Queensland floods

[morsla]

I hadn't realised just how bad the Queensland floods were, until seeing photos posted on WargamerAU today. Flooding has been in the news for months now - first NSW, and then QLD. Running an Australian forum, I've come to know a lot of people in almost every corner of the country... so I guess it's inevitable that any natural disaster will be only one or two degrees of separation away.

This was posted this morning by one of the forum members in Toowoomba. It's more than just a flash flood - when the river burst its banks, the wave of water carried cars and building debris along with it.




If you have friends or family in the region, check up on them if you can. Probably best to avoid calling mobile numbers though - Vodaphone QLD is completely out, and the Optus network is strained. Emergency services have requested that calls only be made to emergency numbers in the area.


EDIT: And if you wanted to see how the cars ended up that way, here's a video as it happened... YouTube link

EDIT 2: A great picture collection from Boston.com, via kitling: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/01/australian_flooding.html

Comments

[teknohippi.livejournal.com]

looks like the end of Blues Brothers or a really pissed off parking Valet

[virtual-munkee.livejournal.com]

thanks for the post, i saw that video yesterday and its pretty terrifying...there are so many people caught up in it and missing :(