Wall of water.

[El Presidente]

 

This is truly frightening.

New South Wales has had its wettest year in recorded history. They achieved that mark over two months ago. 

The central west has been hit hard again over the weekend. 

Terrifying video shows the moment a major dam in Central West NSW spills hundreds of thousands of litres of water onto regional communities as the area is hit with its heaviest rainfall in 118 years.

The Wyangala Dam is releasing a record 230,000 megalitres a day, threatening communities along the Lachlan River, as even more evacuation orders were issued on Tuesday morning.

 

his is 

[madandana]

Scary 

[Fuzz]

The truly scary thing is.... this is not the end of the wet season. There is more rain to come, and with all of our dams at capacity, this is going to happen again.

[WarriorPrincess]

It seems they just can't get a break from it, very sad 

[Chas.Alpha]

If anyone has ever wondered about the power of water: It weighs around 3 kilos per gallon. There's about 27 gallons per cubic meter. Now put 1,500,000 of those in motion at 60 KPH/per minute.

You get the idea... 😳

[helix]

Let's hope the dam holds. 

[Fuzz]

1 hour ago, Chas.Alpha said:

If anyone has ever wondered about the power of water: It weighs around 3 kilos per gallon. There's about 27 gallons per cubic meter. Now put 1,500,000 of those in motion at 60 KPH/per minute.

You get the idea... 😳

Or an even easier measurement... 1 litre of water weighs 1kg. Yay, the metric system!

An Olympic size pool holds approx 2.5 megalitres of water. So at 230,000 megalitres, that dam is releasing 92,000 Olympic sized swimming pools of water each day. Around 160 megalitres per minute, or 64 Olympics pools going past every minute.

 

[El Presidente]

1 minute ago, Fuzz said:

Or an even easier measurement... 1 litre of water weighs 1kg. Yay, the metric system!

 

[Ken Gargett]

3 hours ago, Fuzz said:

The truly scary thing is.... this is not the end of the wet season. There is more rain to come, and with all of our dams at capacity, this is going to happen again.

fuzz, not really even the usual start of the wet season. normally late november would bee the very earliest. december and especially january/february and into march the wet months. 

[Fuzz]

7 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

fuzz, not really even the usual start of the wet season. normally late november would bee the very earliest. december and especially january/february and into march the wet months. 

I meant in NSW. We normally have the wettest period between July to October, then it dries out for November to April. Up north, yes the "wet season" is November through to February, but that's because the climate is more tropical.

[Chas.Alpha]

16 hours ago, Fuzz said:

Or an even easier measurement... 1 litre of water weighs 1kg. Yay, the metric system!

An Olympic size pool holds approx 2.5 megalitres of water. So at 230,000 megalitres, that dam is releasing 92,000 Olympic sized swimming pools of water each day. Around 160 megalitres per minute, or 64 Olympics pools going past every minute.

 

Does a litre of water really weigh 1 kilo? 

[Hammer Smokin']

sure does. 

[Fuzz]

27 minutes ago, Chas.Alpha said:

Does a litre of water really weigh 1 kilo? 

The kilo was originally defined as 1 cubic decilitre of water at the melting point of ice. As the density of water changes based on temperature, pressure and purity, it is not exactly 1kg to 1L, but is extremely close. We're talking about 6 decimal places close.

[anacostiakat]

Horrible!  Here we just had our first freeze warning.

[BlueRidgeFly]

2 hours ago, Fuzz said:

The kilo was originally defined as 1 cubic decilitre of water at the melting point of ice. As the density of water changes based on temperature, pressure and purity, it is not exactly 1kg to 1L, but is extremely close. We're talking about 6 decimal places close.

I did not know that... I will keep auditing this science class between cigar breaks 😀

[First Lady]

All the poor animals  😭

[Islandboy]

31 minutes ago, First Lady said:

All the poor animals  😭

This was my first thought too...nature can be brutal.

[Chas.Alpha]

On 11/15/2022 at 6:03 PM, Fuzz said:

The kilo was originally defined as 1 cubic decilitre of water at the melting point of ice. As the density of water changes based on temperature, pressure and purity, it is not exactly 1kg to 1L, but is extremely close. We're talking about 6 decimal places close.

Please try to remember that over here we define the size of a sinkhole by how many washing machines can be put into it!

[Duxnutz]

Thank god they didn’t decide to lower the walls of warragamba.