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- autoflavour0
wait, what? Chilamont? are you even Australian.. cause if your not, your outrage is completely over the top.. but if you are American, it does kind of explain it
- Nathan_Adams0
Can we stop calling it an "inland tsunami" or any other kind of tsunami, because there's no such thing? It's flash flooding.
- Amicus0
This is absolutely devastating, but Nathan's correct, it's a massive flash flood. I haven't seen anything that looks like an 8m tsunami style waving. Sure, the water was flowing fast and rising furiously, but I didn't see any so-called wall of water.
It's high time Queensland (and other flood prone areas) governments realised the risk of flooding and turned low lying areas into parks, green wedges or something else that keeps businesses and homes out of high risk areas.
Some of these areas have been flooded 5 times in just the last 3 weeks, and many have been flooded, or close to many, many times over the last 50 years. Learn from the past and plan for even worse to happen in the future.
The only thing stopping this from being a much bigger tragedy is the local heroes who risked their lives to help pull people out of trees, cars and other areas.
- like Floridians, probably time to just move elsewhere...neue75_bold
- BusterBoy0
Impossible to just move entire towns just because they are prone to flooding.
And there walls of water down some streets. It looked a mini version of what happened in Aceh
- I'm not suggesting towns move, I'm saying there's something daft about living in an area where your house is on stiltsneue75_bold
- to begin with...neue75_bold
- I'm also being facetious...neue75_bold
- well, kinda..neue75_bold
- Almost as daft as being on a major fault line ;)BusterBoy
- autoflavour0
one thing i keep hearing everywhere is people referring to amounts of water in relation to Sydney harbor.
i just wonder when Sydney Harbor became a scale of measurement
- when the rest of australia started facing floods comparable to sydney harbor i guess?mcmillions
- OSFA0
yo, anyone heard from slappy?
- georgesIII0
this is crazy shit, :(
all my prayers go to my Aussie friends