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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by trekin » 04 Feb 2019, 10:16 am

Daddybang wrote:Talking about crocs in flood water...The missus just sent me this from her faceslap ..

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He was in o'riley street mundingburrah(?) :shock: :drinks:

Some of the pics coming out of there are astounding. I lived there in 1995-6 and remember it flooding but not anything like this. :crazy: :drinks:

Could wrong, but the snout on that geko looks a lot like a Johnstone's crocodile (freshwater).
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Daddybang » 04 Feb 2019, 12:45 pm

Rod_outbak wrote:Daddybang,

When I heard about the fake evacuation text messages going around up there, I wondered if they werent an enterprising burgular; clearing the decks to mka eife easier for him.
[Could be a bit of a worry if he finds the newly installed oversized toofy gekko in the driveway!]


Unfortunately wouldn't surprise me at all mate! :thumbsdown: :drinks:

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Daddybang wrote:Talking about crocs in flood water...The missus just sent me this from her faceslap ..

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He was in o'riley street mundingburrah(?) :shock: :drinks:

Some of the pics coming out of there are astounding. I lived there in 1995-6 and remember it flooding but not anything like this. :crazy: :drinks:

Could wrong, but the snout on that geko looks a lot like a Johnstone's crocodile (freshwater).


Yeah I thought the same way but I think it's more reflection that's Makin it look like a skinny freshie snout??
Also that would almost be a record breaking size for a freshie BUT its from face slap so I can't vouch for the authenticity!! :lol: :drinks:
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by JimTom » 04 Feb 2019, 7:00 pm

I see the local constabulary have arrested a sh1tbag for looting. What a low life piece of sh1t.
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by trekin » 05 Feb 2019, 3:32 am

Daddybang wrote:
Rod_outbak wrote:Daddybang,

When I heard about the fake evacuation text messages going around up there, I wondered if they werent an enterprising burgular; clearing the decks to mka eife easier for him.
[Could be a bit of a worry if he finds the newly installed oversized toofy gekko in the driveway!]


Unfortunately wouldn't surprise me at all mate! :thumbsdown: :drinks:

trekin wrote:
Daddybang wrote:Talking about crocs in flood water...The missus just sent me this from her faceslap ..

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He was in o'riley street mundingburrah(?) :shock: :drinks:

Some of the pics coming out of there are astounding. I lived there in 1995-6 and remember it flooding but not anything like this. :crazy: :drinks:

Could wrong, but the snout on that geko looks a lot like a Johnstone's crocodile (freshwater).


Yeah I thought the same way but I think it's more reflection that's Makin it look like a skinny freshie snout??
Also that would almost be a record breaking size for a freshie BUT its from face slap so I can't vouch for the authenticity!! :lol: :drinks:

Just had another look at that photo and I see a pair of legs in the top right corner that put some prospective to the size of the geko, I'd say middleing size for a Johnstone's (at least for the ones we get around here, CQ), or very small for a saltie.
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Daddybang » 05 Feb 2019, 6:31 am

I dunno it looks like it's around half a meter across the belly (on this tiny phone screen I can't see the legs to give it the same perspective :lol: ) which is gonna make it close to three meters which is pretty big for a freshie no matter where ya are (they don't often get over the 9-10 ft mark). The other thing if its genuine is where is a freshie coming from in Townsville to end up in the streets of mundinburra? The ross etc is all salt up that end. :unknown:

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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by trekin » 05 Feb 2019, 6:41 am

Daddybang wrote:I dunno it looks like it's around half a meter across the belly which is gonna make it close to three meters which is pretty big for a freshie no matter where ya are (they don't often get over the 9-10 ft mark). The other thing if its genuine is where is a freshie coming from in Townsville to end up in the streets of mundinburra? The ross etc is all salt up that end. :unknown:

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https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/n ... f8ccf90dd2
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https://www.australiazoo.com.au/our-ani ... -crocodile
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Daddybang » 05 Feb 2019, 6:56 am

trekin wrote:
Daddybang wrote:I dunno it looks like it's around half a meter across the belly which is gonna make it close to three meters which is pretty big for a freshie no matter where ya are (they don't often get over the 9-10 ft mark). The other thing if its genuine is where is a freshie coming from in Townsville to end up in the streets of mundinburra? The ross etc is all salt up that end. :unknown:

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https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/n ... f8ccf90dd2
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https://www.australiazoo.com.au/our-ani ... -crocodile


So it's a freshie I still can't see the legs you could. :lol: :drinks:
How big do they say it was? (Can't access the story just the photo caption)
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by trekin » 05 Feb 2019, 7:04 am

Daddybang wrote:
trekin wrote:
Daddybang wrote:I dunno it looks like it's around half a meter across the belly which is gonna make it close to three meters which is pretty big for a freshie no matter where ya are (they don't often get over the 9-10 ft mark). The other thing if its genuine is where is a freshie coming from in Townsville to end up in the streets of mundinburra? The ross etc is all salt up that end. :unknown:

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https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/n ... f8ccf90dd2
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https://www.australiazoo.com.au/our-ani ... -crocodile


So it's a freshie I still can't see the legs you could. :lol: :drinks:
How big do they say it was? (Can't access the story just the photo caption)

A three metre one was reportedly sighted by emergency services on Bowen Rd near Rosslea on Sunday night. The one in that photo was described as small, but that description was by the father of the photographer who "had once lived in the Northern Territory and wasn’t bothered by the crocodile.", so what he considers big might be different to you or I. Also a photo of a freshie climbing a tree to get out of the floodwaters. :o
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by trekin » 05 Feb 2019, 7:10 am

Daddybang wrote:
trekin wrote:
Daddybang wrote:I dunno it looks like it's around half a meter across the belly which is gonna make it close to three meters which is pretty big for a freshie no matter where ya are (they don't often get over the 9-10 ft mark). The other thing if its genuine is where is a freshie coming from in Townsville to end up in the streets of mundinburra? The ross etc is all salt up that end. :unknown:

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https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/n ... f8ccf90dd2
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https://www.australiazoo.com.au/our-ani ... -crocodile


So it's a freshie I still can't see the legs you could. :lol: :drinks:
How big do they say it was? (Can't access the story just the photo caption)

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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Rod_outbak » 05 Feb 2019, 7:34 am

He's not even big enough to nail the cat!

Another example of how badly taken photos can screw up your perspective...

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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Daddybang » 05 Feb 2019, 7:40 am

This phone is f@#ked(its only eight years old :lol: ) even with the red outline and zooming in all I can see is what looks like a white? blob and when I zoom in the croc looks like its a meter and a half wide :o :lol:
I've seen freshies climb up small half submerged trees to sunbake like turtles before. I reckon it's gonna be a rough breeding season next year for the freshies in that area as they need sandy banks to lay their eggs.(again like turtles) :thumbsup: :drinks:
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by JimTom » 05 Feb 2019, 7:41 am

There a few photos of salties floating around also. I agree the photo in question is a freshie. No shortage of either around here.
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by trekin » 05 Feb 2019, 7:45 am

Daddybang wrote:This phone is f@#ked(its only eight years old :lol: ) even with the red outline and zooming in all I can see is what looks like a white? blob and when I zoom in the croc looks like its a meter and a half wide :o :lol:
I've seen freshies climb up small half submerged trees to sunbake like turtles before. I reckon it's gonna be a rough breeding season next year for the freshies in that area as they need sandy banks to lay their eggs.(again like turtles) :thumbsup: :drinks:

Looks to be a good ways up that tree.
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Daddybang » 05 Feb 2019, 8:03 am

trekin wrote:
Daddybang wrote:This phone is f@#ked(its only eight years old :lol: ) even with the red outline and zooming in all I can see is what looks like a white? blob and when I zoom in the croc looks like its a meter and a half wide :o :lol:
I've seen freshies climb up small half submerged trees to sunbake like turtles before. I reckon it's gonna be a rough breeding season next year for the freshies in that area as they need sandy banks to lay their eggs.(again like turtles) :thumbsup: :drinks:

Looks to be a good ways up that tree.
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Yeah but the tree is almost laying down so "he" would've been able to walk up it fairly easy. :drinks:
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by JimTom » 05 Feb 2019, 2:24 pm

I just read that the flood has claimed the lives of two people.
If the media is to be believed, they were up to no good and entered flood waters whilst evading police.
No doubt the lefty do gooders will blame the poor old police for the evaders demise.
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Daddybang » 05 Feb 2019, 2:40 pm

Yep IF they were doing what is alleged than I can't feel any sympathy for them. :drinks:
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by JimTom » 05 Feb 2019, 3:04 pm

Daddybang wrote:Yep IF they were doing what is alleged than I can't feel any sympathy for them. :drinks:


I agree mate. It’s difficult to feel sympathy for those taking advantage of others misfortunes.
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Rod_outbak » 05 Feb 2019, 4:35 pm

My oversseer tells me he'd heard a news report that they were drunk, and had just robbed a bottle store, and disappeared into the floodwaters while being pursued.

If that's all true, then aint karma a bitch?

[Only thing funnier would be if they'd found one them with Toofy Gekko marks all over him...]

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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by JimTom » 06 Feb 2019, 5:42 am

Just as I predicted. Ethical standards Command flew into Townsville to investigate the Police Officers pursuing the sh1tbags that were looting people’s homes and perished when they entered floodwaters trying to evade police.
What a joke. Investigate the police for doing their job. WTF. The world has gone mad.
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Daddybang » 06 Feb 2019, 7:28 am

That'll just be sop. Whenever there's a serious injury or death involving the coppers the ES mob have to investigate it . It's as much to clear the copper/s as to persecute them.
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by JimTom » 06 Feb 2019, 7:48 am

That makes sense mate. Never looked at it like that. Getting a bit synical in my old age.
Mate I am ok, just water in shed so got out of it quite lightly. Really feel for the poor buggers that lost everything. They have a lot of arse pain getting everything cleaned up.
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Daddybang » 06 Feb 2019, 7:56 am

That's good to hear. :drinks:
Yeah there's gonna be a fair bit of heartache when people get a chance to get back and see what they've lost. :cry: :drinks:
I guess the only up side is that the loss of life seems to be very low so far :unknown:
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by JimTom » 06 Feb 2019, 8:02 am

Yep exactly mate. That is the only upside to a sh1tty event.
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by trekin » 06 Feb 2019, 8:59 am

Daddybang wrote:And now the scum comes to the surface...
Pricks are apparently out looting evacuated homes!!! :evil: :thumbsdown:
Ya'd really like to catch these dog's in the act!!! :silent:

On the upside, probably easier to get a payout on a claim of theft on inssurence than to claim flood damage.
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Daddybang » 06 Feb 2019, 9:08 am

Unfortunately ya probably right Trekkin!! :drinks:
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Patriot » 06 Feb 2019, 4:52 pm

I lived in Townsville from 1993-2001 never saw anything like this when I was their except Jan 1998 but not as bad as this.It seems from what I’ve seen in the media there is a lot of flooding in the suburb of Idalia, when I was their this area was pretty much undeveloped and a well know flood plain. Seems strange to build in a flood plain
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Bill » 06 Feb 2019, 5:36 pm

unfortunately building on flood plains seem to be a popular thing in QLD, a shocking amount of rain but theyve been aware for over 150 years that big rain events occur on the Burdekin Delta.

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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by JimTom » 06 Feb 2019, 6:15 pm

Patriot wrote:I lived in Townsville from 1993-2001 never saw anything like this when I was their except Jan 1998 but not as bad as this.It seems from what I’ve seen in the media there is a lot of flooding in the suburb of Idalia, when I was their this area was pretty much undeveloped and a well know flood plain. Seems strange to build in a flood plain


Exactly mate. I remember that also. Annandale and Idalia actually had cattle on it. When the flood happened then it was about 2m under water then.
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Daddybang » 07 Feb 2019, 6:24 am

They started building a lot of these places up a few years back when Townsville had been dryer than a nuns c@#t for several years and a lot of people had forgotten what a wet season is genuinely capable of delivering. Also successive govts have been trying to deliver nthe "Flood Proof" Bruce highway so they've done mitigation works in areas that have then pushed flood waters into areas that didn't previously flood. One day the polliscum will realize that flood proofing the Bruce is a pipe dream and will put the money into purchasing a barge and aircraft to use when the highway cuts. :thumbsup: :drinks:
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Re: Wet Season on steroids near Townsville...

Post by Stix » 08 Feb 2019, 7:14 am

Ah...gotta love the sentences some reorters say...

Watching ABC news for 5 mins this morning...
The studio host was talking to the reporter out in flooded areas...

The studio host says something like...'while you were talking we've been watching the pictures, & the floods just look like a ... (wait for it... ;) )...a sea of water'... :P

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Now thats got to be one of the cleverest analogies ive ever heard...!!
A flood looks like a sea of water... :lol:...ffs :roll:

That there is something id expect to hear on channel 9... :lol:
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