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danny_galaga:
There's been major flooding around my state the last few weeks. Looks like it's coming to town

http://au.news.yahoo.com/qld-floods/a/-/article/8626088/floodwaters-creep-into-brisbane/

Today I was delivering mail along the river, across from the city. There were many more cars driving around than normal, all seemingly trying to find a parking space. there's a pub nearby so I figured they must have knocked off early because the work has closed in preparation. Later I get to some very large units and see cars parked all over. Then it hit me- there's lots of underground parking around that area! So now everyone has to park above ground. Personally, I would drive somewhere higher up and catch a bus back home...

saint:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on January 11, 2011, 02:58:55 am ---
There's been major flooding around my state the last few weeks. Looks like it's coming to town

http://au.news.yahoo.com/qld-floods/a/-/article/8626088/floodwaters-creep-into-brisbane/

Today I was delivering mail along the river, across from the city. There were many more cars driving around than normal, all seemingly trying to find a parking space. there's a pub nearby so I figured they must have knocked off early because the work has closed in preparation. Later I get to some very large units and see cars parked all over. Then it hit me- there's lots of underground parking around that area! So now everyone has to park above ground. Personally, I would drive somewhere higher up and catch a bus back home...

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Yeah, I was wondering about you and Sez. My conception of Australia is that if you throw a baseball very hard you can reach one side from the other, though I assume it's probably slightly larger than that. Stay dry!

cdbrown:
Quite a stark difference between each side of Australia.  Eastern states getting massive floods, WA having massive fires and the least rainfall in decades.  It's dry and hot over here.

Thoughts are with those that have lost everything.

vorghagen:

--- Quote from: saint on January 11, 2011, 10:33:50 am ---
Yeah, I was wondering about you and Sez. My conception of Australia is that if you throw a baseball very hard you can reach one side from the other, though I assume it's probably slightly larger than that. Stay dry!


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Just a little larger than that....
Danny, hope you and your family can keep out of trouble throughout this tragic time.

danny_galaga:
Hehe. Yep, Australia is roughly the land mass of the USA, as Vorghagen has shown. There aren't as many states, but each one is magnitudes larger than Texas ;-)

So today, I get to work and there's a meeting going on. Our office was to be evacuated. So, a little like the Russian factories in the face of the German advance in WWII, we packed up the whole show and moved it to somewhere else. For those that don't know, I'm a postman. So we had to pack up all the sorting frames, trolleys, night sorting equipment etc. There are about 25 runs in our office. Each one delivers to about 1000 addresses. That's about 100 stands and 400  shelves. All the shelves had to be taped together because they have hundreds of dividers in them, correlating to each address.Took maybe 3 large trucks to do. Disappointingly, a whole bunch of people suddenly lived in flood areas and went home, including a number of supervisors, leaving just a few of us to unpack and pack again. Our manager was no where to be seen. A previous 2IC came to help. He's a little dynamo that guy. If he cared, he'd be CEO of Aust Post in 5 years from now (the current one headed one of Australis biggest banks).

Our old office is right next to a creek, which is prone to flooding. The new place is a distribution centre. I took a rough guess and figured it has about 12 times the floor area of our old place. They squeezed us into a corner. Annoyingly, I've only just fixed my bicycle and was going to ride to work. Takes about ten minutes. New place takes about 25 minutes to DRIVE, so that plan is going out the window  ;D If our office doesn't flood, we'll move back in in a week or so. If it does flood god knows how long we'll be at the new place.

After work today, there were just four of us left, and one supervisor who sheepishly came to help ( i suspect he got a little phone call from one of the big guns). In context, there are normally about 30 staff, 3 supervisors and a manager. The Soviets would have all pulled together. Of course if you were a Russian factory worker, the incentive was compelling  ;D

I rode my bike to the old place after work today to have a look. The road undulates a bit. The first part that was flooded I managed to ride through. About half a metre deep. The second one looked deeper. So I didn't try. Hard to say if our shop is flooded yet or not. It's about one metre above the road, but like I say, it undulates.

That's the fun news out of the way. Sadly, the latest is 12 dead, and forty something still missing. Mostly from the flash floods that happened the other day about an hour and a half west of here





Look how many cars go in that second clip! Also, that guy that saves his 4WD, isn't letting out air from his tyres, he's locking the front hubs. And whoever built that little footbridge didn't take any shortcuts!

Well, we had a blackout here for 4 hours or so, so I better post this thing!

Edit: nice big tide at 4am Thurs. There's a small chance my garage will get a bit flooded, but I live on the first floor. I've parked my car up the road a bit. It's pretty steep, just a couple of houses up is maybe 3 metres elevation. Yep, I live on absolutely the lowest part of my street!

City is a shambles. It's built along the Brisbane River. A lot of it is going under tomorrow morning. Panic buying already. I knew there would be. There's only one thing to do in that situation-join in! Shelves are cleared of long life milk and canned food. And even my corner store has sold out of bread, and no one buys bread from them! I was feeling smug about filling my car up yesterday, thinking it would last maybe 3 weeks. Of course today I find out I have to drive a lot further than normal. Will last maybe a week. I might be riding my bike yet...

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