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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 4, 2011 10:30:47 GMT -5
Save the animuls too! I feel sad about them too becuz I saw this documentary on the animuls of Katrina and there wuz this dead starved cat rotting near a door and there wuz this drowned goat which wuz found standing in his wire fence, obviously trying desperately to get out. The humane services officer who found it even started crying.
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Post by shoegirl on Jan 4, 2011 14:21:52 GMT -5
I feel very sad too for the animals left behind Why can't people see them as equals and rescue them too.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 4, 2011 15:19:10 GMT -5
Becuz theyre not equals. Theyre just dumb helpless animuls. During the Katrina debacle, the *rescuers* actually told the people they were rescuing that they could not bring their pets wid them. I can understand if the pet wuz a great Dane or a Saint BErnard, but a little terrier couldnt go either, or even a cat. As a result, some people refused to be rescued and stayed in their sinking houses wid their pets. And then, there wuz this shocking video of a little boy who wouldnt get on the rescue bus without his dog, so the police shot the dog in front of him. Poor kid wuz probably traumatized for life.
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Post by shoegirl on Jan 4, 2011 15:53:08 GMT -5
Oh my gosh that is terrible. To some people pets dogs, cats, horses or others, mean more to them then even some of their own family. I think if it happened to me I would probably stay with my doggie and risk dying because at least we would be together.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 4, 2011 15:56:35 GMT -5
So sad. I know I would scream bloody murder before I get on a bus widout Squit, or my late beloved Giblet, or even my mums Evool Peke. Pigsnit can tuck Chairman Mao in his jacket or on his head.
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Post by Avril on Jan 4, 2011 17:27:29 GMT -5
What is that big hill in the background in that photo? Why don't people go up there? Good question, Sunny. I never even noticed. In fact, why aren't they all living up there?
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Post by Avril on Jan 10, 2011 16:37:38 GMT -5
At least eight confirmed dead, 72 missing, as 'inland tsunami' hits Queensland townsJanuary 11, 2011 - 7:58AM
Flood victims left devastated
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh this morning said eight people had died in the Toowoomba area and another 11 were missing.
At least eight people have died in the latest wave of flooding in Queensland - described as an "inland tsunami" - and dozens more are missing.
Others are stranded on rooftops waiting for rescues that could not start before first light today.
Desperation ... Rescue workers try to reach a person forced to cling to a power pole after flash flooding hit Dent Street in Toowoomba. Photo: The Chronicle
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh this morning said eight people had died in the Toowoomba area and another 11 were missing. She said wet weather was hampering the rescue efforts and the search for the 11 missing people.
A woman and a boy were found dead in the Toowoomba CBD and a man and a boy were killed at nearby Murphys Creek after a massive body of water from weeks of heavy rain tore through Toowoomba, 125km west of Brisbane, on Monday afternoon.
Flash flooding across Brisbane Ithaca Creek, Ashgrove, on January 10. Photo: Simon O'Brien
Ms Bligh said a further four people had died, bringing the total death toll to eight at this stage.
"We have a further 11 people confirmed missing and we have very grave fears about them," she told the Nine Network on Tuesday morning. The 11 came from four homes in Murphys Creek.
Ms Bligh said the situation in the Toowoomba and Lockyer Valley areas was very serious.
Storm coming More heavy rainfall and possible severe storms were expected in Toowoomba today.
Helicopters that were sent into the Lockyer Valley to search for stranded residents were being held back by very heavy rain this morning.
"Right now we have every possible available resource deployed into this region to search for those people that we know are missing," Ms Bligh said.
"This is going to be I think a very grim day, particularly for the people in that region, and a desperate hour here in Queensland."
'Like a cyclone had gone through'
Nine Network reporter Cameron Price is at Grantham and told the ABC the town had been devastated.
"The town is like a cyclone has gone through it," he said. "There are houses that are completely collapsed, cars that are halfway up trees, homes a kilometre away from where they were.
"The terrible news from here is that they took the bodies of two small children from the waters, they are the fifth and sixth victims here so far."
Toowoomba was unprepared for this event. The city of about 121,000 people sits about 700 metres above sea level, on the crest of the Great Dividing Range.
Until last year it was gripped by a decade-long drought and was forced in 2009, when dam levels dropped to an all-time low of 7.7 per cent, to pump water from the Great Artesian Basin.
"Relatives and friends seeking information about people in these areas should call 1300 993 191 to make inquiries and register their details," Queensland police said in a statement on Tuesday.
Bodies found
A woman and a boy were found dead in the Toowoomba CBD and a man and a boy were killed at nearby Murphys Creek after a massive body of water from weeks of heavy rain tore through Toowoomba, 125km west of Brisbane, yesterday.
Ms Bligh said there were a large number of people clinging to rooftops in the Lockyer Valley, east of Toowoomba, but heavy fog had grounded the state's helicopters.
Ms Bligh said 43 successful rooftop rescues had been made in the Withcott area.
She described an "eight metre wall of water" flowing down the Lockyer Valley from Toowoomba. "This is without doubt our darkest hour in the past fortnight."
Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson told reporters in Brisbane authorities would do all they could to rescue people overnight but he said he was not hopeful many rescues could be completed safely in the dark.
Washed away in cars
Six people are confirmed missing in the Lockyer Valley - three young pedestrians and another three people who were washed away in two cars.
Another 30 people have sought refuge at a primary school in Grantham, also in the valley, but authorities say contact with them is virtually non-existent.
Toowoomba Mayor Peter Taylor said there had been "unbelievable damage’’ to the city.
‘‘It’s a real disaster scene where I’m standing at the moment in Russell St, Toowoomba. There’s furniture and furnishings and it’s just blown shops away.
‘‘We have a railway line about 60 or 70 metres suspended in mid air and two cars that are virtually unrecognisable that have floated and smashed into the rail.’’
The flood will move through the valley this morning and will head further east into the Brisbane River and into Ipswich and Brisbane within 36 hours.
The Bureau of Meteorology modelling on how that will affect Brisbane was due to be completed before sunrise.
The flood peaks are dropping as quickly as they came, but they're leaving a trail of destruction.
House swept away
At least one house was swept away and another was shifted on its foundations at Murphys Creek in the valley.
Queensland Fire and Rescue Service commissioner Lee Johnson urged motorists to take care when confronted with flooded roads.
“It only takes 15 centimetres of fast flowing water to sweep a person off their feet and into a flooded waterway. It only takes 60 centimetres of floodwater to push a four-wheel-drive," he said.
“People underestimate the danger of these waters and tragically eleven lives have been lost since November 2010 as a result.
“Every swift water rescue performed by fire personnel puts not only the victim's life but the lives of emergency services personnel who are forced to enter treacherous waterways at risk.”
smh/AAP/brisbane times
[/color][/size] Video and more photos www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/at-least-eight-confirmed-dead-11-missing-as-inland-tsunami-hits-queensland-towns-20110111-19ldz.html
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 10, 2011 18:01:24 GMT -5
Why are some people in cars? Look at that water level! But of course, everyone (except Oztralia and UK) is probably fixated on Arizona.
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Post by Avril on Jan 10, 2011 18:41:30 GMT -5
It was a flash flood, with news reports saying that an eight-metre wave flooded Toowoomba without warning, doing huge amounts of damage in one hour. That's why they're likening it to a tsunami. More wet weather and storms are forecast, too.
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Post by sunfrog on Jan 10, 2011 20:53:22 GMT -5
WOw, what the heck? That's some serious flooding you have there.
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Post by Avril on Jan 11, 2011 19:13:48 GMT -5
This is a telephone booth. Brisbane.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 11, 2011 20:16:53 GMT -5
Are you close to Brisbane? Where did all the people go?
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Post by Avril on Jan 11, 2011 22:30:22 GMT -5
Brisbane is about a thousand kilometres north of Sydney. Apparently a trough is keeping the floods from spreading into southern NSW at the moment. People are going wherever they can, to higher ground where possible, to relatives and evacuation centres.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 12, 2011 2:51:43 GMT -5
It sure is BIBLICAL now! That official should haf kept his mouth shut becuz I think Beelzebub heard him! Oztralia getting more coverage here than Arizona at least.
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Post by sunfrog on Jan 12, 2011 8:57:47 GMT -5
I like the Brisbane photo. It looks high techy and flooded, like the end of the world. Can kangaroos swim?
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