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Post by londoner on Jan 11, 2011 11:41:29 GMT -5
Best Wishes to all our Australian friends with family or friends in the flood affected area. The pictures look horrendous and the emergency services seem to be having a tough time.
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Post by tonymitch on Jan 11, 2011 19:26:26 GMT -5
Yes Londoner. Include me in on that too. I was involved with the sea floods in North Wales back in 1990 and again a few years ago when the river Alyn burst its banks. Tough times, but people cope and bounce back given the appropriate support. My thoughts are with my Australian cousins.
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Jan 11, 2011 21:36:32 GMT -5
It is damp and just getting damper up there at the moment. Aussies are a pretty tough people and when the going gets tough then the tough get going. An example of that is Kinglake in Victoria which was one of the towns that was all but wiped out during the February '09 Bushfires. That town is still rebuilding yet the people have got together and started raising money for the Queensland Flood Victims. I am a couple of thousand miles from the area but thank you all for your thoughts on behalf of those affected. But don't forget Western Australia as well. They have just the opposite with a bushfire South of Perth that has destroyed many homes and appears to have been deliberately lit! CT
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Post by marychown on Jan 12, 2011 3:40:37 GMT -5
What heartbreaking images of the disaster in Queensland we are seeing on our news bulletins My thoughts and prayers go out to all those who are involved.
Mary
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2011 11:30:03 GMT -5
I haven't heard a word from Tony's and my relatives in Queanbeyan, NSW. But the town was also flooded and at least 3 people died. This is a bit down river from Queensland so it must be horrible.
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Jan 14, 2011 13:31:10 GMT -5
Cousin Jack - just so as people don't get worried unnecessarily.
As far as I am aware Queanbeyan was flooded back around December 9th and has not been affected this time.
I have just checked online and there is nothing since that time and also on the News tonight there was nothing.
What was on the News here tonight was the major flooding in Western and Central Western Victoria with towns like Beaufort, Skipton and others under water.
Areas of Melbourne were also affected.
Queensland is still the worst but some areas have begun the cleanup.
And I think that to say 'Queanbeyan is a bit down river from Queensland' is somewhat of an understatement! It is actually around 950 Kilometres from Queanbeyan to Brisbane.
CT
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Post by Tonkin on Jan 16, 2011 1:06:52 GMT -5
I also have family and friends in our three flooded states and have been worried not knowing their situation. No direct communication does not help the situation. When things like this happen it's effects everyone. Homes and lost property can be replaced I know, but to watch your home being washed away, or burnt to the ground, brings tears to your eyes. It is the loss of life that pulls on my heart strings. Thank you all for your prayers. Roy ... from down under.
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Jan 22, 2011 4:43:25 GMT -5
The Queensland flood situation seems to have eased considerably with little to nothing in the News lately except for some brief details about the cleanup. BUT - the problem is still not over in Victoria with Swan Hill the next big town under threat over this weekend with two Rivers converging into the Murray and the three combined threatening the town. By the time this weekend is over there will have been 80 towns in Victoria affected by these floods. A great number of those will have been all but completely submerged with most of the others being at least part-submerged. The death toll here is not what it was in Queensland but we have had fatalities as a result of the flooding. Queensland is big and has had major problems - but don't forget it's little neighbour just a couple of thousand miles South. CT
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Post by londoner on Jan 22, 2011 12:37:07 GMT -5
Just seen some of the pictures from Kerang. Will be thinking of you all. I see the Australian Govt is thinking to introduce a "Flood Tax" to help pay for the cost of the clear-up and re-building.
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Post by Sarch on Feb 2, 2011 13:05:45 GMT -5
O boy first the floods and now YASI Looking at the satelite images of the cyclone - it looks enormous!
Hope our Queensland members are OK
Sarch
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Feb 2, 2011 13:21:59 GMT -5
I have been told the eye of that Cyclone is 40km diameter! And it looks like Victoria will cop the tail end of it as we often do. Not the Cyclone itself but the associated moisture from it which is being forecast to arrive over the next 7-14 days. Looks like there will be a fair chance of more flooding.
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Post by londoner on Feb 2, 2011 13:35:26 GMT -5
Seen some early pictures and the warnings are pretty strong - best wishes to all who it may affect.
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Feb 3, 2011 3:29:33 GMT -5
One of my brothers is in Cairns with his family and he has called home to say that all is well. We have just caught the first of 'our share' here in Victoria with a brief loss of power. Much of the rain that the Radar was showing seems to have passed us by here where I am but we still copped a fair downpour with lots of thunder and lightning to go with it. Much more forecast over the next few days. Ct
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Post by marychown on Feb 3, 2011 4:12:25 GMT -5
CT,
So glad to hear that your brother and his family are safe and well in Cairns. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone caught up in the Yasi Cyclone.
Mary
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Post by tonymitch on Feb 3, 2011 5:02:55 GMT -5
Thank goodness no one was killed. It will probably take months to establish some aura of normality but years to emotionally recover. Just before I retired 9 years ago I was refereed a woman still suffering from PTSD caused by the North Wales floods 12 years earlier, and they cannot be compared to the devastation caused to Queensland.
Tony M
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