It's a bit bloody wet in Qld!

**Kawarthabob** · 01-12-2011, 06:35 PM

Wow thats insane! great shots by the way. On another note you could make some coin from your shots to our north american market .

**Mad Aussie** · 01-13-2011, 01:38 AM

Thanks Kbob

**Michaelaw** · 01-13-2011, 03:31 AM

I just spent the last two hours going over what I could find on this disaster and holy crap that's a disaster of epic proportions! A tsunami from inland caused by insane rainfall. I really hope this all goes away soon MA. The footage I saw of Toowoomba was just nuts! I don't watch TV so news for me tends to be a bit selective, I had no idea of the gravity of the situation. Ten years of drought then WHAM! Seeing a frog riding a highly venomous snake to stay afloat... now that's reporting! Seriously MA, keep your senses about you man! Hoping all this ends well for you guys

**Mad Aussie** · 01-13-2011, 03:39 AM

Originally Posted by Michaelaw

I just spent the last two hours going over what I could find on this disaster and holy crap that's a disaster of epic proportions! A tsunami from inland caused by insane rainfall. I really hope this all goes away soon MA. The footage I saw of Toowoomba was just nuts! I don't watch TV so news for me tends to be a bit selective, I had no idea of the gravity of the situation. Ten years of drought then WHAM! Seeing a frog riding a highly venomous snake to stay afloat... now that's reporting! Seriously MA, keep your senses about you man! Hoping all this ends well for you guys

Well I DID say it was a bit wet over here M

I'm fine and will stay that way now. Work is ok, albeit having flood waters only a few hundred metres away. My next onsite job is up at Channel 10 TV station on Sunday, on Mt Coot-tha ... if that floods ... so has most of Australia!!

**Mad Aussie** · 01-13-2011, 03:40 AM

Oh hey guess what!!!

There's a Cyclone (Hurricane for you Nth Americans) forming off the coast of Queensland now!

**Michaelaw** · 01-13-2011, 03:45 AM

I saw that but thought "Naaa...He doesn't need to hear that right now!"

**Mad Aussie** · 01-13-2011, 04:08 AM

What's another cyclone! Actually ... it was a cyclone that started all this mess in the first place!!

They say it won't make landfall. Not sure how they figure that. Perhaps the existing high over us right now has too much pressure to let it in? Dunno ... haven't even looked yet to be honest. Not even sure if it's really a threat to us at all.

**Mad Aussie** · 01-13-2011, 05:10 PM

Looks like the tropical low that 'might' become a cyclone is well north and not likely to affect us down here thankfully.

There are reports of bull sharks in the flood waters also now. Brisbane river has loads of them and this is no surprize at all that they would try to get out of the rushing water by following the flood water into the suburbs.

Snakes are another problem and some people are finding them in their house as they return as well. Some reports are of standing on them in the water and it's likely but also could be mass mis-identification as well. As you can imagine, paranoid about a snake, and stepping on something made squishy by the flood etc can easilly be thought of as a snake in a moment of panic. Snakes are good swimmers usually so they often get away early on as the waters rise.