What the hell is up with Australia right now?
 

Seriously, like, holy shit mon.


I know it's been going on for a week or more already but this just in today:

Australia's Queensland flood crisis escalates, 9 dead, 66 missing
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english201...c_13685702.htm

Many evacuate Brisbane ahead of floods
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/worl.../16838256.html

Thousands of Brisbane homes at risk of flooding
http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/loc...ub=CalgaryHome


It's being reported on local news channels here that they got 150 mm of rain in half an hour


Shoutout to all our Aussie wm's, here's hoping you're all safe. I know several here are from Brisbane.


I realize this may have already been posted about but this latest massive crisis just happened overnight last night.

I may have to start my donations for 2011 early this year.

Saw that this morning. I have family that live in Adelaide, but my uncle heads up to that region this time of year for work he does, hopefully he wasn't around there. The footage I just saw sure didn't look good.

Best wishes to everyone in that area.

Yeah I was just reading that.

I think someone needs to take that weather machine away from Bush.

pretty obvious to everyone outside the mind-controlled US.

Earthquakes, wildfires and floods of Biblical proportions.

Birds falling from the sky.

2012 is near.

I'm starting to feel a tiny bit uneasy :Oh crap

Yup been following it on tv since it started. Crazy shit !!

Kinda makes the snow we've been getting here seem not so bad...

These people should have warned everyone in the building that their cars were in danger, rather than just keep filming and commenting on it all....



https://youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY

"Ipswich and Brisbane are now facing their greatest threat and toughest test in more than 35 years"

35 years. So it's actually pretty common :)

If anyone else wants to donate to the relief fund here's the link..

http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html

Nature, our biggest enemy, strikes back...

brisbane is a nice city...i could see though how water could be channeled there easily...many hills and valleys...those in the valleys would obviously be in harms way

Better to lose cars than have people drown trying to move them.

Australia's flood is unfortunate. This is said to be the toughest local threat in 35 years. Annoying local weather is one of the local factors that could connect all local people in a fight to survive (even though they may not even know each other).

Judgment Day is near.

Christ.


"Three quarters of the state of Queensland has been declared a disaster zone"


People don't realize how big Queensland is. It's larger than the province of British Columbia. Imagine an area the size of 3 US states being engulfed by a single disaster.

Mind boggling.

my girl's best friend was evacuated last night.

hope everything goes well

we have massive problems here that is for sure

you have never seen so much water in all your life

ouch, poor australians

USA playing with HAARP again. ;)

Australia is undergoing a cataclysm of biblical proportions and nobody seems to give a fuck.

+ they have internet censorship since a while ...Australia is getting less and less friendly imho.

No we dont.. not yet anyway :)

Joe Sixpack lives in one of the affected areas. Actually, a large proportion of adult webmasters in Australia are from QLD. We're a touch south of most of it so it's not really affecting us although towns inland and south of us are copping it. My sister who is OS atm will probably have the bottom floor of her unit flooded though. They're saying worse than '74 but who knows with the media hyperbole...

i have.... my hometown was flooded and underwater, then burned to the ground.

im up in Hervey Bay, so far its just the towns both sides around us, 30 to 130km away
that got hit ..

Hervey bay is just starting to get cut off from supplys ...no house flooding, cant be said for the rest of QLD tho...

150 mm is a lot of rain that fast. When I briefly lived in rural GA in the mid 90s Tropical Storm Alberto dumped 21.1 inches (536 mm) of rain on Americus in a 24 hour period. Fortunately the town is on a small hill so the town was okay but every road in and out of town was washed out.

I'm a fair way from the Queensland floods - but it's raining like fury here as well. No floods here atm but we had them before Christmas. My town is flood proofed with huge levee banks following the last floods we had. I feel so sorry for those poor bastards up there. The place is fucked!

And I read just now that because all the coal mines there are flooded, there's likely to be no power generated soon.

This flood thing has come after a year of just about non-stop rain which was preceded bu ten or so years of drought, when it wouldn't rain.

Ahh Australia - beautiful one day, underwater the next!

hum, and yet no-one gave a fuck when pakistan was flooded :Oh crap ... erm ... mankind does not affect our climate, does it? :helpme

I have family in QLD but they are on a hill and water all around them. They have lots of locals that just couldn't get away in time at their place. Thankfully everyone is safe.

Ha. I live in Queensland and haven't really been paying attention either. I don't watch TV.

I was one of the stupid people who got stuck on a flooded road coming home after Christmas. Car is a write off.

yeah how true. i guess most people here just can't relate to pakistans

We have had flooding here since Xmas, Our town of around 50K has No Milk/Bread and other supplies left. Fuel is running low, isn't good at all. Though Brissie and Ipswitch is worse there expecting over 20K homes to go under there.

You got any Milk or bread you can send me up dan lol.... By Air off course;)

Oh, the irony...

No water when you need it, and when it finally comes it's damaging and of such epic proportion that you cannot hope to store it for the future.

My fault! I sent this little summoning to 50 Brisbane Government emails 4 days ago.

http://hercshome.com/my-fault.png

They should have been packing heat so they could shoot the dangerous waters right?

I'm in the middle of Brisbane, but luckily on high ground. Spent most of the day without power, and down sandbagging and helping out where I can. Got a few friends whose houses are already totally under water, its pretty major here. Good thing is most people are happy to pitch in and help out where its needed, but gonna be one hell of a cleanup job..

Please take care my people in Oz.

Yes I love these. Every few years it floods in this area, and we just ring up and claim our $1000. Please donate now, all us wealthy middle class folk need your support! (I don't tell any lies to the opporator, so I'm not scamming, I really was stranded for more than 48 hours)

Didn't you spend time in jail for sending shit like this? Obviously you haven't learned your lesson. :error

Its all really scary how these BIG disasters are happening right now....makes me think that the end may actually be real and near

Thanks to you and the others for the updates. :thumbsup


This is today's news about this disaster:
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/worl.../16838256.html

Unreal.

This current flood is only 45 minutes drive from my place and I am in LA. It's very stressful to be away from the family when all this is going on so on the phone with them alot

you are joking right? 2012? .... your name Just Insane is very fitting

Australian City a Stinking Mess
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/worl.../16868541.html

"The Queensland floods, which started in December, have killed 20 people, left 53 missing and affected an area the size of South Africa. A total of 86 towns have been impacted."

"The massive flood which hit Brisbane was contaminated with sewage which spilled from damaged treatment plants upstream on the Brisbane River."


Yup, next comes the pestilence.


That's some serious situation down there.

Aww, don't be so harsh on their cricket team - they are trying their best - it's just us English are better :winkwink: