Ipswich Flood 2022 | Rob's Aquaponics

[@Janderra]

Stay safe Rob

[@RobsAquaponics]

We're all good thanks Gerowyn. Was surprised at how fast folks got to cleaning up this time round.

[@WmCRobison]

Glad your all keeping safe.

[@RobsAquaponics]

Cheers William.

[@staciehale4538]

Glad to hear you and your family are safe and well!

[@RobsAquaponics]

Thanks Stacie. 👍

[@neilcalliou896]

Thank God you guys are ok!!!!! I was totally thinking about you and your family this past few days. Thank you for letting us know you're OK my friend!!!! Take care Rob!!!!!

[@RobsAquaponics]

Thanks Neil. Hope all's well with you mate.

[@rosehernandez5313]

Rob, take care of yourself and your family. Have all of you in my prayers. God bless!

[@RobsAquaponics]

Thanks Rose.

[@pierreshasta1480]

hello Rob, glad to hear you weren't too affected by the flooding. Keep fit.

[@RobsAquaponics]

All high & dry here. Cheers Pierre.

[@charlesmathews5840]

Thanks for the update. So glad you and your family are safe. Hopefully the waters can begin to recede so you can get around

[@RobsAquaponics]

Roads were cleared a lot faster this time Charles which was good. Cheers mate.

[@annakramar5088]

Thanks for the weather update. Your a better than the reporters on TV. Sydney got hit by torrential rain storms, but nothing like yours. Our thoughts are with Queenslanders (your a tuff bunch). I know you all pull together in a crisis. Stay safe. 🐠

[@RobsAquaponics]

Mum said my Aunty had a load of rain down your way Anna. I think a lot of folks locally were better prepared for it this time round but still have to clean up all the mud after the fact.

[@annakramar5088]

@@RobsAquaponics Thank God for "The MUD ARMY" what a great bunch of volunteers. They deserve accolades.👏

[@dereksmalls6238]

Glad you and yours are all alright Bob, I live in Worcester, UK which floods every year so I know what it's like mate.

[@RobsAquaponics]

We've seen some horrific ones in the UK mate. Almost looked like Venice in some towns.

[@morneschaap2944]

Thanks for the share. I'm glad you and your family is okay.

[@RobsAquaponics]

Cheers Morne. 😁👍

[@luciaborra3993]

Stay save Rob with your love ones

[@RobsAquaponics]

Thanks Lucia.

[@venetogardens]

crazy!

[@RobsAquaponics]

We had a huge storm roll through at about 6am Dave that dumped more buckets worth of water. Showers for the rest of the week but more than enough for the dams to handle. Has dropped from about 190% capacity down to 140%.

[@Tiggypeth]

Glad you guys have been ok

[@RobsAquaponics]

Cheers Tiggypeth. 👍

[@Janderra]

The amount of rain we were getting I knew this was going to be a very bad flood and the news was full of it

[@RobsAquaponics]

Are the water levels falling back to "normal" out there Gerowyn?

[@mg8642]

Thanks for sharing, I lived in Brassall in 2011 and was staying in the Ipswich City centre when the flood came. I've been wondering if riverstink was flooded again. Glad to hear they brought back the river monster, I moved away not long after so I never knew if it lived to swim again. 😊

[@RobsAquaponics]

The water came up about 2/3 of the carpark travelators C G. From memory water was lapping at the top carpark last time round. Cheers.

[@louisianaprepper13]

Stay safe. I live in Southwest Louisiana, USA, where it rains quite often and I hate flooding.

[@RobsAquaponics]

Something like this only comes along every few years thankfully.

[@riograndevalleyhomestead2627]

Stay safe my friend, you can send all you want to us we'll take it. :)

[@RobsAquaponics]

Would be great if we could. Had a cracker of a storm roll through this morning around 6am & thought we'd lose power again.

[@matthewfarrell317]

Its interesting again to have the opposite problem. Every time you have these huge floods, where I am in Melbourne we get basically no rain, in 2 months I think we have had less than 20mm. Glad you guys are safe and hope the La Nina break soon.

[@RobsAquaponics]

You get winter rains a lot more than us from memory. Not much help when it comes to the main growing season though. Cheers Matthew.

[@matthewfarrell317]

@@RobsAquaponics that's more Victoria. Melbourne is more Mediterranean. So we average about the same each month. Except during La Nina years were we dry up.

[@nickhawkins6601]

Glad to hear you got through it all safe. I'm in North Ipswich, Kholo side of the motorway. Luckily high and dry.

[@RobsAquaponics]

Good to hear Nick. 👍 I didn't realise the suburb went that side of the M'way until your post.

[@jasonthomas7414]

Sending mad blessings!

[@RobsAquaponics]

Thanks Jason. All the best to you and yours as well mate. 👍

[@joecanales9631]

Glad to hear you’re doing well. Saw a report a few days ago about flooding in Queensland, and hoped you were high & dry. Queensland is a big state. We lived through a couple of big rains when we lived in Texas by the coast. About a year before we moved to the desert, it rained 34inches or 86 cm. In a 24 hour period. A strong steady downpour the whole time. Luckily we lived close enough to the estuary system that it all flowed away into the gulf. Houston, nearest city, got flooded. It was a stalled hurricane. Now, a good rain is about 1/2 a cm. Official (according to my neighbor) it’s a rain if you can count 10 water drops in a square foot. We had a 12cm snow fall the other day, filled one of my rain tanks capturing about 4000 liters. We’ve had a nice warming spell and fish happy and eating well. Harvested one nice big strawberry for my wife, I ate a couple small ones. The plants in the clay media beds look loaded with green berries, but the ones in the dwc trough are lagging. They need cleaning out though. Next on the to do list. Stay dry! Cheers 🍻

[@RobsAquaponics]

I think I'd prefer torrential ran to snow Joe. I'm too much of a lizard I think. 😄 That's very nice of you. I very rarely got any ripe ones, Kira used to flog them all just as they got their colour. Hope the clear out goes well for you mate. Cheers. 🍻

[@CoachNateH]

Thanks for sharing. Hopefully all is well by this point.

[@RobsAquaponics]

We escaped an damage but know a number of folks here in QLD & NSW that didn't do so well.

[@justgivemethetruth]

63 feet! Wow. Glad you're OK.

[@RobsAquaponics]

One of the things that was a must for us when buying was that there were no mines under the house (large coal mining area) & that the house was well above the 1974 flood level. Cheers mate.

[@yakyakker]

Looking forward to hearing how the fish and plants dealt with so much water.

[@RobsAquaponics]

So far so good. Seeing a bit of an iron deficiency at the moment though.

[@Gardeninggirl1107]

Hi Rob - thanks for the update and I'm glad everything is okay with you and your place. That's awful about your neighbors getting flooded. No fun at all.

[@RobsAquaponics]

It was good to see a lot of them moving furniture & possessions out a few days beforehand Robin. I think many were paying attention to the weather forecasters & other locals this time which helped a lot as the govenment dropped the ball yet again on this one.

[@daydreamingarts]

we used to live by a river when my kids were small. the town din't built house right by the river because it flooded every year. but there was a park with a play ground that my kids enjoyed. they totally freaked when they saw the water running through the swings and slides. important life lessons

[@RobsAquaponics]

We made sure our place sat over no old coal mins & was well above the historic flood levels before we bought. Used to see bad flooding on the farm we used to live on & it used to freak me out a fair bit as a kid.

[@jenniferjsaracino]

I feel for the families that have to renovate after flooding, we had a bathroom flood our house on Dec 5 and the repairs are still not completed. It scary to me to think of moving somewhere that has that type of flooding but I might be doing just that soon.

[@RobsAquaponics]

Hop you can find somewhere that isn't affected Jennifer.

[@drrahilakurdi5943]

🌷🐠🐟🐬🐋🐡🌷

[@RobsAquaponics]

😁😁👍🌺

[@painta76]

how's the may flooding event affecting you?

[@RobsAquaponics]

I'm not sure it will be as bad as March but the river has swollen & is on the road on the street at the back of our block.

[@specialized29er86]

I'd love some of that rain, its been 6 months since weve had any good rains.

[@RobsAquaponics]

😕 We have mates in the same boat out west.

[@airbryan61]

The weather is going to continue to get more extreme as the magnetic shield and poles change

[@ramoneoliveira5851]

Poxa Rob, que pena ...☹️☹️

[@RobsAquaponics]

Tudo faz parte de viver aqui Ramone. 😕

[@ramoneoliveira5851]

@@RobsAquaponics Aqui teve chuvas absurdas, tivemos desabamentos, mortes, muitos desabrigados, está geração não tinha visto tanta chuva

[@ramoneoliveira5851]

Até a Argentina ofereceu "ajuda". A ironia da situação é que, antes estávamos sofrendo com o excesso de agua, agora estamos com falta de agua, pois as chuvas romperam varias barragens, agora não temos agua potável...

[@RobsAquaponics]

@@ramoneoliveira5851 Em que lugar do Brasil você está?

[@ramoneoliveira5851]

@@RobsAquaponics Eu estou na Bahia. Isso aconteceu entre dezembro até o começo de fevereiro. Agora mais recente aconteceu em também em Petrópolis também com várias mortes..

[@mumbo_gaming]

We had to rescue a friend at 12 pm or around that it was at 12m the Bremer river by 3pm the same day it was 14m

[@allandoyle3555]

wow man i didnt know you lived so close..im in booval so where we live we did ok...

[@rrrrrrrr290]

In Ipswich myself, we where safe and dry also , but had to pump out water from the Aquapnics

[@RobsAquaponics]

Good to hear Allan. We're over the river & North Ippy.

[@RobsAquaponics]

@@rrrrrrrr290 👍 I'd hate to think how much water overflowed over the week Fred.

[@allandoyle3555]

@@RobsAquaponics would've been good to have a few extra water tanks handy...the lawns are going to love it

[@moniquepowell9499]

Very bushy eyebrows... 👀👀👀... Love it!

[@RobsAquaponics]

😂 I keep being told to trim them but I refuse 😁

[@annakramar5088]

@@RobsAquaponics I agree ..Just as mother nature intended wild & free..🤣

[@moniquepowell9499]

Lol 🤔🤔🤔😅😅😅😂😂😂 Looks great

[@catonchronic5354]

Apparently the bremer river has reached 26 meters in the past

[@rrrrrrrr290]

if you ever want to make a video about mistakes on a small ipc system, pop over and take a look at ours

[@RobsAquaponics]

How large is the system Fred?

[@rrrrrrrr290]

@@RobsAquaponics only one ibc cut in half ect. using gold fish

[@RobsAquaponics]

@@rrrrrrrr290 Might be able to sort something out. 👍

[@rrrrrrrr290]

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[@rrrrrrrr290]

@@RobsAquaponics sorry email came back as wrong