Updated at 2:30pm (Thursday 12th) – last update on ex-Tropical Cyclone Hamish.
As of the latest BOM Tracking Map, ex-Tropical Cyclone Hamish has been downgraded to a Tropical Low. Currently the low is moving up the coast again (almost doubling back on its tracks) in a north west direction. Dangerous weather is expected for the Capricorn Coast (RRC Media Release).
Tropical Cyclone Hamish from bom.gov.au.
View a timelapse animation of Cyclone Hamish.
The BOM has stopped issuing track maps.
Rising Creeks by Jylan Wynne
From 9am on Tuesday morning to 9am on Wednesday morning, Yeppoon and surrounding districts had over 80.6mm, or 3.1 inches of rain. This is enough to flush out all the creeks and leave a lot of water lying around on the ground, but so far there has been no major flooding like in February 2008.
The Capricornia district forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology has this to say about Wednesday and the days ahead:
CAPRICORNIA DISTRICT
Outlook for Wednseday: Rain areas. Isolated thunderstorms. Moderate to heavy falls possible. Moderate
NW to NE winds, shifting W to SW inland during the day.Outlook for Thursday: Scattered coastal showers, more isolated inland.
Outlook for Friday: Scattered coastal showers, isolated inland. Late rain.
YeppoonInfo.com will keep you updated on any weather developments in the area.
Well just yesterday we went for a drive up to Stony Creek in Byfield to have a picnic with some friends. I wanted to add a panorama of the Stony Creek crossing to my Yeppoon Photo Panoramas, so I took enough photos of the creek crossing for Photoshop to stich the whole scene together.
Stony Creek is a large camping and picnic area, with the main feature being, of course, the creek that divided those two areas. To cross there is a concrete causeway which is covered by about 10cm of water in normal flow. After heavy rain the picnic area is sometimes cut off because the causeway is too deeply covered.
Stony Creek has many important facilities such as toilets, free gas barbeques, picnic tables, taps, and bushwalks. Because the Stony Creek area is protected, no domestic animals such as dogs or cats are allowed. There is one marked bushwalking track, which winds along beside the creek for kilometres. The main circuit is only about 1km long however.
Camping can be booked through the EPA website.
Below I’ve put in some photos of Stony Creek from the day:
The Stony Creek crossing, looking towards the entrance and camping area.
The Stony Creek swimming area. This is the main swimming area, looking from the road crossing.
Looking in the other direction from the above photo, Stony Creek merrily continuing on its way downstream.
This view shows the platform on the picnic side of Stony. This is where most people jump in the creek from. The drain in the middle helps keep the water level over the crossing down.
Water spilling over the other side of the road crossing.
Looking over the road crossing towards the day use area of Stony Creek.
A small bridge on the main walking track. The blurred corners are an added effect.
One of the many lovely plants growing along the walking track.
Rows of pine trees on either side of the road on the way out from Stony Creek. Again, I’ve added the blurred corners.
Last but not least, above are the two panoramas that I made from photos taken at Stony Creek. Click on the thumbnail images to see the full-size versions.
As I promised in the last post about the Yeppoon flooding, below are some more photos of the aftermath of the flooding, i.e. damage and such. Please forgive me for taking so long, I’ve been working on a website for an organic macadamia farm. There is a separate post coming about that soon.
This shows the extent of the floodwaters that came into our paddock, as well as our neighbours paddock.
The corner of the road where the floodwater was running over. You can see how the water had uprooted some of the grass and rolled it back. The view in the photo above is just to the left of this.
The damage caused by the floodwater to the edge of the road. It has now been repaired with some concrete. Don’t forget that this road will soon be replaced by the new one, so it isn’t the most tidy repair 
.
The floodwaters down at the big new bridge. The deepest point in there would be over my head, and flowing very strongly.
Looking on the other side of the creek, over the old bridge, you can see just how much water there was flowing through there.
This is amazing. Have a look at the grass on the other side. See how high the water has been? That’s right, the little bridge was actually submerged under the creek! It probably only lasted an hour or less like that however, because as soon as the rain stops the creek starts going down.
The roadworkers are in the photo because something from the new bridge had been pushed off by the floodwaters and hit the old bridge. They were then checking it for structural damage. None was found, though.
This is the worst-hit area around our place. Located about 3km away from us, this flooding probably extended for 500 metres or more. The deepest place on that road would be around 2 metres. While I was there locals kept driving up and taking photos of the flooding.
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UPDATE: Amazingly showcasing the abrupt changes of weather that are possible, the rain here has now (2PM) stopped and the sun is shining! I went and had a look at the intersection and water is still flowing over, but I could ride across. There are lots of those big, heavy, plastic roadwork blockades that have been washed down the creek, too.
The title says it all. Currently we are having some very heavy rain as a result of a tropical low that is moving down the coast. Heaps of roads are closed, including the one on our corner. So now we are basically unable to drive into Yeppoon. About half an hour ago I put my swimmers on and went outside to look at the flooding. What I saw amazed me, because this is the first time in my life I’ve seen flooding personally.
I had previously prepared some alternative pictures for this, but that was yesterday before we got the real flooding. So I dumped those pics and I am using the photos that I took half and hour ago. They reflect what is happening here right now. Sorry for the blurriness of some, I had to wrap the camera in a bag to protect it from the rain. BTW a local who was just outside our driveway waiting to get through said that this area hadn’t had flooding like this for 17 years!
The road at our corner is currently closed, although 4wd are able to get through. I will try to take some more pictures, maybe one down at the big bridge when I can get through. That would be really thundering right now!
A general overview of the corner.
The water thundering into our back paddock and then into the neighbours.
Looking up north in the opposite direction. The water in this picture is only about shin height.
A closeup of the water flooding over the enbankment.
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