Queensland is flooding 09/01/2011 and is not cruise related

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Here is a site that will show lots of up to date Photo's

http://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/108010361/Getty-Images-News

 

Live from the age

http://media.theage.com.au/national/national-news/brisbane-floods-live-coverage-2131813.html

 

Brisbane wakes up to flood devastation

 

Brisbane residents awoke to a foul scene of flooded, debris-strewn streets this morning — but were relieved the swollen river threatening their city had peaked at levels well below the catastrophic forecasts.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8196200/brisbane-wakes-up-to-flood-devastation

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Flood death toll rises as search for missing dozen continues

 

13 Jan, 2011 10:56 AM

The death toll from the Queensland floods has risen again after a body was found in a field near Grantham.Premier Anna Bligh this morning confirmed the latest death, which takes the toll to 13. The death was confirmed as authorities continued to search for bodies in Grantham and Withcott, two small towns in the Lockyer Valley that were among the communities hit by a devastating flash flood on Monday.Meanwhile, twelve more people have been reported missing from Queensland's flood zone, many of them from two families.

 

http://www.standard.net.au/news/national/national/general/flood-death-toll-rises-as-search-for-missing-dozen-continues/2046420.aspx

 

 

 

 

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[Down-Unders]

It shows what sort of a world we now live in, not one post from the Americas, Europe, UK and only one from NZ to offer a little support to the good people of Australia in one of their darkest hours.

 

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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8196359/qld-to-work-to-get-people-back-at-work

Queensland had notched up 17 months of jobs growth but after the floods disaster its key focus will be helping people get back to work, Treasurer Andrew Fraser says.

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http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/kiwis-show-support-for-qld-20110113-19p6k.html

Kiwis show support for QLD

January 13, 2011 - 2:09PM

 

New Zealanders are showing their support for flood-affected Queensland, with donations flowing in and further Kiwi assistance arriving in Brisbane on Thursday.

A Queensland flood fund set up by the Red Cross on Wednesday afternoon had received about $NZ2000 ($A1,536) in donations by Thursday.

"As much as we compete against each other I think when the chips are down and things happen there's a feeling that we want to give support," said Andrew McKie, the international operations manager for the NZ Red Cross.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/kiwis-show-support-for-qld-20110113-19p6k.html

 

 

 

 

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just in

Queensland floods: Premier Anna Bligh inspires residents to pull together in wake of crisis

 

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/queensland-floods-premier-anna-bligh-inspires-residents-to-pull-together-in-wake-of-crisis/story-fn7ik9ph-1225987178331

 

 

Just in from nine news

15 dead

61 people still missing

another brisbane rive peak at 2.30 pm today of 4.2.

 

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[Kiwi Kruzer]

It shows what sort of a world we now live in, not one post from the Americas, Europe, UK and only one from NZ to offer a little support to the good people of Australia in one of their darkest hours.

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We are with you Mate....

Wheres your Anzac Spirit?...

You have come over here, and helped with Earthquakes, Mine Disasters etc, and we have come over there to help with bush fires and floods.

Our PM, has ben in constant contact with your PM, and a team are allready there helping and more are lining up to come and give whatever help they can in your time of need.

 

[MMDown Under]

We are with you Mate....

Wheres your Anzac Spirit?...

You have come over here, and helped with Earthquakes, Mine Disasters etc, and we have come over there to help with bush fires and floods.

Our PM, has ben in constant contact with your PM, and a team are allready there helping and more are lining up to come and give whatever help they can in your time of need.

 

 

 

On TV news today, the Western Downs Mayor expressing his appreciation for all the help his shire was receiving said they had told the NZ SES Team, flying across to help out, that they would look after them. They had hired a snakecatcher to keep the snakes away!

 

Fortunately, Kiwis and Aussies share a common sense of humour.

 

Despite the disaster, one can't help laughing!

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On TV news today, the Western Downs Mayor expressing his appreciation for all the help his shire was receiving said they had told the NZ SES Team, flying across to help out, that they would look after them. They had hired a snakecatcher to keep the snakes away!

 

Fortunately, Kiwis and Aussies share a common sense of humour.

 

Despite the disaster, one can't help laughing!

 

15-member NZ Civil Defence Response Team

60 fire service personal as well

[Kiwi Kruzer]

It shows what sort of a world we now live in, not one post from the Americas, Europe, UK and only one from NZ to offer a little support to the good people of Australia in one of their darkest hours.

 

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

 

 

No one interested??

Check out this thread from your Cruise Critic Friends .

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1336278

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Queensland floods: Premier Anna Bligh inspires residents to pull together in wake of crisis

 

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/queensland-floods-premier-anna-bligh-inspires-residents-to-pull-together-in-wake-of-crisis/story-fn7ik9ph-1225987178331

 

 

Just in from nine news

15 dead

61 people still missing

another brisbane rive peak at 2.30 pm today of 4.2.

 

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I live in NZ.

 

I've been watching live TV coverage of the Queensland floods for the last 2 days and thinking of friends we have in Brisbane. I haven't been able to contact them yet.

 

Anna Bligh has been inspirational - giving frank information and practical advice, and her messages about Queenslanders are just right - realistic, but encouraging.

 

I'm with you all in spirit and will be donating, but I have refrained from cluttering up the boards and from trying to use overworked phone lines.

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I live in NZ.

 

I've been watching live TV coverage of the Queensland floods for the last 2 days and thinking of friends we have in Brisbane. I haven't been able to contact them yet.

 

Anna Bligh has been inspirational - giving frank information and practical advice, and her messages about Queenslanders are just right - realistic, but encouraging.

 

I'm with you all in spirit and will be donating, but I have refrained from cluttering up the boards and from trying to use overworked phone lines.

It funny that The net work fine but the power and phones dont.

as we have had no power for three days and no phone for two days.

so we have to use our own power scource and the net, they it will like this for about a week.

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Brisbane floods: Tugboat pilot hailed a hero

 

Australians salute Doug Hislop after he stopped a massive slab of concrete from colliding with the Gateway Bridge

A massive slab of concrete walkway threatened all in its path as it tore down the Brisbane River, in the flooded Australian state of Queensland yesterday but any disasters were averted by a quick-thinking tugboat crew. What had once been a popular spot for walkers and cyclists along the banks of the river turned into a giant torpedo, 6 metres wide (20ft) and 150m long.

For nearly 16km (10 miles) the slab, which had been torn off its foundations by the sheer force of the floodwaters, sped down the river unassisted. It was heading for one of the city's major bridges, the Gateway, which spans 260m over the river.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/13/brisbane-floods-tugboat-hero-bridge

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Australian Floods Rage Through Brisbane

 

 

Thousands of people have sought refuge with friends and family. Thousands more fled to dozens of evacuation centers. Volunteers at one of the largest centers set up a supervised play area in the corner to help distract children as their parents sat glued to news reports.

“There have been a range of reactions, from confusion, people being distressed, people being teary, people being reasonably together with it,” said Kate Brady, the Red Cross coordinator at one of the largest centers.

For many others, “It won’t really set in until they get back to their property and look at what’s going on, and face up to what they’ve got coming as far as recovery goes,” she said.

Essan al-Quraishi, an Iraqi agronomist who moved his family to Brisbane four months ago, was able to grab some clothes and vital documents before the waters flooded his first-floor apartment.

“The most important thing is my family. I can start again,” he said as his 7-year-old son played with a jigsaw puzzle nearby. “We managed to survive in Iraq, so we can manage to survive here.”

There have been isolated reports of looting across the city, but police said the atmosphere around Brisbane had been mostly orderly.

With the floodwaters still swirling in many neighborhoods, some residents have ignored official warnings to stay away and used kayaks and motorboats to rescue their belongings.

Police said a 24-year-old man became Brisbane’s first flood casualty when he was swept into a storm drain while trying to check on his father’s property.

 

full story at

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/world/asia/14australia.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Brisbane floods: two saved in dramatic Brisbane River rescue

 

Two people have been pulled to safety from a stricken yacht that was drifting without power on the raging Brisbane River.

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/8256856/Brisbane-floods-two-saved-in-dramatic-Brisbane-River-rescue.html

 

 

 

 

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The flood levels may be dropping in Ipswich and Brisbane, but Goondiwindi is bracing for record levels of 10.85 metres, warned Anna Bligh. It could even be higher, with levee banks only reaching 11 metres. A reading of the river at 4pm will determine whether decisions need to be made about hospital and aged care facilities, as well as other evacuations.

A number of reservoirs in the Lockyer Valley are now running very low on drinking water. Thirteen water trucks will now be making runs of water, 24 hours a day, to top up those water reserves until infrastructure, until repairs can be made to water treatment facilities.

 

http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/13/not-as-bad-as-feared-but-still-dire-qld-floods/

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Bureau warns water could break Goondiwindi levee

 

Updated 13 minutes ago

Record flood levels flowing towards Goondiwindi in Queensland could overwhelm the border town's levee when it peaks at dawn on Friday.

The current record level is 10.6 metres and the forecast peak of 10.85m puts the Macintyre River within 15 centimetres of the town's 11m levee.

But the weather bureau now says it could go higher and residents have begun evacuating low-lying areas.

 

full story at

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/13/3112552.htm?section=justin

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On TV news today, the Western Downs Mayor expressing his appreciation for all the help his shire was receiving said they had told the NZ SES Team, flying across to help out, that they would look after them. They had hired a snakecatcher to keep the snakes away!

 

Fortunately, Kiwis and Aussies share a common sense of humour.

 

Despite the disaster, one can't help laughing!

I take it the Kiwis don't like snakes, LOL.:eek:

[MMDown Under]

I take it the Kiwis don't like snakes, LOL.:eek:

 

No. Neither do we. But they don't have the same creepies and crawlies that we have! :)

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Here is a facebook link for Grantham victims. These people are really hurting, and have lost many loved ones, and also lost their homes & possesions completely.

 

http://www.facebook.com/granthamfloodsupport

 

I heard this morning that they are finding debri from the Lockyer Valley in Brisbane now.

[Kiwi_cruiser]

i take it the kiwis don't like snakes, lol.:eek:

 

no! :d

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nine news just in Two tugs up at the river walk way at new farm, they are thinking of taking the walk way apart before it does it it self.

 

Two police boats are battleing a 40 foot semi trailer to get it down the river with out smashing into anything.

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http://media.theage.com.au/national/national-news/brisbane-floods-live-coverage-2131813.html

Brisbane floods live coverage

 

 

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/floods/8196845/locals-glad-to-be-alive-as-clean-up-starts

 

Locals glad to be alive as clean up starts

 

The smell is disgusting, the ground is caked in three inches of mud, and the power remains off.

But people in the flood-ravaged Brisbane suburb of New Farm are just grateful to be alive.

The flooding was so bad it filled dozens of streets, inundated hundreds of homes with more than a metre of water and caused untold damage to personal possessions and household items.

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up date

 

15 dead

55 missing

A mine sweaper at been sent to morton bay to plot where all major items arein the bay that has been washed out from the brisbane river.

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Tim Cahill the soccer roo player here in Australia who is currently playing for everton in the uk and this how they doing it on ebay

currently at $150 thousand and the bids keep coming now $161 thousand

The Tim Cahill Everton Experience includes:

- Two (2) Business Class airfares to the UK from any port in Australia, donated by Emirates Airlines

- Two (2) seats in Tim’s private box, to watch any Everton home match this season (includes dinner and drinks)

- an invitation to watch an Everton TC training session and meet the team

- a Tim Cahill Everton jersey signed by the whole Everton team

- a pair of signed Tim Cahill boots from the game that the winning bidder watched.

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2011/01/13/tim-backing-floods-fundraiser

Everton midfielder Tim Cahill has launched an initiative to raise cash for victims of the Queensland floods.

The Club and its partners have also leant their full backing to the fundraiser which involves people bidding on internet auction site ebay to win the ‘Tim Cahill Everton Experience’. All proceeds will go to the Queensland Disaster Relief Fund.