Saturday, June 09, 2007 - 07:25 pm, by: Jeff Smith(Mozzie)
I hope none of you lot ended up in this mess as I was at Wyong for rail work.I was supposed to work at ourimbah.Sat,sun and monday. On arrival on friday night I had to stay in the car park of westfield Tuggerah until the roads were clear.What a mess It looked like a war zone.I left from Wyong at 11am today due to work being canceled.One of my work mates was on the train that derailed at whoy whoy.He was a bit shookup.But all's well.
All prair's go out to the freinds of that family that lost there live's on the old pacific HWY at somersby.
Saturday, June 09, 2007 - 07:44 pm, by: Edward Salem(Sydeward)
had call after call today, people asking to be connected to energy australia faults and local fire stations / emergency control. apparently things are slowly getting under control and the streets are being cleaned, but for the worst of it the water was reported to be waist high in some areas.
horrible, this will mean many millions of dollars of losses for small businesses and local residents. Hopefully money is all that is lost.
Brian Timms TryHard New South Wales TT Soarer Goodness.
I work at Fraser Motorcycles in Homebush. The Newcastle Frasers shop is a disaster area. I saw shots yesterday of the bikes in the showroom with the water level around a foot high. This morning, the water level was around fuel tank height on the bikes. I imagine the insurance bill will be pretty nasty.
Terrible to hear of people losing their lives. Mother nature can be ruthless at times.
Monday, June 11, 2007 - 06:18 pm, by: Mike Triggs(Mikeandimah)
My sister is near Wyong and has had her place flooded badly. The house is OK but all the outbuildings, including my niece's garage/flat, have been under, and they lost all the their horse feed (as did the place that supplies them). They have had no power either since last Thursday.
Brian Timms TryHard New South Wales TT Soarer Goodness.
Monday, June 11, 2007 - 06:44 pm, by: Justin Stanley(Sne33z)
I work at Tascott, live at Narara, from Friday to Saturday I had no power at either end and the drive to work it looks like a cyclone has been through the area, trees and •••• everywhere, I'm just glad that the power came back Saturday night... my fridge got a defrosting it really needed though
Now they are talking about us loosing our water pressure because the pumps don't have power and they're having sewage problems up in Wyong
Brian Timms TryHard New South Wales TT Soarer Goodness.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 07:56 am, by: Brian Timms(Turbo_brian)
And the DUMBEST DONKEY award for the weekend just gone has to go to the stupid moron that called the State EMERGENCY Service to come and collect the remains a tree him and his 70 yr old Dad cut up that was piled at the gutter.
The tree was his, him and his dad cut it up, the proceeded to call the SES to come and collect the remains.
Dont people realise, while we are just driving to their place to get copped with that, we could have been driving up to Wyong, Maitland, or some of the other flooded areas and started saving property and lives.
Some people are bloody idots (langauge seriously toned down to comply with forum rules).
BTW, I hope all our Central Coast members are surviving, and same with their cars.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 10:22 am, by: Leon Wright(Techman)
Brian Timms wrote on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 07:56 am:
Some people are bloody idots (langauge seriously toned down to comply with forum rules).
Brian, I feel your pain. Being that I was a member for 6 years and involved for far longer then that (can't join till 16 ) I can honestly feel your pain. Too many times have we been called out for the most ridiculous of things. Which is ok for a bit of positive PR when nothing is happening, but in the midst of a major emergency it can take vital resources away from the people that really need it.
Unfortunately there is a wide mis-conception that the members get paid, which is not the case. People were regularly surprised when you answered their call of "you boys must be on double time for this one" with "Double nothing is still nothing!"
I would like to say keep up the good work to ALL emergency service members, especially the UNPAID volunteers.
Brian Timms TryHard New South Wales TT Soarer Goodness.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 01:01 pm, by: Brian Timms(Turbo_brian)
Yeah, they gave us a 200% pay increase to come out to this disaster, but 200% extra is still nothing....
We got several donkey-calls this weekend gone, including one guy who had a 6 month old VERY BROWN tiny branch resting near his house to pole power line, called us for the "emergency", and we took 1 look, realised the same branch has been sitting there for the last 6 months, and told him "Sorry sir, we dont see where the emergency is".
He replied with "Are you blind, it's sitting on our powerline here, it's dangerous".
We replied with "see that 2 foot wide tree across the road resting on the powerlines, that's an emergency, see this little twig here that's been here already for 6 months, it's not an immediate thread, but 6 months ago when it landed there it might have been, now we are going to go now, and attend the emergencies".
Some people treat the SES like a gardening service, but you get the real, and the pathetic jobs, you take them all with a smile.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 10:01 pm, by: Peter Lang(Langy)
Good on you brian .need lots more like you.I just spent the day working out how to get 30 foot rivieras and similar out of the trees around lake maquarie . ha! oh well least we're busy again ,very quiet this time of year.Ill try a post some pics tomorrow
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 11:36 pm, by: Jay Miller(Jaym6)
Hi guys i live in newcastle and have had 4ft of water go through my bedroom and this is the first chance i have had to get on the computer. We only got power back on last night. Been spending all day ripping up carpet laying carpet and moving furniture. My soarer was being stored at a local auto electricians. I havent heard anything negative so i assume its okay. Will ring tomorrow to check on it. The last few days have been pretty ordinary and scary @ times. Its lucky that more people werent hurt or worse.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 - 10:36 am, by: Mike Triggs(Mikeandimah)
Well done, Brian and you SES blokes.
On a slightly different tack- I was surprised and alarmed to see the rescue of the crew off the collier run aground at Nobbys Head. Why did they need to risk choppers and their crews (as well as the crew of the ship) getting them off at the height of the storm? The ship was going nowhere and was in little danger of breaking up (sitting on sand as it is/was). Rescues at sea like that are horribly dangerous (hard for the chopper pilots to hover, and avoid ship's derricks etc) so I consider the rescue brave but foolhardy.
On the subject of looters- perhaps a few police wandering around with guns drawn and "shoot to kill" orders might discourage them. Many looters no doubt think the goods will be written off by insurance- unfortunately for many business owners few are covered by flood damage- it's too expensive to buy since only people in flood-prone areas would want it and those outside don't need it- so the risk can't be spread like other insurance.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 - 03:31 pm, by: Braden Murdoch(Ribfeast)
I only just managed to get home on Friday in the thick of it, pod filter is only a foot above the water, and the water was around a foot deep or more in some areas. Roasted a few relays but fortunately got home OK with the voltmeter on 9 volts. Pretty crazy seeing the aftermath the next day!
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) I can honestly feel your pain. Too many times have we been called out for the most ridiculous of things. Which is ok for a bit of positive PR when nothing is happening, but in the midst of a major emergency it can take vital resources away from the people that really need it. 
