fingers crossed for you, Vrose

[butters]

stay safe, sweetie

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Have I missed something important?

 

[butters]

The Aussie flooding, Annie

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Oh gosh yes dreadful business

 

[fridayam]

I don't know where Vee lives, but the images from Australia are horrendous. Vee--I trust you are ok and my sympathy to everyone else there.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Don't think she's said anything on FB will have to look

 

[Angeline]

Let's all put our prayers and good thoughts together that she and her family are safe. It's a terrible thing, that flooding. People in Brazil have been devastated by flooding, too. And I believe today is the one-year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. And of course here in the USA we are dealing with the aftermath of another horrible mass shooting.

For those of us who are safe and secure it is a good day to be thankful for that. Every day is, of course, but these disasters should remind those of us who are ok to be grateful we are and try to find whatever small ways we can to help those who are not.

<soapbox off>

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Is she in the Brisbane area? I didn't know. I hope you and you loved ones are safe Vrose.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

She answered me yesterday but nothings been posted since. My knowledge of Australian geography is zilch so I don't know if it's her area or not and it's not my place to say where it is she lives

 

[EroticOrogeny]

She answered me yesterday but nothings been posted since. My knowledge of Australian geography is zilch so I don't know if it's her area or not and it's not my place to say where it is she lives

I asked about that earlier in another thread and she's not in that part, but further south.

 

[vrosej10]

Hi Guys,

Thank you so much for your concern. I am very touched.

The rain has stopped where I am and everywhere but us got inundated. Ninety kilometers got hit (the next nearest north city) but thankfully the levees held so thing weren't too dire. West of me 500 people are trapped in the hills without food and stuff. Things are being helicoptered in. I have attached a map for those who know little about Aussie. I live in Coffs Harbour. The purple area I have marked is the flooded area. It's supposed to be the size on Belgium and they said on the news this morning that one fifth of the inhabited area of Australia is underwater. It's terrifying. Things are easing in Brisbane and my sister thinks they'll be able to get food soon as there have been reports of supermarket truck fording streams. Sharks have been cruising up and down the main street of Ipswich. That's never a good sign, sharks on the shopping strip! Brisbane is really totalled and it is so sad. It's a lovely city, not unlike New Orleans. Sydney can be up itself and snobby, but Brisbane is friendly and enthusiastic like an overexcited dog. I went there for the first time in October and completely fell in love.( I hate Sydney. Like most ill folks in regional areas I get forced to go there from time to time to seek medical treatment. I never enjoy it.) I watched the tv in horror as the lovely Southbank region was basically washed away in the last week. Hopefully a lot of people's houses will be saved due to their architecture. There is a style of lovely old stilted house called a Queenslander which is common to the area, designed to accomadate chronic flooding.

 

[butters]

so glad to hear you're safe and sound

by the map, looks like you got missed by a breath!
the recovery op will be huge

 

[vrosej10]

so glad to hear you're safe and sound

by the map, looks like you got missed by a breath!
the recovery op will be huge

It's all just so shocking and sad to watch. I'm afraid for food supplies. They are warning the prices are going to rocket and there'll be shortages. To compound matters, one of our sources of secondary supply in Victoria has been hit by floods too. This is gunna knock on for months after the water has dried up. Most of northern NSW has been hit bard, but the general consensus is that we got off light compare to queensland; no one died in our state.

We missed by a squeak. It basically hit everyone around us. But we've had two one in one hundred floods since october 09 (see attached pic; we got 50cm of rain in two hours), so we are due a break. Our town has been so crushed by the floods we've had, I think another might make a lot of businesses just quit. And of course the insurance companies are weaseling with all their might. Half the people here have been screwed by them. I'd hate to think how they are going to treat the poor mob up north.

 

[butters]

have there been a lot of offers of international aid, v? how's the rest of aus placed to help the afflicted regions?

 

[vrosej10]

have there been a lot of offers of international aid, v? how's the rest of aus placed to help the afflicted regions?

Yeh, the rest of the world has offered us heaped of help thankfully (we joined in for Katrina, the Boxing Day Tsunami and 9/11 big time) and the rest of us Aussies are pitching in. It does give our frequently bored military something to do. I tried to ring my sister tonight but the phone lines are out. I texted her but haven't heard anything. Her husband's family I think were in one of the bad affected areas...

 

[ishtat]

Hey Vrosej10, hope you are ok and tucked up in your burrow like a good little mutton bird.

For those who don't know Coffs Harbour is the main town in just about the prettiest area in Eastern Australia. http://www.auinfo.com/Coffs-Harbour.html

The handling of the floods has been exemplary with a lot of very- self reliant people just getting stuck in and sorting things out. The next thing will be cyclones which affect North Queensland most summers round about this time.

The leadership has been very much on the ball and my wife likes to point out to me that the Premiers (governors) of Queensland and NSW are both women as is our Prime Minister and our two state governors and the federal Governor General (formal head of state)

I'm in Sydney where we have had the coolest wettest summer for years but nothing like up north. We haven't had a single day over 40 degrees centigrade yet.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Thank goodness you are both safe and thank you for letting us know

 

[vrosej10]

Hey Vrosej10, hope you are ok and tucked up in your burrow like a good little mutton bird.

For those who don't know Coffs Harbour is the main town in just about the prettiest area in Eastern Australia. http://www.auinfo.com/Coffs-Harbour.html

The handling of the floods has been exemplary with a lot of very- self reliant people just getting stuck in and sorting things out. The next thing will be cyclones which affect North Queensland most summers round about this time.

The leadership has been very much on the ball and my wife likes to point out to me that the Premiers (governors) of Queensland and NSW are both women as is our Prime Minister and our two state governors and the federal Governor General (formal head of state)

I'm in Sydney where we have had the coolest wettest summer for years but nothing like up north. We haven't had a single day over 40 degrees centigrade yet.

Agreed. The weather has been so fucked up here. I mean really fucked up. It's been so damp we've had glow in the dark mushrooms for the first time in nearly two decades. I think even the muttonbirds have pissed off.

Bligh has really proved herself to be a useful leader.

 

[fridayam]

It's lovely knowing you are safe and well V

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Hi Guys,

Thank you so much for your concern. I am very touched.

The rain has stopped where I am and everywhere but us got inundated. Ninety kilometers got hit (the next nearest north city) but thankfully the levees held so thing weren't too dire. West of me 500 people are trapped in the hills without food and stuff. Things are being helicoptered in. I have attached a map for those who know little about Aussie. I live in Coffs Harbour. The purple area I have marked is the flooded area. It's supposed to be the size on Belgium and they said on the news this morning that one fifth of the inhabited area of Australia is underwater. It's terrifying. Things are easing in Brisbane and my sister thinks they'll be able to get food soon as there have been reports of supermarket truck fording streams. Sharks have been cruising up and down the main street of Ipswich. That's never a good sign, sharks on the shopping strip! Brisbane is really totalled and it is so sad. It's a lovely city, not unlike New Orleans. Sydney can be up itself and snobby, but Brisbane is friendly and enthusiastic like an overexcited dog. I went there for the first time in October and completely fell in love.( I hate Sydney. Like most ill folks in regional areas I get forced to go there from time to time to seek medical treatment. I never enjoy it.) I watched the tv in horror as the lovely Southbank region was basically washed away in the last week. Hopefully a lot of people's houses will be saved due to their architecture. There is a style of lovely old stilted house called a Queenslander which is common to the area, designed to accomadate chronic flooding.

I'm glad to hear that you're OK.
And thanks for the attachments/links.
I always have like maps - I remember drawing maps of imagined places and makings things change (political, physical) over the course of imagined time. All back in the days of pencil (or crayon) and paper. Much of my educational background is in earth sciences - again maps. And I work on a large mapping application professionally - whatever comes out there is basically thru me these days.
That Queenslander house looks nice. Reminds me conceptually of houses here on the gulf coast - one's I've seen in Galveston not as fancy, but have stilts to avoid rising storm seas.
Again, good to know you're fine.

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Vrose,
I heard flooding is now moving further south. Are you affected?
The news also mentioned a new cyclone - is now early in your season?
(like July up north - September is our peak).
Hope you're OK

 

[vrosej10]

Vrose,
I heard flooding is now moving further south. Are you affected?
The news also mentioned a new cyclone - is now early in your season?
(like July up north - September is our peak).
Hope you're OK

The flooding way about 1000km south. We're cool here but it is the beginning of the rainy season here so I am hoping that we will get through ok. February/March/April is normally really wet here. Ironically it normally goes November/December wet. January dry, then February/March/April wet. I am so surprised and touched by how concerned you guys have been.

 

[Esperanza_Hidalgo]

Kisses

Just read this V, and I gotta get, but you have my thoughts too. I get the flood poem now even more.

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Interesting continent and one I know little about. More knowledge of both America's, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Quite a range in climate, too, but at least seems to have few earthquakes, with all the major tectoinc activity well offshore.
God to hear you're OK.

 

[vrosej10]

Interesting continent and one I know little about. More knowledge of both America's, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Quite a range in climate, too, but at least seems to have few earthquakes, with all the major tectoinc activity well offshore.
God to hear you're OK.

We do get the odd earthquake. One wiped out the city centre of Newcastle when I was in my teens and there's a family legend about me and my mother sleeping through an earthquake when I was a baby.

Yes it can be climatically extreme. We are subtropical here but 150 or so kilometers away it snows and 100km, the climate is like England. We seem to swing wildly between drought and flood too. The soil around Coffs Harbour is craptastic but we grow nice bananas and 40km away there is absolutely fabulous soil for agriculture. Fun fact: I live 1km away from the eastern most point of the great dividing range.