Wednesday, January 25, 2012

"The rain in Spain ...





















... falls mainly on the ground". And plenty of it. Due to the wet weather and rising flood-waters both at the Tweed and Wilson rivers, the catch-up class today scheduled for 1.30 will not take place face-to-face, but instead will be run as an Elluminate session using Blackboard Collaborate. All students (internal and external) are invited to attend. Go to MySCU, click on Blackboard Collaborate, and join the session from there. I have already put a short 7 minute "test run" session under "recorded sessions": feel free to explore that one beforehand. The sound doesn't start till around the 1:37 mark as I was setting up the audio.

The first photo above shows the sudden rise in river height at the Wilson river crossing. Where the river is usually about 1.5 metres deep, it has risen to nearly 4 metres deep overnight. Once it washes over the bridge (about 5 metres above the river), I'm marooned physically. But we still have ICT :-D

The second photo is a snapshot of the radar loop showing cloud and rain formation over the Northern Rivers at 10 am this morning. Both sites are provided by the Bureau of Meterology. If you're in the Northern Rivers you can find your river heights here; and the Brisbane radar can be found here. Right now Southport is being subjected to a deluge!!

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