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Before you play in floods, watch this!
« on: January 13, 2008, 23:06:32 »
Hello,

Found this on you tube, I allways thought people go got stuck in flash floods were just being a bith dithery, having watched this i take it back.



Image that lot coming at you if you were already a bit stuck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIQrSH6LMgA
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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2008, 00:06:50 »
That is downright spooky - look how quiet it is at first!

I've been in one storm a little like that in France. It was the usual quiet summer evening, then the wind rose, and rose, and didn't die down! By the next morning the campsite office had been flattened, bits of tree were everywhere, and the shower block had nearly been clobbered. Astonishingly nobody was injured, despite a fairly sizable tree falling within feet of a tent!
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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2008, 00:30:01 »
lets go play quick :twisted:
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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2008, 00:43:20 »
It would take more than a snorkel and wading pipes to geth throught that :shocked:
Two things struck me about that film
1) The speed at which the water rose
2) the size of that beard on the chap in the yellow T-shirt! You could hide a whole troop of ww2 Japanese soldiers in there!
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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2008, 01:02:04 »
Looks weird, very weird.  :-.
Looks like thick mud, not water... !  8-[
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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2008, 04:05:48 »
Incredible, where was that taken?

You'd have to be a loon to go play in that before it settled down a bit, looks like a river burst or something.
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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2008, 07:43:25 »
What do you think the 4 white marker posts are?

Do you think that it happens frequently?
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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2008, 08:25:09 »
Jeez!
Did you see how white that blokes legs were  :shock:

Scary stuff though  :shock: :shock:
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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2008, 16:33:38 »
Oops hope this wasnt one of us



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7187628.stm
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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2008, 17:24:16 »
In some countries, where they have frequent mud slides, they build channels to direct it away from houses, etc. Looks like that sort of thing to me.

Impressive stuff though!
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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2008, 17:35:10 »
If I remember rightly the Vid is in Austraila
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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2008, 18:36:29 »
Iv'e seen floods like that in south oz they seem to come from knowhere.
One minute it's a dry creek bed the nexted you have to get out quick .The force of the water is un real.
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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2008, 19:38:45 »
And then he realised he lived on the otherside of that lot DOH!!!! :lol: :lol:
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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2008, 00:18:11 »
Quote from: Range Rover Blues on January 14, 2008, 04:05:48
Incredible, where was that taken?


According to the text when the 'window' is opened, it states;
Flash Flood in Kellick Creek at Ringwood Road Crossing 10 miles south west of Merriwa, Upper Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia.





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Re: Before you play in floods, watch this!
« Reply #14 on: January 15, 2008, 10:20:26 »
Quote from: Bush Tucker Man on January 15, 2008, 00:18:11
Quote from: Range Rover Blues on January 14, 2008, 04:05:48
Incredible, where was that taken?


According to the text when the 'window' is opened, it states;
Flash Flood in Kellick Creek at Ringwood Road Crossing 10 miles south west of Merriwa, Upper Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia.

Mental note to self: don't go there when there is a storm in the area, along with beardy bloke in shorts. Might get cut off by muddy stuff.





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