It's raining sideways

[quote name='PettingZoo' post='3383273' date='Jan 11 2011, 12:51 PM']If some of you don't know already (Australian tempers should be in the know) the eastern side of Australia has been having crazy rain and insane floods. I'm in Queensland at the moment in Brisbane which was all fine and dandy until now where the Brisbane river is going to overflow along with other sources of water and flood the CBD, surrounding areas and some other places in Brisbane.
Already in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane as been hit hard by the floods with water gushing down streets, houses ripped apart and so much more.

EDIT: is the Youtube working?

People's cars getting washed away
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Water rushing down a street
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Anyway I've been delayed like crazy for getting some parts for a new PC build from Umart , and now I won't be able to get them today and probably not for a couple days since that area has been reported flooded at the moment but stores around that area have sandbagged themselves and moved all their stock into moving trucks and stuff to secure it.[/quote]
Yes, YouTube is working, you just did your tags wrong.

Anyway, I heard about what's going on. Hope nothing too bad happens there.

Alrighty fixed up the tags.

The news said that the rains were only going to be horrible in Brisbane for today and that it was going to be light showers all round afterwards, here's to hoping tomorrow won't be a shit fest and I can get my build on.

I remember when the UK flooded a few years back. My old man was driving me and my brother from here in Coventry to Swansea. We got caught in the floods and the journey which should have taken about two hours took closer to nine. Wasn't pleasant.

I don't actually know anyone in Australia. Although I did absolutely brick myself when I heard about the earthquakes in New Zealand a while back because one of my best friends lives out there and the quake happened about 2 minutes away from her house. But either way, I extend my best wishes to all our Australian tempers and wish you good luck on your swim to work

I just hope they don't hit Melbourne.

Regardless, you might want to pack a few things just in case the floods get close to you.

I'm quite lucky to be living in Sydney

Phew... I think I'm safe for now.

The sad thing is that living in the UK as I do, bitching about the rain is pretty much all we have. Now we can't even do that any more. What have we got left aside from queueing?

SWIMMIN' HOLE!

But yes, that's pretty bad rain.

It's gotten worse since I last heard about it...

bye bye cars!!!

[quote name='game01' post='3383925' date='Jan 11 2011, 05:02 PM']bye bye cars!!![/quote]
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And I suddenly remembered the tyhpoon Basyang that came here last August(?)
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I was just planning to visit my old mate in brisbane...

Good thing it cant flood where we are in Brisbane but it'll most likely flood as close as a few km away.

My house is pretty safe from any flooding, which is lucky.
From what you can see on the news it's pretty insane in some places, and R.I.P the 10 dead and possibly 80 unconfirmed...

Thursday's supposed to be worse than the '74 floods (Which were huge.) Hopefully things don't turn out that way...

Watched it on aca's live coverage yesterday and it's really bad atm, there was one place that its supposed to get 22 meters or something close, (Toowoomba, I think) pretty bad.