I'm sure most of you have heard about the Great Inland Tsunami of Australia that thank fully I am a wee bit up from there and just suffered the usual localized flooding. But a lot of my friends and family have been affected by this devastating event. Just watching the footage of the car being swept down the Toowoomba main street and knowing my cousin was there 10 mins prior is enough to rattle the nerves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt-FT-skins

Then Tony Abbott (a politician) shows up with a film crew in his crisp blue and white checkered shirt, picked up bag of rubbish for a photo op/interview and then buggered off again. Truly disgusting - if you're not part of the solution Tony, you're part of the problem - either help or go home! This is a natural disaster not an "election run" to try and win voters.

Just really pisses me off!!!

same thing over here...whenever tragedy strikes, politicians come out of the woodwork like cockroaches...

Its truly pathetic, I went through Cyclone Larry in 06 and although we had no loss of life we lost everything and so did so many other people and yet our politicians at the time were right in the heart of it helping. It was fantastic.

yea, then president Bush flew over flooded New Orleans about a week after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city, just to make an appearance ... it was pathetic... I still don't think they know how many people died there... that was in 05 or so...

Long term politicians are absolutely worthless, don't know how long this Tony Abott has been in office but it seems the longer they're in the more comfortable they get. I hope everything works out. The footage I've seen is ridiculous, the amount of water coming through is immense.

Its truly pathetic, I went through Cyclone Larry in 06 and although we had no loss of life we lost everything and so did so many other people and yet our politicians at the time were right in the heart of it helping. It was fantastic.


yea, then president Bush flew over flooded New Orleans about a week after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city, just to make an appearance ... it was pathetic... I still don't think they know how many people died there... that was in 05 or so...


Yes i remember seeing footage of that too, it was truly shocking - If only they realise that people are more likely to vote them if they are in there helping them, they spend so much talking about how they are there to help the people and yet they dont. They blow Tax Payers money tripping all over the world and Holidays, If i were a politician I would rather be a humble one then being an greedy tosser with no empathy for human loss.

I dont know how it is gonna turn out hun, a cyclone has just formed off the coast n is headed towards that way again, i really hope that it just blows over before getting anywhere near there. Last thing we need. Its like our weather has gone crazy, fires near perth, cyclone in wa, cyclone in qld, severe flooding in qld thats continuing down the coast n is hitting nsw now as we speak, severe heat waves in sa. Its like the weather is a chick n woke up with bad pms.

Tony Abbot has been there ages, he wants to be PM but he is an idiot and we all know it. N Julia Gillard who looks like Lois off Family Guy is just as bad, she script reads her speeches so when she talks about the devastation its very monotone and uncaring.

Sorry Rambling.

Where is all the water coming from? we have our monsoon moisture com up from the gulf of Mexico and always thought it would be cool if a Great White was picked up out at sea then dropped in a lake here. Of course we would have to save it and get it to Sea World or some place to be released later but it would be cool to see one up close.

i was looking at intellicast.com last night, and it was a train effect blowing in from the east.... now it is tearing up brazil...

Its monsoon season here firstly and there were massive floods right across the state of Qld. These floods affected a much wider area, hitting cities such as Rockhampton and Emerald particularly hard, and causing mass evacuations across the state. A cyclone system which crossed the coast south of Cairns brought flooding to that city at Christmas. A combination of the low from the cyclone system and the flooding at Rockhampton brought an inland tsunami that hit Toowoomba, at the top of the Great Dividing Range, sending a mass of water down the range to swamp the towns at the base. Helidon and Grantham were particularly hard hit. The water then made its way into Wivenhoe Dam, meaning a lot of water had to be released into the brisbane River. This in turn swamped Ipswich and Brisbane, leading to devastating floods in both those cities. Now the water is continuing to flow downwards into Nsw hitting towns rather hard as well. There is footage of the water travelling down and its incredible to see but also very devastating.

Brisbane atm have sharks swimming around in the centre of town too.

Well there is going to be a ton of clean up to do and hopefully the death toll is insignificant compared to all affected by this.

I heard about this today.....and have been keeping Aussies in prayers all day.....its all I can think of to do for now.....bless you and may your family members be okay........

Think the death toll stands at 30 now with a large number of ppl missing and alot of ppl more than likely will not be found Boredinaz06. There are alot of hero stories too like Jordan Price who wanted them to save his brother n mother first before him n then when rescuers went back to get him he was gone.

I heard about that, what a way to go, at least he will be remembered and in a heroic way. Was this all unexpected?

Id like to say yes n no. Toowoomba had no warning at all, there videos online where it took a matter of minutes before being engulfed in a large quantity of water. Brisbane and Ipswich and surrounding areas knew well in advance that it was coming. Its a bit like where i live now, i am surrounded by mountains and live at the base....we can have flash flooding within 10minutes with a downpour at any given time.

The same here, I am no more than an hour to at least 8,000 feet in 3 directions.

not me, i'm an hour away from the coast, and maybe 50 ft. above sea level...

almost an exact year from the Haitian Earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands,,,


so weird,,,

It ain't over yet.

At least you get to see which politicians fill sandbags and which politicians fill windbags...

Most of ours are just windbags.

Wasn't the "Land Down Under" devastated by wild fires last year?
From what we were seeing on the news here, you would think the whole continent burned up!

And now the floods? Again, from watching the news here, it appears like the whole continent in being washed away!

Crazy weather or what?