by Rod_outbak » 09 Feb 2019, 11:46 am
Yeah, We only caught around 35-50mm across the place.
Not enough to fend off a drought, but plenty enough to get some green grass happening. No running water to speak of, but the livestock are picking up as we watch.
Sister lives 100kms North, and they got just under 100mm. If you go another 150kms North of there, you start getting into seriously scarey rain.
Talking to a bloke this morning; his brother works in the Cattle industry in Cloncurry. Brother reckons the estimates the death-toll in livestock will firm up somewhere between 500,000 and 1,000,000 dead, with his suggestion it's likely to be closer to the Million. He was saying that properties up there have lost EVERYTHING; cattle, horses, roos, THE LOT.
I saw a figure yesterday, that there are 11,000,000 cattle in QLD.
If even 80% of the deaths are cattle, then they could be talking nearly 5-7% of the QLD cattle herd dead in one week.
Farrrrrkkkk!!!
Bloody glad/relieved that we were on the edge.
Not sure what that thing up over Cairns is doing; looks like it could spin up into a cyclone??
[PLEASE tell me I'm freaking wrong!]
All good here...
Cheers,
Rod.
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