News & Events QLD Floods

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The Old Dark Navy's said:
Why must people get high and mighty about news coverage of every event. If it was purely about numbers, then we would be spending weeks of 24/7 coverage on Chinese earthquakes and the like, and dedicate half an hour to the Qld floods in comparison.

But it is NOT about that. It is about things that people can identify with. This is a Queensland story but also an Australian story just like the Victorian Bushfires. People visit these places, know people in these places and feel some sense of patriotism when fellow countrymen are suffering.

Either you think our FTA channels should be picking up links from Brazil around the clock or you think that the Qld Floods are getting too much coverage.

Every country in the world covers its own disasters and plights of its own countrymen more than those from other countries, unless it is something unfathomable.

Natural disasters by and large are fathomable and each region is most interested in those close to home. Do you think many people overseas are glued to their screens right now watching Qld flood updates?

It is probably just an anti-media agenda being run here, but the fact is Australian people are watching and people do want to know. Not too many are wishing it would go away so they could watch Oprah.
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I just don't get that. Protect a property against flood waters? How? It's not a bush fire where you can clear land, dig trenches and hose everything down. You can't exactly bail it out. It comes up, it moves in.

Unless of course, he was trying to move personal items out.

The Premier said that she was proud of Qlders in that there were no emergency rescue situations last night because everybody listened to advice. I was hopeful that nobody in Brisbane would be lost because we were all sensible.

Death toll at 14 now (if they are counting that guy found in his car in flood affected waters, not sure why they were leaving him out unless he died of natural causes not related to being scared out of his mind).

I shudder to think what they are going to find trapped under that bridge out west a little. Can't remember the township right this moment. Lots of cars underwater, and still lots of people missing.
 
The Old Dark Navy's said:
I shudder to think what they are going to find trapped under that bridge out west a little. Can't remember the township right this moment. Lots of cars underwater, and still lots of people missing.
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Grantham - Ch9 are reporting from there now and police wont let anyone near that bridge.

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The Old Dark Navy's said:
I just don't get that. Protect a property against flood waters? How? It's not a bush fire where you can clear land, dig trenches and hose everything down. You can't exactly bail it out. It comes up, it moves in.

Unless of course, he was trying to move personal items out.

The Premier said that she was proud of Qlders in that there were no emergency rescue situations last night because everybody listened to advice. I was hopeful that nobody in Brisbane would be lost because we were all sensible.
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... was reported earlier that he was going to check on his father's property?:confused:
 
nivek48 said:
... was reported earlier that he was going to check on his father's property?:confused:
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Okay, checking is a bit different than protecting as reported, although most people checking are doing so in relatively still waters.
 
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AUSSIE GUN said:
This reporter on CH9 looks way out of place in her attire. All the others just have shirts and jeans on but she looks like she is going to go to a dinner party.
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Is that Heather Foord?
I thought the same thing when I saw her, but she is a local up there and was able to recall many interesting facts about the areas she was reporting from.
Should probably dress down a bit though.
 

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It must be very eerie down in Brisbane. My daughter lives in the Virginia/Northgate area and says they wouldn't know it was flooding if not for the media and friends.

Hope everyone is well and heeded the appropriate warnings. Its getting very overcast again up here on the not so sunny coast.

Good luck all.
 
Jordan Rice for Australian of the Year.

The hell with sportspeople, I can't think of a more worthy candidate in recent memory.
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Surely I wasnt the only one left shaking my head when I read he couldnt swim? Yes, it probably wouldnt have made much of a difference, but you got to give yourself a chance. 13 year old boy living in QLD, cant swim. It's maddening.

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Slax said:
Which rock did you crawl out from underneath idiot?

Floods happen, it is a part of life and you can't blame a government for that. Qld has had it's wetest year on record and since August each month has had rainfall in the top 10 recorded. This flood was unavoidable given the amount of rainfall, and luckily Wivenhoe Dam has held up to what it was designed for otherwise it'd be worse in Brisbane.

Sandbagging can only do so much and even then is not a guarantee of stopping the water especially if it flowing quickly. The Qld govt were telling people very early on to move out and in Brisbane shut off power to areas about to be flooded to help encourage people to leave.

There is very little more that could of been done that wasn't and if you think there was you obviously have never worked as a volunteer.

I strongly suggest you sign up with your local SES and get a grip on reality, because the government can't do everything and sh*t happens.
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Low lying water can be a way of life in my part of the world during the wet season which usually starts near Christmas and finishes end March early April, but here in Townsville and surrounding areas the rain kicked in first week in November. Some of us up in the North are a bit blase about a lot of rain as we are used to a good wet season every year. I'm lucky I live where I do and unless it's a freak of nature I won't have that problem. It's nobody's fault but MOTHER NATURE..can't go pointing fingers at this one or that. I think Anna Bligh is doing a GREAT JOB and is showing us what she's made of probably much to the chagrin of a lot of those who critisize her. I reckon I
d want her in the trenches covering my back more than a few of her detractors.

Just thought I'd mention a story just been told to me by my brother this week who was in Texas late last year for work related matter....seems there is a Greyhound Terminal in Galveston (i think, as he was waffling on about Fort Worth in the same sentence) which is home STILL to people who lost their homes in Katrina. What The!!!
 
I got lucky in my area no serious flooding, i felt like dancing a jig when they downgraded it at 3 am last night, but i know a heck of lot of other people still got wiped out even with the downgrade all i can say to them is the rest of us in Brisbane will do whatever we can to help you guys.

As for the guy who went to check on the property, i wouldn't be surprised if it was to check on horses or other animals.

Maybe we shouldn't but we do, in an emergency i was more worried about my pets than myself, we care for them from birth to the grave it's a unique responsibly and one that does sometimes cost human lives.
 
I would not know about the floods if I wasn't watching it on TV. I can't go to certain areas job wise, and our IT is down because our main servers are on the ground floor of riverside building. Supermarkets are out of staples.

It is a weird feeling. It is sad but it is history in the making just like the 74 floods were and I have heard the stories from that time. We sort of want to look for ourselves but have heeded the calls to not be rubber neckers and stay out of the city. This will come and go without my eyes laying eyes on any part of it in person, and it is just a handful of kms away.

Sometimes it isn't real until you see it yourself. I can understand the spectators but the photograph posing is a bit much.
 

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