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Some pictures

Heard that town's name for the first time this morning, when Stephen Fry retweeted this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/01/10/3109884.htm

*water

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damn *nature, you scary

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Let's see your four wheel drive get you out of this one!

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Is that area prone to flooding every so often. I just thought it was interesting that the clay was so red, as that is what I've noticed in Red Rock (central-southern Utah here and some of the outlying "badlands")areas and gullies in canyons.

Is this more of a monsoon type event or tropical? We get monsoons (some big hail or "lots" of hail, sometimes a few inches worth and torrential rain), but not tropical ones that engorge everything with water just squalls of tiny thunderstorms (like the tornado that hit downtown Salt Lake years ago...)

It's just a little soggy...it's still good, it's still good!

I hope the VideoSift servers are on stilts!

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The last massive flood in the Brisbane area was in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Brisbane_flood">1974. This is the monsoon season- but most years it just means thunderstorms.

Still raining heavily this morning. Animals are pairing up.

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>> ^dag:
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Is that area prone to flooding every so often. I just thought it was interesting that the clay was so red, as that is what I've noticed in Red Rock (central-southern Utah here and some of the outlying "badlands")areas and gullies in canyons.
Is this more of a monsoon type event or tropical? We get monsoons (some big hail or "lots" of hail, sometimes a few inches worth and torrential rain), but not tropical ones that engorge everything with water just squalls of tiny thunderstorms (like the tornado that hit downtown Salt Lake years ago...)

Strange, I'll have to look at the local properties -- it sounds like you guys flood the same way our areas flood here, specifically. Last major flood in Salt Lake City was in 82'-83' after monsoon rains and a heavy winter melt (this is 15-35 minute drive, but on one of two major highways going downtown.

That "flood" (City Creek flood) was something to behold as the community was driven into overdrive and created a man-made river going down Salt Lake Valley's state street (if you run google earth state street goes right into the middle of downtown, with LOTS of businesses. The flood river was pretty long from memory, like 6-10 miles. They built man-made river and then built bridges every block to get across (that is community power!). I remember standing on a bridge, amazed that humans could triumph over nature that well, sometimes.

The flood was bigger than what it says as there was flooding down all major canyon rivers and creeks (everything I-15, which goes into L.A., & east needed to be worried -- again google earth will show you the roads, rivers and creeks --, same with the Jordan River and next to the Great Salt Lake (which had been flooding over and over again for years -- they made a giant drain at one end of the lake and created an evaporation pond to dump excess into. No more floods for the lakes anymore and many flood rivers and creeks areas are cut-off and gone now (put underground).

Good luck to you guys. Hopefully, it lets up.

edit-Damn I was looking and some of the setups are the same except you get tropical (we almost never get tropical monsoons unless a hurricane hits off of California and moves in; otherwise, we get little garbage thunderstorms that cause "local" problems). No cyclones/hurricanes to ever worry about as the mountains would rip a tropical depression to shreds. Snowpack is our "cyclone".

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The last massive flood in the Brisbane area was in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Brisbane_flood">1974. This is the monsoon season- but most years it just means thunderstorms.
Still raining heavily this morning. Animals are pairing up.

... surfs up?

I grew up in Brisbane. My mother still tells the story of when she sent my brother down to the shops during the '74 floods to get some food. He came back and said 'the shops aren't there anymore, mum'. They were completely submerged beyond the roof.

After those floods, they built the Wivenho Dam to prevent a flood of that kind ever happening again. A mate of mine in Chelmer lives next to the Brisbane River, which was supposed to be prevented from flooding by the dam, and he said this morning the river is 3 feet from breaking the banks.

Meanwhile, Toowoomba sits on an escarpment - basically, on top of a mountain - and it still flooded. We've seen nothing like it before.

Croikey!

And now the Brisbane CBD is flooding! Scary stuff you guys up north, scary stuff!

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I'm in the CBD. Waiting for my bus.

Well its a good thing the truck kept going, damn thing cant park there.

As long as the Chinese restaurants in fortitude valley aren't submerged, then nothing has been lost.

OI ! I CAN SEE MY HOUSE FROM HERE !!

NOW ITS THERE...

AND THERE..

Oi now its past the street sign !