Australian Floods

Ian Anderson

Lifetime Supporter
Hopefully all our GT40 brothers in the affected part of Australia are all well and safe.

On the news this evening they announced the floods covered a larger area than France and Germany combined! And the flood pictures looked horrendous

Keep safe
Ian
 

flatchat(Chris)

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Gee --wow, world news --Some interesting times in our little neck of the woods, the river rose and fell 6 metres in 24 hours another metre and it would have eclipsed the one in a hundred year flood - apparently (global warming eh)

Many country towns have been cut off by the floods, which are vast

The heavy rainfall from the tropical north east of the country will eventually find its way to the southern part of the same country some 5000 klms away

So yeah, everybody around us has enjoyed / experienced the prestigious water front views
 

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Pete McCluskey.

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The area of Queensland that has been flooded is bigger (Literally) than Texas or the British Isles, It is hard to imagine the scope of this disaster.
Vast areas of our fruit and vegetable crops along with cotton and cattle have been wiped out. Already we have seen prices for fresh produce in the supermarkets increase by up to 400%.
But what really gets up my nose is the bloody minging minded attitude of our state and federal Governments. The State Government has offered A lousy $1million in aid for the flood victims, which the Federal Government has kindly offered to match dollar for dollar. A total of $2million......
Compare that to the $4.4 Billion that tax payers money is spent by the Government annually on foreign aid to third world countries. That's right each year!
Talk about charity not beginning at home the lousy pricks. At the same time the hypocritical female nether regions have set up a hot line and asked Australian people to dig deep to help out.
Bastards!:furious:
 

flatchat(Chris)

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Yeah ya probably right Pete --as there'se only about 2 people out there thats pretty good money:worried:
Well, with all this water around the boat (refugees) people can now by pass Christmas island and float straight down to Victoria via the inland route undetected by our boarder patrols aaand they'd be home and housed before the "authorities" could get a check list organised:laugh::worried:

Keith, Thats "drought" relief :thumbsup:
 

flatchat(Chris)

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With much more to come, a third of Australia is now inundated with flood waters.
Most of that third is broad acre farming -- cereal, cotton etc which had started to be bumper crops until this -- if only they had planted rice........
 
Guys,

Horrified to hear of the extent of the flooding there - on radio this morning it's quoted as being larger than France and Germany put together!

My thoughts to all those affected. Stay safe.

Graham.
 

flatchat(Chris)

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Keith

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Guys,

Horrified to hear of the extent of the flooding there - on radio this morning it's quoted as being larger than France and Germany put together!

My thoughts to all those affected. Stay safe.

Graham.

Yes, that statistic does raise eyebrows - but now consider that in that area the pop is 200,000? :shocked:

May have read that wrong - happy to be corrected. If true, wanna go live there:)
 

Pete McCluskey.

Lifetime Supporter
That 200,000 number is pretty right Keith, there is a lot of land between people,
whether you would want to live there is a moot point. It is very harsh country of the Crocodile Dundee variety. Years of drought followed by the biggest floods in 100 years. The town of Rockhampton which is inundated has a population of about 75,000.


Australia floodwaters still rising
Last Updated: Sunday, January 2, 2011 | 4:44 PM ET Comments25Recommend28
CBC News
Houses can be seen partially submerged Sunday in Rockhampton in Australia's Queensland state. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters)
Floodwaters are still rising in parts of Queensland, Australia, and water levels are not expected to peak until mid-week, officials said Sunday.

Many areas of the city of Rockhampton near the east coast have been swamped and could remain that way for the next couple of weeks.

Floodwaters in Rockhampton and other communities aren't expected to peak until Tuesday or Wednesday.

Tens of thousands of people in the state have already been forced from their homes. In all, about 200,000 people are affected and 22 towns and cities are under water or isolated.

Water from overflowing rivers is covering an estimated 900,000 square kilometres, an area roughly the size of British Columbia, or at least half the size of Queensland.

Airport closed, roads swamped

Greg Gobel , executive director of the Australian Red Cross in Brisbane, said access has been completely cut off to Rockhampton, a city of 75,000.

"The waters are expected to peak at about 9.4 metres, so the airport will go under," he said. "Roads and rail have already been cut off and, in fact, the only people getting into the town now are through helicopters, and even now they're restricting the airspace."

The last plane took off from the Rockhampton airport on Saturday afternoon before the facility closed.

Australian police have been using boats to transport people away from flooded areas.

The flooding has claimed one life. A woman drowned in Burketown on Saturday night when the car she was in was swept off a flooded causeway.

Days of heavy rain triggered the flooding, and there are predictions it could take a month for the flooded area to dry up.

"The reality for Queensland at the moment is that a vast amount of the state has been confronted with a natural disaster that will take not just days to pass and weeks for the immediate cleanup, but will have its effects felt for years to come," said Andrew Fraser, the state treasurer.

Another severe thunderstorm was expected to sweep through much of southern Queensland on Sunday, bringing damaging hail and winds, as well as the potential for flash flooding.



Read more: CBC News - World - Australia floodwaters still rising
 
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That doesn't sound good for food supply .
Everyone involved , know my family and I am keeping you in our prayers .
 

Ian Anderson

Lifetime Supporter
BBC reported flood levels still rising and expected to peak tomorrow

Also mentioned that 400 homes flooded - is that number correct? I realise the population is sparce but this seems a bit low.

Hope all on the forum are safe and that no GT40's have become submarines

Ian
 

Pete McCluskey.

Lifetime Supporter
400 is about right so far, but that's not including business houses supermarkets and the like. The biggest problem is that it has virtually shut down our coking coal mines and Queensland supplies about 75% of the world's coking coal, used in the manufacture of steel. So you investors out there go long on coal futures. Add to that the enormous damage done to our cattle industry, cotton and food crops and the damage will run into $Billions. And there is more rain on the way.
:cry::cry:
 
On our TV news here in NZ it showed how the town of St. George is under water as well . The point is that Rockhampton and St . George is hundreds of kilo's apart . It is not easy for me to try and form a picture how wide spread this flooding really are .

Z.C.
 
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flatchat(Chris)

Supporter
Thats thousands of kilometres apart Central eastern Australia North to South is known as channel country --mostly flat --water flows south west from the "great dividing range"
We were just starting to cope with 20+ years of famine now we got floods --de gods must be crazy ?
 
Well it's finished off the locust plagues good and proper - for now.

It's a land of droughts and flooding rains, it's not over yet either.


There are two major weather systems that are likely to feed more rainfall into the affected areas for another week or so. The potential is for flooding to occur over an area larger than western europe, but frankly I doubt it'll get that bad without a cyclone.


Bear in mind that flooded means underwater, as per flatchat's photos. Flood affected means the water has passed, has isolated areas or in some way damaged infrastructure.

Another thing to bear in mind is that there are many areas where the water will go that won't have had rain. I experienced one of these as a youngster. They're probably the worst psychologically, as you know it's coming for a week or more and prepare, prepare, prepare until it rises and eventually falls, then you go and find out what's been damaged.


To cap it all off, there's only been 2 of the 8 or 9 forecast cyclones so far across the top, and neither were remotely severe.
 
"I love a sunburnt country..."
Wouldn't be a farmer for quids. However, when the weather is more typical, we have it easier than many European countries. We don't need to put the cattle indoors in winter, as in Norway, for example.
 
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