1. 2013-01-29, 05:25 AM #1
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    Major Flooding in Queensland (Australia)

    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

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    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...
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    Quote Originally Posted by TradewindNQ View Post
    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by TradewindNQ View Post
    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

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    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 =(

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    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.


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    You mean like this....


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

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    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.
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    it is also pretty bad in northern nsw
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    Quote Originally Posted by TradewindNQ View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by obdigore View Post
    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hypro View Post
    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...
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by obdigore View Post
    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

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    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!
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