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Daily Discussion Thread - Sat Mar 08 2025 (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by brisbot@aussie.zone to c/brisbane@aussie.zone

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[–] DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well I hope we all got through Alfred without incident. (I was going to say that I hoped we all "stayed safe" but grumpy bum might be here) I've been without power since last night as have about a quarter of a million people around SEQ.
Here's hoping that all gets fixed soon enough.
I read earlier about one death which was a man driving in a flooded spot. Not nice at all and although it's frowned upon and he paid dearly, I do understand the desire to get somewhere and making bad decisions. Bless his soul.
I imagine we will be seeing more devastating news as the day (s) go on.
I had a look outside with a torch at about 3:15 but I'm yet to look outside in the light.
This old Queenslander seemed to have fared well, there's so many trees all around.
Here's hoping the rest of the communities in these Islands are all doing fine.

Ok stay sa........urm, OK keep out of harm's way everybody.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you actually get any cyclone? One of the guys at work lives on the coast at Manly and said they got nothing more than a typical southerly.

Here in the bum end of Brisbane you'd never know anything was going on except for the 24 hour rolling coverage by free to air TV. I think I had my channel 7 bingo card filled out by Thursday night (inundated, unprecedented, raging, charging....)

Now I gotta go pack up all the sandbags and tie downs and put away the generators etc and I never even got a chance to use them :-(

Charged the EV at standard electricity rates to make sure we had it available for V2L too. Never paid more than 8c/kWh to charge it before. Feels like I'm back in an ICE paying all that money to fill the car up.

Legit disappointed that a once in a lifetime event was such a nothingburger. I'm not going to live long enough to see another cyclone reach Brisbane so that was it... My Haylley's Comet moment and it was lame.

Southside Brisbane:

Logan:

[–] DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Well we got plenty of awful wind and rain yes. It was quite horrible and there's lots of devastation.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did /u/brisbot wash away in the flood? There's no Sunday daily thread.

Man this cyclone is really taking a toll on the community.

[–] coaxil@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The bot is out shoveling the back yard to create some drainage perhaps? It's starting to go under in my area ATM

[–] trk@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Our workshop is in Rocklea so no doubt getting ready for a swim.

Maybe the bot is one of the knobs in 4x4s driving through flood waters and causing people's fences to collapse thanks to the constant bow waves....

[–] coaxil@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Geez, didn't realise the bot was such a dickhead! :(