Again I our thoughts are with the Aussies. These pics help us to appreciate what the Queenslanders are going through. Pic 9 shows that some still use humour to get there way through this.
I'm all good at my house, but it's only about 10k's away from some pretty major floods - a very surreal feeling indeed.
My work that I am very attached to is close to suncorp stadium - won't be going back there for a while. first floor gone -second floor pretty much ok.
:(
Good luck to everyone doing the clean up! I'm planning on pitching in where possible
All safe my way too! I'm only 1/2 hr north of Brissie and we got the emergency evacuation sms as for Burpengary and Caboolture as we are in a neighbouring suburb. The creek at the bottom of our street (only wayin/out) flooded over, but that's nothing unusual. Although some friends have had some very close calls.
A friend of mine works for a hotel group and 3/5 hotels they have in Brisbane have been damaged. Another friend is doing hampers of food and toiletries. I have bundled up a heap of kids clothes and toys to donate, and have trailer ready for anyone who wants me.
It certainly has been a very interesting couple of weeks watching all of this evolve across the state.
All safe my way too! I'm only 1/2 hr north of Brissie and we got the emergency evacuation sms as for Burpengary and Caboolture as we are in a neighbouring suburb. The creek at the bottom of our street (only wayin/out) flooded over, but that's nothing unusual. Although some friends have had some very close calls.
A friend of mine works for a hotel group and 3/5 hotels they have in Brisbane have been damaged. Another friend is doing hampers of food and toiletries. I have bundled up a heap of kids clothes and toys to donate, and have trailer ready for anyone who wants me.
It certainly has been a very interesting couple of weeks watching all of this evolve across the state.
Watched some pretty awful footage last night on Sky News. Pretty hard to watch. My thoughts are with all those affected.
I cried when I watched the interview where the lady was crying and telling the interviewer about people running along train tracks to escape the water and seeing bodies lying in fields behind her house. Was somewhere in country QLD. Grantham, I think.
Now I've just found out that my hometown in country Victoria is flooding as well as other parts of Victoria. It's not looking good in parts of Tasmania either. :shock:
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There is now a Tropical Cyclone and a low off Queensland.
well we wouldnt want the remaining 25% of qld to miss out on disaster now would we??
how high is it??
Hmmm....I think the TC my source was referring to was TC Vania which is about to hit New Caledonia (Fig 1). But that low I mentioned has turned into TC Zelia....which is intensifying but moving away from the coast as can be seen by my picture below (Fig 2). Let's hope it doesn't swing back.
Sydney 11/02/2003
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014
so i spent today helping clean up at a brisbane suburb called Sumner Park. the height of the water level was unbelievable and it is just so hard to comprehend how much work is need to be done to clean this city, here are a few snaps:
Water level above a truck:
you can see the height the water got on the wall behind the coke machine, they lifted it that high thinking it would be high enough to keep it out of the water. well the water still covered most of the coke machine.
Can't believe how crazy these floods have been....
There are a few positives. One of which are the hot newsreaders/reporters.
Man there are some goodies. Allison Langdon, Wendy Kingston, Leila Mckinnon And there is another one on channel 10 that I find quite interesting... To listen to.
Sydney 11/02/2003
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014
How could I forget Jessica Turner. The one from channel 10
Sydney 11/02/2003
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014
There is now a Tropical Cyclone and a low off Queensland.
well we wouldnt want the remaining 25% of qld to miss out on disaster now would we??
how high is it??
Hmmm....I think the TC my source was referring to was TC Vania which is about to hit New Caledonia (Fig 1). But that low I mentioned has turned into TC Zelia....which is intensifying but moving away from the coast as can be seen by my picture below (Fig 2). Let's hope it doesn't swing back.
Fig 1
Fig 2
yes. just saw zelia is a category 1 cyclone moving SE at 15km/h.
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Can't believe how crazy these floods have been....
There are a few positives. One of which are the hot newsreaders/reporters.
Man there are some goodies. Allison Langdon, Wendy Kingston, Leila Mckinnon And there is another one on channel 10 that I find quite interesting... To listen to.
You crazy lad!
Although one the negatives is all people panick buying food...seriously I do nightfill for a supermarket and it is freaking ridiculous, especially whre I work isn't affected at all. Ok sure trucks are delayed for like 3days with the loads etc, and work from the bread delivery guys is that a major bakery has enough flour etc to get thru this weekend, but will need replenishing after that...all because people are buying unnecessary copius quantities of bread. As for the milk delivery....it comes in daily....all this week gone within an hour of arriving. I'm in grocery, and our biggest sellers this week are pasta, rice, tinned veg/fish, noodles...and....BAKED BEANS!!!! Although I am concerned with the marked increase in baked beans sales, toilet paper sales have been stable. :?
It crazy...like Armegeddon :roll:
All safe my way too! I'm only 1/2 hr north of Brissie and we got the emergency evacuation sms as for Burpengary and Caboolture as we are in a neighbouring suburb. The creek at the bottom of our street (only wayin/out) flooded over, but that's nothing unusual. Although some friends have had some very close calls.
A friend of mine works for a hotel group and 3/5 hotels they have in Brisbane have been damaged. Another friend is doing hampers of food and toiletries. I have bundled up a heap of kids clothes and toys to donate, and have trailer ready for anyone who wants me.
It certainly has been a very interesting couple of weeks watching all of this evolve across the state.
Glad you posted, was thinking about you today.
Thankyou, I've been away from here a bit lately due my little fella having school holidays at the moment...and the dreaded work.
"Salvation Saturday" is on today with thousands of volunteers cleaning up Brisbane.
Brisbane Jammers filthycanvis and threefish10 have been helping out too.
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The clean ups are going amazingly. Went in to help work get cleaned up - it was such a great turnout, on all the streets you go down here are just volunteers and strangers everywhere helping out. The amount of work that has been done in such a short time is amazing.
My hometown in country Victoria is now slowly getting inundated with flood waters. Luckily it's nothing the like the walls of water which rushed through country Queensland and everyone is safe.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12169311
My work that I am very attached to is close to suncorp stadium - won't be going back there for a while. first floor gone -second floor pretty much ok.
:(
Good luck to everyone doing the clean up! I'm planning on pitching in where possible
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12180079
A friend of mine works for a hotel group and 3/5 hotels they have in Brisbane have been damaged. Another friend is doing hampers of food and toiletries. I have bundled up a heap of kids clothes and toys to donate, and have trailer ready for anyone who wants me.
It certainly has been a very interesting couple of weeks watching all of this evolve across the state.
Glad you posted, was thinking about you today.
I cried when I watched the interview where the lady was crying and telling the interviewer about people running along train tracks to escape the water and seeing bodies lying in fields behind her house. Was somewhere in country QLD. Grantham, I think.
Now I've just found out that my hometown in country Victoria is flooding as well as other parts of Victoria. It's not looking good in parts of Tasmania either. :shock:
★ 2009 - Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Christchurch ★
★ 2011 - EV Newcastle, Melbourne 1, Melbourne 2 ★
well we wouldnt want the remaining 25% of qld to miss out on disaster now would we??
how high is it??
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Hmmm....I think the TC my source was referring to was TC Vania which is about to hit New Caledonia (Fig 1). But that low I mentioned has turned into TC Zelia....which is intensifying but moving away from the coast as can be seen by my picture below (Fig 2). Let's hope it doesn't swing back.
Fig 1
Fig 2
★ 2009 - Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Christchurch ★
★ 2011 - EV Newcastle, Melbourne 1, Melbourne 2 ★
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014
Water level above a truck:
you can see the height the water got on the wall behind the coke machine, they lifted it that high thinking it would be high enough to keep it out of the water. well the water still covered most of the coke machine.
all this shit washed up against this gate:
Can't believe how crazy these floods have been....
There are a few positives. One of which are the hot newsreaders/reporters.
Man there are some goodies. Allison Langdon, Wendy Kingston, Leila Mckinnon And there is another one on channel 10 that I find quite interesting... To listen to.
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014
yes. just saw zelia is a category 1 cyclone moving SE at 15km/h.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
You crazy lad!
Although one the negatives is all people panick buying food...seriously I do nightfill for a supermarket and it is freaking ridiculous, especially whre I work isn't affected at all. Ok sure trucks are delayed for like 3days with the loads etc, and work from the bread delivery guys is that a major bakery has enough flour etc to get thru this weekend, but will need replenishing after that...all because people are buying unnecessary copius quantities of bread. As for the milk delivery....it comes in daily....all this week gone within an hour of arriving. I'm in grocery, and our biggest sellers this week are pasta, rice, tinned veg/fish, noodles...and....BAKED BEANS!!!! Although I am concerned with the marked increase in baked beans sales, toilet paper sales have been stable. :?
It crazy...like Armegeddon :roll:
Thankyou, I've been away from here a bit lately due my little fella having school holidays at the moment...and the dreaded work.
Brisbane Jammers filthycanvis and threefish10 have been helping out too.