[AusNOG] Brisbane DC Flood Info was Re: Brisbane Datacentre Question

[Kai]

...aaaand listening to JJJ, Tweed River is rising faster than expected, people are being advised to review their evacuation procedures.
SES QLd has done 16 water based rescues in 24 hours from people trying to cross swollen rivers/creeks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kai" <vk6ksj at westnet.com.au>
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Sent: Wednesday, 25 January, 2012 10:00:09 AM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Brisbane DC Flood Info was Re: Brisbane Datacentre Question

I would've thought so too, most airports are built on swamp, it's usually the flattest ground in the area.

I recently moved from Broome (yep, over in WA) to Clayfield (10 minutes from YBBN), I used to work at Bris airport, went there yesterday to see some people, airtrain goes straight over the little creek next to the busway tunnel construction work they're doing...that little creek is now a very wide creek, about three metres higher than usual and got a bit of speed to it.

Having been in Broome 14 years I'm used to summer monsoon, storms and cyclones, technically Brisbane's lattitude isn't in the tropics but the geography is different, so are the weather systems. So although I'm used to monsoonal rain, we haven't seen sunshine since Sunday, aviation forecasts and NOTAM's have an overall cloud base of 800' and 4k's vis. 4 day syntopic shows that trough which is bringing all this wet sunshine is hanging around for a bit longer, whether it rains here or inland we're on the river mouth so either way we're going to get wet.

A mate just asked if she could drive from Syd up to Bris, BoM's showing river and creek levels aren't practical to cross, just FYI in case anyone's thinking of bringing any gear up/down the coast.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean K. Finn" <sean.finn at ozservers.com.au>
To: "Bevan Slattery" <Bevan.Slattery at nextdc.com>, "Stephen Carter" <Stephen.Carter at workingtech.com>, "ausnog at ausnog.net" <ausnog at ausnog.net>
Sent: Wednesday, 25 January, 2012 9:35:01 AM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Brisbane DC Flood Info was Re: Brisbane Datacentre Question





I thought everyone knew that the Airport was built on swamp? 





From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Bevan Slattery 
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 7:24 PM 
To: Stephen Carter; ausnog at ausnog.net 
Subject: [AusNOG] Brisbane DC Flood Info was Re: Brisbane Datacentre Question 




Hi Stephen, 





Just as a follow up to the subject one of the best maps as a predictor to flood levels is the Brisbane City Council map which is from memory a Q100 flood level. The 2011 floods were approx 1:70 and about 1m less than 1974. 





http://lexiphanic.com/floodmaps/flooding_eagle_farm_airport_flood_flag_map.pdf 





I must say I was a little surprised when I re-looked at it recently for a possible B2 (NEXTDC second Brisbane data centre). Might be a DC operator or two that would be nervous looking at this map. Do your own due diligence :) 





Cheers 





[b] 



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