El Presidente Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Emerald is a in many ways a typical regional Queensland municipitality. population 10,900 with an industry based around mining services and a little citrus. Annual rainfall is only 490mm a year (19.2 inches per year). Putting the current floods into perspective. It is only one of hundreds/thousands of communities. Thanks to mate John Kockanski for the photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZCUBAN Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Thanks for the post Rob Some people are really doing it tough this year,especially the farmers that gambled everything on this years crops after years of drought,most of the country has been drenched and yet others like over here is for the most part is parched with dam levels very low cheers OZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anacostiakat Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Damn! Have been following this in the news. My prayers go out to one and all affected by this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vetteman Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Wow! Those are scary pictures. Prayers sent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcheek Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 That's a terrible thing to see, I pray for the ones who are having to deal with this mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scinmyheart Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Holy Toledo...those are brutal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob25 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 What a disaster! Unfortunate families ,all their houses have been ruined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dicko Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 As sad as that is, and my prayers go out to the families, I am in awe of the power of nature. amazing photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winelover Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 The Queensland floods have been big news over here. Rob, Ken, Smithy, Lise - hope you guys aren't affected. It almost looks like Bangladesh. Also understand that snakes are pretty cranky this time of year and crocs are enjoying their new habitats. Hope the flood waters soon recede. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbrody Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Wow. Those are amazing images, and also sad. The burning question...is the online cigar humidor storage facility under water?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Wow. Those are amazing images, and also sad.The burning question...is the online cigar humidor storage facility under water?!? Well you don't want dry cigars do you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adic88 Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 OMG, what's going on with the weather? Is this something that happens every 20 years or something like that (like the aussie dust storms) or does this NEVER happen? We get the same thing here in Malaysia, on the eastern seaboard. Two states regularly spend 2 months of the year underwater, whenever the monsoons hit that side of Malaysia. But for us, there is so little that can be done, because the areas are naturally prone to flooding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckSARTech Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 Wow. Breathtaking, and not in a good way. Fingers crossed for all, for a speedy recovery effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 OMG, what's going on with the weather? Is this something that happens every 20 years or something like that (like the aussie dust storms) or does this NEVER happen? Flood happen every so often in Aus, miainly on the east coast (NSW, Qld). This just happens to be an extremely bad one. What really stings the banana benders is that they are still paying for the 2010 March flood. The problem we have is that because of long years of drought, the soil can't absorb the water readily enough and won't drain away. Apparently we are going through a period of La Niña, so there's going to be a lot more wet weather for eastern Aus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay8354 Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 The most unfortunate thing is, the farmers - if given a choice, will pick the flooding over the droughts any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puros Y Vino Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 I was listening to an interview on the CBC (for those outside of Canada, our "national" broadcaster) with someone from Queensland and he mentioned that the water was up to 9 metres! (29.5ft). What is the source of the flooding? Heavy rains? From the pictures everything looks fairly flat so the water is either falling from the sky or this area is slightly below sea level? As far as I know, there is no snowfall in Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dB69 Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 All gone, not very funny. I wish strength to the people living in there, and also elsewhere in the middle of disasters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Posted January 8, 2011 Author Share Posted January 8, 2011 I was listening to an interview on the CBC (for those outside of Canada, our "national" broadcaster) with someone from Queensland and he mentioned that the water was up to 9 metres! (29.5ft). What is the source of the flooding? Heavy rains? From the pictures everything looks fairly flat so the water is either falling from the sky or this area is slightly below sea level? As far as I know, there is no snowfall in Australia. Source of flooding is rain. Throughout the state the ground is sodden from record spring rains and then a cyclone hit end of December turning into a rain deperession which hung around for 10 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbagel Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Can't even imagine what it would be like seeing this for real instead of pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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