Australian floods!!!

nuffingman

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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12169311

Stella

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

chime

Thoughts for the victims of these floods and also the floods in Brazil.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12180079

Franny

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.

Claireack

Sagittarius Crux wrote:

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.

tinkerbell

Watched some pretty awful footage last night on Sky News. Pretty hard to watch. My thoughts are with all those affected.

E.K

tinkerbell wrote:

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:

ZiggyStar

There is now a Tropical Cyclone and a low off Queensland.

catefrances

ZiggyStar wrote:

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??

catefrances

and now with the water receding in qld and northern nsw, victoria now faces the possibility of more flooding.

ZiggyStar

catefrances wrote:

ZiggyStar wrote:

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

pjfan31

I hear death toll is now at 16

threefish10

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.




all this shit washed up against this gate:

pjfan31

Wow.

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.

pjfan31

How could I forget Jessica Turner. The one from channel 10

catefrances

ZiggyStar wrote:

catefrances wrote:

ZiggyStar wrote:

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.

Franny

pjfan31 wrote:

Wow.

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:

Franny

Claireack wrote:

Sagittarius Crux wrote:

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.

E.K

"Salvation Saturday" is on today with thousands of volunteers cleaning up Brisbane.

Brisbane Jammers filthycanvis and threefish10 have been helping out too.

8-)

Stella

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.