So sorry to hear about your flooding, glad to hear your daughters cafe is not too badly damaged. We are being told the same about once in a lifetime flooding!! My town has been flooded twice this year and we are only just coming into winter time. No one hurt is the main thing, cars, carpets and furniture can be replaced. All the best to you all. ✌♥️🇬🇧
Thanks Les! Yeah I saw an interview on TV where some guy said his daughter was only 4 years old but had already lived through 2 x once in a lifetime floods! Crazy! Take care mate 😊
Thanks for the up date Chris, so sorry to here abut the café hopefully the water levels will start to drop soon and you can start the clean up stay safe
Yeah, we will get in there asap and start the clean-up although the forecast for later in the week is four days of rain!! We may have to build an ark and start rounding up animals!
Thanks mate. We have been very lucky with all things considered. As the girls just lease the cafe, they only really have lost food/stock. All of the expensive large kitchen equipment is still owned by the park and should be replaceable under insurance I think.
Thanks for doing this. I used to live in Nagambie (and Seymour & Shepp). I've seen footage from Seymour & Shepp but nothing of Nagambie, so thank you. I hope your daughter's business bounces back okay. 🙂🙏
Thanks Marita. We just heard today that they will be rebuilding the park including fixing the cafe up with all new equipment, so that's exciting - just going to take awhile!
Thanks for the update Chris. I did read earlier that Shepparton was bad, so wondered about Nagambie. Sorry the girls cafe has been caught up in the flood, hopefully all will settle down soon.
Thanks for the great video, have been wondering how you were faring in the floods - there has been mention of Nagambie but have not seen any photos or footage. Glad you are ok & hope the cafe can be resurrected.
Thanks mate, yeah things are going pretty well and we are mostly back to normal. The park will take a long time to recover though - so it will be a quiet tourist season!
This fllooding, droughting is occuring all over. I am sorry about your daughter's cafe. It is so muddy! I am glad you showed us, but sorry it happened.
Thanks Dave - The girls are handling it brilliantly and even went out yesterday and filled sandbags for other people for a few hours! Very proud dad here! ❤
Wow that is a LOT of water! I scattered dad's ashes by the small weir on the bend before the main one. 😂 they used to fine him all the time for illegal camping but it didn't really stop him. Also in the early 90's we seen some of the largest turtles I've ever seen. 9of them in a line.. Also the biggest crab I've ever caught was from that same spot. So many memories
Hopefully your daughter's cafe gets up and running again very soon. Yes it could have been worse, so I'm glad everyone is OK. My wife and I went to Maitland a few weeks back and It was amazing too see how far the flood waters had risen. Sydney has defied the forecasts for heavy rain this weekend, nothing but nice weather, amazing. Don't work that shoulder too hard with all that's on your plate. 👍
Best wishes to you, your family and your communities. I hope this will spur people and governments to take the environment much more seriously. This gives your passion for recycling so much more importance. I live in NYC where there's a lot of talk about the environment but not a lot of meaningful action - yet!!! I'm optimistic. Every time I walk by the local park here, and see leaves and twigs in plastic trash bags, all I think about is valuable carbon sources being wasted.
We had floods here earlier in the year in Brisbane and where I live was worse than it wasn't 2011. My wife couldn't get home I mean my son went out the four-wheel drive and took us 3 hours to get to her which is like a 10 minute drive. 74 floods I can't really remember I was 3 but I nearly died they pulled me out of the water. We lived in Brighton Queensland and my older brother's and sister said there's a house and cow floating in the sea and I went down to have a look and nearly drowned one of the avenues
@@TheUltimateRecycler thx mate. In 74 floods. My father worked a 36 hour shift straight, as no one get to work. He worked for telecom. During covid I tried to beat him. I did 24hr shift as RN in aged care. Last 8 hrs they gave me bed. A RN had to be onsight.
Sorry to hear about your daughters cafe. I hope the damage can be repaired. Will the caravan park reopen in same place or will they build back on higher ground? I hope your mom and dad's farm didn't get any flooding.
Thanks Wayne. The farm is fine and a long way from any major flood zones but the continuous wet weather isn't good for the crops! The main attraction for the park is the river bank, so I don't think they will relocate at all! Not sure what will happen actually - it will be a long time recovering I would think.
Looking at flood history's these floods seem to occur every 25 years. It beggars belief that councils continue to allow development on flood plains. Here in SE Melbourne the springvale cemetery wanted to develop on the dandenong flood plain beacuase of course this land looks cheap. Instead of being cheap flood plains should have the highest value to stop development. At present the cemetery proposal had been stopped but it took a lot of local opposition.If a whistleblower hadn't alerted the local population it would have been a done deal, never mind the results when it floods.
If a council opens up land for anything type of building and its has flooded previously and they approved a building permit they should be held responsible for all damages, accommodation and inconvenience. The shire of campaspe always jump into gear after an event has happened or about to happen and try to rectify a situation and if the event doesn't happen it's forgotten about and taken off the agenda look at ash Wednesday 75 people lost their lives trapped on their properties with nowhere to shelter from the flames burnt to death in cars on roadways council and government departments were going to make every household living in a high danger area install underground bug out shelters clear areas along heavily forested roads where bunkers would be placed for people to take shelter if trapped on a road in a bushfire but 12 months down the track it's all forgotten about yet since ash wednesday we've had numerous other fires similar to ash Wednesday but yet still no bug out shelters maybe their waiting for 200 or 300 people to lose their lives or a bus load of school kids trapped in a bush fire while heading home from school the government was talking about mading this mandatory for anyone living in heavily forested areas and that was back in 1983 and since then thousands and thousands of building permits have been issued in those areas and to my knowledge without the thought of any type of bug out shelters being a stipulation in these permits not even sprinkler system have been made compulsory . (Floods) Councils and governments have all the data on recent floods and flooding but I doubt this ever gets looked at until there's another event and that is only to look up what flood was the highest . These oct 22 floods weren't a big event and yet government organisations and council were unprepared like always there were shortages in food ,fuel power, sandbags and most of all man power farmers volunteer and towns had to organize themselves and deal with most issues themselves but not in the Echuca area while campaspe shire pulled out no stops to protect its town the town where all the overpaid masters live other towns and areas were basically left to fend for themselves while council mustered all the resources they could find using ratepayers funds from the 4 other towns they take rates from to protect Echuca. These bloody council amalgamated in 94 was one of the government's biggest mistakes as far as local government goes we sit back year after year now and see our hard earned money getting mostly spent in Echuca where these people live that run the show dont take my word for it do your own research look at what the shire of deakin done for its ratepayers before amalgamations raped these towns of their resource's their savings and a prompt service shire of Dekin got coprice, Greenham, Hinze kept nestles and McColls in the town just to name a few business they brought into the community because we had a smart engineer Thanks greg running the show that cared about the town who lived in the town along with most of the other people working for council If something needed a job done it got done it didn't take months and meetings by councilors it got done because only one guy had the power to say do it 90% of jobs didn't require 3 or 4 feasibility study mountains of useless paperwork and costing assessments then tender advertising then waiting for a contractor to complete it it was done ASAP by people that were already on the payroll multi skilled workers that covered 90% of any job council found itself needing to do. State governments shouldn't have had say in how state funding would be spent and the timeframe it should be spent in this forced councils to rush jobs not completing them properly because if these funds weren't spent in the governments timeframe funding would be reduced for the following year the spending of these funds should be up to the discretion of the people running the show for these fund givers to say this road needs resealing when the people working in this area would be the ones to know such things should be able to say no this doesn't need resealing for another 4 to 5 years it is a waste of money when we have this road this street 10 times worse but because their not on the big bucks and only do the job their laughed at when these funds could be put with other funds allocated to patch up a job and used to complete that job properly instead of wasting these funds patching it up knowing full well a patch up job will never last and it would only be a waste of money. Dont get me started on overpaid contracts to tradesmen because these fuckwhitts sitting in the office approving these tenders have lost all knowledge of what a job should cost and you can bet your ballsack if these wankers were paying a contractor to do work at their place and got the bill they'd be telling the tradesman you gotta be fucking joking. The problem is amalgamations have never worked its costing rate payers twice as much now as they would be paying because some of our services have been sold off and 90% of other shit goes to dender and it's overpriced things way off the scale bring back local councils bring back multi skilled workers and people that have the power to spend the ratepayers money live in the town those people that take pride in their town not people that collect their paycheck jump in our cars with our fuel cards and mobile phones and drive home to another jurisdiction to live we want people that work for the town living in the town building up their town caring about the town. It's no good now running around jetting out drains clean sullage pits and excavating drains cleaning culverts and topping off levey banks after the horse has bolted these are the jobs that as a council would have been done in the summer months before you dont burn off in fire season, you dont cut wood in the dead of winter unless your out and you dont try grow feed in winter to feed your livestock .
Wow, I'll bet your keyboard was smoking after all that! Having always lived in small towns, I do understand what you are saying and you do make some good points! Thanks for the effort. 😊
So sorry to hear about your flooding, glad to hear your daughters cafe is not too badly damaged. We are being told the same about once in a lifetime flooding!!
My town has been flooded twice this year and we are only just coming into winter time. No one hurt is the main thing, cars, carpets and furniture can be replaced. All the best to you all.
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Thanks Les! Yeah I saw an interview on TV where some guy said his daughter was only 4 years old but had already lived through 2 x once in a lifetime floods! Crazy! Take care mate 😊
Stay safe and dry . My prayers for those going through this awful weather .
Many thanks Dee - you too. It seems there's more rain coming, so hopefully it's not as intense!
i question your praying
Thanks for the up date Chris, so sorry to here abut the café hopefully the water levels will start to drop soon and you can start the clean up stay safe
Yeah, we will get in there asap and start the clean-up although the forecast for later in the week is four days of rain!! We may have to build an ark and start rounding up animals!
sorry to hear this news Chris. Best of luck to you and your daughters for a swift recovery.
Many thanks Gabriel. The girls will bounce back quickly. It could have been much worse than it was 😊
Thanks for the update Chris. Sadly not good news but it gives an insight to the damage and harships your daughter and others face with this disaster.
Thanks mate. We have been very lucky with all things considered. As the girls just lease the cafe, they only really have lost food/stock. All of the expensive large kitchen equipment is still owned by the park and should be replaceable under insurance I think.
Thanks for doing this. I used to live in Nagambie (and Seymour & Shepp). I've seen footage from Seymour & Shepp but nothing of Nagambie, so thank you. I hope your daughter's business bounces back okay. 🙂🙏
Thanks Marita. We just heard today that they will be rebuilding the park including fixing the cafe up with all new equipment, so that's exciting - just going to take awhile!
Thanks for the update Chris. I did read earlier that Shepparton was bad, so wondered about Nagambie. Sorry the girls cafe has been caught up in the flood, hopefully all will settle down soon.
Hopefully Katrina but the forecast for later this week isn't looking good!
Wow, what a mess. Good luck with the clean up.
Thanks Geoff! 👍😊
Sorry to hear about Jess's cafe being flooded. Don't work too hard helping with the clean up. Your shoulder is still healing.
Yes, thanks Cynthia. The shoulder is good now but I do still need to be careful 👍😊
Thanks for the great video, have been wondering how you were faring in the floods - there has been mention of Nagambie but have not seen any photos or footage. Glad you are ok & hope the cafe can be resurrected.
We rarely get mentioned with floods Dianne as the town is on the high side of the river - which was a sensible decision a long time ago!! 👍😊
Best of luck guys! Tough times!
Thank you! We were pretty lucky here really! 😊
I learned how to ski at nagambie. I hope you’re all doing ok.
Thanks mate, yeah things are going pretty well and we are mostly back to normal. The park will take a long time to recover though - so it will be a quiet tourist season!
This fllooding, droughting is occuring all over. I am sorry about your daughter's cafe. It is so muddy! I am glad you showed us, but sorry it happened.
Thanks SS - yes it's not just here! Everywhere in the world has issues of some type or another..
Good luck to your daughter. Lucky for her she comes from fighting stock.
Thanks Dave - The girls are handling it brilliantly and even went out yesterday and filled sandbags for other people for a few hours! Very proud dad here! ❤
So sorry that you also have flooding. The St Johns River here has flooded the last 2 weeks and many homes are affected
Flooding seems to be a regular event everywhere - in between droughts! It's a shame mother nature isn't a little more balanced!! 🙄
Wow that is a LOT of water!
I scattered dad's ashes by the small weir on the bend before the main one.
😂 they used to fine him all the time for illegal camping but it didn't really stop him.
Also in the early 90's we seen some of the largest turtles I've ever seen. 9of them in a line..
Also the biggest crab I've ever caught was from that same spot.
So many memories
They sound like great memories too 😊👍
Stay safe ! Hopefully gets better soon for you guys !
Thank you! This next lot of rain looks to be less now so we should be fine now! 😊
@@TheUltimateRecycler hopefully ! Fingers crossed for you guys and the community with the clean up !
@@PetTVAustralia Thank you. It looks much worse for Echuca at the moment!
Hopefully your daughter's cafe gets up and running again very soon. Yes it could have been worse, so I'm glad everyone is OK. My wife and I went to Maitland a few weeks back and It was amazing too see how far the flood waters had risen. Sydney has defied the forecasts for heavy rain this weekend, nothing but nice weather, amazing. Don't work that shoulder too hard with all that's on your plate. 👍
Yep thanks, I need reminding about the shoulder as it's feeling pretty good now but I don't want any setbacks!
Sorry to see this, hope the water recedes and the rain forecast for later in the week isn’t as bad as forecast. Hope you have enough food and fuel!
Thanks SO. The town isn't isolated so we should be fine for supplies. Yep - hope the forecasters have got it wrong!
Best wishes to you, your family and your communities.
I hope this will spur people and governments to take the environment much more seriously. This gives your passion for recycling so much more importance. I live in NYC where there's a lot of talk about the environment but not a lot of meaningful action - yet!!! I'm optimistic. Every time I walk by the local park here, and see leaves and twigs in plastic trash bags, all I think about is valuable carbon sources being wasted.
There always seems to be a lot of talk and little action! Keep being optimistic though Irma! 😊
Sorry to hear about your daughters cafe. Let's hope it all comes down soon.
Thanks mate - we are all keen to get in and clean it up as soon as we can! 😊
I remember the last floods in nagambie years ago and it was not like it is now it’s just getting worse each flood
Well this one just pipped the 1974 effort, so I think it's a record!
We had floods here earlier in the year in Brisbane and where I live was worse than it wasn't 2011. My wife couldn't get home I mean my son went out the four-wheel drive and took us 3 hours to get to her which is like a 10 minute drive. 74 floods I can't really remember I was 3 but I nearly died they pulled me out of the water. We lived in Brighton Queensland and my older brother's and sister said there's a house and cow floating in the sea and I went down to have a look and nearly drowned one of the avenues
Yeah Brisbane has copped its fair share of floods over the years - hope the rest of the year will be ok for you all..
@@TheUltimateRecycler thx mate. In 74 floods. My father worked a 36 hour shift straight, as no one get to work. He worked for telecom. During covid I tried to beat him. I did 24hr shift as RN in aged care. Last 8 hrs they gave me bed. A RN had to be onsight.
Sorry to hear about your daughters cafe. I hope the damage can be repaired. Will the caravan park reopen in same place or will they build back on higher ground? I hope your mom and dad's farm didn't get any flooding.
Thanks Wayne. The farm is fine and a long way from any major flood zones but the continuous wet weather isn't good for the crops! The main attraction for the park is the river bank, so I don't think they will relocate at all! Not sure what will happen actually - it will be a long time recovering I would think.
It's not actually once in 100 yrs. It's actually the likelihood of a flood the uses the volumetric capacity of the valley in years.
Ok, not really sure I understand that Stephen!
@@TheUltimateRecycler It's a common misunderstanding.
Looking at flood history's these floods seem to occur every 25 years.
It beggars belief that councils continue to allow development on flood plains. Here in SE Melbourne the springvale cemetery wanted to develop on the dandenong flood plain beacuase of course this land looks cheap. Instead of being cheap flood plains should have the highest value to stop development. At present the cemetery proposal had been stopped but it took a lot of local opposition.If a whistleblower hadn't alerted the local population it would have been a done deal, never mind the results when it floods.
Yeah it seems decisions are made based on an immediate financial return basis without any thought to the future! 🙄😟
If a council opens up land for anything type of building and its has flooded previously and they approved a building permit they should be held responsible for all damages, accommodation and inconvenience.
The shire of campaspe always jump into gear after an event has happened or about to happen and try to rectify a situation and if the event doesn't happen it's forgotten about and taken off the agenda look at ash Wednesday 75 people lost their lives trapped on their properties with nowhere to shelter from the flames burnt to death in cars on roadways council and government departments were going to make every household living in a high danger area install underground bug out shelters clear areas along heavily forested roads where bunkers would be placed for people to take shelter if trapped on a road in a bushfire but 12 months down the track it's all forgotten about yet since ash wednesday we've had numerous other fires similar to ash Wednesday but yet still no bug out shelters maybe their waiting for 200 or 300 people to lose their lives or a bus load of school kids trapped in a bush fire while heading home from school the government was talking about mading this mandatory for anyone living in heavily forested areas and that was back in 1983 and since then thousands and thousands of building permits have been issued in those areas and to my knowledge without the thought of any type of bug out shelters being a stipulation in these permits not even sprinkler system have been made compulsory . (Floods) Councils and governments have all the data on recent floods and flooding but I doubt this ever gets looked at until there's another event and that is only to look up what flood was the highest .
These oct 22 floods weren't a big event and yet government organisations and council were unprepared like always there were shortages in food ,fuel power, sandbags and most of all man power farmers volunteer and towns had to organize themselves and deal with most issues themselves but not in the Echuca area while campaspe shire pulled out no stops to protect its town the town where all the overpaid masters live other towns and areas were basically left to fend for themselves while council mustered all the resources they could find using ratepayers funds from the 4 other towns they take rates from to protect Echuca.
These bloody council amalgamated in 94 was one of the government's biggest mistakes as far as local government goes we sit back year after year now and see our hard earned money getting mostly spent in Echuca where these people live that run the show dont take my word for it do your own research look at what the shire of deakin done for its ratepayers before amalgamations raped these towns of their resource's their savings and a prompt service shire of Dekin got coprice, Greenham, Hinze kept nestles and McColls in the town just to name a few business they brought into the community because we had a smart engineer Thanks greg running the show that cared about the town who lived in the town along with most of the other people working for council If something needed a job done it got done it didn't take months and meetings by councilors it got done because only one guy had the power to say do it 90% of jobs didn't require 3 or 4 feasibility study mountains of useless paperwork and costing assessments then tender advertising then waiting for a contractor to complete it it was done ASAP by people that were already on the payroll multi skilled workers that covered 90% of any job council found itself needing to do.
State governments shouldn't have had say in how state funding would be spent and the timeframe it should be spent in this forced councils to rush jobs not completing them properly because if these funds weren't spent in the governments timeframe funding would be reduced for the following year the spending of these funds should be up to the discretion of the people running the show for these fund givers to say this road needs resealing when the people working in this area would be the ones to know such things should be able to say no this doesn't need resealing for another 4 to 5 years it is a waste of money when we have this road this street 10 times worse but because their not on the big bucks and only do the job their laughed at when these funds could be put with other funds allocated to patch up a job and used to complete that job properly instead of wasting these funds patching it up knowing full well a patch up job will never last and it would only be a waste of money. Dont get me started on overpaid contracts to tradesmen because these fuckwhitts sitting in the office approving these tenders have lost all knowledge of what a job should cost and you can bet your ballsack if these wankers were paying a contractor to do work at their place and got the bill they'd be telling the tradesman you gotta be fucking joking.
The problem is amalgamations have never worked its costing rate payers twice as much now as they would be paying because some of our services have been sold off and 90% of other shit goes to dender and it's overpriced things way off the scale bring back local councils bring back multi skilled workers and people that have the power to spend the ratepayers money live in the town those people that take pride in their town not people that collect their paycheck jump in our cars with our fuel cards and mobile phones and drive home to another jurisdiction to live we want people that work for the town living in the town building up their town caring about the town.
It's no good now running around jetting out drains clean sullage pits and excavating drains cleaning culverts and topping off levey banks after the horse has bolted these are the jobs that as a council would have been done in the summer months before you dont burn off in fire season, you dont cut wood in the dead of winter unless your out and you dont try grow feed in winter to feed your livestock .
Wow, I'll bet your keyboard was smoking after all that! Having always lived in small towns, I do understand what you are saying and you do make some good points! Thanks for the effort. 😊