-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Australian Flood Crisis - cities under water, sharks in the streets
- Thread starter legend166
- Start date
- Status
Always-honest
Banned
Dead Man said:For those struggling to make sense of the scale, this image may help:
The area shown is roughly 800 miles wide.
holy shit....
ColeTheMole
Member
^map
Damn all those rivers, i thought australia is just barren wasteland :lol
sorry.
Damn all those rivers, i thought australia is just barren wasteland :lol
sorry.
ColeTheMole said:
The country is a continent and contains the varied amount of terrain and climate you'd expect to find in a landmass of it's size. It has several large tropical rain forest systems, temperate forests, vast (if night high) mountain ranges, a few large deserts, vast areas of savanna, a fair bit of agricultural land, and a big rock pretty much right in the centre. It's as diverse as the US, which is pretty close in size, but with less snow and more tropics, since it's closer to the equator.
The top third of the country is tropical or near enough - which is why there are lots of rivers there because it rains a lot in the wet season. Much of the centre doesn't get much rainfall, which is why Australia can't support as large a population as the US, for example.
Kermit The Dog
Banned
Some great info there Dejay and Bernbuem. I'm in Brisbane, and I'm still learning a few things. :lol
Besides the heavy, constant rain, we've escaped much of the fooding where I am, 30ks south of Brisbane. A 100 km west and all hell has broken loose. Thinking of you all.
Besides the heavy, constant rain, we've escaped much of the fooding where I am, 30ks south of Brisbane. A 100 km west and all hell has broken loose. Thinking of you all.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
I know some friends from Bundaberg. I havent heard from them yet so I really hope theyre ok.
Its all pretty damn crazy! Meanwhile in Victoria the weather continues to be muggy and shitty....
Its all pretty damn crazy! Meanwhile in Victoria the weather continues to be muggy and shitty....
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Dastardly Jerks said:
Nice and kinda dry up here bucko.
The Storyteller
Member
evlcookie said:
Holy shit. Insane.
Smiles and Cries
Member
I was thinking the only good thing is all those snakes are doomed then I clicked the big picture on boston.com and there is a photo of a snake swiming across a highway
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Normalcy_biasThe Storyteller said:I never thought the extent of the floods would be this bad.
Alex Connolly
Member
Veins said:
I think I'd fear things like submerged stormwater drains. Hearing people getting sucked down into them in flooded areas is a nightmare. You'd drown, or get mashed in the concrete network for kilometres. Horrific stuff.
Hope everyone is okay back home in Aus.
shanshan310
Member
seanoff said:
Brisbane's been put on flood alert. =/ It's coming.
Meanwhile my house if filling up with spiders and geckos. Not sure if I'm lucky to be living on a hill or not now...:lol
Geez? until April? My summer.... *sigh*
HolyCheck said:
:lol :lol :lol
I'm sorry, I know its bad. I've been wanting to add this to one of the "where were you on 9/11?" Threads but was afraid of getting banned.
shanshan310
Member
speedpop said:
What about the Brisbane floods in the 70's (80's?) ? I hear those were pretty bad.
Yeah. I wasn't born by the 1974 flood, but I heard it was pretty horrendous. Wikipedia says that the Brisbane River peak was 6.6m at high tide back then - I'm sure it won't get as bad as other river systems up north due to the size, but when you're hearing about those rivers peaking at 9m+ you have to take a step back and be a bit worried.shanshan310 said:
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
GaryD said:
You = Awesome.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Router said:
Damn. Sorry man, I dont know. I really hope shes okay though!
archnemesis
Member
Router said:
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/w...vastates-queensland-towns-20110110-19kti.htmlThe Sydney Morning Herald said:
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Terrible....
shanshan310
Member
archnemesis said:
oh god...
I guess I'll take this opportunity to welcome some Aussies to our dedicated thread over in the online board. Come on by and give an introduction
EDIT: Damn, an inland tsunami? How would one prepare for that? Never knew such a thing was possible. Awful at the loss of life
That's awesome of you. I'd love to help, but I'm all the way in Melbourne!GaryD said:
EDIT: Damn, an inland tsunami? How would one prepare for that? Never knew such a thing was possible. Awful at the loss of life
So two four people died in the Toowoomba floods today.
Toowoomba really is the big surprise. These floods have been going for weeks, and everyone had their eyes on Rockhampton and Condamine. Toowoomba brings it home because it happened so quick and it's one of the larger urban hubs for that region and is two hour drive from Brissie. Some of the photos from my colleague have been used in the news, but there's no doubt countless more.
As for Brisbane, well we'll have to wait and see. The river has been overflowing onto the sidewalks in the city since from the week before Christmas. With a controlled drainage of the now-full Wivenhoe Dam, we'll just have to wait and see.
I'm smack bang in the CBD and look right over the river. I take the train but I know of at least one busway into the city that crosses a creek which floods at the drop of a hat.
If the banks break, here's what we're looking at: My old university; and Inner-city Brisbane - my office is in a yet-to-exist tower in the top left corner cluster of buildings.
My parents are in a coastal town in the tourist-haven on the Sunshine Coast. They rang yesterday to say their phone and internet will be out for the rest of the month and they can only be contacted via mobile phone. They're pretty high up so not worried about damage to the home, but there may be roads in their area cut off which will affect them getting about.
Toowoomba really is the big surprise. These floods have been going for weeks, and everyone had their eyes on Rockhampton and Condamine. Toowoomba brings it home because it happened so quick and it's one of the larger urban hubs for that region and is two hour drive from Brissie. Some of the photos from my colleague have been used in the news, but there's no doubt countless more.
As for Brisbane, well we'll have to wait and see. The river has been overflowing onto the sidewalks in the city since from the week before Christmas. With a controlled drainage of the now-full Wivenhoe Dam, we'll just have to wait and see.
I'm smack bang in the CBD and look right over the river. I take the train but I know of at least one busway into the city that crosses a creek which floods at the drop of a hat.
If the banks break, here's what we're looking at: My old university; and Inner-city Brisbane - my office is in a yet-to-exist tower in the top left corner cluster of buildings.
My parents are in a coastal town in the tourist-haven on the Sunshine Coast. They rang yesterday to say their phone and internet will be out for the rest of the month and they can only be contacted via mobile phone. They're pretty high up so not worried about damage to the home, but there may be roads in their area cut off which will affect them getting about.
shanshan310
Member
oh hey, its started raining again. Welp, I guess I couldn't really hope for anything more than a couple of rain-free hours...
I've always been afraid to post over there. :lol I guess I'll go and check it out.
Hope you're doing okay there. Also with someone saying the rain is predicted to last till April, I sure hope UQ is okay for semester :S
Heard on the news tonight Wivenhoe is at 150% What happens when they drain it?
Ydahs said:I guess I'll take this opportunity to welcome some Aussies to our dedicated thread over in the online board. Come on by and give an introduction
I've always been afraid to post over there. :lol I guess I'll go and check it out.
Bernbaum said:
Hope you're doing okay there. Also with someone saying the rain is predicted to last till April, I sure hope UQ is okay for semester :S
Heard on the news tonight Wivenhoe is at 150% What happens when they drain it?
shanshan310
Member
Gelry said:
=/ My house was out for like 4 days during Gapocolypse (the 2008 storms). And I got lucky. Actually, I'm a little surprised things have been okay powerwise up till now.
In all seriousness; seeing these pictures is quite shocking. Australia really is a land of extremes. I remember watching a program on our local television (Belgium) talking about years of no rain in the outback of Queensland and now it is nothing but rain (although I don't know if it is raining in the outback too? Seems to be going by the maps posted, but I'm not sure)
The Wet sure is wet this year.
The Wet sure is wet this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt-FT-skins
That is a lot of fast moving water.
That is a lot of fast moving water.
Being on water restrictions during a drought is still a fresh memory. They scaled back on them in late 2009, but from 2005 in the city of Brisbane - the capital of Queensland with a population of about 2 millions - there were limits on what you could use water for, and at what times. Just over a year ago we were technically still in a drought. Things like sprinkling the plants and washing the car were enforced by law.Gelry said:
- Status