Terrible flooding here in Queensland and now into New South Wales, Australia. The Central Business District has been closed in Brisbane and power cut off. Today is the first day the city looks like returning to normal. I'm selfish I know, but I've been suffering Withdrawal Symptoms; The "den of iniquity" has been closed
and I have had to go to a couple of local clubs to get my poker machine fix. After I fought my way through the old farts playing Bingo and the rest picking off the poker machines,I realized that this was not the way to fix my symptoms.
Guess where I am going to try to go tomorrow?
When I moved here, I got maps of all the areas that have ever flooded and then I bought my home in a safe place. I remember what happened here in the 1974 floods. Nice to see the number of folks, particularly the young ones volunteering for the clean up work. As you can imagine, the public transport system was in chaos and so many roads closed; it impacted on nearly everyone. Hope that lessons are learned this time! The ones I am most sad for are the folk who had NO warning that huge walls of water were rushing towards them and their homes and their animals. Several died and many are still missing. We will take years to recover from this.