Queensland floods

[Vector Prime]

I was able to find Tinyjazz's house, and it is in the middle of a big patch of water.

Oh crap! That's not good to hear.... anyone spoken to her lately about the extent of the damage?

[Bartrim]

Oh crap! That's not good to hear.... anyone spoken to her lately about the extent of the damage?

She said on facebook that they are gutting their house. So I assume there was some property damage but I think all her family are safe.

[Saintly]

it's so sad to hear people that you know that are affected by the floods

and incomprehensible to hear that insurance company said that the flood was man-made!

[Deonasis]

Hopefully those affected continue to get the communty support they need. Anywhere i have seen damage of the Brisbane floods i have seen many many helpers.

[5FDP]

it's so sad to hear people that you know that are affected by the floods

and incomprehensible to hear that insurance company said that the flood was man-made!

Yeah, Bob Brown's chipped in his 'two cents' worth and accused the coal miners. This guy needs to go away and take a good hard look at himself.

[kup]

Yeah, Bob Brown's chipped in his 'two cents' worth and accused the coal miners. This guy needs to go away and take a good hard look at himself.

The Greens are loosing their balance and are steadily becoming the other 'extreme' of the equation.

[Hursticon]

I agree, normally Senator Brown is pretty even keel but yeah - those comments are a little 'off' to say the least.

I don't think the Miners have caused this event and Global Warming may have a degree of influence but I imagine it is pretty small really, so I reckon the floods are just one of those 'freak events' that occur once or twice every 40-50 years and they're rather tragic - but no one can be blamed for these natural occurrences.

I think Senator Brown has done himself and his party more bad than good here unfortunately, but I think that these multi-billion dollar companies could do a little more than offer condolences - it's also nice to see the wave of offerings of assistance from Nations we've helped in the past too.
(Like 'em or hate 'em, at least America has stayed true to it's word )

[griffin]

If it was the first ever flood for Brisbane, people could then look at contemporary issues like global warming. But Brisbane has flooded periodically for centuries. It occurred because of a combination of weather events, not because of anything human civilisation did. It actually would have been a lot worse if we hadn't of 'interfered' by building the giant Wivenhoe Dam 30 years ago. It's still holding back several 'Sydney Harbours' of water that was prevented from going through the city last week with the rest of the rain.