South-East Queensland basically underwater.

Post #338,382 by static 1/11/11 4:03:01 AM Reply	South-East Queensland basically underwater. http://www.smh.com.a...110111-19lvq.html ABC (the Australian one) news tonight has spent 20+ minutes covering many aspects. Many inland cities and towns are going through the worst floods on record and Brisbane already has suburbs around the CBD flooding. Worse, the dam upstream has been full for days, it's a king tide tonight and it's still raining. There are no IWETHEYers up there, AFAIK, but we know people up there. Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #338,383 by Another Scott 1/11/11 7:03:03 AM Reply	Astounding amounts of water. :-( Fingers crossed.
Post #338,385 by folkert 1/11/11 8:44:05 AM Reply	Doesn't this happen... about once every 60-100 years? I was reading about that whole thing, based on some native/aboriginal musings/stories this kind of epic event happens about 60-100 years and has for a long time. I think the AboriginalÂs have a name for it... I can't find it though. Not that it lessens the issue any, just saying that modern humans "forget" history and don't learn lessons from it. Yes the area is a really nice area and very plush and productive, but the cost on these kinds of events really sucks. Modern people believe we can fixup this stuff... Watch, following this event in QLD, there will be HUGE amounts of projects and plans to prevent this from happening again. For a superb example look at the US and reactive for the Hurricane Katrina and the cleanup/rebuild/reinforcement/protection of NOLA.
Post #338,393 by boxley 1/11/11 10:31:08 AM Reply	watched a documentary on how damming and agriculture screwed up the watershed and caused drought issues. They had people showering standing in buckets to recycle the water. I think that might be the same watershed Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #338,457 by static 1/11/11 8:12:02 PM Reply	That's about the cycle. As immortalised in Dorothea Mackellar's poem "My Country", the second verse has a line "... droughts and flooding rains". Which describes Australia' geography better than most people realise. The Wivenhoe Dam west of Brisbane was built in the wake of the 1974 floods to help control or even prevent the sort of flooding Brisbane is seeing. Except it's over 100% capacity and they are releasing water down the spillways so that it won't fill to breaking point. http://www.smh.com.a...110111-19mt1.html Meanwhile, we are starting to learn how badly us Europeans have raped our countryside. A columnist in the SMH put it well: a hundred years ago, the flooding creeks and rivers ran clear. Now, the floodwaters are filled with topsoil because agriculture has removed all the ways the watercourses filtered it out and left it behind. Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #338,465 by drook 1/11/11 9:55:48 PM Reply	What I heard today They said the dam is at 160% of capacity, the spillgates are wide open, and it's still raining. -- Drew
Post #338,469 by static 1/11/11 10:46:11 PM Reply	And it's king-tide season. :-) I thought that "160%" was wierd, too, until I discovered on a SMH item that "100%" is normal maximum capacity for the purposes of using it as drinking water. The dam wall can hold back twice that. But the secondary spillway comes into play before that point, which they don't have control gates on, so they want to run the primary gates so the water going downstream is a known constant. Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #338,472 by Another Scott 1/11/11 11:00:27 PM Reply	The ZOMGScience.net guy is from the area. http://zomgscience.net/?p=136 Zooks. :-( http://zomgscience.net/?page_id=100 - "Dave likes border collies, the colour blue and not being dead." Cheers, Scott.
Post #338,474 by malraux 1/11/11 11:15:42 PM Reply	Re: South-East Queensland basically underwater. http://wimp.com/flashflood/ Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #338,475 by Another Scott 1/11/11 11:51:49 PM Reply	The BBC showed a few seconds of that. It looked bad, but the full clip is much more astounding. :-( Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #338,476 by folkert 1/11/11 11:56:44 PM Reply	Stop my car!!!
Post #338,482 by drook 1/12/11 9:46:51 AM Reply	What was that floating by at 4:08? -- Drew
Post #338,749 by scoenye 1/17/11 7:42:26 PM Reply	Brisbane, before and after http://www.abc.net.a...s/beforeafter.htm No comment needed :(
Post #338,751 by Another Scott 1/17/11 8:03:20 PM Reply	Lots of water. (IPad can't show them all.)

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