Narrabri SES and emergency services have the personnel and equipment for flood warnings, evacuations and rescues but also a network of monitoring systems to track floods’ progress. Narrabri Fire and Rescue personnel Joab Rushton and Lucas Warren monitored and reported...
Flooding continues across the Parkes electorate, with all the river systems across the electorate now in flood. My thoughts are with those communities impacted as they begin the clean-up and recovery effort. In the meantime, the Disaster Recovery Allowance (DRA) has...
A Narrabri resident writes ‘Sydney road tolls are going up again, the government advises - it already costs a lot to get into the CBD. Yet another good reason for city people to move to regional Australia and places like Narrabri shire to enjoy a better quality of...
Apparently, the Bureau of Meteorology is asking that people in the media please refrain from referring to the Bureau as ‘BOM’, or worse, the ‘weather bureau.’ Thank goodness this vitally important issue is finally being addressed.
Not so long ago, in years of drought it seemed it would never rain again. Now we have one of the wettest periods for decades. Not long ago, interest rates dropped to record lows - now there are six rapid rate hikes in a row.
Thumbs up to our wonderful staff at Narrabri Hospital. We are so blessed to have such caring and professional nurses and administration staff to look after us. Also, specialists who come to Narrabri, such as Dr Thornton and Dr Martel, so we do not have to travel. A...
Thumbs up to building more big storage dams in eastern Australia. You could floodproof places like Narrabri and Wee Waa if any government had the foresight to build some dams. And the irrigation benefits would be enormous.
As mentioned in a recent Thumbs, congratulations to the council for getting on to filling the many potholes in our roads. Some are horrendous and deep. But it will be a very big job to get on top of the road repairs after all the rain and flooding.
A revised Narrabri Creek peak height of 7.7 metres is expected on Tuesday evening, the NSW SES Narrabri Unit has advised. This is above the previously expected peak of 7.6 metres. The heightened Narrabri Creek as well as other overflowing creeks throughout Narrabri...
A 38-year-old man attended an address in Mooloobar Street at 6am on October 5 and stole a motor vehicle. Police allege the man brought a battery and a jerry can of fuel with him. The man forced entry into the vehicle and then forced the ignition component open, and...
Narrabri Shire is bracing itself for flood-related repairs as a result of the late-week deluge and subsequent heightened river and creek levels experienced at the end of last week and the weekend as well as this week. The Thursday night downpour and continued rainfall...
Boggabri SES put out a call for help in filling sandbags on Sunday morning and Boggabri residents responded en masse. Boggabri SES member Chris Rixon said the service needed to replenish the stock as, over the past few days, it had used up the supply. “We filled 170...