Australia Flooding

[Braddo]

No worries we have your numbers still i think, if not I will PM you before we leaveCheersBraddo

[roy2cebu]

We are both fine thanks Lee, the water has receded and the sun is shinning helping to dry up around the area What a mess the city is in stinking mud is all that is leftThere were thousand s of people who turned up to help others clean there homes and streets and to get them on the way to recovery againIt makes me proud to be Australian when you see things like thatCheers Mate

Hi Braddo, had some flood issues myself here in Victiria but , thankfully, not on the scale of q'land.Anyway, yes, it's great to see fellow humans pitching in to assist but what about the lowlife that are now looting, the fake fund raisers, the guys offering to clean up and asking for $200 in advance and then not returning....unbelievable!

[Jake]

http://www.abc.net.a...beforeafter.htmHey guys, the above link shows before and after affects of the flooding in various areas of Brisbane, Australia.Just move the slide across to see Mother Nature at work. We are grateful that you folks are in the recoveryphase now.Respectfully -- Jake

[Mr Lee]

And now the flooding continues in a new area, anyone have first hand information on how bad this area is getting hit?Victoria state is the latest region afflicted in a weekslong flooding crisis that has left 30 people dead and caused once-a-century floods in many areas.The Victoria city of Horsham resembled a lake after the Wimmera River overflowed its banks Tuesday and bisected the community before starting to recede in the afternoon. About 500 homes in the city of 14,000 people were surrounded by water.Peaking river splits Australian town in two

[Jollygoodfellow]

Here we go again Two potential tropical cyclones threatening to hit the Queensland coast could bring flooding worse than that experienced over the past month, Premier Anna Bligh says.Ms Bligh has re-activated the Queensland Disaster Management Group, made up of the state's top emergency officials, which met on Friday evening.Cyclone Anthony was set to intensify from a category one to a category three system and hit between Innisfail and Sarina late Sunday or early Monday, Ms Bligh told reporters after the meeting.Meanwhile, it's feared a tropical low about 1500km northeast of Vanuatu could build into a category four cyclone and hit north of Gladstone on Thursday.That tropical low is expected to be named Yasi by the Fijian government."The second event is likely to be much more serious with significantly more rainfall and high winds attached to it," Ms Bligh said."The events could be as serious if not more serious than what we have seen in the last few weeks."At 4pm (AEST) on Friday, Anthony was about 980 kilometres east-northeast of Townsville but was expected to move southwest on Saturday.Ms Bligh said 13 councils were on high alert.Rains brought by Cyclone Tasha, a category one system that crossed the Queensland coast on Christmas Day last year, led to flooding in an area the size of France and Germany."We're battening down the hatches once more ... We hope both these weather formations disappear out at sea somewhere," she said."But on all current modelling, the bureau's best advice is that both of these cyclones will cross the Queensland coast next week, and we have to be ready for that possibility."The premier said the cyclone warnings were grim news as the state rebuilds from the recent flood disaster."Last year, we were given warnings of a very difficult wet season and we are a long way from that wet season being over," she said.Ms Bligh urged people to remain calm, but to be prepared and to secure their property.Deputy police commissioner Ian Stewart has been re-appointed as the state disaster co-ordinator.He said there was no need for panic buying, but people should ensure they are prepared."I'm asking people to stock up on essential items," Mr Stewart told reporters in Brisbane."Make sure there's fuel in vehicles."

[Jollygoodfellow]

Queensland Australia is now bracing for its second disaster this year. This wont affect me much but the rain probably will. Monster cyclone likely to hit Cairns A cyclone described as a "monster, killer storm" is bearing down on Cairns, with communities far to the north, south and west of the northern Queensland tourist centre also braced for its fury.The latest modelling suggests Cyclone Yasi is on track to hit Cairns about 1am (AEST) on Thursday as a highly destructive category four storm with winds above 250km/h.The Australian Defence Force has been called in to evacuate hundreds of patients from two Cairns hospitals.And residents in low-lying areas have been told to abandon their homes with a storm surge of up to two metres expected in parts of Cairns, including the CBD.Premier Anna Bligh says Yasi is so powerful that communities hundreds of kilometres away from where it crosses the coast will experience category one and two-type conditions."It's such a big storm, it's a monster killer storm, that it's not just about where this crosses the coast that is at risk," Ms Bligh said on Tuesday.The volatile nature of cyclones means there's no guarantee Cairns will be ground zero. So far it's the Bureau of Meteorology's best guess, and it's where the most serious preparations are being made.Communities as far north as Cooktown and as far south as Townsville have also been warned Yasi could hit them.BOM senior forecaster Ann Farrell told AAP Yasi was continuing to intensify and she could not rule out the chance of it reaching category five."It is possible it could reach category five intensity, and that would push winds up to around the 300km/h mark," Ms Farrell said.Yasi, which on Tuesday afternoon was a category three, is expected to take some time to die out after crossing the coast, with a firm monsoon pattern expected to continue feeding it once it's over land.Bureau senior forecaster Gordon Banks warned cyclonic conditions may be seen far inland, possibly as far west as Mt Isa near the Northern Territory border."Certainly for north Queensland, we need to prepare for the eventuality of something really significant heading into areas that may not have seen this before," he told AAP.Yasi is expected to be Queensland's worst cyclone, covering something approaching twice the physical size of Cyclone Larry, which devastated Innisfail in 2006 and left a $1.5 billion damage bill.With such a large, powerful system in play, much of the north Queensland coast is preparing for dangerous storm surges.Residents as far away as Townsville, Ingham and the Whitsunday resort islands are evacuating properties on the back of warnings from authorities.Ms Bligh said mandatory evacuation orders were being given in council areas from Cook to Hinchinbrook for people in flood-risk areas.In Cairns alone, about 9000 people will be evacuated, mostly to family and friends but six evacuation centres have been set up in and around the city to accommodate people who have nowhere to go.Ms Bligh said she understood many people would be frightened, particularly those who had experienced Cyclone Larry.But she said all the advice was that north Queensland was facing "a potentially very deadly event"."Loss of life and serious injury ultimately will depend in some respects on people being sensible, listening to warnings, taking advice and not treating this as a tourist event," she said."It will be a display of the awesome power of nature, but it's not something you want to go outside and watch."On Tuesday night, defence force and other aircraft were working to fly several hundred patients to safety in Brisbane from the Cairns Base and Cairns Private hospitals.Ms Bligh said many buildings in north Queensland had been built to withstand cyclones after Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, but older homes were at risk.Pre-emptive disaster declarations have been made across Queensland's central, north, far north and western areas, giving police powers to force people out of danger areas.State disaster management coordinator Ian Stewart said the nature of the threat must not be underestimated."Please make no mistake. This storm is a deadly event," he told reporters.In Cairns, supermarkets were seeing hundreds of shoppers stocking up on food ahead of the storm.But Mayor Val Schier told AAP some people were running behind with their preparations, despite the warnings."Some people have left it very late," she said. "They were complacent and didn't heed the warnings."Some caravan park residents were also refusing to leave.While most residents at Cairns Holiday park and Cairns Coconut Holiday resort had moved to higher ground, a brick amenities block would serve as a "panic room" for about 100 people holed up at the city's Sunland Leisure Park."No one's left here yet," park spokesman George Piggott said."We have an amenities block and when, and if, anything happens we will get people into there."Attorney-General Robert McClelland said the Australian Defence Force was on alert to respond to any additional requests for support."It's devastating for Queenslanders to be facing such a severe cyclone only weeks after the worst floods in the state's history," he said.

[Mr Lee]

Wow that looks like a monster storm, my wife and I hope you will all be OK and that it will not cause any more flooding. We hope that those of you who live in Australia or have relatives there, will check back in and keep us all informed. Be safe all.