Queensland Floods

lionking said:
Will you exchange your earthquakes for our floods?
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Aslong as we don't get your heat and your poisonous wildlife I'll be happy. I don't suppose you want to take our next major volcanic eruption off our hands? You could stick it in the middle of the outback and no one will notice when it blows a 60 cubic km hole in the ground.
 
gumboot said:
Aslong as we don't get your heat and your poisonous wildlife I'll be happy. I don't suppose you want to take our next major volcanic eruption off our hands? You could stick it in the middle of the outback and no one will notice when it blows a 60 cubic km hole in the ground.
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Okay you take Russel Crowe and we might just have a deal
 
MG1962 said:
Okay you take Russel Crowe and we might just have a deal
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Now you're just mocking us. No deal!

(Actually I have a certain admiration for Russell Crowe and he has done some good performances)
 
gumboot said:
Now you're just mocking us. No deal!

(Actually I have a certain admiration for Russell Crowe and he has done some good performances)
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Get me a date with Rena Owen and we will keep Crowe, and the hole
 
The death toll stands at 12 for Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley. The number of missing people has been revised down to 51, with "grave fears" held for 9 of those.

Latest update from the Bureau of Meteorology predicts tomorrow's flood peak in Brisbane will be slightly lower than 1974:

BRISBANE: At 4pm Wednesday, the Brisbane City gauge (lower end of Edward Street and at Thornton Street) was 4.3 metres and rising. Rises will continue during Wednesday afternoon and overnight.

At the Brisbane City gauge, river rises will continue this evening with a peak of about 5.2 metres expected with the high tide at 4am. Levels will remain high throughout Thursday.

This is below the 1974 flood peak of 5.45 metres as releases at Wivenhoe Dam were reduced quickly overnight.

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My Brisbane-based relatives are in an affected area and water got in their house and damaged their furniture and apparently there are mice and termites.
 
Alan said:
My Brisbane-based relatives are in an affected area and water got in their house and damaged their furniture and apparently there are mice and termites.
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Bugger. Have they evacuated? Where exactly do they live?
 
I thought they live in Chambers Flat or Shailor Park but I do not see those areas marked on maps as being affected, so my information on where they live is probably out of date. My aunt did not say anything about evacuating.
 
This is from two days ago, but still it's incredible, just about every dam in the Sequwater management area is at 100%, some of these dams have not been that high for over a decade (For example Moogerah Dam, last overflowed in 1991).

I'm wondering just how dry Clarendon Dam was, all that rain and only 70%?

http://www.seqwater.com.au/public/dam-levels
 
Soapy Sam said:
I just hope all you guys know where your towels are.
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It's pouring in Melbourne now. Since the government started to build our multiple-billion dollar desalination plant, it's barely stopped raining. They built plants in Sydney, the Gold Coast and Brisbane, which haven't been used.
 
lionking said:
It's pouring in Melbourne now. Since the government started to build our multiple-billion dollar desalination plant, it's barely stopped raining. They built plants in Sydney, the Gold Coast and Brisbane, which haven't been used.
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Paradoxically, the desal plant at Tugun on the Gold Coast (there isn't one in Brisbane) is now operational and we've been asked to conserve water!
 
Magenta said:
Paradoxically, the desal plant at Tugun on the Gold Coast (there isn't one in Brisbane) is now operational and we've been asked to conserve water!
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Another one I've got wrong. Someone on the radio this morning was talking about the Brisbane desal plant. Must have been referring to the GC one.
 
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