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DG
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Hope all our friends down under are OK 
Looks like a terrible time for many  21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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 3rd Jan 2011 3:49 pm |
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character
Member Since: 31 Dec 2007
Location: wiltshire
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yea saw the news coverage on bbc regards queensland, not nice 
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| 3rd Jan 2011 11:33 pm |
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caverD3
Member Since: 02 Jul 2006
Location: Oberon, NSW
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My brother lives near Bundaburg and is now helping the SES clear up the mess. Mud everywhere and many businesses in ruins.
He lives on the cost further north and the whole sea is brown with debris and boats. Marina in Bundaburg destroyed and two huge fuel tanks missing. “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely gamesâ€
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| 4th Jan 2011 2:31 am |
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The Large One
Member Since: 20 Apr 2007
Location: Down the polytunnel
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Really hope people stay safe
visited Bundaberg back in 99, just before new year
took a boat out from the marina to Lady Musgrave's island 8)
hope it all gets back to normal soon TLO has left the building.......
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| 4th Jan 2011 1:13 pm |
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Bushwanderer
Member Since: 27 Nov 2007
Location: Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia
Posts: 2050
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Hi Guys,
I was leaving it to the "locals" to reply, but it looks like they may be otherwise engaged.
My sister, in Mackay, has been lucky, with the floods and a mini-cyclone largely missing the town, although the hinterland hasn't been so fortunate. My 86yo mother is staying with her for Christmas. I'm glad that there wasn't any emergency as I don't know how she would cope.
Not surprisingly, some of the electricity infrastructure has been affected, necessitating load-shedding, but they are sanguine about that.
I don't know from where Mackay gets its vehicle fuels, but my sister has, wisely, decided to fill up.
Rockhampton still has access from the north and this is expected to remain open.
Wishing those affected all the best,
Peter The Bearded Dragon
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| 5th Jan 2011 1:19 am |
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Zilch
Member Since: 24 Apr 2006
Location: Sydney
Posts: 131
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Stuck in Airlie Beach at the moment, not much rain here to be honest.. i am looking for a route South this weekend so i can get back to Sydney .. not hopeful unless they can get Emerald and the Burnett Highway open so i can bypass Rockie...
Hope everyone stays safe  another Pommie from the darkside
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| 5th Jan 2011 6:53 am |
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gps-au
Member Since: 14 Apr 2009
Location: Sydney
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Zilch wrote:Stuck in Airlie Beach at the moment, not much rain here to be honest.. i am looking for a route South this weekend so i can get back to Sydney .. not hopeful unless they can get Emerald and the Burnett Highway open so i can bypass Rockie...
Hope everyone stays safe
You might start thinking "three ways"
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| 5th Jan 2011 10:24 pm |
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Zilch
Member Since: 24 Apr 2006
Location: Sydney
Posts: 131
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three ways NT 
48 hours driving and over 5000 K's hmm, might go with Virgin Blue instead and come back for the car in February another Pommie from the darkside
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| 6th Jan 2011 4:44 am |
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gps-au
Member Since: 14 Apr 2009
Location: Sydney
Posts: 57
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Zilch wrote:three ways NT
48 hours driving and over 5000 K's hmm, might go with Virgin Blue instead and come back for the car in February
sounds like a good idea.
trucks are getting thru longreach but not for long as the flooding moves SW.
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| 6th Jan 2011 9:48 pm |
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scootay2k5
Member Since: 20 Jan 2010
Location: nottingham
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hey Bushwanderer i have some friends who live in mackay, i went and spent the christmas there 2 year ago and had such a great time, they live on a estate not far from a shop called wow.... sorry i cant remember exactly the name... but we had our new years eve at airlie beach, had an awesum time by the way... i am seriously thinking of moving out there, im a electrical engineer and ever since going to australia for a holiday its all i want to do
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| 6th Jan 2011 9:53 pm |
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90 Rangie
Member Since: 17 Dec 2007
Location: Central Queensland
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I live in Rocky, but lucky enough not to be effected with water from the flood.
We have been around and looked at the areas effected and some poor  are going to do it tough as the water drops. The road to work is cut but they are chopering small crews into work each day. My turn starts this Sunday.
Some great pictures on the internet. No one will come through Rocky for a while. But so many other towns have way more problems than we do. Still getting supplies through from the North which helps a lot.
Zilch the Burnet highway did open in the last couple of days at Emerald so you may be able to get through worth checking.
Do plenty of research first. Do not take life too seriously no one gets out alive anyway!
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| 6th Jan 2011 11:18 pm |
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Zilch
Member Since: 24 Apr 2006
Location: Sydney
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scootay2k5 wrote:i am seriously thinking of moving out there, im a electrical engineer and ever since going to australia for a holiday its all i want to do
Come join the rest of us poms in Oz my brother in law emigrated to Mackay 3 years ago from Dawlish, never looked back. I moved there with work, always loved the whitsunday region.. so my house is in Airlie, work in Sydney. Mackay has a relatively high number of expats, all miners from Yorkshire/Notts
90 thanks for that, i have been looking at going via Mackay, Emerald, Barcaldine, Tambo, Roma, Dalby, Toowoomba and then Brisbane, but was concerned about being able to refuel/get provisions on route as it is a 20 hour trip at least on a good run, so may leave it a few weeks and fly instead. I have been checking out the RACQ website for road conditions, any others you would recommend
Thanks
Jim another Pommie from the darkside
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| 6th Jan 2011 11:36 pm |
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Bushwanderer
Member Since: 27 Nov 2007
Location: Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia
Posts: 2050
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See Skootay,
It's getting so bad that you won't even have to learn the local lingo. 
Best Wishes,
Peter The Bearded Dragon
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| 7th Jan 2011 2:00 am |
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