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Australia: It's a f'ing disaster

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Current, or recent natural disasters in Australia:

Queensland: Record Floods covering approx 2/3 of the state, and Multiple Cyclones. As of posting, being hit by a Category 5 or above Cyclone (TC Yasi, Winds at 290 KPH, or 170 MPH)
New South Wales: Floods, and Bushfires.
Victoria: Floods and Bushfires.
Western Australia: Cyclones
South Australia and the Northern Territory: Risk of Bushfire
Tasmania: Dunno, havn't heard word from them.. they may have sunk.


The national broadcaster had a live webcam from someone in the path of Cyclone Yasi... and I just recorded this little gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UemHueHNY8

FWIW: Live stream of the Cyclone coverage http://www.abc.net.au/abcnews24
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Very Nice on the Video Spec.

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Re: Australia: It's a f'ing disaster

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Spec8472 wrote:Current, or recent natural disasters in Australia:

Queensland: Record Floods covering approx 2/3 of the state, and Multiple Cyclones. As of posting, being hit by a Category 5 or above Cyclone (TC Yasi, Winds at 290 KPH, or 170 MPH)
New South Wales: Floods, and Bushfires.
Victoria: Floods and Bushfires.
Western Australia: Cyclones
South Australia and the Northern Territory: Risk of Bushfire
Tasmania: Dunno, havn't heard word from them.. they may have sunk.


The national broadcaster had a live webcam from someone in the path of Cyclone Yasi... and I just recorded this little gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UemHueHNY8

FWIW: Live stream of the Cyclone coverage http://www.abc.net.au/abcnews24
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Re: Australia: It's a f'ing disaster

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Its totally fucked up. It really is.

Those poor bastards up in Queensland , cant just score a break. Bloody Floods and now a Fucking cyclone. New south wales (My home state) isn't doing that crash hot either.Throw in Victoria , Western Australia South Australia and the northern territory . like speccy said the only place that's hasn't been (as of yet) is that little island off the mainland called Tasmania.

Its fucking insane , is what it is. I cant ever remember a year so bad and whilst i might live in the US ,its no question that i ( any expat for that matter ) really do call Australia home.Right now ,its close to my heart and in my prayers as well.
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Was speaking to a lady i know, who her folks live in Melbourne.She was telling me that they were suffering from flooding and rising waters !
I honestly thought for a moment, she was pulling my leg.It never floods in Melbourne,its almost unheard of!! Its almost like saying that there is major flooding in NYC , it just doesn't happen.yet here it is. Bloody unbelievable. WTF is going on??
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you missed the cyclone which just hit darwin -- apparently they have set a new all-time record for the most rain in February (840mm), and there is still a fair portion of Feb left.
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http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/news.html lots of work to be done but some semblance of normalcy is returning.
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I believe something like 99% of Queensland is currently eligible for disaster relief (1,730,648 km2 is the total area of QLD - ( France (674,843 km2) + Spain(505,992) + Germany (357,114)+ United Kingdom (242,900))

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/weat ... 6019344042

several places have had 2M of rain recently ... and the rain is continuing.
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throw japan in on top of that , and it doesn't make for good news. :cry: :cry:
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They prayed for rain after the recent drought. Guess they got a bit more than expected...
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