Australian Floods

[Milims]

How are our friends in Oz?? Anyone know?

[old tree man]

Yes Ditto with that a very scary and sad time

[The Riff-Raff Element]

My chum in Brisbane is still above water. Just. Bull sharks have been sighted swimming in the flooded streets. It seems that this means that the wildlife is still only averagely dangerous.

[TheGoodEarth]

Bull sharks have been sighted swimming in the flooded streets. It seems that this means that the wildlife is still only averagely dangerous.

Still safer than Glasgow then.

We were in Brisbane and Toowoomba in 2004 and it is very sad to see the pictures now. This will take many years to get back to normal. Let's hope everyone has managed to keep safe in Brisbane. Let's also not forget the 80 people that have died in Rio de Janeiro in the floods there.

[growingthings]

It's certainly a mind blowing sight that's for sure. I hadn't seen any images until tonight, like a lot of us here I don't see much telly. It was apocalyptic. Feel awful about the animals, livestock, pets and wildlife, so distressing for families that had to leave them behind and for the animals who just have no comprehension of the situation they're in..... That's to say nothing of the missing people / families.

Truly unreal......

[Millymollymandy]

I have loads of family in Queensland, and a lot of them are around Brisbane. I hope they are all OK. I have heard some news via facebook from some in Toowoomba who have had water gushing through their gardens but their houses are OK. The news reports are really scary and I can't get the picture of poor horses out of my mind after seeing them swimming in flood water on the news last night.

[Wombat]

Yup we have rellies in Bundaberg and northern NSW an lots of friends in Brisvegas but from what I can tell they all seem to be OK. It is a very sad situation in QLD though

Nev

[Milims]

Phew - so glad that you haven't been caught up in it Nev!

[MuddyWitch]

As soon as I saw the reports I thought of you, Wombat. So relieved to here you & yours are safe & well For all I know you are miles from the disater area, but my knowledge of Australia is sadly better now as I've been watching in horror. (I vaguly remember the reports in 1974, too)

Isn't it sad that my knowledge of geography is often improved by news reports of disasters

MW

[niknik]

Isn't it sad that my knowledge of geography is often improved by news reports of disasters

MW

Very sad....and worrying.


But I dont think ANYTHING ill ever improve this person´s knowledge of geography.. ( or of anything else for that matter)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FEm5Vwr ... re=related

[TheGoodEarth]

OMG she really is so insular. Reminds me of when we were in Quebec, Canada and I got chatting to a Canadian guy on a campsite and he asked me where I lived. Thinking he wouldn't have any idea where Perth was I said I lived about 40 miles from Edinburgh, his blank look prompted me to say about 60 miles from Glasgow. Still curtains open but nobody at home I said I lived in Scotland. He then replied with "Ah Scotland, isn't that in London"

[Wombat]

Thanks for your concern guys, but Mrs Wombat and I are hale, hearty and comparatively dry!

Nev

[Jessiebean]

It seems that weather is pretty dreadful the world over, Brazil and Pakistan aren't the best either. Thank goodness it looks like the worst is over in Qld and hopefully elsewhere in Aus. Apparently there has been flooding around here and talk of shutting our flood levy gates (guess who smartly lives in the flood zone?) but really we just had two days of moderate rain and some wind. Nothing like those poor folk in Queensland. I have only ever been to Toowoomba when it has been bone dry and cannot fathom what the "inland tsunami" must have been like. Most of our friends and relations are in SE Qld but by some quirk of fate there have been no floods in any of the places they live- just the areas which surround them...

[Thurston Garden]

Mrs Wombat and I are hale, hearty and comparatively dry! Nev

Good to hear that Nev.

A friend of mine just posted this on FB:

Today I cleaned the home of a man I don't know that has lost everything in the floods. Very overwhelming to throw absolutely everything away and proved yet again there are many things much bigger than ourselves. Glad to be home and surrounded by love now

Makes you think doesn't it?

[Wombat]

Mrs Wombat and I are hale, hearty and comparatively dry! Nev

Good to hear that Nev.

A friend of mine just posted this on FB:

Today I cleaned the home of a man I don't know that has lost everything in the floods. Very overwhelming to throw absolutely everything away and proved yet again there are many things much bigger than ourselves. Glad to be home and surrounded by love now

Makes you think doesn't it?

Thanks mate! and yes, it does!

Nev