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The Floods

DavisK4high247

DavisK4high247

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I'm in the US and have seen alot on TV about the flooding down in Australia, in certain areas anyway. Has that effected any weed growing there or is the area with the heavy flooding not an outdoor growing area?
Anyway I wondered about the floods and all that and how are you people in that area making it?
Anyway just an american concerned about you Australians. All of us americans are not self centered pricks..lol..only most of us.
 
I don't know about people's grows but I know some are stuck here in Brisbane because they are cut off or were cut off from going back to their homes.
 
I'd be guessing it will be very damaging to alot of indoor and outdoor grows up there. Not just pot tho, prices for alot of food is supposed to sky rocket because of it too.
 
Having seen a lot of canefields under water around central Qld I'd say that their crops are fucked for sure. (Never met a cane farmer who didn't have a back up crop for when the sugar prices are low). I'd imagine a few waterfalls may have ruined some rain forest plots but that is pretty much standard every year. On the bright side there would be plenty of water for irrigation now.

I gues we will find out the end of Summer.
 
yeah the crops are certainly fucked. the fitzroy river was meant to have peaked at a 9.4m tide yesterday. has made it as high as 9.2 and that looks to be the end of it.

there is a lot of (shitty) outdoor growers in the region as well as decent suppliers so like busty said you'll be hard pressed finding a grower who doesn't have a stockpile. i think the demand for weed is the least of peoples worries at the moment.

i live an hours south of rockhampton where it's really only effecting the coal industry; gladstone has something like 5 months supply of coal in it's stockpiles (can't remember the exact number i read in the local rag). we've had a few flash floods out on our property here but they've subsided and we're just copping the storms and lightning shows now.

our local supermarkets have been raided and bought out, prices jacked up from the out-of-towners around the region who can make it in and back which i think is a bit of a joke seeing our town had supplies cut off for a while. i've spoken to people who've come (some cases were lucky enough to make it) in from biloela, gracemere, emerald and a few of the other mining towns around the region.

mines as far out as theodore are shut down at the moment but not inundated. and there has been banter of NRG shutting off some sectors pending the situation with train lines and roads after the 2 weeks it takes for all the water to subside. a good amount of roads have been washed out along with train lines as you've probably seen so we're in a shambles at the moment.

our airport has a medical response dome set up where people are being flown in from around the place. it looks more like a fucking hazmat, infectious cordoned off setup with the big huge white domes.

there's a lot of people in the mining industry twiddling their thumbs, getting paid (up to) $3000/week to sit on their ass playing playstation, drinking booze. while others have lost everything.
 
I'd say its had an impact, not one that's really going to make a noticable difference on the grand scale of things however.

There's ALOT of smaller scale outdoor production in those areas that I know of, and likely quite a few would have been destroyed.

Any supply problems would really only be happening on a very local level I'd say.
 
The floods in QLD take up more area then the size of Germany and France combined I heard on the radio, It's a fucking huge amount of water.And To think two years ago our whole country was on high drought aleart.
 
DAMN thats a big area flooded huh?! Damn I hope you people make it through this, I know weed is not much of a concern to those living in a flooded area, but I had to use weed as an excuse to post up about the floods.
I hope you guys stay as safe as you can, and some of us in the US are thinking and hoping for the best for you guys in Australia!!
Best wishes and Hope to you all! Stay strong , adapt and overcome. You are the same backgrounds as my ancestors for the most part= Irish,Scottish,and some English, so I know you are tough people,especailly living in such a tough lifestyle country like Australia..Peace to you all!!
 
Leftwing is the closest BL'er to the floods as far as I'm aware, then there is us in Brisbane but that is pretty far away.

The damage is in the billions already I think, hopefully the farmers can rebound out of this OK.
 
Jakeperson said:
The world is dying :)
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And we are killing it :\

The floods in Central NSW knocked out a few crops that I know of - or heard about rather. I think it's highly likely the more widespread floods in Queensland will have destroyed a fair number of crops, whether or not this makes a difference to commercial availability only time will tell.
 
I would imagine there is grow house after grow house being baldy affected in brisbane. Most cannabis is grown in rental houses in australia (high density hydroponic setups). bush bud simply doesn't sell in the big cities. people want tight, dense bud of an exotic strain i.e. skunk.

in addition an indoor setup lets you grow all year round and you can go from clone to budding plant in 12-15 weeks. outdoor setups you don't get that.

if the houses aren't flooded then they've lost power or there is no one to look after them. I could easily see the exhaust fan setups on these houses failing, consequently there are rooms filled with plants which are sweltering in the humidity and heat.

the floods will have a massive affect on supply. I would also say is disrupted trafficking of other substances i.e. coke, smack and ecstasy. also the demand for those party drugs would be disrupted as well considering the Valley is shut down at the moment, and somewhat under water.

edit:

just saw an interview about food supplies in Australia and its claimed the other states will increase production to mitigate the loss of the QLD farming industry. I wonder if cannabis growers around australia will do the same for the QLD brethren.
 
I'm near Maclean, NSW we are completely cut off by the river floods

but on the positive side, think of all the mushrooms that are going to come up in the next 2 weeks as the floods drop.

:) :) :)
 
These floods are truley horrific, and amazing at the same time. I still have trouble trying to get my head around how much rain has fallen there.

I see Mr Blonde hasnt replyed since the 6th, and nearly the whole of Brisbane seems to be flooded now. It wouldnt surprise me if he is effected:\

I hope any bluelighter's in this region are OK.
 
Don't worry I'm fine, I was just posting about the floods in the QLD Floods thread in Aus Social. I put a link to a photobucket there with some pictures I took of South Bank and from Kangaroo Point if anyone is interested. :)
 
Our house is safe but we have moved out until the power is restored. Plenty of neighbours and friends are under though. Staying on topic my stash is dry and with a long weekend ahead I'm about to fire up and plan the week ahead. ;)
 
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