Austarion

Allan was here for a few days as he is a tec at ABC TV in Hobart and was seconded to Qld to cover the flood and had to drive one of the local outside broadcast vans around Brisbane and line up the sattelite dish to send the link to Mt Cootha to cover the floods.I think he may post up some pics later
Got together with him on Sunday for lunch a chat

The flight coming in








Outside Cold Rock icecreamery in Rosalie
Note the people in the raft
















This is a boat towing a big industrial gas cylinder, we could smell the leaking gas


Bits of the floating walkway in the distance


This BMW is buggered


An army of volunteers, thousands of people lined up, catching hundreds of busses, beeing taken out to different locations to clean up.

The water has made a muddy mess.
Big piles pf rubbish are springing up all over the flooded arias, waiting to be carted away.















I like these birds


Street art


Still pumping water out of the city car parks


Crazy lady thought she could drive through the water near Rads house.

She was unsuccessfull

Rads puppy

More excellent pics here on this ABC News website.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/infographics ... eafter.htm

Wait till fully downloaded, then sweep your mouse L-R to view the before & after.

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Streetside Dentistry. I can see this being a profitable business.

Seriously though, I helped sandbag a whole neighborhood in 2009 when the river crested something like 49 feet above flood stage. The river flows north into Canada and up there it was still frozen. Nowhere for the water to go.

You guys have it much worse, obviously, but I know the feeling, at least.

The female driver of the v8 Cruiser was told not to drive thru the fast flowing water that was 1.1 metres deep on the height markers but drove around 2 road closed barriers and about mid way the back floated and was stopped by a footbridge from being washed off the road . She got out via the sunroof