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- georgesIII0
this is crazy shit, :(
all my prayers go to my Aussie friends
- OSFA0
yo, anyone heard from slappy?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- autoflavour0
look, this is Australia. Its either underwater or lacking it. Throw in a bit fire every so often its how the country ticks.
It is strange tho, i thought the dam's they built in the 70's were supposed to stop all this.
but yep, no point getting hysterical over it.
when it rains, use an umbrella..
when it floods, inflate your boatno point going on the internet and shouting at everyone calling them fuckwits..
- Andrew_D0
From my bro:
"Yo , yup all good and safe so far, I was going to leave for toowoomba and then a tsunami went through it was an 8 metre high wall of rushing water. Brisbane has started to flood and there is a king tide coming in early afternoon
Phone lines are soaked luckily iPhone is satelite! I was all excited to start work aswell! They are estimating that Brisbane will be flooded with over 24 meters of flood water"Not sure how phone lines can get "soaked" and not work, but glad he's doing fine. Two months in and there's a disaster!
- ali0
Take care today Brisbane people
- ali0
Devastation here
- Andrew_D0
My brother moved to OZ at the beginning of December. He was staying with his girlfriends family on Bribie Island and had gotten a job as an operations manager for a few hotel chain and was to move to Toowoomba yesterday to work for a couple months.
Emailed him first thing this morning and haven't heard back, hope he's okay.
- Lil bro is safe and sound, just got an email back. Hope everyone else is good.Andrew_D
- _me_0