#vicfloods — Public Fediverse posts

“Bummer! Sewerage spill in Merri Creek #floodwaters. We don’t go paddling anyway, but this adds to the reason not to paddle in the creek (or Port Philip) at the moment. 🐶🐶

Floodwaters have gone down enough to use the #WesternRingRoadTrail, but you might get splashed. W#e chose not to follow.."

#MerriCreek #SewerageSpill #MerriCreekTrail #VicFloods
#DogsOfMastodon #BikeTooter #LifeInFawkner

There have been 54 #Flood rescues of people in cars being washed away in #floodwaters over roads in the #VicFloods since Sunday. This is despite repeated warnings from State Emergency Services (SES) not to drive into floodwaters and that it takes as little as 15cm of water for cars to start floating.

I really do despair at the sense of people who endanger not only their own life, but the lives of rescuers. SES rescuers deserve 🎖️ medals.
#EmergencyWorkers #Flooding #Floods

There have been 54 #Flood rescues of people in cars being washed away in #floodwaters over roads in the #VicFloods since Sunday. This is despite repeated warnings from State Emergency Services (SES) not to drive into floodwaters and that it takes as little as 15cm of water for cars to start floating.

I really do despair at the sense of people who endanger not only their own life, but the lives of rescuers. SES rescuers deserve 🎖️ medals.
#EmergencyWorkers #Flooding #Floods

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese flags consideration of dedicated force for natural disaster responses amid #ClimateCrisis

Speaking about #flooding and #ExtremeWeather in Victoria and in Queensland, the prime minister flagged that the government had considered a new reserve force to assist with the aftermath of natural disasters.

#Australia #VicFloods #DisasterRecovery
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/09/pm-flags-consideration-of-dedicated-force-for-natural-disaster-responses-amid-climate-crisis

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese flags consideration of dedicated force for natural disaster responses amid #ClimateCrisis

Speaking about #flooding and #ExtremeWeather in Victoria and in Queensland, the prime minister flagged that the government had considered a new reserve force to assist with the aftermath of natural disasters.

#Australia #VicFloods #DisasterRecovery
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/09/pm-flags-consideration-of-dedicated-force-for-natural-disaster-responses-amid-climate-crisis

Daily extreme Rainfall for 8 December Victoria had in area 86.9% at > 97th percentile, 66.4% at > 99th percentile, and 5.4% at Highest on record.

The rain has now moved north and east but the #VicFloods event continues especially the towns of Yea, Seymour, Rochester.

#ExtremeRainfall #ClimateCrisis #Floods

Daily extreme Rainfall for 8 December Victoria had in area 86.9% at > 97th percentile, 66.4% at > 99th percentile, and 5.4% at Highest on record.

The rain has now moved north and east but the #VicFloods event continues especially the towns of Yea, Seymour, Rochester.

#ExtremeRainfall #ClimateCrisis #Floods

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan said climate change is a major reason for these floods, and extreme weather events must be factored in when planning for new housing and communities.

Premier Allan also says the Victorian Government is "undeterred" in pursuing clean energy projects despite the Federal Government's rejection of a new hub at the Port of Hastings for the construction of offshore wind farms.

So we have the Premier making the Extreme rain/Floods link with climate change, while most media stories have ignored making the connection.

#VicFloods #Flooding #ExtremeRainfall #OffshoreWind #Victoria
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/melbourne-mornings/premier-on-floods/103297442

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan said climate change is a major reason for these floods, and extreme weather events must be factored in when planning for new housing and communities.

Premier Allan also says the Victorian Government is "undeterred" in pursuing clean energy projects despite the Federal Government's rejection of a new hub at the Port of Hastings for the construction of offshore wind farms.

So we have the Premier making the Extreme rain/Floods link with climate change, while most media stories have ignored making the connection.

#VicFloods #Flooding #ExtremeRainfall #OffshoreWind #Victoria
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/melbourne-mornings/premier-on-floods/103297442

This from the currently emerging #VicFloods #flooding in central #Victoria Australia (yes, it's summer...)

Flood levels remain above that of a single-story home.

What?? How??!!

(It's ok, I know how... #ClimateCatastrophe)

This from the currently emerging #VicFloods #flooding in central #Victoria Australia (yes, it's summer...)

Flood levels remain above that of a single-story home.

What?? How??!!

(It's ok, I know how... #ClimateCatastrophe)

EVACUATE NOW

warnings in effect for #Yea and #Seymour due to major riverine flooding

Also PREPARE TO EVACUATE for areas downstream of #Goulburn and #Campaspe rivers -

Follow Vic Emergency for more:
https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/

#vicfloods

EVACUATE NOW

warnings in effect for #Yea and #Seymour due to major riverine flooding

Also PREPARE TO EVACUATE for areas downstream of #Goulburn and #Campaspe rivers -

Follow Vic Emergency for more:
https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/

#vicfloods

WATCH and ACT Victoria Australia #vicfloods
Multiple watch and act warnings current for riverine flooding due to heavy rain, follow @EmvBot for more.

WATCH and ACT Victoria Australia #vicfloods
Multiple watch and act warnings current for riverine flooding due to heavy rain, follow @EmvBot for more.

Anyway, I’m going to leave the other spuds there for now, and attempt to give them a bit more water. Fingers crossed.

But if you were wondering why #MinimumChips is looking so scant lately, this is why.

#gardeningAU #gardening #VeggieGardening #EdibleGardening #GrowYourOwn #permaculture #zone1 #ObtainAYield #LaNina #VicFloods #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #FoodShortages

Anyway, I’m going to leave the other spuds there for now, and attempt to give them a bit more water. Fingers crossed.

But if you were wondering why #MinimumChips is looking so scant lately, this is why.

#gardeningAU #gardening #VeggieGardening #EdibleGardening #GrowYourOwn #permaculture #zone1 #ObtainAYield #LaNina #VicFloods #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #FoodShortages

So, what did I get from 5 months of garden-bed space? These three spuds, which I’d estimate at a bit over half a kilo.

I’m not sure what they needed but didn’t get. Warmth earlier in the season would have helped, I’m sure. They weren’t bogged down by the rains as they were in a raised bed and hilled up besides, and the soil isn’t clay-y. In digging up the bed it was clear that the last few weeks have dried the soil out a lot, even though I’ve been watering. I guess it all runs off or evaporated from the hilling-up. Still, it should have been ok.

I didn’t amend the soil particularly, other than doing my hilling up with sifted soil from the next bed over, where prunings and other garden waste have been rotting down for years; it had more organic matter than the bed I started with, but wasn’t what I’d call incredibly rich compost. Nor did I do a pH test, though the weeds growing there (chickweed, fumitory, wild radish, black nightshade, cleavers, the odd dandelion) suggest it’s pretty neutral veggie garden soil. It’s not like spuds are usually super fussy, in my experience.

#gardeningAU #gardening #VeggieGardening #EdibleGardening #GrowYourOwn #permaculture #zone1 #ObtainAYield #LaNina #VicFloods #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #FoodShortages

So, what did I get from 5 months of garden-bed space? These three spuds, which I’d estimate at a bit over half a kilo.

I’m not sure what they needed but didn’t get. Warmth earlier in the season would have helped, I’m sure. They weren’t bogged down by the rains as they were in a raised bed and hilled up besides, and the soil isn’t clay-y. In digging up the bed it was clear that the last few weeks have dried the soil out a lot, even though I’ve been watering. I guess it all runs off or evaporated from the hilling-up. Still, it should have been ok.

I didn’t amend the soil particularly, other than doing my hilling up with sifted soil from the next bed over, where prunings and other garden waste have been rotting down for years; it had more organic matter than the bed I started with, but wasn’t what I’d call incredibly rich compost. Nor did I do a pH test, though the weeds growing there (chickweed, fumitory, wild radish, black nightshade, cleavers, the odd dandelion) suggest it’s pretty neutral veggie garden soil. It’s not like spuds are usually super fussy, in my experience.

#gardeningAU #gardening #VeggieGardening #EdibleGardening #GrowYourOwn #permaculture #zone1 #ObtainAYield #LaNina #VicFloods #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #FoodShortages

So you know how there’s a potato shortage across Victoria at present? I present: my first potato harvest.

I planted Dutch Cream seed potatoes back in August, in ditches in one of my veggie beds, then hilled them up with extra soil through spring, to a total depth of about 40cm. Just this last week or so they’ve been starting to yellow and die back, so I figured there’d be some to harvest.

I started by bandicooting around under the plants, but in the end I pulled a couple of them up and dug down properly. Here’s the space where they were, about 50x60cm.

#gardeningAU #gardening #EdibleGardening #GrowYourOwn #permaculture #zone1 #ObtainAYield #LaNina #VicFloods #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #FoodShortages

So you know how there’s a potato shortage across Victoria at present? I present: my first potato harvest.

I planted Dutch Cream seed potatoes back in August, in ditches in one of my veggie beds, then hilled them up with extra soil through spring, to a total depth of about 40cm. Just this last week or so they’ve been starting to yellow and die back, so I figured there’d be some to harvest.

I started by bandicooting around under the plants, but in the end I pulled a couple of them up and dug down properly. Here’s the space where they were, about 50x60cm.

#gardeningAU #gardening #EdibleGardening #GrowYourOwn #permaculture #zone1 #ObtainAYield #LaNina #VicFloods #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #FoodShortages

@glenlelievre #Bathtub More cartoons, gifs and videos on Patreon https://patreon.com/glenlelievre #vicfloods #ClimateCrisis #auspol

@glenlelievre #Bathtub More cartoons, gifs and videos on Patreon https://patreon.com/glenlelievre #vicfloods #ClimateCrisis #auspol

So evidently my #introduction #firstpost to #mastodon is irrelevant because I didn't add a bunch of #hashtags so this is #taketwo

Hello #mastodon world 👋

I'm
#audhd
#neurodivergent
#ausSocial
#Leftie
& currently dealing with #vicfloods

💛✌️

the @[email protected] have gone too far this time #vicfloods

#vicfloods: putting the "merri" back in "merri-bek"