Hey Arron. This vid is more informative than anything on the news. It should be shown, in full, on tv for all to see. Thanks mate, well done and all the best to those affected by this act of nature👍🤞
Aaron I can’t help feeling sorry for everyone that is affected by this Flood especially after what they have already endured over the past 12mths. Anyway mate your reporting has given me the true scale of things. Good luck everyone👍🏽🙏🏼
I'm a local, too. I was shocked to see how quickly the level was climbing on that pole, near the end of the video. No wonder people get into trouble driving across flood-waters. The problem is, the dam can't spill until it's near the top. We needed a dam that can spill at a lower level so this doesn't happen. It wasn't designed for the current climate conditions. We need a land-bridge, from Richmond to the level where the shops are, at North Richmond. It doesn't have to be very high. The people who use the Windsor Bridge could go via Richmond to get across, via Kurmond and Terrace Road. It would only add few minutes to their journey. They should have done that instead of raising the Windsor Bridge, which goes into the low areas where the Turf Farms are. Stupid choice. They created a bridge into flood-waters.
Agree totally. As the protesters were saying Windsor Bridge needed a bypass not a bloody higher bridge where the approach is still the same flood height. They copped so much stick and abuse from angry motorist driving past yelling 'build a bridge and get over it!' To them I say 'find your bridge and get over it'. 😆
@@malcolmden3357 I get upset for the people in Pitt Town and Wilberforce etc whose homes are ruined. I can't imagine the misery of having to leave your home, in which you've invested your life-savings, with your kids, then come home and sweep out the mud, knowing it's probably permanently ruined and plummetted in value - particularly in Sydney's ridiculous property market. As you say, businesses are heavily affected. This is our community and I care what happens to it. I love the Hawkesbury. Luckily I bought in a higher area. I almost have survivor guilt. It's ridiculous that there is a huge housing development at North Richmond, near Grose Vale, when this is happening all the time. The lady in the Chinese restaurant said that they have rented a house so that their employees have somewhere to stay when they can't get home, so they can stay open. Last time this happened the Chemist was re-stocking via BOAT, so they could keep serving the community. These politicians are utterly incompetent and seem determined to do nothing to avoid spending money or making decisions. I think many still labour under the illusion that men, who make it into high positions, must be reasonably competent. I learned, during 20 years in the Police, that this is absolutely not the case. This is going to get worse before it gets better. Sorry. Rant over. ;D
South Aussie here, playing catch up 😊 Brilliant work ! Started with the flood video from 2 yes ago, then got confused...shit, 3 in such a short time. Where I live, we'd be lucky to get 20 mls 😮
Love Sydney did a trip on the Hawkesbury during better times. Was amazing watching the logs and trees building onto the bridge eventually moving on over the top. Thanks mate I’m in Auckland a kiwi and a great Aus fan. Hope your vege man on the other side is not to drenched and hope your feet stay try and watch those slippery patches on the roof. Stay well.
well, at least you didn't have the hundreds of spiders and other creepie-crawlies you had in the last flood you filmed. Thanks for sharing. I'd be interested in seeing the aftermath when the floodwaters finally recede. Was there anything left of the bridge railing after that?
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle hi Aaron, how long have you lived there? I'm now in WA but grew up in Windsor, lived out on Wolseley Road and corner of Old Stock Route Rd and was isolated in the 1961 floods which reached 14.91, never reached that since but looks like this might. We had Turkeys and moved them out into the pens with tarps over, and moved furniture into the turkey sheds of people who got flooded, saved their contents, the rail line got washed away. I remember an Army Duck coming up out of the water bringing us fresh supplies.
Raising the dam will help - sometimes. It is possible to have a major rain event that will flood the Hawkesbury Nepean floodplain without opening the dam. Enough rain around Menangle and Camden, South Creek and Eastern Creek, the Grose and Erskine Creek catchments and you have a flood. Add to that an incoming tide and anything coming down the Colo which slows the floodplain draining. Raising the dam will mitigate a lot of floods, but it won't solve the problem. Not sure why, with the weather forecasting being so accurate, they cannot lower the dam to 85% capacity ahead of a major rain event to build in that capacity.
Thanks Arron , great coverage. I live right behind breakfast creek , where you were fishing on Saturday. Ill say hello next time if i catch you there. Goodnight buddy.
Stay safe Aaron 👍🏼 Always appreciate the updates This is just absolutely devastating feel so bad for all the people who have been affected by this time and time again... Keep up the awesome work mate "Next vid catching fish in the street" Get the rod out mate 🎣🎣🎣
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle sounds good mate I have a spot I want to show you 👍🏼 It's a spot I found that the trout actually get land locked after the floods... If that doesn't work out plenty of good spots near by
Like you say they stopped the flow at dam two weeks before? Water rise rapid and no forewarning. Really not fair for the Western regions and l can see why people would be fed up with it. Let alone the destruction that it csuses. Thanks for your posts.
Hey Aaron, I miss home, but I surely don't miss the floods. Specially Richmond, Windsor and my old stomping ground the Georges River around Warwick Farm. All I worry about these days are snow blizzards and white outs.
We"ve been following the devastating floods & winds across NSW & QLD. Talk about role reversal of weather as now its another year of temperatures 35 to 40'C & widevspread fires in the UK here plus Spain & Portugal.
That was a pretty amazing video, to see how fast that water came up, I'm in Brisbane & luckily in one of the safe spots, well actually luck had nothing to do with it, one of the 1st questions I asked about the house, before I bought was, " did the 74 floods affect it ?". One of the most spectacular/destructive things about the last floods was watching the storm water back up & blow the solid steel covers completely off & maintain enough pressure to form a water spout 1/2 a meter to a meter high indefinitely.
I am absolutely heartbroken for everyone back there in the Hawkesbury region, I just can’t believe this has happened three times this year. I went to Richmond High from Yr 8 to Yr 11 in the ‘90s and I don’t remember the North Richmond or Windsor bridges ever go under. I just looked up the historical flood data and there were no significant floods of the Hawkesbury-Nepean between 1992 & 2020, surely we had big rain events back in the 90s as well? Anyway, thanks for your videos Aaron, it keeps me updated with what’s going on and I can show my kids, it’s hard with snippets on the news and living in the country. Please stay safe mate!
You're right. I've lived out here for more than 25 years. This situation, in the last 2 years, is completely different. The Climate Change deniers are full of it.
They really need to crank up the height on that bridge! Looks like this is the new normal. They made a new bridge at burril lake near ulladulla for the same reason
The state government announced funding for a new bridge at North Richmond a year ago. The federal government then announced the same thing because, you know, election. The funding is there but by the time they do the mapping, the feasibility, the engineering, the environmental reports, buy the land, get embroiled in valuation disputes, resolve the valuation disputes, realise the funding was diverted due to a greater need and the project being delayed, refund the project, move the greenies out of the way of the bulldozers, get the thing built (like the Northern Road and M4 overpass which took 4 years) and cut the ribbon - I'm hopeful but I won't be holding my breath. At least at North Richmond the approaches to the bridge are above the flood level and the bridge will actually serve a purpose.
Reminds of when i got caught ion a flash flood i was fishing in my dingy, and felt a rumble turned around and the water started moving faster i thought well this isnt good. Reeled in lost a few fish and ended up being swept into the ocean, smacked into a few logs of shrubs, she held up alright, lucky i had the safety ores, the outboard moter was cut with water. It literally flooded and i had to drop it off the dingy. Started bowing at the back nearly fell off a few times. Yeah these flash floods can be dangerous. Be careful folks.
I used to kayak at Windsor and Nepean and it was terrible once water was released from the Warragamba. Huge trees passing by. And Windsor Beach getting remodelled every few years. No wonder that it is a treacherous place to swim. I remember one year the flood getting rid of the Salvania weed which was starting to choke the rivers.
Hey Aaron, really enjoy your flood videos - although they make me glad I don't live in Windsor anymore. Guess the ground hasn't had a chance to dry out with all the rain and floods, so the flood water is rising much faster this time. No where near the same scale, but Lake Parramatta was spilling over the dam wall yesterday.
Just wondering if all that timber is from land-clearing, because after previous recent flooding I would expect most timber would already have been washed out?
nah alot of it is still fro, past cleanups or wood piles lower colo was still pretty bad from last floods we were just getting piles taken away well now to start all over again
Well I see how powerful floods are and they can make it rapidly rising and it can affect the people and the community my prayers for you and the community
East coast is getting loads of rain 🌧& the West coast has hardly getting any rain at the moment. Stay safe. Thanks for sharing great video & keeping us up to date.
The set of trees to the right at 14:57 look like a dachshund dog. Maybe it's just me cuz I have a dachshund but I don't think so. It's legit! 😂😂 River is super scary btw!
To hopefully add something positive to this flooding ,the whole hawksebury system actually needs this to prevent further silting up ,on my last visit to Crosslands on Berowra creek ,I got to talk to the national parks ranger who said that the whole system was in need of a flood to correct the silting ,which is slowly but surely sterilising the whole river system ,buy burying weed beds needed by fish and crustaceans to breed. Nature will have its way
true except the one issue that will haunt us is the amount of deadly chemicals drums floating in our river and the raw sewage getting dumped on the back ends of these floods.
It was interesting to see how fast it rose. But the trees being blocked by the bridge, I would want the bridge structure to be examined after the flood waters have receded to check for structural integrity and safety. Also, Saturday as you can see is spelled with a 'u' not an 'e'. From a northern colonial to a southern colonial
Possible the city needs a higher bridge at this place or a deeper river bed? A flooded place before the city is helpful too so that the flood not goes higher?
I was taught by my father at a young age that you “never live in low lying areas” and especially on the “output side” of a dam!! I have bought and sold quite a few homes over many years and prior to living anywhere, l would study the topography of the land before l ever bought a home or even rented. I would never ever live anywhere near any water courses, be it creeks, rivers or the ocean. Those that do, are at the mercy of flooding. Hopefully people may learn from this, those that don’t, will pay a very high price, as we are seeing happening time and time again. Councils that approve land for building homes in these “low lying areas” which will be flooded from rainwater, overflowing dams, rivers, creeks and the ocean have a lot to answer for. People need to realise that councils are out to make money from ratepayers and they are not in the least bit concerned if you get flooded out. Stop trusting these corrupt authorities and start thinking for yourselves.
Raise the dam wall. It's that simple. There will be times of drought during coming El Nino years. That means a 14-15m higher wall will be providing that much more water supply to tide us through the hot, dry times too.
So sorry for such dangerous conditions you are experiencing😬😨....is your area considered a flood zone through government maps???I am from North Carolina USA which we know about flooding here.
The city should install huge underground drums, that take any water that would normally flood. Then the water goes directly to a water pollution control plant. Have a great day 😀
You should keep a record of how high it gets and mark the level at which it peaks each time it overflows so you can be prepared for future floods and since your having so many in a year and with the weather getting worse all over the world it would aid you for future development isues
A gradual release of water when filling up makes so much sence ,an increased column of water over days can be accommodated without flooding ,full dam uncontrollable volume to over well the river into flooding ,you all suffer then ,floods to drought new rules need to be made.
Is the water raising or dropping? Watch the debris...the trash, sticks, and logs. If they are in a line down the middle of the stream, it's raising. If they are spread out, it dropping.
This isn't the new normal Aaron, because it will keep getting worse every year. We keep expanding fossil fuels, land-clearing, and expanding development for housing immigrants and all the infrastructure that goes with it.
It's nothing to do with climate change. The ground is saturated and can't absorb any water. Water from Warragamba dam comes from the Cox's River on the other side of the mountains.
@@peterjarvis7683 Nothing to do with climate change? Really! Okay, I'll take your word over thousands of scientists who say these weather events are due to climate change.
gday pete awesome to here from you, it is a lot to do with man made climate change when this water hits the flood plain because we have put over 20 meters of fill in places like Marsden park on the flood plain to flood proof the houses they should not be building giving the flood plain less coverage which means the water backs up where it could not before. it is catastrophic what developers have been allowed to do and not one extra treatment works has been built for the 2 million people that have migrated to Sydney
Love your videos Aaron. A fair bit of the timber would be because of bank erosion I think. We back onto a creek and when it does come up a bit trees fall over. A week after the bushfire in the Perth Hills we had a flood but fortunately it only flooded part of the house yard. It was the highest in over 20 years according to our old landlord. I miss the bass and the fishing in the Parramatta River and the harbour. Stay safe @Windsor Bait and Tackle
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle Not sure where Pete's initial comment has gone, where he said it wasn't climate change. We need to stop immigration as it is impacting in so many ways that make these weather events even worse. Increasing population is only good for economists and capitalists, not any good for the environment, nor for us. Good ethics and morals will lose though, and things will just keep getting worse. My biggest bitch at the moment is these immigrants will be taking homes away from aussies and making more live life in tents and cars.
Big shout-out to Casey and Finnegan from Mr. Dressup's Tickle Trunk for bringing this incident to the attention of The Friendly Giant and his assistant Rusty the Rooster.
Three hundred year floods in a year. If that is the new Oz real estate insurance norm, then I humbly advise a certain relocation to somewhat higher grounds, with better elevation. The continental Oz floodplains are exactly that and are the geophysical reason why virtually every major and minor country city throughout our fair continent is perennially susceptible to the new climactic norm, regional rainfall wipeouts. Sadly it is only a matter of time and low lying floodplain geo locality, before each redoubtable community endure their very own Hawkesbery one in a century, new norm localised rainfall catastrophe. Remarkable to watch the surge closeup, one hour of sustained rainfall further up the catchment. Thankyou cobber, for a wet day in your paradise lost. Rory, Tasmania
Um.. You're driving down the wrong side of the road! It's a good thing the oncoming cars can see you so that they have enough time to move over into the opposing lane to avoid a collision.
Hey Arron. This vid is more informative than anything on the news. It should be shown, in full, on tv for all to see. Thanks mate, well done and all the best to those affected by this act of nature👍🤞
Aaron I can’t help feeling sorry for everyone that is affected by this Flood especially after what they have already endured over the past 12mths. Anyway mate your reporting has given me the true scale of things. Good luck everyone👍🏽🙏🏼
we are tough out here, there is a community spirit that makes us take the positives out of things.
Glass half full not empty
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle the hawkesbury has just peaked at 13.88 metres at windsor thats the highest flood in the last 2 years!
surpassing marches 13.7
Wow ...hope you got your wellies on Aaron... Never seen anything like this...wow...Great video....thanks for sharing...👍👍
I'm a local, too. I was shocked to see how quickly the level was climbing on that pole, near the end of the video. No wonder people get into trouble driving across flood-waters. The problem is, the dam can't spill until it's near the top. We needed a dam that can spill at a lower level so this doesn't happen. It wasn't designed for the current climate conditions. We need a land-bridge, from Richmond to the level where the shops are, at North Richmond. It doesn't have to be very high. The people who use the Windsor Bridge could go via Richmond to get across, via Kurmond and Terrace Road. It would only add few minutes to their journey. They should have done that instead of raising the Windsor Bridge, which goes into the low areas where the Turf Farms are. Stupid choice. They created a bridge into flood-waters.
Agree totally. As the protesters were saying Windsor Bridge needed a bypass not a bloody higher bridge where the approach is still the same flood height. They copped so much stick and abuse from angry motorist driving past yelling 'build a bridge and get over it!' To them I say 'find your bridge and get over it'. 😆
@@malcolmden3357 I get upset for the people in Pitt Town and Wilberforce etc whose homes are ruined. I can't imagine the misery of having to leave your home, in which you've invested your life-savings, with your kids, then come home and sweep out the mud, knowing it's probably permanently ruined and plummetted in value - particularly in Sydney's ridiculous property market. As you say, businesses are heavily affected. This is our community and I care what happens to it. I love the Hawkesbury. Luckily I bought in a higher area. I almost have survivor guilt. It's ridiculous that there is a huge housing development at North Richmond, near Grose Vale, when this is happening all the time. The lady in the Chinese restaurant said that they have rented a house so that their employees have somewhere to stay when they can't get home, so they can stay open. Last time this happened the Chemist was re-stocking via BOAT, so they could keep serving the community. These politicians are utterly incompetent and seem determined to do nothing to avoid spending money or making decisions. I think many still labour under the illusion that men, who make it into high positions, must be reasonably competent. I learned, during 20 years in the Police, that this is absolutely not the case. This is going to get worse before it gets better. Sorry. Rant over. ;D
Been waiting for an update all day 👍
Thanks for sharing Aaron. Really appreciate your videos showing the floods and also your fishing exploits in the local area.
I was hoping you’d do a video mate. Lying in bed here in Blacktown at 2.30am watching. Please stay safe but seriously appreciate these videos.
thank you
I use live at catti and that flooded s
I loved listening to your accent, I’m from the U.S. so sorry about the huge flooding there…hoping everyone is safe!👍🥰🌹🌸🌼
I did not know I had an accent until I went to England in the ninety's, couldn't work out how everyone new I was an Aussie.
I know, right? I could fall asleep to his voice telling stories. Like the Joe Pera vid.
South Aussie here, playing catch up 😊
Brilliant work !
Started with the flood video from 2 yes ago, then got confused...shit, 3 in such a short time. Where I live, we'd be lucky to get 20 mls 😮
Love Sydney did a trip on the Hawkesbury during better times. Was amazing watching the logs and trees building onto the bridge eventually moving on over the top. Thanks mate I’m in Auckland a kiwi and a great Aus fan. Hope your vege man on the other side is not to drenched and hope your feet stay try and watch those slippery patches on the roof. Stay well.
well, at least you didn't have the hundreds of spiders and other creepie-crawlies you had in the last flood you filmed. Thanks for sharing. I'd be interested in seeing the aftermath when the floodwaters finally recede. Was there anything left of the bridge railing after that?
Thanks, once again for keeping us informed of what’s happening. I was born and raised in the Hawkesbury and now live away.
this will be the biggest flood in my life time the way it's going.
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle hi Aaron, how long have you lived there? I'm now in WA but grew up in Windsor, lived out on Wolseley Road and corner of Old Stock Route Rd and was isolated in the 1961 floods which reached 14.91, never reached that since but looks like this might. We had Turkeys and moved them out into the pens with tarps over, and moved furniture into the turkey sheds of people who got flooded, saved their contents, the rail line got washed away. I remember an Army Duck coming up out of the water bringing us fresh supplies.
Was wondering if ya were gonna do a clip today mate . Good onya . 👍👏
Thanks for the update Aaron
Hope you stay safe third flood in the same year
Dropping the dam by 18% in height reduces the water supply by 40% as it's V shaped , raising the dam to maintain current levels is a logical solution.
Raising the dam will help - sometimes.
It is possible to have a major rain event that will flood the Hawkesbury Nepean floodplain without opening the dam. Enough rain around Menangle and Camden, South Creek and Eastern Creek, the Grose and Erskine Creek catchments and you have a flood. Add to that an incoming tide and anything coming down the Colo which slows the floodplain draining.
Raising the dam will mitigate a lot of floods, but it won't solve the problem.
Not sure why, with the weather forecasting being so accurate, they cannot lower the dam to 85% capacity ahead of a major rain event to build in that capacity.
Thanks Arron , great coverage. I live right behind breakfast creek , where you were fishing on Saturday. Ill say hello next time if i catch you there. Goodnight buddy.
that is one of my favorite spots in Sydney, there is something special along that stretch of creek that just makes me feel good
Stay safe Aaron 👍🏼
Always appreciate the updates
This is just absolutely devastating feel so bad for all the people who have been affected by this time and time again...
Keep up the awesome work mate
"Next vid catching fish in the street"
Get the rod out mate 🎣🎣🎣
after this flood we have to go out for a fish
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle sounds good mate I have a spot I want to show you 👍🏼
It's a spot I found that the trout actually get land locked after the floods...
If that doesn't work out plenty of good spots near by
Like you say they stopped the flow at dam two weeks before? Water rise rapid and no forewarning. Really not fair for the Western regions and l can see why people would be fed up with it. Let alone the destruction that it csuses. Thanks for your posts.
Hey Aaron, I miss home, but I surely don't miss the floods. Specially Richmond, Windsor and my old stomping ground the Georges River around Warwick Farm. All I worry about these days are snow blizzards and white outs.
Best info out there. Thanks for taking the time for this incredible video.
thank you
We"ve been following the devastating floods & winds across NSW & QLD. Talk about role reversal of weather as now its another year of temperatures 35 to 40'C & widevspread fires in the UK here plus Spain & Portugal.
It's called rain and flood Plains for a reason
Man I could see the water levels rising as you stood in on place. Haven't seen water rise that fast in 20+ years
And the govt drops the ball again. Thanks for the update Aaron.
I’m only 13 minutes in…. O m g this is coming fast this one. I wonder if this is our worst flash flood yet? Gratitude 🙏 for the video.
it could be, still rising
least this time it's washing all them monster-sized spiders from the bridge. Yikes. 😳🕷🕸🕷 sending love and watching from Washington State USA 💓🌲🌲💓
They stopped warragamba because they knew this was coming. I can't trust our state government anymore
2 weeks no flow that was crazy
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle they know what they're doing, mate 😉 pr*ks
You can’t trust any world government, there’s an agenda.
Weather wars 101 .. its manipulated to get to farms & self sufficient people. Prior floods it was fire.. hasn't really stopped for a decade now.
I hope you stayed safe . Thanks for this
Imagine the pressure on that bridge !
You could see it was causing the water to rise on the upstream side.
15 mtrs this one ???
That was a pretty amazing video, to see how fast that water came up, I'm in Brisbane & luckily in one of the safe spots, well actually luck had nothing to do with it, one of the 1st questions I asked about the house, before I bought was, " did the 74 floods affect it ?". One of the most spectacular/destructive things about the last floods was watching the storm water back up & blow the solid steel covers completely off & maintain enough pressure to form a water spout 1/2 a meter to a meter high indefinitely.
I am absolutely heartbroken for everyone back there in the Hawkesbury region, I just can’t believe this has happened three times this year. I went to Richmond High from Yr 8 to Yr 11 in the ‘90s and I don’t remember the North Richmond or Windsor bridges ever go under.
I just looked up the historical flood data and there were no significant floods of the Hawkesbury-Nepean between 1992 & 2020, surely we had big rain events back in the 90s as well?
Anyway, thanks for your videos Aaron, it keeps me updated with what’s going on and I can show my kids, it’s hard with snippets on the news and living in the country. Please stay safe mate!
You're right. I've lived out here for more than 25 years. This situation, in the last 2 years, is completely different. The Climate Change deniers are full of it.
They really need to crank up the height on that bridge! Looks like this is the new normal. They made a new bridge at burril lake near ulladulla for the same reason
should be an overhead like the walk path they built at penrith not long ago
The state government announced funding for a new bridge at North Richmond a year ago. The federal government then announced the same thing because, you know, election. The funding is there but by the time they do the mapping, the feasibility, the engineering, the environmental reports, buy the land, get embroiled in valuation disputes, resolve the valuation disputes, realise the funding was diverted due to a greater need and the project being delayed, refund the project, move the greenies out of the way of the bulldozers, get the thing built (like the Northern Road and M4 overpass which took 4 years) and cut the ribbon - I'm hopeful but I won't be holding my breath.
At least at North Richmond the approaches to the bridge are above the flood level and the bridge will actually serve a purpose.
Reminds of when i got caught ion a flash flood i was fishing in my dingy, and felt a rumble turned around and the water started moving faster i thought well this isnt good. Reeled in lost a few fish and ended up being swept into the ocean, smacked into a few logs of shrubs, she held up alright, lucky i had the safety ores, the outboard moter was cut with water. It literally flooded and i had to drop it off the dingy. Started bowing at the back nearly fell off a few times. Yeah these flash floods can be dangerous. Be careful folks.
I used to kayak at Windsor and Nepean and it was terrible once water was released from the Warragamba. Huge trees passing by. And Windsor Beach getting remodelled every few years. No wonder that it is a treacherous place to swim. I remember one year the flood getting rid of the Salvania weed which was starting to choke the rivers.
Awesome video.
Hey Aaron, really enjoy your flood videos - although they make me glad I don't live in Windsor anymore. Guess the ground hasn't had a chance to dry out with all the rain and floods, so the flood water is rising much faster this time. No where near the same scale, but Lake Parramatta was spilling over the dam wall yesterday.
bad time of year for lake parra, all those Bass will roll out with it, spawning season makes them head for salt.
kk
Oops. Sorry. My kitten hit the screen when he saw the water. 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
Thanks for sharing it was interesting to watch
Great stuff!
Just wondering if all that timber is from land-clearing, because after previous recent flooding I would expect most timber would already have been washed out?
My Brother and his wife are cought in the floods in Windsor
nah alot of it is still fro, past cleanups or wood piles lower colo was still pretty bad from last floods we were just getting piles taken away well now to start all over again
Why was Warragamba at 97% just before the heavy rain started!!??
Well I see how powerful floods are and they can make it rapidly rising and it can affect the people and the community my prayers for you and the community
The speed of that flood is frightening. I hope you are getting a few bucks from add revenue. I had about 10 adds. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻🙃🙃
sorry about that youtube do it not me, did get a nice cheque from the last flood lol
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle
So long as you are getting some coin out of it mate.🙃👍🏻
East coast is getting loads of rain 🌧& the West coast has hardly getting any rain at the moment. Stay safe. Thanks for sharing great video & keeping us up to date.
This is nuts!
The set of trees to the right at 14:57 look like a dachshund dog. Maybe it's just me cuz I have a dachshund but I don't think so. It's legit! 😂😂
River is super scary btw!
Any chance you have a video of what the bridge looked like before the flood and compare it to what it looks like now ?
Pretty interesting that you saw those fish.
What that proves to me is that fish like water.
and rain
That bridge is one of the biggest jokes of our state
To hopefully add something positive to this flooding ,the whole hawksebury system actually needs this to prevent further silting up ,on my last visit to Crosslands on Berowra creek ,I got to talk to the national parks ranger who said that the whole system was in need of a flood to correct the silting ,which is slowly but surely sterilising the whole river system ,buy burying weed beds needed by fish and crustaceans to breed. Nature will have its way
true except the one issue that will haunt us is the amount of deadly chemicals drums floating in our river and the raw sewage getting dumped on the back ends of these floods.
It was interesting to see how fast it rose. But the trees being blocked by the bridge, I would want the bridge structure to be examined after the flood waters have receded to check for structural integrity and safety. Also, Saturday as you can see is spelled with a 'u' not an 'e'. From a northern colonial to a southern colonial
yep my bad can't spell for s#it.
Possible the city needs a higher bridge at this place or a deeper river bed? A flooded place before the city is helpful too so that the flood not goes higher?
I was taught by my father at a young age that you “never live in low lying areas” and especially on the “output side” of a dam!!
I have bought and sold quite a few homes over many years and prior to living anywhere, l would study the topography of the land before l ever bought a home or even rented. I would never ever live anywhere near any water courses, be it creeks, rivers or the ocean. Those that do, are at the mercy of flooding. Hopefully people may learn from this, those that don’t, will pay a very high price, as we are seeing happening time and time again.
Councils that approve land for building homes in these “low lying areas” which will be flooded from rainwater, overflowing dams, rivers, creeks and the ocean have a lot to answer for. People need to realise that councils are out to make money from ratepayers and they are not in the least bit concerned if you get flooded out. Stop trusting these corrupt authorities and start thinking for yourselves.
my father taught me the same thing
Raise the dam wall. It's that simple. There will be times of drought during coming El Nino years. That means a 14-15m higher wall will be providing that much more water supply to tide us through the hot, dry times too.
Hawkesbury River, is located northwest of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
300mm = about 11.5 Inches.
'He who controls the weather controls the world".
Unbelievable mate wishing the locals all the best.
Wow that’s unreal
Thanks
So sorry for such dangerous conditions you are experiencing😬😨....is your area considered a flood zone through government maps???I am from North Carolina USA which we know about flooding here.
And that is a lot of water. Stay safe from the US.🌎
There's a guy who has a channel where he unclogs storm drains. Damn handy.
I'm on a barrier island myself. Water on all sides.
The city should install huge underground drums, that take any water that would normally flood. Then the water goes directly to a water pollution control plant. Have a great day 😀
@Permanent Frown 🤨 Thank you. Yes, it would help alot. We haven't had any floods since they were put underground. Have a great day 😀.
they do do under ground aquifer water storage in parts of the states
The SES are talking about a 15 metre flood
I wouldn't be surprised if it went higher than 15 metres.
Stay safe.
14.5 now still rising
You should keep a record of how high it gets and mark the level at which it peaks each time it overflows so you can be prepared for future floods and since your having so many in a year and with the weather getting worse all over the world it would aid you for future development isues
What a fine old English name for the” Hawkesbury” River.. . Nice salvage of useful jerry cans.
thanks for that video
How absolutely heartbreaking, I sympathise with the people there deeply !!😪
A gradual release of water when filling up makes so much sence ,an increased column of water over days can be accommodated without flooding ,full dam uncontrollable volume to over well the river into flooding ,you all suffer then ,floods to drought new rules need to be made.
Thats crazy i hope everyone is ok out there 🙏
Is the water raising or dropping? Watch the debris...the trash, sticks, and logs. If they are in a line down the middle of the stream, it's raising. If they are spread out, it dropping.
Is it going to be renamed the Guzunda Bridge?
Is there a dam down stream n if so was it opened or kept shut , tell all facts
Youd think they would dredge out the rivers to help combat that flooding issue and i know its really expensive but worth the money spent
This isn't the new normal Aaron, because it will keep getting worse every year. We keep expanding fossil fuels, land-clearing, and expanding development for housing immigrants and all the infrastructure that goes with it.
It's nothing to do with climate change.
The ground is saturated and can't absorb any water.
Water from Warragamba dam comes from the Cox's River on the other side of the mountains.
@@peterjarvis7683 Nothing to do with climate change? Really! Okay, I'll take your word over thousands of scientists who say these weather events are due to climate change.
gday pete awesome to here from you, it is a lot to do with man made climate change when this water hits the flood plain because we have put over 20 meters of fill in places like Marsden park on the flood plain to flood proof the houses they should not be building giving the flood plain less coverage which means the water backs up where it could not before. it is catastrophic what developers have been allowed to do and not one extra treatment works has been built for the 2 million people that have migrated to Sydney
Love your videos Aaron.
A fair bit of the timber would be because of bank erosion I think.
We back onto a creek and when it does come up a bit trees fall over.
A week after the bushfire in the Perth Hills we had a flood but fortunately it only flooded part of the house yard.
It was the highest in over 20 years according to our old landlord.
I miss the bass and the fishing in the Parramatta River and the harbour.
Stay safe @Windsor Bait and Tackle
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle Not sure where Pete's initial comment has gone, where he said it wasn't climate change.
We need to stop immigration as it is impacting in so many ways that make these weather events even worse. Increasing population is only good for economists and capitalists, not any good for the environment, nor for us. Good ethics and morals will lose though, and things will just keep getting worse. My biggest bitch at the moment is these immigrants will be taking homes away from aussies and making more live life in tents and cars.
Big shout-out to Casey and Finnegan from Mr. Dressup's Tickle Trunk for bringing this incident to the attention of The Friendly Giant and his assistant Rusty the Rooster.
I have seen warragamba dam at ridiculous levels
i can't decide which one prefer to go through flood or drought one is the polar opposite of the other i choose neither
And you’ve only been on this planet for how long?
Did that say “Saterday” ?
oh and love your work , , you going exploring after this flood ??
yep the river got hammered this time
yep the river got hammered this time
yep the river got hammered this time
Where’s Post 10 when you really need him?
Kind of looks like a dam possibly broke upstream from there, kind of looks like a southwest U.S.A. FLASH FLOOD!!! SCARY!!!!
Again!? You barely dried out from the last one!
Can't imagine how many spiders are on the bank....
Space lasers?
lol
Cheers👍🍻
Prayers for all!
Three hundred year floods in a year. If that is the new Oz real estate insurance norm, then I humbly advise a certain relocation to somewhat higher grounds, with better elevation. The continental Oz floodplains are exactly that and are the geophysical reason why virtually every major and minor country city throughout our fair continent is perennially susceptible to the new climactic norm, regional rainfall wipeouts. Sadly it is only a matter of time and low lying floodplain geo locality, before each redoubtable community endure their very own Hawkesbery one in a century, new norm localised rainfall catastrophe. Remarkable to watch the surge closeup, one hour of sustained rainfall further up the catchment. Thankyou cobber, for a wet day in your paradise lost. Rory, Tasmania
What country is this?, what state or province? What city?
it is western Sydney in the state of New South Whales, Australia
Wild
This is just a 🤯 amount of water
Water is coming in like small waves.
Wow...
Barramundi is a bloody big fish... What?
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Did I miss the vote on spelling Saturday with an E???? 🤔🤔🤔
amazing footage about how quick it comes up eh
Um.. You're driving down the wrong side of the road! It's a good thing the oncoming cars can see you so that they have enough time to move over into the opposing lane to avoid a collision.
Hehehehehe
13min to 14min in the video you can literally watch the grass submerged in water.
Me tooo
lower colo got hit hard once agin :(
Dont tell me the bloody fence along the bridge was left up again
They removed the railing this time... Must have learned something ;)
yep they removed it for once