It passed through here a few days ago. The CBD's closed due to damage for the foreseeable future, and there'll be no deliveries either. As bad as the primary destruction was, I think the long term privation will be worse.
edited 12th Jan '11 4:33:32 PM by DarkDecapodian
Aww, did I hurt your widdle fee-fees?@Silent Stranger: We've been saying it for years: in Australia, Everything Is Trying to Kill You. This is just the latest piece of evidence.
Accidental mistakes are forgivable, intentional ones are not.The easiest way to survive a natural disaster is to live in a developed nation.
Fight smart, not fair.This is scary... I have friends living in the Lockyear valley, mainly the nice old couples who drive me places and fellow uni students. I live there myself during termtime. I don't think any of them got hurt but I'm not sure.
Still, I take heart in the fact that our current levels of technology enable us to give so much more warning than we could in the past, and save more people.
Be not afraid...Apparently the floods in Brazil, Sri Lanka, and Australia are linked by a global phenomenon called El Nino Southern Oscillation
. Which is supposed to happen every 5 years, or something.
edited 13th Jan '11 3:09:44 PM by Shichibukai
Requiem ~ September 2010 - October 2011 [Banned 4 Life]I went into the CBD today - water's starting to recede, and the city absolutely *reeks*. My work was evacuated on Tuesday morning, and we're open again on Monday, if all goes well.
We were really lucky - I'm right next to a couple affected suburbs, but my area is really hilly - no damage, and we even kept our power on.
Went to see the edge of the river yesterday morning - it was moving so freaking fast.
Sewage, oil, debris, very likely dead animals - you name it, it's in it. And the Brisbane river isn't known for it's cleanliness in the first place.
Which was kind of funny - when I checked out the river yesterday, there were a couple of guys standing waist-deep in the water, taking photos. Not the safest thing to do considering how fast the water's been moving, and just plain gross.
One story that did make me laugh is that a bull shark was spotted in Goodna. Yep, a species of shark that is in the top 3 of 'most likely to attack humans' is just having a great time, swimming around suburban streets. Awesome.
Oh, and brown and red-bellied black snakes have been spotted in the water as well. So more reasons why it's a really, really, really bad idea to decide to go for that great photo that you want to put on facebook.

I have to admit it's very morbidly interesting
.
That looks like one terrifying flash flood. It also makes me heartily glad that my Aussie family members are in Sydney.