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Post by PeterB on Jan 11, 2011 12:05:59 GMT -4
You might like to spare a thought for the people of South-East Queensland, who are experiencing some fairly horrific floods at the moment. www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/12/3110921.htmA few years ago, Brisbane was on extremely tight water restrictions, as most of eastern Australia was in drought. That drought broke in spring. Now Brisbane is being flooded. |
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Post by echnaton on Jan 13, 2011 15:34:17 GMT -4
I was on the elevator yesterday and saw a glimpse of a report of flooding and heard Texas mentioned. Odd I thought, we are pretty dry this winter. So i checked the news today and what the report must have been referring to was a comparison in the size of the region experiencing floods to twice the area of Texas. The other way I've seen it presented is if towns over the eternity of France and Germany combined were experiencing floods.
That is immense. Here in Texas we don't even get a region close to the size of the state that experiences floods. How are the recovery efforts going?
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Post by PeterB on Jan 14, 2011 10:04:46 GMT -4
How are the recovery efforts going? Slowly, messily and unpleasantly. Apparently about 50 people are still unaccounted for, with grave fears for 12 of them. The unpleasant bit is the police saying that some of the missing may never be found, such was the ferocity of the flooding in some parts. One woman's body was found 80 kilometres from where she was swept away. My wife was quite upset at stories about some children who died, swept out of parents' arms, and of children who survived after being shoved into the roof cavity, with the people who shoved them up there themselves not surviving. One of the hairy stories is the town of Goondiwindi, which has a levee bank to protect it from flooding. It protects the town if the river rises to 11 metres. The forecast was that the river would rise to 10.85 metres. Fifteen centimetres isn't much! It turned out the river maxed at 10.64 metres, still alarmingly close. |
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Post by lionking on Jan 15, 2011 7:15:45 GMT -4
I think dwight is from Australia . dwight how are you?
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