BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Apr 11 - 03:07 AM

Chopper pilot breaks down at flood inquiry

Also a bunch of links

Photos

    * Brisbane floods gallery
    * SE Queensland flash floods gallery
    * Queensland floods gallery
    * Before and after: NASA satellite images

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Apr 11 - 10:02 PM

Oh and if you put any event on in the flood plain of a creek that has traditionally (for over 100 years - as long as the settlement has been there) been called 'Frog's Hollow', you might expect the water to get 'knee-deep'....

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Apr 11 - 08:29 AM

Lots of panic, but no one harmed apparently.

Flash flooding hits Easterfest in Toowoomba

One giant tent collapsed under weight of rain, ripped ... see pics.

Well, some had questioned whether the site of the Jan flash flood still was an appropriate site...

Yes this is the Site of The Teeter Totter Wall of Noise! ...

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 06:25 PM

A Flood Inquiry has been set up.

Google Flood Inquiry - add Queensland or Australia if you are overseas and do not get a result "News for flood inquiry"

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 02:35 AM

Well, there's still been sporadic flooding around the place, but Roma got hit the 3rd time in about 12 months, each tiem supposedly '1 in 100 year event'.

Roma mops up after another flood

Yes, Banana is a real place. I went thru it whole dad was taking me around on holidays when he was working back in the 60s.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 07:14 AM

And now the North of Qld is flooded again with torrential rains - up to half a meter of rainfall in parts ...


http://www.facebook.com/weatherchannel


Rainfall will reach Lake Eyre this week as tropical moisture spreads south. Most tributaries in the Lake Eyre catchment are already full or holding some water after the nations 2nd wettest summer, so flows should reach the lake quickly.
http://www.weatherchannel.com.au/main-menu/News/Breaking-News/Rainfall-fills-Lake-Eyre.aspx

Ken Heatley shows us the rain spreading through SA, Vic and NSW on The Weather Channel's new website http://www.weatherchannel.com.au/ . Flood watches have been issued for river systems in these states as a result of this rain band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfNnYaRyIe8

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 04:29 AM

Following the floods in rural Victoria many farmers are struggling Video - Transcript also available

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: Tangledwood
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 02:23 AM

That's what I thought. I guess he wasn't too concerned about the flavour at that moment. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 05:03 PM

The length was about 2 metres, looked like a fuel siphon hose ... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: Tangledwood
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 04:14 PM

"Garden hose snorkel saves man in flooded creek "

Very lucky man, and lucky to have quick thinking friends nearby. Lucky too that the situation didn't last too long. It's not possible to exhale the contents of a hose of any length so there is a quick build up of CO2.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 05:34 AM

The folks in OZ and NZ have both had such a battering I hope that things get better for all and get some peace very soon. Take care.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 01:44 AM

lucky bloke

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 09:08 PM

Not all over yet - still happening in smaller areas

Garden hose snorkel saves man in flooded creek

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 Feb 11 - 04:32 AM

The town of Condamine, flooded twice, had to abandon their New Year Celebration. It has now been held, 2 months late. Never tell Aussies they can't have a party....

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 02:04 AM

Cyclone Carlos to reform over flooded WA

It's a big country, but I can't remember too many previous cyclones making it all the way across and recharging...

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Feb 11 - 09:39 AM

Somebody is going to find record breaking opals that were washed up by the floods.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Feb 11 - 01:00 AM

Still it goes on - outside Qld too...

Carnarvon locals weather flood peak

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Feb 11 - 02:51 PM

Health risks remain after floodwater subsides

Our ex-PM Kevin Rudd was affected by a serious Bacterial infection after walking around in flood waters helping his local constituents.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: freda underhill
Date: 16 Feb 11 - 03:02 AM

now Darwin, hopefully not a heavy one.

+ yes Sins, I look forward to when the Business Council recommends cuts to their own funding to assist.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Feb 11 - 02:53 AM

Found a relevant link now ...

Authorities decide not to open cyclone shelters

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Feb 11 - 02:45 AM

OK - not Queensland, but NT (Northern Territory) our western neighbor has been getting hit by a cyclone and rainfall of several hundred mms in the last couple of days - most of the year rainfall ... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Feb 11 - 12:19 AM

It was only a bantam but a big bantam - the shredder is top heavy, and easily tipped on its wheels.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Feb 11 - 12:07 AM

silvertails cutting THEIR pay??????

Wash you mouth out for daring to suggest it!

sandra

(silvertail = a rich person, an old term still in use. Bronzewing was the matching term for the lower classes & the poor - bronzewing pigeons were everywhere once, just like those people! Bronzewing is no longer in use.)

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Feb 11 - 07:23 PM

Just curious - how big a cut in pay and benefits has the business council suggested for themselves? Or is it like here in the states? Not in my backyard.
M

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: Andrez
Date: 15 Feb 11 - 07:03 PM

Wow Queensland chooks must be huge! Can you make a "flood damage" claim?

:-)

Cheers,

Andrez

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 07:00 PM

Man set alight clearing up cyclone debris

"Tablelands Mayor Tom Gilmore says he agrees more help is needed to clean inland properties damaged by Cyclone Yasi.

Mr Gilmore says he understands why help has been focused on areas closer to the coast, but it is needed in inland as well.

He says thousands of kilometres of fencing is down across the region.

"It was still a category three cyclone when it was 100 kilometres inland, so there was enormous damage to cattle yards, to fences, that sort of stuff," he said. "

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 07:10 AM

Sorry, reversed the damn link - was a bit off - a very well loved chook managed to pull a heavy garden shredder down on top of herself. She will be sadly missed.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 05:03 AM

your second link doesn't work - so here it is again -
Pension cuts to pay for floods 'not an option'

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Feb 11 - 11:46 PM

The cat was down the other day for a while..

Devastated Victorians beg for rain to stop

Still problems in parts of the East Coast of Australia...

And now the Greedy Selfish Capitalist Arsehole Bastards never miss a trick!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/14/3138305.htm

We just had almost a revolution with old ladies taking off their clothes in public a year or so ago to demand a pension increase. Cost of living has not fallen since then! It's no cheaper to live on a disability pension than an old age pension or unemployment either, for that matter! and they pay the unemployed less anyway... Just coming out of a muscular back spasm which has its roots in things that put me on the disability pension anyway...

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 05:31 PM

They are still sandbagging towns in Voctoria, as the water from rain in Queensland earlier in the year runs down the Murray to the sea... Big Country, slow rivers...

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 09:17 AM

I can't post much from work, FT, but I am following this thread. The fires in western Australia are pretty scary as well. We have blizzards shattering the mid west. A rough winter for all. Stay safe.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: maeve
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 07:37 AM

Thank you for your reports, Foolestroupe.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 07:30 AM

An interesting Musical sidenote - but this is a music site .. ;-)

BUMS Flood Relief Concert 30 Jan 2010

Yep, dems is ukes guys... follow the link ... :-)

Ukes are getting degree of Australian interest again ...

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 03:21 AM

This is the current effect of floods in the Condamine you have heard of in the Aussie Folk Songs.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 10:00 PM

Emotions are running a bit high in Toowoomba ...

Flash flood fears wash away

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 09:45 PM

Thanks to Yasi ... Outback storms leave an inland sea

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 04:09 PM

Yet more in Victoria, heavy rain still trashing the place, more expected till it leaves. You can follow the news at the previous links.

What I thought might spin up and did not - the eastern 'tail' has reached Qld and has a fair amount of rain in it, but is scattered. Too turbulent to spin up, I suppose, lucky us.

Yasi was the 3rd Qld cyclone this season, which we are still in - on average, there would still be a further 3 expected this season. Only on reported dead so far, but a few are still missing. Some of the suspected missing have been found safe. Not luck really, but preparation. But still a few 'overconfident' have to be rescued from going into flood waters where they should not - if the SES had not been so active and prepared, we probably would have had another 30 or so deaths this year in total.

One incident occurred where the prepared shelter was totally destroyed, but a local woman had insisted the the senior citizens gathered there move to a stronger shelter a few hours before the worst hit, saved many lived. She's a bit of a local hero now.

The areas where Yasi came ashore have been almost wiped off the map.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: GUEST,999
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 11:45 AM

Thank you, Foolestroupe.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 06:54 PM

Victoria wakes to storm devastation

Related Story: Flash flooding, storms lash Victoria
Related Story: Super-cell thunderstorm pounds Victoria
Related Story: Thousands call for help as storms lash Victoria

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 06:40 PM

Of course I can't now find the reference, but I heard that Yasi will drop rain on 2/3 of the whole continent (up until the rain depression it has now degenerated into) - it's that big ... and the amount of rain it is carrying is that much ...

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 06:26 PM

Nope - serious flooding in Vic - over 3,000 & nursing home residents also as in N Qld evacuated - 150 mm in 12 hours rain - HEAVY ...

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 04:23 PM

I take it that the flooding has been restricted to Queensland.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:14 PM

Battered indeed. Sad.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:02 PM

Well Yasi is dumping rain on Alice Springs - talks about sandbags there. The Todd River is a big channel with another massive flood plain heading up to Darwin - even though the traditional 'yacht races' there are conducted in the dry river bed on foot, the contestants carrying their 'constructions' by hand ... the races have been known to be canceled on account of rain ...

The 'outflung arms' of what was Yasi are now dumping rain on Adelaide and Melbourne, and talks about flooding there now ... Sydney cooking along nicely at expected temps of 36 deg C ... oh and very recent bushfires in NSW and Vic. There was a comment that this year there has been an almost unbroken line of natural disaster along the Great Dividing Range from North to South of the Eastern Side, mostly flood.

The remnant of the Eastern Tail of Yasi is now approaching the East Coast of Qld, looks like a fair bit of rain in it too.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 01:20 PM

LOL Downeast.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: freda underhill
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 12:36 PM

Here's some news from Tully, SINS, and thanks for asking.

And speaking of geographically challenged, where the hell is Maine anyway? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 09:20 AM

I knew it was not Queensland, Fool. Not all Yanks are stupid and/or geographically challenged.
That aside, how the people of Tully doing?

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: freda underhill
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 07:43 AM

The remains of Yasi is headed to Alice Springs now!

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 05:30 AM

Bloody Yanks! - Fail!


Sigh ... well at least Tasmania is ON the map, even if they don't know what it is ....

Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:16 AM

thanks, Roger, I didn't think I knew anyone in the area, I forgot about the Poms