• Flash flooding in the East of Austraila. Brisbane to flood to higher then recorded levels
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[img]http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201101/r700458_5363474.jpg[/img] [QUOTE]Authorities say the flood threat facing Brisbane and Ipswich is worse than the 1974 disaster. Heavy rain, releases from Wivenhoe Dam and high tides will be a damaging combination. The Brisbane City Council predicts 6,500 homes and businesses across 80 suburbs will be inundated over the next few days, and about 16,000 properties will be partially affected by floodwaters. Ms Bligh says the Brisbane River will continue to rise into Thursday. "Ipswich and Brisbane are now facing their greatest test and toughest threat in 35 years," she said. "We will only pass this test if we are calm, if we are patient with each other ... and if we listen carefully to the instructions we are being given. "Now is not a time for panic, now is the time for us to stick together. "We are facing one of our toughest ever tests, we will only pass this test if we are calm." Large parts of Brisbane are already affected by flooding. A number of shops in the CBD have been evacuated and the State Library has closed because of the extreme weather conditions. A floating riverside restaurant at Milton has been swamped by the rising floodwaters and the Regatta Hotel is being sandbagged. Ms Bligh says flood levels in Brisbane will reach three metres overnight and 4.5 metres in the coming days, with water flowing in from the devastated Lockyer Valley, releases from Wivenhoe Dam and more rain. At Ipswich, the Bremer River is expected to peak at 22 metres. The Ipswich showgrounds has been declared the evacuation centre. Meanwhile, the death toll from yesterday's flash flood in the Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane, has risen to nine. Ms Bligh says the situation in Brisbane and Ipswich is continuing to deteriorate. "We are now in a very frightening experience," she said. Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman says the situation is changing rapidly. "If it keeps raining all night and tomorrow the way that it's been raining in the catchment today, well who knows what happens then on Friday," he said. An evacuation centre is being set up at the RNA Showgrounds in Bowen Hills, which can accommodate 3,000 people. A council spokesman says residents must bring bedding, any medication, important documents and spare clothes, but no pets are allowed at this point. Several roads across the region are cut including major highways, while roads that are not already under water are choked with people trying to get home. Police say residents in the inner-city suburb West End should move to higher ground as the water enters low-lying areas. Further north at Strathpine, residents and businesses are evacuating as the Pine River swells, and Caboolture is completely isolated by floodwaters. Residents close to the Brisbane River and associated tributaries including the Bremer River, Six Mile Creek, Bundamba Creek and all other tributaries are being told to monitor the situation overnight and take evacuation measures if required. [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/11/3110689.htm[/url] [img]http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201101/r700172_5357275.jpg[/img] [QUOTE]The death toll from yesterday's unprecedented flash flooding in southern Queensland has risen to nine after another body was found, but there are fears the toll could double. About 66 people are still missing after a torrent of water raged down the Great Dividing Range at Toowoomba, crashing through several smaller towns in the Lockyer Valley below. Many towns were either badly damaged or wiped out by the wall of water. Homes were knocked from their footings and cars were washed away. Emergency workers including police, the SES and fire crews have been accessing some areas but more heavy rain and thunderstorms are pushing rivers and streams higher again. Premier Anna Bligh says the situation is dire and that the missing persons list from the Lockyer Valley tragedy covers all age groups. "We continue to hold very grave fears for the people who are missing," she said. "To everyone who has lost a loved one, you are in our thoughts and the thoughts of all Queenslanders and Australians." She said many people remained unaccounted for in the Lockyer Valley towns of Murphy's Creek, Grantham and Withcott, and poor weather continued to hamper rescue efforts. "In Grantham and Withcott we have police and search and rescue teams on the ground undertaking search and rescue activities," she said. "We do have police on the ground in Murphy's Creek, [but] they have been unable to continue their search and rescue because the weather has significantly worsened." The wall of water is making its way to Brisbane, where rain and storms are lashing the city and the biggest flood since 1974 is expected to arrive in the coming days. Residents in the Lockyer Valley have been told to immediately move to higher ground. Authorities are also trying to get to flood-stricken residents in Forest Hill and Laidley, and people in Esk and Toogoolawah are also being moved to higher ground. Assistance is being provided by aircraft and four-wheel drive vehicles from the Defence Force and the Australian Federal Police, but Lockyer Valley Mayor Steve Jones says resources are stretched to the limit. "There is water on the way, we are trying to ... everything is stretched to the limit," he said. Laidley local Ashley Newman says she has been told to move to higher ground. "We just keep getting texts and phone calls saying we have to get airlifted out so there's no way for me to get home," she said. Deputy Commissioner Ian Stewart admits police are daunted by the scale of the flood disaster in the Lockyer Valley. "Certainly Grantham is one of the focus, but the other one is the Murphy's Creek and Withcott area," he said. "That's the other area we're having difficulty getting into, and it's going to take us a long time today to get to every one of those areas. "I mean, the sheer scale of this operation is quite daunting when you look at the number of places and creeks that have been affected." He says bad weather is hampering search and rescue operations. "The rain and the weather pattern at the moment is variable, it is hampering our search and rescue operations," he said. "Access to the area through roads is very difficult for us. Our helicopter assets are having difficulty because of the rain pattern moving around that area." The SES says it received 4,500 calls for assistance from Toowoomba, where yesterday's flash flooding likened to an inland tsunami washed away cars and houses. Long-serving Toowoomba regional councillor Joe Ramia says he has never seen anything like it. "It was almost like a movie scene - I went to a car park, it's a council car park, and we had cars stacked on top of each other," he said. Lockyer Valley businessman Paul Emmerson says Grantham's business and farming communities have been devastated by the flood. He says the effects will be widespread and it will be many months before they can recover. "Anything that's in the ground that's the end of that - that's not going to be able to be harvested," he said. "That means it's going to be several months before we get anything through to production, so that means all your harvest workers, transport drivers, people who rely on continuous turn over of produce of crops and employment and income their livelihood - that's just going to come to a halt." Swift water rescue crews are also assisting communities in the Brisbane Valley. Somerset Mayor Graeme Lehmann says it is teeming with rain and residents have been stranded on roof tops and on hills that have been turned into islands. He says waters are flowing too quickly for the council's flood boats. "The whole lot of our towns are getting a hell of a hiding and some of our outlying farmlands have turned into a great big inland sea," he said. "Talking to some of our farmers out there they say it's going to be worst than 1974 flood levels." The Warrego Highway between Ipswich and Toowoomba is cut in many places and motorists have been told to stay off roads in order to give priority access to emergency vehicles. Meanwhile, the weather bureau has defended the way it handled warnings in the Toowoomba region. It says its computer models do not run at a high enough resolution to pick up such isolated weather features like yesterday's rain storm. Regional director Jim Davidson says forecasters were still tracking the low's progress, and issued flash flooding warnings as soon as the situation worsened. "We were monitoring that particular rain storm as it moved across south-east Queensland," he said. "We were satisfied at the time that the severe weather warning, which spoke about potential flash flooding in the Toowoomba region would cover that circumstance. As we know now, it didn't." Severe weather warnings have been issued for more flash flooding in the region.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/11/3110667.htm[/url] This is a good slide show to give an idea of whats going on, it has some audio from people so turn your sound on [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2011/01/11/3110183.htm[/url] And here's a live stream of ABC24, I'm not sure if you can see it outside of Australia. [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/[/url] I hope my relitives are Ok, they live near the areas flooding.
Someone should make a charity album in aid for the flood.
[QUOTE=AK'z;27345048]Someone should make a charity album in aid for the flood.[/QUOTE] Get singing then. [editline]11th January 2011[/editline] The gold who reated funny is a dick, nine people have died, and about 56 are missing.
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Funny thing how we're supposedly in a drought and yet this shit is happening nearly all the time in the northern area of Australia.
[QUOTE=DireAvenger;27345193]Funny thing how we're supposedly in a drought and yet this shit is happening nearly all the time in the northern area of Australia.[/QUOTE] I know I'm going to get banned for this, I apologize in advance. But I really couldn't resist. [img]http://images1.memegenerator.net/ImageMacro/5124528/WE-SHOULD-TAKE-THE-FLOOD-AND-PUSH-IT-SOMEWHERE-ELSE.jpg?imageSize=Large&generatorName=Push-it-somewhere-else-Patrick[/img] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Image macro, next time resist temptation" - Craptasket))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=Whomobile;27345056]Get singing then. [editline]11th January 2011[/editline] The gold who reated funny is a dick, nine people have died, and about 56 are missing.[/QUOTE] Death toll is now 13 and 66+ people are now missing.
Took me 6 hours to get home from work today, which is absolutely nothing compared to what a lot of people are going through atm. Have had some homes nearby evacuated, looks like we'll be taking some people in.
Hope my mates okay.
I live in Brisbane and it hasn't stopped raining all day. I went to visit the creek a block away and found that what was normally a trickle had turned into this. [img]http://i.imgur.com/W9f2O.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=AWarGuy;27345294]Death toll is now 13 and 66+ people are now missing.[/QUOTE] The overall deathtoll is much higher :( [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY[/media] Video shows how hectic the waters were.
Where is that, I'm on north side. Haven't seen no floods here.
The worst went through my town late 2010 early 2011. Like 5 days each way. Thankfully the water only went up to our drive way. 80% of my town went under. It's going to flood again. It's scary being here right now. Toowoomba got it so bad :( people think they're in control because they have money. Nature can strike anyone, any time.
This is why i love sydney. Near perfect climate here.
[QUOTE=CertainDOOM;27345727]This is why i love sydney. Near perfect climate here.[/QUOTE] You're a fucking wanker aren't you?
[QUOTE=1239the;27345564]I live in Brisbane and it hasn't stopped raining all day. I went to visit the creek a block away and found that what was normally a trickle had turned into this. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/W9f2O.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Go swimming.
[QUOTE=CertainDOOM;27345727]This is why i love sydney. Near perfect climate here.[/QUOTE] yeah but at least in brisbane you won't be murdered
This has been on the news all day on nearly ever channel, goddamit. It's sad, but all I wanted to do is watch how I met your mother. 9 dead 66 missing, sucks.
oh yeah and the dam that's stopping everything from going to hell is at 200% capacity, which is over 50% of it's limit so if it breaks we're all fucked
Near where i live the river is almost 16m above its normal level, there is a crossing with a playground/swimming/barbeques, normally its just under this bridge [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6580494/3049914178_5d885e754d.jpg[/img] this is a picture from a few hours ago, taken from up a hill, everything you see in the first picture is completly underwater [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6580494/165138_489494782307_735282307_6120784_1879776_n.jpg[/img]
My older brother might be in trouble, hope he's alright. I'm around here maryborough, all roads closed.
QQ more leathery racists, the Pakistan floods affected more than 20 million people, that is, the entire population of Australia, and it received less media coverage. Call back when your natural disasters are noteworthy on an international level. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Trolling, you do not decide what is newsworthy" - Lithifold))[/highlight]
Hello this is Saren speaking. Calling Contag.
I hope my Half-Sis and her child survives, i feel bad for the other family's to, losing the ones they love. [editline]11th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=bree;27345672]The worst went through my town late 2010 early 2011. Like 5 days each way. Thankfully the water only went up to our drive way. 80% of my town went under. It's going to flood again. It's scary being here right now. Toowoomba got it so bad :( people think they're in control because they have money. Nature can strike anyone, any time.[/QUOTE] My Dad's car engine actually got Destroyed because of the Toowoomba Flood.
[QUOTE=Contag;27345956]QQ more leathery racists, the Pakistan floods affected more than 20 million people, that is, the entire population of Australia, and it received less media coverage. Call back when your natural disasters are noteworthy on an international level.[/QUOTE] [img]http://cdn1.knowyourmeme.com/i/000/055/297/original/1276831151470.jpg?1276840040[/img]
You got nothing to good to say, why say anything at all.
[QUOTE=Whomobile;27345056]Get singing then. [editline]11th January 2011[/editline] The gold who reated funny is a dick, nine people have died, and about 56 are missing.[/QUOTE] If you knew that 9 where dead you should have known that at that point 72 where missing. its 10 and 78 now the roof at work was leaky, it was literally niagra falls
I live between Ipswich and Brisbane, although my particular suburb appears unaffected by the flood. Two neighbouring suburbs are not so lucky. The only thing affected is the internet for me, and I can live without my 24mbit unlimited internet once in a while.
[QUOTE=ThePutty;27345787]yeah but at least in brisbane you won't be murdered[/QUOTE] I believe you're thinking of melbourne, crime rates are much higher there. Not mto mention last time i was in brisbane some fucking huge dude at the hotel came up to me whilst on speed and told me he'd just gotten out of prison, didn't leave such a good impression.
[QUOTE=Contag;27345956]QQ more leathery racists, the Pakistan floods affected more than 20 million people, that is, the entire population of Australia, and it received less media coverage. Call back when your natural disasters are noteworthy on an international level.[/QUOTE] LOL, Nice one!
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