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  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    9 days ago
    Well sitting here with the screen door wide open with the occasional gust coming in...tomorrow this time it will be 100klm and depending how things progress by midnight onwards upwards of 140kph and somewhere between 400-500mls of rain. Stay safe everyone, and Steve i know your not flash at the moment,  if either you or your boys are out and about helping folks a huge thanks! Huge respect to those faces that appear in our moment of need. QLDER!
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    9 days ago
    Was that Qlder or Older?
    Pretty much the same quiet conditions here at the moment. Tomorrow night will be different I'm sure.
    Rural fire brigades from this district will be tasked with clean up help over the coast, nothing shifts 6 inches of mud from inside a house like a fire hose. Done it a couple times, but sitting this one out, not fit for active duty yet. Another 2 months yet for that I'd say.
    So take care and good luck for everyone likely to be affected, even if you live in northern NSW.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    9 days ago
    Quoting obisteve on 05 Mar 2025 11:19 AM

    Was that Qlder or Older?

    Pretty much the same quiet conditions here at the moment. Tomorrow night will be different I'm sure.
    Rural fire brigades from this district will be tasked with clean up help over the coast, nothing shifts 6 inches of mud from inside a house like a fire hose. Done it a couple times, but sitting this one out, not fit for active duty yet. Another 2 months yet for that I'd say.
    So take care and good luck for everyone likely to be affected, even if you live in northern NSW.

    Regardless of sitting this one out...thanks for your efforts in previous jobs. Spent the day filling sandbags for those not able to, and some that could but where fucking lazy....possible Victorians...so can hardly stand up. Enjoyed the day, but what i could do all day wont be able to do tomorrow...lol
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    9 days ago
    Yeah, it's a good feeling helping the community, making it a better and safer place. That's what the selfish pricks that don't do it miss out on. And they'll never know.
    Supermarkets in the surrounding towns sold out of a lot of things early yesterday including bread. I baked a few loaves today and passed them on to neighbours who didn't have any. It all goes round, when I was real crook in January, early February, one of them was coming over and mowing our place. Wouldn't ask, just open the gate between the blocks, drive the mower through and get on with it. Good little community.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    9 days ago
    Quoting obisteve on 05 Mar 2025 11:56 AM

    Yeah, it's a good feeling helping the community, making it a better and safer place. That's what the selfish pricks that don't do it miss out on. And they'll never know.

    Supermarkets in the surrounding towns sold out of a lot of things early yesterday including bread. I baked a few loaves today and passed them on to neighbours who didn't have any. It all goes round, when I was real crook in January, early February, one of them was coming over and mowing our place. Wouldn't ask, just open the gate between the blocks, drive the mower through and get on with it. Good little community.

    We had our elderly neighbour of 25yrs sell up to head to a old folks home. The new owner after many encounters finally opened up that the area was so friendly and their previous house of 17yrs they didn't even know their neighbours names!!!....WTF i cant image a world like that.
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    9 days ago
    It's a bugga when they cross in the dark, shrieking nasty destructive pricks of things.
  • beaglebasher
    beaglebasher
    9 days ago
    Quoting obisteve on 05 Mar 2025 11:19 AM

    Was that Qlder or Older?

    Pretty much the same quiet conditions here at the moment. Tomorrow night will be different I'm sure.
    Rural fire brigades from this district will be tasked with clean up help over the coast, nothing shifts 6 inches of mud from inside a house like a fire hose. Done it a couple times, but sitting this one out, not fit for active duty yet. Another 2 months yet for that I'd say.
    So take care and good luck for everyone likely to be affected, even if you live in northern NSW.

    Don't worry about us In NSW obi !
    We don't carry on like big girls blouses just because it gets a little bit breezy.
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    7 days ago
    Quoting obisteve on 05 Mar 2025 11:19 AM

    Was that Qlder or Older?

    Pretty much the same quiet conditions here at the moment. Tomorrow night will be different I'm sure.
    Rural fire brigades from this district will be tasked with clean up help over the coast, nothing shifts 6 inches of mud from inside a house like a fire hose. Done it a couple times, but sitting this one out, not fit for active duty yet. Another 2 months yet for that I'd say.
    So take care and good luck for everyone likely to be affected, even if you live in northern NSW.

    Quoting beaglebasher on 05 Mar 2025 09:30 PM

    Don't worry about us In NSW obi !

    We don't carry on like big girls blouses just because it gets a little bit breezy.

    OK, I won't if you're sure about that, but I was thinking more about the rain. I've got mates down near Lismore.
    Looks like the Chinese have managed to steer it back towards Caboolture probably with nudges of laser heat from their satellites, only problem with that is that it looks like the eye will go over here afterwards.
  • B0nes
    B0nes
    7 days ago
    Well that was a bit of an anti climax. Looks like us here in the Western Suburbs dodge a bullet with the wind, just hope we don't flood now. Hope everybody else doing ok.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    7 days ago
    Well absolutely nothing happed here on the coast.....got around 15 drops of rain and zero wind. The low is due to hit us with heavy rain predicted till monday. Be a happy camper if the power stays on to watch the footy.
  • evo94
    evo94
    7 days ago
    Quoting paulybronco on 08 Mar 2025 02:50 AM

    Well absolutely nothing happed here on the coast.....got around 15 drops of rain and zero wind. The low is due to hit us with heavy rain predicted till monday. Be a happy camper if the power stays on to watch the footy.

    GFS is showing even less....others showing us getting snotted with heavy rain early tomorrow though
  • evo94
    evo94
    6 days ago
    serious accident re ADF on their way to help Lismore - i wonder how two army vehicles collided going in the same direction..
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    5 days ago
    Seems like one was going to quickly for a wet off camber bend....understeered wide, wheel went into the mud and over she went. Interestingly the official version for the second one was  was it had to brake hard to stop hitting the first vehicle that rolled.....but thought that one was off the road on its side. A photo shows that vehicle on its side on the tar. At least no one died.    
  • evo94
    evo94
    5 days ago
    Quoting paulybronco on 09 Mar 2025 10:50 AM

    Seems like one was going to quickly for a wet off camber bend....understeered wide, wheel went into the mud and over she went. Interestingly the official version for the second one was  was it had to brake hard to stop hitting the first vehicle that rolled.....but thought that one was off the road on its side. A photo shows that vehicle on its side on the tar. At least no one died.    

    yes thankfully no one died....tnx for the details, but....ahhh maybe i leave it alone....
  • flstc08
    flstc08
    4 days ago
    Quoting obisteve on 05 Mar 2025 11:56 AM

    Yeah, it's a good feeling helping the community, making it a better and safer place. That's what the selfish pricks that don't do it miss out on. And they'll never know.

    Supermarkets in the surrounding towns sold out of a lot of things early yesterday including bread. I baked a few loaves today and passed them on to neighbours who didn't have any. It all goes round, when I was real crook in January, early February, one of them was coming over and mowing our place. Wouldn't ask, just open the gate between the blocks, drive the mower through and get on with it. Good little community.

    Quoting paulybronco on 05 Mar 2025 12:25 PM

    We had our elderly neighbour of 25yrs sell up to head to a old folks home. The new owner after many encounters finally opened up that the area was so friendly and their previous house of 17yrs they didn't even know their neighbours names!!!....WTF i cant image a world like that.

    G'day,
    we have lived in the middle of western Sydney suburbs for about 47 years, exactly 17465* days, and we know all our neighbours. There are only 6 houses in our street, but we are on talking terms with people up and down the two cross streets. When I say "we", I am of course talking about my darling of 53 years, 10 months and 2 days, who seems to know just about everyone. 
    If you want to meet people get a dog. I think I have mentioned Pedro some where else on the forum. 
    *App called "days counter" on Play Store, probably a similar on Apple store. 
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    2 days ago
    You're right about having a dog being a good way to meet people. About 10 years ago a mate was getting all bitter and twisted about his difficulty in meeting women and forming a relationship.
    I proposed that he borrow our cutest dog, a 60kg wolfhound/shepherd cross with donkey ears and a goofy disposition and take some morning dog walks around the coast at Caloundra, with me going along to make sure Walter stayed on his best behaviour.
    It really worked, women of all ages came over for a chat and to pat Wally, or introduce their dogs.
    Their openness surprised me, it felt a bit weird, and it took me about half an hour to figure it out.
    They felt safe approaching us, hadn't picked us as a couple of biker mates, but as an old gay couple. I pissed myself laughing once I realised, but my mate just got grumpier.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    2 days ago
    Quoting obisteve on 12 Mar 2025 10:40 AM

    You're right about having a dog being a good way to meet people. About 10 years ago a mate was getting all bitter and twisted about his difficulty in meeting women and forming a relationship.

    I proposed that he borrow our cutest dog, a 60kg wolfhound/shepherd cross with donkey ears and a goofy disposition and take some morning dog walks around the coast at Caloundra, with me going along to make sure Walter stayed on his best behaviour.
    It really worked, women of all ages came over for a chat and to pat Wally, or introduce their dogs.
    Their openness surprised me, it felt a bit weird, and it took me about half an hour to figure it out.
    They felt safe approaching us, hadn't picked us as a couple of biker mates, but as an old gay couple. I pissed myself laughing once I realised, but my mate just got grumpier.

    Ha Ha that's gold!....i would have said mature gay couple Steve...lol
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    yesterday
    Well you might, and so might the women we met in their 50s and 60s, but I reckon the ones in their 20s and 30s thought we were a couple of old poufs out walking the family dog.
    Only goes the show the attraction of a cute dog, and Wally was a beauty.
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