I hope you guys are all high and dry, safe and sound.
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I hope you guys are all high and dry, safe and sound.
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** its all in qld i get up this morning and its raining again? the people in the north are in serious shit **
there going to need a lot of help in the weeks and yrs to come
cheers huie
I think surfers understand better than most how intense man-vs-nature can get. Hope all of you and yours come through this in one piece.
the wise man built his house apon the rock
Hello Kokua,
There is the heavy rain which caused flash flooding, but now, even though it has stopped raiining all the run off from everywhere is draining into the rivers + higher than usual tide + they are having to release water from the Wivenhoe dam floodgates = major disaster. Tomorrow is going to be worse with an expected peak of about 5.5+ metres above usual river levels. Very grim, the flash flooding has largely been responsible for the deaths.
regards
Bob.
Looking pretty bad up north at the moment. You guys might be queenslanders/banana benders/cane toads but i hope you're all ok.
I’m watching an early news bulletin with the premier of Qld saying it’s going to be worse than the 74 floods.
We are still above water but the water has flooded both directions either way off one end of our road.
It could well be un-crowded at Noosa for once.
No jokes about Toowoomba though…the footage looked terrifying.
this is BS, mother nature is a nast piece of work sometimes......
I've been watching the Brisbane river for a week or so, because when the tide is supposed to be going out the water level just increases. Last night we watched pontoons and a cruiser-type boat floating by. The sun is trying to come out but the floods are forecast to come tonight and tomorrow. Bit like being in the impact zone and just watching it all happen. Thousands of houses will go under. All pretty surreal.
The Grantham footage and stories of houses with people in them floating down river were frightening. Cars zooming downstream. The Toowoomba area got really hammered.
It's pretty grim and there's no saying the rain has really stopped for very long. Some places have been flooded twice in 2 weeks and it's very early into the rainy season - I reckon there will be more bad news to come. Not much good news at the moment.
Bob.
WOW, that video is ridiculous! that's just a small snippet of what's going on and really puts into perspective just how devastating this thing is.
stay safe everyone...
It's really radical and getting worse, the worse since 74', !0 people confirmed dead, more than 80 missing, grave fears for 18. It's been raining for about 3 months and cyclones are expected this season. The ground is so soggy that trees will be going over and they are now saying it will rain till winter, 4 months away, so who knows what might happen. I just saw [on tv] this boat on a barge, some very expensive twin hull, get smashed into a bridge, there is all sorts of stuff rushing down the Brisbane river, the high tide tommorrow morning is going to reach the 74' level and today is sunny for the 1st time for ages, they are saying it's not going to flood from rain now , but from all the water upstream, of course from previous rain, the worst is yet to come , least the sun is shining for now.
It’s a catastrophe. I have hopes for the living and a kind thought for those who have tragically perished.
Howzit cuttlefish, I read an article today about one area getting 6" of rain in a half hr. that's just crazy and I have seen some heavy rain on Kauai but nothing like that. I just hope it stops soon and I feel sorry for you folks, if it's not a drought it's a flood, Mother Nature is really pissed off. Aloha,Kokua
nothing like a good natural disater to wake everyone up. there is a certain detached feeling when you see it happening in third world countries. but when it happens in the west naturally we feel more empathy, even though the loss of life and infrastructure are usually thousand times less then in a third world disaster. good luck to the aussies. All my family live in brisbane and went through the 74 floods.
I'm hearing you mate, this one is huge though, 75% of Queensland is affected, now the Clarence river has flooded and Grafton is copping it badly.The Pacific highway is cut, south
Every thing like this will have a lighter side, the one I just heard was," mate the bull sharks were going off yesterday afternoon, chasing the mullet", ON THE IPSWICH MOTORWAY, it's got to be 50 k's inland, just heard another, "the worst thing is , there is no beer in the fridge, cause the fridge just floated off"
The fridge floated off because it was on the pontoon.
Bob
The whole bloody restuarant floated off,fast. The guy who owned it was on tv earlier and said," well we will wait till the water goes down and start again". It's knarly , but they are strong, H.
this has been unbelievable watching it on the tele
a question ....how is mid to north coast New South Wales going ?
my folks are in Coffs Harbour [ halfway between sydney and brisbane ]