Australian floods

[Rocky]

I hope there are no TT members living in northern Australia where all the terrible flooding is taking place.
After you've had water damage you may as well have had a fire the destruction is so severe.
There a few areas in this part of the world that see flooding from time to time, but not to the extent in Australia. It's mostly local flooding here.
I live in the city which is shaped like a turtle shell and I'm at the very top. No chance of flooding here.

 

[DaveM]

Shame they are having a hard time with the flooding I was watching it all on Sky News

 

[CarlS]

My heart goes out to those folks. As Rocky said, flood damage is every bit as destructive as fire damage. The end result is not much different. I have friends who lost motorcycles and everything they could not carry in New Orleans during Katrina.

 

[Simmer]

Our rivers here in the northwest flood every couple of years and it sure is no fun. When working for the City Cashmere, WA, I had to fight flooding several times and we lost a lot. I really feel for our brothers and sisters in OZ.

Dave

 

[DaveM]

Like Rocky I am lucky I live on a hill so all the floods we have had I have had no real damage to my property

 

[Silli]

I do not remember ever seeing a member from that area. Seems the whole world is experiencing severe weather lately. :sad:

The river through the village where I reside burst it's banks during late december. Highest flood level on record.
I am lucky that I live outside the flood line, but lots of aquaintences lost a lot of stuff. :sad: :sad:

 

[DaveM]

I see Natal is also being hit 300 families flee floods in KZN

 

[CarlS]

When people buy and build on a flood plain, what do they expect? Florida went through a dry period in the late 50's and developers went in and built on what were sloughs and swamps in wet times. Then the rains returned...

 

[Silli]

[quote author=CarlS link=topic=11391.msg56036#msg56036 date=1294364153]
When people buy and build on a flood plain, what do they expect?[/quote]

Too true!!

 

[otherwise]

We in Australia have just come out of a ten year drought, thank goodness for the flood.
I know that sounds flippant but it's true. The older you get the longer the memory, I've seen it all before. Can't find the little yellow face yawning. h:

 

[DaveM]

Hopefully we are also moving out of our drought with the flooding we have been having

 

[DaveM]

The Vaal river has burst it's banks. More rain predicted this is the highest floodline since 1996.. :tongue:

 

[CarlS]

Not a pretty sight at all.

 

[DaveM]

Gromit has just sent me the following photos of the Australian Floods to post :sad: Not looking so good :tongue:

 

[Gromit]

I haven't been watching much news on TV - I didn't realise the vast scale and destruction of the floods until I saw these pictures. Thoughts and prayers to everyone affected by this devastation.

 

[Rocky]

We get updates on the TV news nearly every day and the devastation is simply dreadful. I feel so sorry for those people.

 

[Gromit]

I just saw a story about a 70 year couple who tried to escape the floods by car. When the water reached window level they abandonned the car and climbed a tree try to get to safety. They were in the tree for 3 days before being rescued. When interviewed, the wife said the worst part was that spiders trying to escape the water also climbed the trees - she said she spent more time swatting spiders than worrying about when they would be rescued. I couldn't imagine a worse situation. Very brave couple - times like this bring out the quiet 'hero'.
Floods and creepy crawlies to deal with.................... God help these people. And as I write this, the heavens have just opened and I can barely see my front gate from 50m away! Southern hemisphere flooding, northern hemisphere snowed in and freezing. What is going on???

 

[Rocky]

For the past 6-7 weeks I've been gloating somewhat over our mild winter here in eastern Canada with only a couple of snow storms that mostly melted away in the following days when it got up to +3C (37F).
Tonight it's dipping to -14C (7F)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CarlS]

Thank you for the pics, Gromit and Dave. I do not watch TV and I had not seen these. My prayers, too, to the victims of this disaster. That is total devastation.