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I saw just how much worse they seemed on the news today , and i was wondering how is dakka's Australian cohort faring?


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Im not living in the areas affected anymore, but have family near Brisbane who are thankfully unaffected.

I have to admit its hard being away from the area and seeing what is happening. Really makes me want to go back.

I know Insaniak and Waagh Gonads are in the area as well, not sure if they are affected or not but hope everything is good.

My thoughts go out to those affected

I had just gotten onto the computer and the flooding was the first thing I clicked on when the internet loaded up. I saw through three videos of news reports and the overhead clip of the wall-o-water moving and the misguided and smashing cars are quite the eerie sight

Best of luck to those withing the growing area of danger.

The roads are pretty much entirely cut off where I live, but our house and local area itself is safe enough and we still have power. Unfortunately a lot of family friends have been directly affected. One of them, a horse farmer, had half the poor creatures swept away in the flooding.

Most of our family is in Victoria, and we are getting a lot of panicked calls. So far everyone we know is accounted for and in one piece.

Its pretty crazy to see the news. Im in Brisbane, but my house is on a pretty big hill. And I have just basically stayed home. This hill may become an island briefly going by the Govt flood maps.

The aftermath is gonna be way worse. Heaps of people with no homes/no work.

Shaman wrote:Its pretty crazy to see the news. Im in Brisbane, but my house is on a pretty big hill.

Kangaroo Point? Or maybe I've got the definition of 'hill' wrong.

I'm nowhere near it.

Last time my area had flooding we also had a cargo ship on the beach (which completely screwed up the break when it carved a gouge through the reef which will take centuries to fix).

We had a day or so of heavyish rain, and localised flooding (overwhelmed stormwater system) but it vanished as soon as it stopped raining.

I have friends in the flooding zone though. They seem to be fine. In that they are still online and posting banal tripe online about it. Twittering or somesuch. What does one call these peeps? What is the past tense of "to twitter"?

Also nowhere near it. My Aunt is around there though, but fine.

chromedog wrote:I'm nowhere near it.

Last time my area had flooding we also had a cargo ship on the beach (which completely screwed up the break when it carved a gouge through the reef which will take centuries to fix).

We had a day or so of heavyish rain, and localised flooding (overwhelmed stormwater system) but it vanished as soon as it stopped raining.

I have friends in the flooding zone though. They seem to be fine. In that they are still online and posting banal tripe online about it. Twittering or somesuch. What does one call these peeps? What is the past tense of "to twitter"?

i will tweet , i am tweeting, i tweeted , go on holiday not far from where a large continer ship was washed up in britain it was cool as the town is dead normaly.

I call them 'tw*ts'. with the '*' replaced by an 'a'.

Some of them also call themselves this. "Tweeters" sounds just a little 'girly'.

chromedog wrote:I call them 'tw*ts'. with the '*' replaced by an 'a'.

Some of them also call themselves this. "Tweeters" sounds just a little 'girly'.

But tw*t is literally as girly as it gets...

I call them that because it fits them. I'd prefer to call them "ankles" (3 foot lower than a ...) though or oxygen/electron thieves.

They find "Tweeter" to be girly. That they probably shouldn't use it and blast their banal crap to the world has probably not occurred to them.