Major Flooding in Queensland (Australia)

[Tumble]

Hey all, incase you don't know there has been major flooding in Queensland ( Australia) A large portion of the coastal cities have been affect and Thousands of homes have been destroyed. Heres a video I took from just outside my work this morning.

http://s877.beta.photobucket.com/use...5248a.mp4.html


And heres a pic.




The water height was at 9.4 meters and rising at the time the Video and Photo were taken.

And heres a link to some news coverage.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-2...-coast/4488032

[Tradewind]

I know it's horrible and all that, but the only thing I can imagine is flood waters full of giant poisonous spiders floating along the surface...

[NatePsy]

I know it's horrible and all that, but the only thing I can imagine is flood waters full of giant poisonous spiders floating along the surface...

It's worse... Crocodiles

[Evil Inside]

I know it's horrible and all that, but the only thing I can imagine is flood waters full of giant poisonous spiders floating along the surface...

Nah, they'll all bunch up in a giant net and wait for anyone that happens to walk by and just drop down on them:P

OT: Really sucks this, gotta love the weather here.

[Tumble]

I think the big issue is the Live stock in the flood waters... Theres a piggery (? spelling ) further up river that lost over 1000 pigs all alive at the time the water came through and most if not all went for a swim =(

[Kasierith]

I thought that when there was flooding in Australia, there was supposed to be a landscape covered in spider webs as the little demons climb into the trees to escape the water.

[Tumble]

You mean like this....

[Tradewind]

aaaaaand I think we're done with this thread!!

[obdigore]

Why don't you get some big pumps and long hoses, and pump the flooding waters towards the part of your country that is on fire? :P

Yes, they would have to be very long hoses.

[Asphyxiate9]

4 Deaths so far last i checked

[TheBeardedOne]

it is also pretty bad in northern nsw

[Mormolyce]

I know it's horrible and all that, but the only thing I can imagine is flood waters full of giant poisonous spiders floating along the surface...

If it makes you feel better, nobody has died from a spider bite in all of Australia since 1979. Not one person.

Spiders just really aren't that deadly.

http://www.burkemuseum.org/spidermyt...downunder.html

[Hypro]

Why don't you get some big pumps and long hoses, and pump the flooding waters towards the part of your country that is on fire? :P

Yes, they would have to be very long hoses.

Love that... Yes long hoses and big pumps...

OT: We have fires one week the next floods and im waiting for is a earthquake... Then hey we in the land down under are having a good time

[Mormolyce]

Love that... Yes long hoses and big pumps...

OT: We have fires one week the next floods and im waiting for is a earthquake... Then hey we in the land down under are having a good time

Where beer does flow and men chunder...

[Uennie]

I was in Brisbane not two weeks ago, and my boyfriend is still there (our home is right in a flood zone). I guess this is the year the north gets flooded and the south gets burned.

[Afrospinach]

Why don't you get some big pumps and long hoses, and pump the flooding waters towards the part of your country that is on fire? :P

Yes, they would have to be very long hoses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_Mountains_Scheme Don't encourage them, they have done it before, albeit not for fires :P

Spiders just really aren't that deadly.

Oh good, so I won't die when it tries to chew on my face! I am comforted!

[Hunter Extraordinaire]

rain and wind here was awful...didn't get flooded, but still really bad

[Pious Lemon]

The power outs are painful, 48 hours without left me bored as hell (read 3 books...)