Australian Floods - Never park next to the river
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Apologies if a repost, but here's some pretty dramatic footage of the floods in Australia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY
The main side walk just collapsed into the river.
It's slightly below the estimated max height but is still expected to peak in about 1 hour. An extra fifteen thousand houses are expected to be flooded (currently 35,000), not including commercial property. Power is off, water in scarce supply. (Listening to B105 Brizzy radio.
Interesting to see how fast things get back to normal compared to the USA disaster.
It's slightly below the estimated max height but is still expected to peak in about 1 hour. An extra fifteen thousand houses are expected to be flooded (currently 35,000), not including commercial property. Power is off, water in scarce supply. (Listening to B105 Brizzy radio.
Interesting to see how fast things get back to normal compared to the USA disaster.
anonymous said:
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Actually they're now saying it won't go as high as '74. They should hit the peak by 6pm GMT.http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20805...
Interestingly though, if this graph hits 4 meters, I've lost my house:
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDQ65389/IDQ65389.540132...
the daughter and her BF fly out on 2nd Feb to see his mum and dad who live out there, they had the water up to their thighs at the end of the drive, luckly it never quite made the house (on supports) and seems to have stopped about 6" under it.
we have spoken to them on the phone the other day and the thunder was so load we had to wait while it tailed off for us to hear them, but they are ok.
however some of their neighbours haven't been so lucky, the house opposite down the slope went under, and one if the sons friends has disappeared with all his family.
we have spoken to them on the phone the other day and the thunder was so load we had to wait while it tailed off for us to hear them, but they are ok.
however some of their neighbours haven't been so lucky, the house opposite down the slope went under, and one if the sons friends has disappeared with all his family.
jonnylarge said:
Apologies if a repost, but here's some pretty dramatic footage of the floods in Australia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY
"The handbrake is on" stopping it moving in the flood! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY
Silly bint.
garyhun said:
el stovey said:
Are these floods worse than the floods in the '70s? Brisbane seems to be taking a battering now.
The problem they said was that development has been massive since then so many more people/buildings etc to get affected.Edited by Tsippy on Wednesday 12th January 17:10
The real piss boiler is that these floods have been avoided if it wasn't for those pesky ecoloons.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/...
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/...
Somehow, I find it much more shocking seeing somewhere like Australia being flooded than I do when seeing floods in China or Bangladesh or some other third world country.
I'm not sure if that's racist or just that I can relate to the damage more. It certainly gets much more coverage than similar events do in poorer countries.
I'm not sure if that's racist or just that I can relate to the damage more. It certainly gets much more coverage than similar events do in poorer countries.
jesta1865 said:
however some of their neighbours haven't been so lucky, the house opposite down the slope went under, and one if the sons friends has disappeared with all his family.
The loss of life is such a tragedy - when you hear of someone's missing kid it really brings it home. Shocking stuff. randomwalk said:
Since the 70s they have done quite a bit of flood mitigation work around Brisbane, I thought there was a big dam that was meant to help however its probably full now.
I think it was full before, which was the problem..Those warmers said it wouldn't rain, so they were stockpiling the water. The reservoirs should have been left at 60% full, not 90-100%.
el stovey said:
Somehow, I find it much more shocking seeing somewhere like Australia being flooded than I do when seeing floods in China or Bangladesh or some other third world country.
I'm not sure if that's racist or just that I can relate to the damage more. It certainly gets much more coverage than similar events do in poorer countries.
The Queensland floods are big news here in NZ, daughter's boyfriend is originally from Toowoomba and he's just had to fly back to Brisbane to start work again after the summer break - so yes it does affect you more as Australia is much more "English".I'm not sure if that's racist or just that I can relate to the damage more. It certainly gets much more coverage than similar events do in poorer countries.
There are also bad floods in Rio de Janeiro - more loss of life than Oz.
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