Thread: QLD Floods

Here's hoping for a break in the weather.
Hope you guys are keeping dry up there & any where else that's affected by the big wet.

The rain stopped a bit earlier than predicted so hopefully the peak won't be as bad as feared. Problem is that it's all the water that got dumped on Toowoomba on Monday is making its way downstream, so the rain we were getting hasn't been a big driver on the situation.

The whole city is pretty quiet at the moment, so its a bit spooky. Things will start happening tomorrow.

I spent four and a half years living in Oz and my heart breaks every time I hear about brush fires or these floods. The thing that gives me hope is that, if there ever were a people who could keep smiling while all this disaster is going on, and then smile all the way through the reconstruction, it's Aussies. Nothing gets you down for long.

You're in our prayers and our thoughts. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!

Just been speaking to my cousin who is on the old family farm in the Lockyer Valley. On Tuesday they got 14 inches of rain in 10 hours.

Hi Guys,
thanks for the thoughts. i am lucky where i am that it can't really flood - high ground. That said, my workshop is downstairs and the run off has meant that it is flooded from 1/4 to 1/2 inch deep for several days now and on and off for the last two months. Not a huge problem but the damp and smell are bad, mould setting in and my production has been stopped as i wasn't dealing too well with too much time in that damp. Really not an issue compared to so many others.
The long term effects will be hard. Already the hospital i work in as my day job has cancelled all operations and staff are being rostered off, so income is being affected for many of us.
Supplies and food will be issues for a while and we are expecting another big dump of rain around Australia Day from a cyclone forming at present.
Aussie spirit will triumph as always, though. Just compare how quick we bounce back compared to the poor souls in Haiti last year, or the tsunami affected ares a few years before that. We really are the lucky country.
i am not online much at present (well nothing new there ) but i also hope that others of our forum in Queensland are doing okay.
Best Wishes for All

Geezus squeezus. That's all you guys need, a bloody cyclone

Mould is a problem even in Sydney with the rain we've had.
Bloke in the hardware store recommended 80/20 vinegar to water mix & a good scrubbing brush.
Works well.

Hope things get better soon guys.
Grant

Well my ability to log on has been a bit patchy as Oz and Don know. What has been the cause, I have know idea, but we remained dry here so far, and I don't foresee that we will get wet. If the rain hadn't have stopped when it did, I would be putting the floaties on to come and type this I reckon. A lot of people are having a tough time of it right now. Going to be a long, long time before everything gets sorted out.
Myself personally, I want to go to Toowoomba to see how my friends and family there fared. One of my friends was seconds from the wall of water that wet through there and he never even knew it till his ex called him to see if the kids were safe. He'd just picked them up and was on his way home when it went by behind him, with him being totally oblivious to the fact. She saw it all coming and ended up trapped in a second level carpark.
Getting there won't be happening for some time though.


Mick

Good to see ya back online Mick. Yer mate should buy a lotto ticket
Are phone lines & cell towers down. Any news from Toowomba at all ?

'Phone lines are still going and Mobile network is still good, but the request has been put out to keep the lines free as much as possible. Calls to Toowoomba should be limited to what is necessary. I made my necessary calls to make sure everyone I know was safe. I actully sent a text message to my mate seconds before his wife called. My Aunt had used her mobile 'phone to take photo's and send them out to us, as it was happening. I was at the computer when that email arrived. She was caught in the the main shopping complex where most of the footage of the floods was shot from.
I sent a smart alec text to my mate straight away, he read that, got a distressed call from his ex straight after, looked in his rear vision mirror and said a bad word or two in front of the kids, so he tells me.
That close to having a really bad day.
I believe Toowoomba is dry enough now, but a massive clean up operation, and the poor people at the bottom of the mountain on both sides copped the brunt of all that water too.
And we haven't even touched on all the other areas that are under water..75% of the bloody state. Unbelieveable...Covers an area larger than Texas U.S.A.


Mick