia is like and why Aussies love it so much.
"I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!"
By Dorothea Mackellar
This rain up the top of the Murray River is causing the towns down stream in South Australia to go under. Wasn't long ago it was drying up.
I’m from the Riverland and all the dams have to release all the water through the Murray river and this might become my first time experiencing a flood. Lets hope this flood doesn’t become as bad as the 1956 flood.
Riverland is in south Australia
Stay safe over there! X
@@alphawolfoeclipse4953 The Thompson dam in Gippsland is releasing water also because of the rain. Went to see the dam yesterday and the water being released looks wicked.
The 1956 flood was geoengineered, as is the present situation. Don't trust the globalist!
@@alphawolfoeclipse4953 we know. Why are you telling us?
Look up Dorothea McKeller's "I love a sunburnt country", 4th line, 2nd verse. "Of droughts and flooding rains." That's arguably the most well known line in Australian poetry, it appears in that Seekers "I am Australian" to which you've responded. That's this continent.
Give you an idea of how flat Australia is, One of the major rivers, the Darling River has a fall of an inch/mile. Just checked 6pm 3/11/2022 Murrumbidgee River at Gundagai peaked at 9.77 metres (32 feet) At Wagga Wagga may exceed 9.60 metres. The Lachlan River at Cowra peaked at 13.34 metres and at Forbes it may reach 10.80 metres
fires and floods follow each other but this is showing NSW but the big fire also took out alot of Victoria and they are also under water at the moment
My heart breaks for the farmers, floods, drought, bushfires , and hopelessness
suicides are a massive problem since I was a kid in these ongoing situations :(
That was very touching to see you so emotional at what these farmers have had to deal with.
As an Firefighter in Australia 🇦🇺, welcome to Australia 🙂🙂
Was completely cut off for 3 weeks in 2011 by floods in Victoria. When I was eventually able to drive to my daughters I cried the whole hour it took to get there
Hi. It’s been about 3 years since the bushfires, which were the culmination of a massive drought in NSW and Queensland. The drought broke in February 2020, but then COVID hit.
We have also experienced 3 years of LaNina and higher than average rainfall.
Sydney has had its highest rainfall since records began (2 metres about 2 yards) and the year is not over.
So you are right we can’t catch a break.
Currently stuck in Walgett NSW because every road to anywhere is closed, levee banks are high enough luckily.
They airlifted sheep out. Australian Farming Photography did a UA-cam vid on aerial footage of the Forbes flood and its widespread. There are no words, its also accepting and at present looks calm and quiet even though there is so much water.
You should be made aware of this legendary poem that we were taught in school. I believe it's by 'Banjo' Patterson.
'iI love a sunburnt country
A land of sweeping plains
Of rugged mountain ranges
To drought and flooding rains
I love her far horizons
I love her jewelled sea
Her beauty and her terror
The wide,, brown land for me'
My town in Victoria, flooded a couple of weeks ago. Higher than the flood of 1974, which makes it the second highest on record. The highest was in the early 1900's. I'm a bit out of town in the hills so we were all fine, but I couldn't get to work for a couple of days, all the roads were under. There's a LOT of water damage in the town.
@@Le_coq_sportiff well the only other option was to built a boat, but sure.
We had huge floods in February. My uncles house is two stories high and the water was nearly touching his second story. An elderly couple were found- you know- drowned in their attic after some major floods recently. I have the utmost respect for Aussie farmers, the paciance they have is fanominal! I couldn’t get to school bc of floods for a couple weeks and I live on a mountain.. so yeah. Floods pretty bad. Thanks for reacting it this mate:)
Our small village copped it in November, our neighbours lost everything. Now bushfires near us as well! We're on the mandagery creek which flows into the Lachlan river. 95% of the town near us (Eugowra) went under water, they've lost everything
Where I live parts of my small town of 10,000 people was evacuated for the 4th time in the last 2 months.
I work in another town and last night I had to stay in a hotel as I was cut off by flood waters. People were just cleaning their homes and it flooded again yesterday. It's just so exhaustinh
I’m sorry you have to go through this … big hugs 🌻
There were just over 2000 sheep and ewes trapped on a small patch of land surrounded by flood waters in NSW and it took 131 helicopter trips to evacuate them, I pray for everyone that the floods have caused heartache with,we live in the best country in the world where we all unite to help these poor people 😢in any way, even to donate a few dollars helps.My heart goes out to these beautiful souls.
Yep, close to 95cm depth of water. That's 3'2" in Freedom units mate.
Usually that's measured from the typical water level of near by river's and creek's or the lowest point of the Road it's next to.
Usually, with these we can gauge if it's safe to cross on foot or drive through from what we see on these sorts of measuring sticks.
Last couple of years, these measures were often completely under water.
Mind you, these measures being engulfed in flames isn't terribly good either.
I'm from Victoria up near the Murray River, our town has been cut off/ closed roads for weeks now. The water has no were to go!!
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me! -- Dorothea Mackellar
Australia the land of bushfires and flooding rains.
Yet people still insist on living in flood plains. Truly silly.
@@theslicefactor4590 well there really isn’t much choice. Investigate Lismore in New South Wales and you will appreciate the problem.
The third season of La Niña Southern Oscillation, a negative Indian Ocean Dipole, plus the positive Southern Annular Mode such an extraordinarily rare and devastating combination. The wettest winter on record. Whether people believe in it or not, all the climate change models show Africa, American west coast and Australia being earliest and most affected. Thanks Ryan for your care, we appreciate it.
Thankfully, this has nothing to do with Anthropogenic climate change.
Just natural climate variance.
I've been to condo mostly as a kid. My old man had relatives there. They were so big and tough. Resilient and worked hard. Sheep, wheat. Cattle. Always remember a rolls Royce pulling a box trailer feeding Cattle thier foder.
This rain has been crazy! Normally it is boiling on Halloween but it was raining so much my parents wouldn’t let us go trick or treating 💀 this time last year, bushfires were starting
Where are you living? The eastern states have had 3 years of above average rain, and have not had a serious bushfire season. However I know WA has been burning.
@@brontewcat sorry, lost track of time 😅 few years ago not last year but I live in sa, not eastern states
I’m in qld and it’s been 23-24 degrees and it’s forecasted to be that for the next week which I don’t think I’ve ever seen in November
@@codyh2674 don’t remember the past week, but week coming up is all 14-24 down south
@@aleeshawillow4017 So much has happened in the last few years, it is hard to keep track.
I've lived in Victoria for my entire 38 years and I've seen some wet springs, but never anything like this. I'm in the South West, where the rivers have risen higher than they have in a long time, but there hasn't been a lot of damage (yet). Northern and Eastern Victoria look similar to these images of NSW at the moment, and it's heart breaking. Just when the water starts to recede and we get a few sunny days with the promise of summer, the storms return and dump another month's worth of rain in one day on the people who need it the least. Farming in Australia can be like walking on a knife edge, and so many farmers, while they put on a brave face, are really suffering and get very little help.
In 2008 our town in Queensland received 24 and a half inches of rain in 6 and a half hours. It was called a deluge and a once in 100 years event. It's weird over the last few years we've had in Queensland back to back la Nina's with lots of rain but it is hit and miss to where the rain falls with some farms still in drought and others green.
Have friends and family struggling with the continual rain and flooding..
Luckily for me I live on the West Coast.. we as a state have watched the fires and floods and covid ravage the Eastern states with horror and sadness for the last few years.. heart broken.. we sent firemen nurses and resources to help as much as we could.
The hard thing is that so many of our farms are flooded, so now our supplies of food etc are ruined, and freight is held up by increasingly flooded roads all of this adds to an already stressed country with increasing prices on everything. Thank you for showing this video.
Its towns too. So many towns who have been flooded over and over. And not just NSW. The size and length of these floods are record breaking.
The hardest part about lots of great needed rain is that grasses and underbrush grows so when there's a drought it can fuel bush fires. It's like being stuck between a rock and a hard place.
El Niño - dry, drought, fires.
La Niña- wet, flooding
La Niña in Western Australia means hot hot hot
Elsewhere- Major towns. No previous flooding to floor level - Rescued from rooftops by a local in a tinnie (aluminium boat.) Couple of years ago, same places were alight. All that aside... best place on Earth :)
You seriously need a long holiday over here. We can tell from your reactions you're starting to get it.
this reminds me of early this year, places flooded, crops gone.
I grew up in Echuca on the Victorian/ New South Wales boarder, where floods are at the moment, family still there. Farmers always cop it, never easy. Either droughts, floods or fires. But this year has been very bad. It's normal to some degree, which is really sad.
I told my geography teacher that the whole east coast areas need to move west of the mountains because so much of Australia is below sea level. He laughed at me, this year reinforced my opinion and reasoning.
They talk about record breaking this, record breaking that. None of its accurate. We've only been recording weather patterns for what? A couple of hundred years. Indigenous records go back thousands of years through their dreamtime stories.
The Echuca coverage mad me irate, how can you build a sand bag levy down the center of a street knowing your condemning the other side of the street to the flood, FFS it made me sick!
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
These are the sorts of people Australia has produced over the years, a tough hard working lot of farmers who rarely give up; they are the backbone of Australia and always have been. There three things that Australia have to deal with on a regular basis, droughts, bushfires and flooding rains, its part and parcel of living on a flood plain surrounded with rivers.
Thanks for your reaction Ryan, welcome to Australia.
The whole of eastern Australia is flood affected. The land is saturated and towns are flooded and tens of thousands of homes have been damaged or destroyed. It's not just farmers that are affected. On top of the rain we also have the Spring snow melt to add to the river floods. The floods are the worst ever in some areas and the worst in fifty years for many areas. It will take months for the rivers to drop and flood waters to recede as long as we don't get any more rain.
I live in 79 kms from Condobolin. In the Central west nsw. In a little town with no shop. Our nearest grocery shop in Parkes or Forbes is 100kms 200kms round trip. During these floods all roads were closed on and off so could never afford to run out off food. One highway between Tullamore where I live to Narromine has been closed for month's due to floods water and road damage one family ignored the road closed signs and their car got washed into to bulging Creek and a little boy lost his life. The farmers have had it really hard. From drought to fires mouse plague now floods.
That is just N.S.W alone about a third of Victoria is also flooded we even had a few suburbs flooded 5 to 10 KM from Melbourne 4 to 5 foot high through houses everything lost cars furniture fridges freezers tables clothes you name it, it was gone streets under water getting around in tinnies and boats 10 minutes from Melbourne it's been crazy this year La Nina/Indian Ocean Dipole has caused so much damage it's crazy but we only lost one person who lost their life but that's one to many but still a great place to live cheers
This resilience is what makes Australian's Australian.
But that's ok! It SNOWED yesterday just west of Sydney in Lithgow and Bathurst. SNOW in the 3rd month of Spring. Gotta love this amazing country/continent. 🇦🇺
That all ended up in the Murray River which ended up flooding all along the Riverland through to South Australia, it was devistating.
I remember back in 2007, me and dad were driving through Newcastle, NSW. And we watched the Pasha Bulka crash into Nobbys beach. It was really weird seeing a ship that big on a beach that small. It doesn't flood around the Hunter often, but when it does it is really bad.
Quite a few commenters citing "My Country". My personal favourite is "Said Hanrahan", another poem written in the early 1900s on the same topic. The UA-cam video of Jack Thompson reciting it and discussing its origin is worth checking out. These weather extremes always have happened and always will happen. The farmers have always lived with it. The increasing impact on more populated areas has a lot to do with more people building homes in bushland and then wondering why they get burned out, and building homes on floodplains and wondering why they get flooded. (All with the approval of local government authorities).
The bushfires were the second half of 2019. The floods have been going on a while, where we live we had three 100 year events in 5 months, late Nov 21, late Feb 22 and May 22. Each time the area around here flooded, just like in this video, many houses under water and the Lockyer Valley market garden farms flooded. Vegetable prices went through the roof. We were stuck at home for 7 to 9 days each time here in South East Queensland, inland not far from Brisbane. Now it's hitting further South in New South Wales and Victoria.
3.5 weeks after the rain we only have one road in and out of Town the rest have been closed. Some people are driving through with trucks and 4x4 vehicles. It’s all black water and stinks as well as the mozzies.
Just a Quick update for you. The floods in Australia now cover 3 of our states. New South Wales, Victoria and Eastern South Australia. They are not expected to fall until next year.
I remember a year where we had floods, fire and locusts (famine)
My primary schoolteacher showed us before and after pictures of a bowling green in western NSW. The town, in a very dry climate, was proud to be the only one (1960s) for a couple of hundred miles to have a green that was actually green. Real grass, not raked earth.
Photo 1 was Opening Day. Photo 2 was after a locust plague swept the area. It was back to bare earth, not a single blade of grass. A few dead locusts.
Years of careful maintenance & growth, gone.
It's not just New South Wales that is flooded.....it's also Victoria and Tasmania. It's La Nina effect.
The land of feast or famine! ❤🇦🇺
These blokes might have a smile on their faces infront of a camera but they're just coping kick in the guts after kick in the guts.
I hope they can stick it out.
WE NEED THEM ALL.