BRB, floods
Jan. 11th, 2011 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aelia
Uh, so this is the creek -lake now, rather - that runs behind our backyard - kind of creeped out now! Dad reckons that the water came right up the hill in the 1974 floods, but it didn't get to the house - fingers crossed that this is the case this time around. It's still got to rise another three or four metres before it comes near us, but damn, what is this bullshit?
Our suburb hasn't been officially warned yet, but the one close to us has been told they're on standby for evacuation, and there's a few nearby on the same - several of my friends have been told to get ready to move, kinda stalking them at the moment to make sure they're okay!
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Date: 2011-01-11 07:54 am (UTC)In the last few years we've started getting more apocalyptic-scale floods over here - must be all that global warming they keep talking about!
Good luck!
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Date: 2011-01-11 08:33 am (UTC)There's been so much nutty weather worldwide that it's got to be a definate contributing factor (also, this county is nuts, we're underwater, and the other side of the country is on fire!)
At least - touch wood - the state hasn't got it's usual summer cyclones. That would just push the whole thing over the edge.
Thanks :)
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Date: 2011-01-11 11:09 am (UTC)Take care!
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Date: 2011-01-11 11:03 pm (UTC)Definately doing that, thanks :)
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Date: 2011-01-11 12:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-12 12:39 am (UTC)They are, the videos people have been posting are frightening, you don't think of water being quite that powerful!
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Date: 2011-01-11 03:57 pm (UTC)Take care!
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Date: 2011-01-12 12:38 am (UTC)We will, thanks :D
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Date: 2011-01-11 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-13 02:12 am (UTC)(And hideously muggy, but I shouldn't complain, I'm just happy to see the sun!)
The creek has mostly gone down now, guess it was being fed by the rainfall, rather then all the floodwater making it's way down.
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Date: 2011-01-13 02:31 am (UTC)I'll have to put up a photo of the river in full force, that was scary in a really awesome kind of way - I've never seen that amount of water there, and the sound of it was amazing
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Date: 2011-01-14 01:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-12 01:23 pm (UTC)I have the raging bushfires about 15 minutes away from where I am :S
Its like polar opposites on each side of the country
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Date: 2011-01-13 02:10 am (UTC)I declare Australia the offical 'Dr Jekell and Mr Hyde' country. We're so screwed up sometimes!
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Date: 2011-01-14 11:39 pm (UTC)How are you guys doing now? Is your family OK?
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Date: 2011-01-15 12:27 am (UTC)We're all okay thanks, we didn't get hit by the major ones at all - the flooding in the creek (and the river down the road) seems to have been caused by the massive amount of rain we had, we don't get any of the water released from the dams, and the high tides didn't affect us. The water's gone down a good deal now, now it's just at the level it normally is after a regular rainstorm. :)
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Date: 2011-01-15 01:01 am (UTC)I'm putting together some stuff for donating (prams, a cot, a bunch of toys and baby and toddler clothes, maybe some adult clothes) but I want to find a charity that will just hand them over and not sell them. I want to give something to the families that lost everything and are not going to be able to return to their homes for months.
*goes off to do some research*
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Date: 2011-01-15 01:57 am (UTC)If you find anything that'll take and distribute the goods, point me in that direction?