Australia's flooding woes.

[race aficionado]

Any forum members from Brisbane?

Suffice to say, things are tough over there.

Wishing all the best.

[MrMetro]

My heart goes out to all the people of Queensland. I wish you all the best my friends

[Daniel]

Yes it is a little wet there at the moment.

Sadly on the other side (where my family lives) it's the complete opposite......

Dams are at their lowest level in 10 years and it was just in 2009 that they had great inflow into the dams and then less than a year later almost nothing......
http://watercorporation.com.au/D/dams_storage.cfm

Hopefully everyone stays safe :)

[ShiftingGears]

The floods are to peak today so hopefully that will mean the worst will have passed all the communities affected.

[AJP]

There is terrible in the Areas around Toowoomba and Brisbane and as far south as Grafton in NSW. Many lives have been lost and many people missing.
The devastation is immense. Thoughts go out to all of those effected.

[AJP]

Also to the people in Brazil facing the same devastation and destruction. Very sad.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/brazil-floods-leave-up-to-250-dead-20110113-19osn.html

[Valve Bounce]

For those interested in the details, you can access the Australian newspapers and get a lot of info here. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/
and here: http://www.couriermail.com.au/
I saw the tug boat guiding a 300 metre length of concrete floating walkway that had broken from its ties, downriver and away from the piers of a huge bridge. Itw as on TV this morning.

No good my repeating what you can obtain first hand. And I really don't want to write the heart wrenching stories which ended in people drowning.

However, in short, Toowoomba was hit by a flash flood which was equated to an inland Tsunami where a wave of water 9 metres high hit the main street. The downstream town of Grantham was devastated.

One very interesting piece of information here: a row of parked vehicles was getting swept away in Toowoomba in the raging torrent. But one guy was not going to abandon hi 4WD or Truck as Americans call it. So! to stop his front wheels from floating in the raging sideways flowing water, he deflated his front tyres and was then able to drive out up the street to higher ground.

[raybak]

There's a few of the Rally guys have had their workshops flooded. Matt Harriott my old co driver had to evacuate, lost his flatmates car but has saved all his stuff.

Will be a big clean up job.

Ray


For those interested in the details, you can access the Australian newspapers and get a lot of info here. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/
and here: http://www.couriermail.com.au/
I saw the tug boat guiding a 300 metre length of concrete floating walkway that had broken from its ties, downriver and away from the piers of a huge bridge. Itw as on TV this morning.

No good my repeating what you can obtain first hand. And I really don't want to write the heart wrenching stories which ended in people drowning.

However, in short, Toowoomba was hit by a flash flood which was equated to an inland Tsunami where a wave of water 9 metres high hit the main street. The downstream town of Grantham was devastated.

One very interesting piece of information here: a row of parked vehicles was getting swept away in Toowoomba in the raging torrent. But one guy was not going to abandon hi 4WD or Truck as Americans call it. So! to stop his front wheels from floating in the raging sideways flowing water, he deflated his front tyres and was then able to drive out up the street to higher ground.

[Mark]

Yes it is a little wet there at the moment.

Sadly on the other side (where my family lives) it's the complete opposite......

Dams are at their lowest level in 10 years and it was just in 2009 that they had great inflow into the dams and then less than a year later almost nothing......
http://watercorporation.com.au/D/dams_storage.cfm

Hopefully everyone stays safe :)

For all it's size, Australia is of course mostly desert, which I guess is why, despite being massive, it supports only a relatively small population.

[555-04Q2]

We are having the same flooding problem here in South Africa, especially in our northern Kwa-Zulu Natal region. A customer of mine in a town called Ladysmith told me that his shop was 2.5 meters under water!