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01-06-2011, 10:47 AM
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Living right across the state line from New Orleans, I got to see ground zero of Katrina up front and personal...to add insult to injury, the Mississippi Gulf Coast got hit worse than New Orleans, had a sizable precentage of its federal aid redirected to New Orleans, and rebuilt faster than New Orleans. Even today, almost 5 years afterwards, there are portions of New Orleans that still have debris piles from Katrina....it does make one wonder just were all of that federal aid went....
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01-10-2011, 11:19 PM
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Can it get any worse for them?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...section=justin Brisbane is the captial of Queensland (a state of Australia) and the third largest city in the country. Video of the flash flooding yesterday was just jawdropping and every last drop of that is heading towards Brisbane....
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01-11-2011, 08:19 AM
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Yeah, NOW is when the Aussies get worried about floods. The situation now is far more serious than when this thread was started. Tomorrow or the next day the city of Brisbane is going to look more like Venice. Nearly 80 people are missing in the state of Queensland already and my suspicion is that many of them will be dug out of the mud or pulled from submerged cars in the coming days. That footage of a wall of water smashing through Toowoomba... devastating.
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01-11-2011, 08:21 AM
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Hang in there folks. Stay safe!
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01-11-2011, 04:35 PM
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Just in the last 36 hours there's been 10 confirmed dead and over 90 missing. Many of the missing are likely to be found in the coming weeks, drowned in the wreckage of their oblitterated homes.
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01-11-2011, 04:36 PM
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01-11-2011, 08:30 PM
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/slideshow...land.slideshow
More pictures being added every minute it seems. Some of them are funny, others scary, with a few just plan shocking.
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01-12-2011, 07:26 AM
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I've returned to my true career of media monitoring. Guess what I'm mostly monitoring in the media at the moment...
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01-12-2011, 07:50 AM
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I don't know what coverage there is overseas regarding the effected areas, but Grafton, at the southern end is my hometown. This flood really isn't anything out of the ordinary.
Brisbane and Queensland in general however is coping a hammering!
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01-12-2011, 08:28 AM
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Sky and BBC have both been giving it a lot of coverage in the last couple of days...seem to have been focusing on Toowoomba (sp?) although one of them (I think the BBC) have sent a reporter to Brisbane.
What they have been showing looked pretty bad...I hope everyone manages to stay safe...
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01-12-2011, 09:48 AM
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Well what happened to Toowoomba was pretty shocking... a flash flood that wiped out half the town with almost no warning. Luckily Toowoomba isn't a very big place but I do feel sorry for the people there.
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01-12-2011, 05:59 PM
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Thanks for the link! It's important to note that most flood-control measures will be defunct in the aftermath of the Twilight War. Even with altered weather patterns and reduced rainfall in most parts of the world, local conditions will cause temporary flooding, either flash floods or seasonal changes to river levels. If you run a PBeM or other game, these images are useful in visually conveying the power and destructive force of floodwaters. Tony
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01-12-2011, 06:40 PM
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I've lived through a lot of floods over the years, but the devastation in SE Queensland is just unimaginable! Most flooding is a relatively sedate affair with the waters rising fairly slowly. What happened on Monday was anything but slow - in some places it was all over in ten minutes leaving a path of destruction in it's wake.
This shows just how terrible it was. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpk...layer_embedded
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