its hectic, even our local news bulletin has been dumped for a 1 hour special on it tonight. you god damn queenslanders always causing trouble.

got a camera? we'll do a live cross to the centre of brisbane with WoundedFTW

lol^^, is your house in any danger?

My workplace is on coronation drive which overlooks the brisbane river. The river is moving really fast, the bikeways are completely flooded, parts of soutbank are apparently underwater. I don't have to work until at least friday now, just hope this little creek that runs adjacent to my complex doesn't flood like it has before.

JIMMY DON JUMP IN THE RIVER!!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

farrk hope you guys in QLD are doing alright and managing. good luck during the flood and hope you guys don't get affected too much.

This sucks to see, I wonder how much work and how long it will take to repair everything

mate this will take along time, was just listening to the radio, Brisbane has recieved little compared to toowoomba but the banks are fucked and roads are starting to erode from underneath, they said its allready in the 10 of millions with the worst still to come

haha wat i do find funny though are the people in my street BOGGED on flat grass, stupid old people

i just tried to come and save you jimmy with no avail, i got to new market road and got directed off by police, i did show my id and he actually let me through, but did a uturn when i seen that massive NEW brisbane river across the river

boots

http://lexiphanic.com/floodmaps/


Here's a link to the floodmaps for brisbane suburbs. Hope you guys aren't in a potential flooding or flow path area. Unfortunately I am :/

Well, it's nice and not flooded over here on the other side of Australia.

Thinking of you guys in QLD.. My auntie and cousins have been evacuated.. So here's hoping you guys are okay. Thinking of yas.

It's just all over the news! We where also talking about it at work when they issued that video online. I feel sorry for you guys effected. So far away to help! Although I did donate to that flood appeal.

Hope you Brizzies look after yourselves

Here's some photos from around my area.

Perrin Pond (formely known as Perrin Park). About 100m down the road from me.



More Perrin Pond



Road adjacent to Perrin Pond



Brisbane river (in front of the regatta hotel in toowong). There is usually a bike path down there.



Someones pontoon floating down the river

well that last post was more annoying then your last one,

Serval wrote:

Wounded wrote:

we appreciate your concern wazza, i just received an email that my work is closed tomorrow

Convenient?

lmao

Stay safe you guys.......keep a close eye on what the experts are predicting and be prepared, I see the Brisbane river is going to peak >5.5m and this could change dramatically in the next 48hrs.

I still think to either delete or not delete you post wazza, i rather not so everyone can see the level of stupidity that was posted. even if they said "del"

Stay safe Jimmy. Krutor and myself are pretty safe. Only place that might get flooded is 10 houses away which was flooded back in '74.

Yeah it's all been pretty crazy. i was actually in Toowoomba, on saturday and Sunday for my Dad's birthday. Good thing I had to drive back to Brissy for work on the monday though, cause I'd still be up there otherwise.

The place that my Mum works at had chest deep water through the shop and the business lost everything. Apparently it was on channel 7 news at some point, will have to go looking. Where that video was taken, there is usually a channel about 2-3 meters deep. When it showed the footage of the traffic lights, there was actually a car stuck to teh side of a bridge that is completely underwater causing the water to jump up.

What's also crazy is that Toowoomba's Dams were sitting at 42% before Christmas. They have all just started overflowing.

I still have work tomorrow as I'm at Mt. Gravatt, but its very much a if you need to get home do so. I like the money though, and the road to my place is fairly elevated so I should have any problems. That and if I can't get home red rooster is a 4 minute walk from work lol.

Wish I had some flooding photos though.

EDIT: Just read the Logan river bit. I had the radio on at work today, which was a little strange, but the Mayor of Logan was on saying that they weren't expecting any flooding problems from the Logan River. Rain flooding could be another kettle of fish though.

Well i won't be on for a while, we left home this arvo, tryed to pack most things we could and put up everything else we could, but our next door neighbour said 74 floods reached our floorboards this being apparently worse there goes alot of stuff in the house i just hope it doesn't get too bad but what can ya do, find out in the morning i guess. Anyway fellas in Brisbane area/ SE QLD stay safe and take it easy.

sry to hear that nano, it'll be good, boots is watching over all

Yeah there's no immediate threat to the Logan area just yet, but there's always the chance so you never know.



Since when has the sky been blue? Lol

Haha yeah boots take it easy up there aye mate lol! watching over us all

Well you Brissy guys are a bit far south to be worried about croc's however the bull sharks are another matter, stay out of the water.

Nice and safe on the west side Several, just watch out for the bloody cyclone on that side there fella.
biggest flood since '74 well guess what also happened in '74 .... cyclone Tracy.

Please don't tell me they're letting Boots drive one of those 11 army choppers.
If they are, take it easy on the corners mate, they don't handle quite as well as trucks.

Stay safe people, possesions can be replaced, most of you can not be.

removed by trae. wazza if you have a problem this isn't the topic for it, FTW doesnt have many serious threads but this is an exception.

Aye wanna remove Lilboots and Bucketheads posts? They off topic? OH WAIT, EXCEPTION ALERT, they FTW I forgot (sarcasm).
Stepping in to help your buddy buckethead... saving his virgin ears. Yeah let him fucking give me an earful and don't let me give one back. You hero.

removed by trae imminent/other FTW moderators.

what the fuck was that about o.o

I heard on the news, hopefully everyone alright, the weather is extreme, never seen it that bad in Australia....

WaZzA wrote:

removed by trae. wazza if you have a problem this isn't the topic for it, FTW doesnt have many serious threads but this is an exception.

Aye wanna remove Lilboots and Bucketheads posts? They off topic? OH WAIT, EXCEPTION ALERT, they FTW I forgot (sarcasm).
Stepping in to help your buddy buckethead... saving his virgin ears. Yeah let him fucking give me an earful and don't let me give one back. You hero.

removed by trae imminent/other FTW moderators.

Your a dickhead..




I'm still concerned about how much the governments putting into the whole thing.. When Indonesia had floods Australia donated 1 billion.. and for Pakistan they donated 66.5 million.. Apparently all that's been donated to QLD is 2 mill from America and 1 mill from our own government.. Oh and a nice letter form the royal prince Charles saying how sympathetic he was. Are we really that stingy to help each other out.. because last time i looked i wasn't paying tax money to help other countries out?

@Kel - the government has said that they will be providing as much money as is needed. That 1 mil was to kick off the public appeal. Last figure I heard was more than 30mil, and we're not even cleaning up yet. Someone has to pay to keep all those choppers in the air, and that ain't cheap. The Flood telethon thing raised 35 million as well.

lol wazza im not FTW anymore...... SNAP biatch. abit of a 14 year period hey, that time of month. the best remedy for that is to jump in front of a moving truck, works a treat

anyways, yea the funding into Indonesia and Australia is marginally different, in most cases Australians insurance will cover many of the effected people if they are smart and got contents and house insurance, Indonesia is a little different with there insurance and so forth, im not and expert with foreign matters, i would assume in a 3rd world country the basics like food water schooling ect would be a higher concern. in other words they couldnt help themselves, we can.

oh and plural for moose, is meese lol, didnt know that, funny when you say it

boots

zygurt wrote:

@Kel - the government has said that they will be providing as much money as is needed. That 1 mil was to kick off the public appeal. Last figure I heard was more than 30mil, and we're not even cleaning up yet. Someone has to pay to keep all those choppers in the air, and that ain't cheap. The Flood telethon thing raised 35 million as well.

well i would assume they would have a set aside funding for emergency crews without (within reason) limitations, the army is stepping in for the cleanup, that includes heavy machinery and workers, i hope i can get involved, myself and chewie are on 24 hours notice to move.

boots

P.S double post FTW

the federal government has put aside 100 mill dollars. This will be distributed through centrelink in emergency payments for bonafide flood victims.. Not too mention the use of the army & other rescue services.. Who do u think will foot the bill for them.. Also there will be further relief packages availabe for the cleanup & rebuilding that will take place after the flood waters subside.. No more government bashing. There doing a good job. This will be a good test for them

i agree, they are doing what they can........

you would be fucked if this happened in NSW, they only care about making mutated children from having sex with there sisters. wierd i know, but its even worst then TASMANIA..... I KNOW RIGHT!

Kel wrote:

because last time i looked i wasn't paying tax money to help other countries out?

Its what humans do, to better ourselves, helping eachother. And why am I a dickhead? Who invited you to throw slander at me? Since you joined FTW you think your so fucking superior to me now that you throw away what "friendship" we had and can just randomly call me lil shit and what not kel. You become a fking ice queen.

And lilboots you suggesting I kill myself? Some "recommendation", reminds of when Traelium told a new guy on Crysis Wars to "neck himself" cause he had trouble understanding how to do something.

Yeah just cool of guys, take a dip...

ok from now on any posts off topic will be deleted.....plz keep on topic guys...this is about the flood crisis and thats it...cheers.

Hey Guys,

Went to Wivenhoe Dam last Monday and took a few pics of the dam releasing the excess water, this was on the lower side of the dam since access to the top part of the dam was closed off.










The dam was so near breaking they literally told the towoomba folk down sadly down there to "get the fuck out cause here comes the water".


After Sandbagging down my restaurant and moving all the stock out of South Bank, and being told to move by SES and police after that for our safety, Went for a drive around Cooparoo and see some of the flooding there, he's some pics I managed to get.








Didn't manage to take a picture, but the Streets Beach in Southbank Parklands doesn't exist anymore, all the sand has been shoveled up and put into sandbags, it's street's concrete paradise now.
I personally had to take 20-25sandbags myself to bag up my entire restaurant, had to leave some alcohol left cause didn't have enough time before SES told us to clear out. Hopefully it doesn't get looted by faggots.

Also massive rush for essentials like gas an petrol, this one Shell station I saw near my uncles shop in Cooparoo (power cut so he had to close down as well) sold out of petrol and people still trying to get anything in stores.



So yeh, not really the Sunshine State for the meantime.

Sorry if the pictures are insanely big, Dunno how to resize pics from imagefap.

RoyaltyFTW

wow, was it just one dam or lake that was over capacity ?

Name:
Wivenhoe Dam / Lake Wivenhoe
Full Supply Capacity:
1,165,238 ML
Current Capacity:
2,172,604 ML (100.0% full) at 13/01/2011 10:00AM

edit: looks to be dam Somerset also, didn't know it was so close to the city thought it was further north west.

it was at 190% capacity at one stage. i think supply capacity isn't it's 100%. At 200% it could have given in. if it wasnt for the 74 floods and that dam being built as a result, there probably wouldn't be a brisbane right now.

Wivenhoe Dam can hold 2,172,604 ML (100%) but has a Flood Mitigation of an extra 1,450,000 ML. So something like 220% including the extra allowable Flood Mitigation, so in reality we didn't have to worry about the Dam collapsing or anything

KarmaFTW wrote:

Yeah just cool of guys, take a dip...

Yeah I heard the surf is great in Queensland atm.

Seriously though, just thinking of you guys who are in the hot zones and hope this doesn't destroy your lives as much as it has thousands of others. All the best to your families and friends.

The thing with dam walls is that they are designed to be strong in one direction. If water had gone over the top, it holds 225%, there is a high possibility that the dam wall would collapse. And that would be very bad.

Which restaurant Royalty?

ive got a day off for the first time in a awhile, all i can say is brisbane got it easy BIG TIME, that little flooding is nothing like grantham and townsville, the news shows 1/millionth the total devastation, ive been working in grantham where it ripped houses apart and threw cars around like they are nothing, total devastation. we are still looking for bodies that i think wont be found for a long time, we recently found the 2 year old 37km from where she was seen.

talking about the dam is sorta pointless, im pretty sure they wouldnt have released the water if they knew if would have been fine, the dam would have gone with more rain. experts say that so i will stick with there comments.

i will post some photos of planes in trees and houses 1km away from where they first rested.

boots

luls. its a gorilla.

Nah it's a ranga lol

I am very close to say its faked, seriously it even has two black spots for the nostrils, two perfectly sized and spaced spots for the eyes :\

Durrrrrr Karma lol
Seriously though would hate to be in the path of that beast. 300+kph winds....no thanks. Do we have anyone up that way? I think jasonx used to live there.

Sharp eye you have karma. Rilord aka Riley lives up there, hope his safe. He just got his new pc, shame to see it drown and explode.

i'd have a giggle

Lol