Australian floods!!!

solace23

Thoughts are with you all tonight. Flood levels are up to 13m in some places now. Houses been washed away and lives lost. Stay strong oz...

threefish10

it's still raining tonight over most of southern queensland, it's crazy. just so people outside of Australia can understand the scale of this, the area now underwater is bigger the the state of texas. the water is receding in some parts but now increasing in others like Maryborough, the Sunshine Coast and Gympie is also isolated by floodwaters. the death toll is at 13, but many thousands have been evacuated and some may not be allowed back to their homes for at least 2 weeks to start cleaning up and checking the true scale of damage.

swans05

and i just watched 2012 on foxtel

and its raining here in melb

ZiggyStar

I've had two clients (from from ACT and one from NSW) ring me up last week saying they're thinking of me etc. I asked why and they both said they heard on the news that Townsville was now flooding. Ahhh no we're not?! We had some decent rain around Christmas time with that cyclone but definitely no flooding. Thankfully. We got hit hard in 2009 and Ingham just a bit north of me got totally smashed. Would prefer not to see that again.

Feel so sorry for southern Queensland. I was just thinking today how since I own a real estate/business broking agency, my business would be absolutely fucked if I was in southern Queensland right now instead of northern Queensland. All those people's houses, businesses, everything just ruined by flood water. Scary shit.

pjfan31

Terrible.

Just heard Gidinski say they are doing sound relief 2. I hope they don't have Jessica Mauboy. Shits me to tears how she is apparently an 'A grade' celebrity.

Thoughts_Arrive

pjfan31 wrote:

Terrible.

Just heard Gidinski say they are doing sound relief 2. I hope they don't have Jessica Mauboy. Shits me to tears how she is apparently an 'A grade' celebrity.

Or Anthony Callea, Guy Sebastian.

pjfan31

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

pjfan31 wrote:

Terrible.

Just heard Gidinski say they are doing sound relief 2. I hope they don't have Jessica Mauboy. Shits me to tears how she is apparently an 'A grade' celebrity.

Or Anthony Callea, Guy Sebastian.

Or Casey Donovan. If they used her instead of sandbags, she would have saved a few of those towns.

Thoughts_Arrive

Noone likes Anthony, not even water.
I went to TAFE with his former high school pupils, they say the guy is a stuck up snob and noone liked him.

ZiggyStar

pjfan31 wrote:

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

pjfan31 wrote:

Terrible.

Just heard Gidinski say they are doing sound relief 2. I hope they don't have Jessica Mauboy. Shits me to tears how she is apparently an 'A grade' celebrity.

Or Anthony Callea, Guy Sebastian.

Or Casey Donovan. If they used her instead of sandbags, she would have saved a few of those towns.

myra

Heard it on the news here and I really feel for you guys.
We had a massive flood on June 15th, 2010 in the town where I work and surrounding area. Death toll of 40 overnight. We woke up in shock and still haven't fully recovered from it.
My thoughts are with you.

PilateOfTheStorm

yeah i heard it on the news and my thoughts go out to those who have lost their homes, all their possessions. hope it gets sorted quickly

threefish10

so this shit is officially out of control. so the floods now have gone from Rocky/emerald, gympie, maryborough and bundaburg all being affected all the way down to St Goerge, dalby and toowooba and are now heading east from toowoomba to ipswich and brisbane with many areas in brisbane already affected and more are expected.

here is some video of the amount of water moving:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/national ... matically/

other news and vids

http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/- ... st-corner/

http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/- ... to-rivers/

a map of queensland to show the area affected from rocky(just under where it says whitsunday islands) and bundy, gympie maryborough all the way south west to St goerge and dalby heading east to brisbane:

ZiggyStar

It's fucking unbelievable....the amount of water is just shocking!!

How's your place, fishy?

threefish10

ZiggyStar wrote:

How's your place, fishy?

At the top of a hill. Noah will have loaded all his animals and set sail way before my house goes under. There is still a lot of water around and there are places under that I have never even seen water on. Plus with all the water falling and around(we've had 100mm at my house just today, not to mention the weeks of rain we have had) the ground is so wet and soft I've seen some big trees just fall over.

ZiggyStar

threefish10 wrote:

ZiggyStar wrote:

How's your place, fishy?

At the top of a hill. Noah will have loaded all his animals and set sail way before my house goes under. There is still a lot of water around and there are places under that I have never even seen water on. Plus with all the water falling and around(we've had 100mm at my house just today, not to mention the weeks of rain we have had) the ground is so wet and soft I've seen some big trees just fall over.

Phew! Lucky you're on a hill. Are you getting any work done or are you on extended holidays?

threefish10

ZiggyStar wrote:

threefish10 wrote:

ZiggyStar wrote:

How's your place, fishy?

At the top of a hill. Noah will have loaded all his animals and set sail way before my house goes under. There is still a lot of water around and there are places under that I have never even seen water on. Plus with all the water falling and around(we've had 100mm at my house just today, not to mention the weeks of rain we have had) the ground is so wet and soft I've seen some big trees just fall over.

Phew! Lucky you're on a hill. Are you getting any work done or are you on extended holidays?

Worked last week, well half days on thursday and Friday due to rain. But sat at home today cause it was pissing down and I hate getting my hair wet cause it goes all frizzy.

ZiggyStar

threefish10 wrote:

Worked last week, well half days on thursday and Friday due to rain. But sat at home today cause it was pissing down and I hate getting my hair wet cause it goes all frizzy.

And you didn't want to ruin your designer shoes!

threefish10

reports out of toowoomba tonight are that atleast 4 dead and 20 missing from the flash floods this arvo.

ZiggyStar

It's absolutely pissing down here!! Full on lighting and thunder. Loudest thunder I've heard in a long time.

tinkerbell

The footage every night on the news here is jaw dropping. My thoughts are with all affected. We had bad flooding here in Feb 2004 but nothing like the scale of this!

threefish10

death toll for toowoobma is now at 8 with 72 missing. this does not include the 12 or 13 deaths in other regions. and as i type this it is still pissing down in brisbane, will this shit ever end???