Troy? Noones? other Aussies?

On 2011-01-13 18:20:30 -0800, Robert Coe said:

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:07:36 +1100, N wrote:
: On 13/01/2011, Alan Browne wrote:
: On 2011.01.12 14:55 , N wrote:
: On 13/01/2011, Alan Browne wrote:
: On 2011.01.12 9:12 , David J. Littleboy wrote:
: "Alan Browne" wrote:
:
: You guys have your heads and gear above water?
:
: Not if they're in Queensland.
:
: Duh.
:
: Let them reply.
:
: I'm in Sydney, so in Noones. Take a look at this and don't underestimate
: the size of Australia.
: http://www.google.com/crisisresponse...loods.html#map
:
: What makes you think I underestimated it?
:
: It wasn't aimed at you in particular, but I know a lot of people in
: other countries have no perception of how large this country is. A
: friend had a visitor from somewhere else who wanted to see Melbourne,
: Sydney and the Barrier Reef in a week - BY CAR!

It's a hard perception to maintain. Every American school child who pays
attention in geography class knows that the U.S. could comfortably fit within
the borders of Australia, with a good bit of Europe left over. But since a lot
of Australia is portrayed (to us, at least) as empty space, we tend not to
grasp the implications. Few of us will ever actually tour Australia by car
(damn good thing too, since sooner or later we'd forget to drive on the left),
so the vastness of your country is largely hypothetical. Frankly, I thought
Brisbane was much farther around to the north than it is. And only in the last
day or two did it dawn on me that the Great Barrier Reef probably makes it
impractical to have large cities on your north coast. But all of us have seen
serious flooding - or have relatives or friends who have. So even if the
flooded area is a relatively tiny part of your country, we empathize with
those who are suffering, and hope that that suffering will end soon.

Bob

Here is a little perspective.
The area affected by the floods is described as "large as Germany and
France combined". That is some 347,875 square miles. Texas is 268,581
Sq.Miles.
That is a massive flooded area even if it has been exaggerated.

--
Regards,

Savageduck

Robert Coe wrote in
:
But all of us have seen serious flooding - or have relatives or
friends who have. So even if the flooded area is a relatively tiny
part of your country, we empathize with those who are suffering, and
hope that that suffering will end soon.

Bob


Ah, seems like only yesterday when the radical left envirokooks, global
warmers had declared that all of Australia was turning into a desert
because of droughts. Much like when a few years back they declared winters
a thing of the past for England...

"Rich" wrote in message
...
Robert Coe wrote in
:
But all of us have seen serious flooding - or have relatives or
friends who have. So even if the flooded area is a relatively tiny
part of your country, we empathize with those who are suffering, and
hope that that suffering will end soon.

Bob


Ah, seems like only yesterday when the radical left envirokooks, global
warmers had declared that all of Australia was turning into a desert
because of droughts. Much like when a few years back they declared
winters
a thing of the past for England...


We'll all be rooned, said Hanrahan:
http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/author.../hanrahan.html

Nothing new under the sun...

--
Jeff R.

On 14/01/2011, Jeff R. wrote:
"Rich" wrote in message
...
Robert Coe wrote in
:
But all of us have seen serious flooding - or have relatives or
friends who have. So even if the flooded area is a relatively tiny
part of your country, we empathize with those who are suffering, and
hope that that suffering will end soon.

Bob


Ah, seems like only yesterday when the radical left envirokooks, global
warmers had declared that all of Australia was turning into a desert
because of droughts. Much like when a few years back they declared winters
a thing of the past for England...


We'll all be rooned, said Hanrahan:
http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/author.../hanrahan.html

Nothing new under the sun...

:-)

On 14/01/2011, Robert Coe wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:07:36 +1100, N wrote:
On 13/01/2011, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2011.01.12 14:55 , N wrote:
On 13/01/2011, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2011.01.12 9:12 , David J. Littleboy wrote:
"Alan Browne" wrote:

You guys have your heads and gear above water?

Not if they're in Queensland.

Duh.

Let them reply.

I'm in Sydney, so in Noones. Take a look at this and don't underestimate
the size of Australia.
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse...loods.html#map

What makes you think I underestimated it?

It wasn't aimed at you in particular, but I know a lot of people in
other countries have no perception of how large this country is. A
friend had a visitor from somewhere else who wanted to see Melbourne,
Sydney and the Barrier Reef in a week - BY CAR!

It's a hard perception to maintain. Every American school child who pays
attention in geography class knows that the U.S. could comfortably fit within
the borders of Australia, with a good bit of Europe left over. But since a
lot of Australia is portrayed (to us, at least) as empty space, we tend not
to grasp the implications. Few of us will ever actually tour Australia by car
(damn good thing too, since sooner or later we'd forget to drive on the
left), so the vastness of your country is largely hypothetical. Frankly, I
thought Brisbane was much farther around to the north than it is. And only in
the last day or two did it dawn on me that the Great Barrier Reef probably
makes it impractical to have large cities on your north coast. But all of us
have seen serious flooding - or have relatives or friends who have. So even
if the flooded area is a relatively tiny part of your country, we empathize
with those who are suffering, and hope that that suffering will end soon.

Bob

The floods currently cover a significant part of the country. Not just
Queensland, but the north coast of NSW, western Victoria and Tasmania
have current floods and the water from Queensland will flow through NSW
causing flooding in the farming lands on its way down through western
NSW to South Australia. The farming lands that are now suffering
floods were about to have their first successful harvest in many years.

http://www.google.com/crisisresponse...loods.html#map

* Alan Browne wrote :
You guys have your heads and gear above water?

What's going on?

G'day Alan and everyone else! Thanks for your kind thoughts.
We've been without power for a couple of days. Just came on
again last night and only just got enough time to get my news
server up and running again.

As you've probably seen on the news, we've had a bit of water
here. I can't describe in words what it's been like. Bit
surreal and I'm sure you've seen image on the news.

We were extremely lucky here. The suburb I live in was one of
the worst hit - Auchenflower. The water stopped just 1.4 metres
from our home. That's a bit close for comfort. They were
predicting the water levels would get a bit higher, but
thankfully it was downgraded. Houses at each end of my street
were inundated though. So sad. Been out helping where we can.

My work's office was also extremely, I can't express, lucky.
Most of the TV coverage here has focused on Rosalie shops as they
went fully under. My work office is on the same street. Also
just on the other side of the train lines businesses went under.
I don't know how we managed to keep dry there too.

Also extremely lucky were my in-laws. They live right near the
river and water stopped pretty much at their property boundary.

Of course we have many friends that are out of house and home.
The emergency services and government response, and volunteers
etc have been awesome. So efficient and informative. THe media
has been helping transport some people separated from loved ones.
Everyone is just pulling together. We'll get through.

Not sure where Mark Thomas lived, so not sure how he is. Doug
lived out Wynnum way somewhere and I think that wasn't too bad.

--
Troy Piggins

Troy Piggins wrote:
Alan Browne wrote :

You guys have your heads and gear above water?

What's going on?

G'day Alan and everyone else! Thanks for your kind thoughts.
...

Good to hear. Sounds like you and yours were very lucky.

Best wishes for the clean-up.

I'm fine thanks. :- ) (In WA, nowhere near the floods in the Gascoyne.)

* Wilba wrote :
Troy Piggins wrote:
Alan Browne wrote :

You guys have your heads and gear above water?

What's going on?

G'day Alan and everyone else! Thanks for your kind thoughts.
...

Good to hear. Sounds like you and yours were very lucky.

Best wishes for the clean-up.

I'm fine thanks. :- ) (In WA, nowhere near the floods in the Gascoyne.)

Bizarre weather/nature at the moment, hey. Flash flooding
predicted down Victoria, also saw some in Brazil? Cyclones off
the east and west coasts.

--
Troy Piggins

On 14/01/2011, Bruce wrote:
Rich wrote:
Robert Coe wrote in
:
But all of us have seen serious flooding - or have relatives or
friends who have. So even if the flooded area is a relatively tiny
part of your country, we empathize with those who are suffering, and
hope that that suffering will end soon.

Ah, seems like only yesterday when the radical left envirokooks, global
warmers had declared that all of Australia was turning into a desert
because of droughts. Much like when a few years back they declared winters
a thing of the past for England...


Single extreme weather events give absolutely no indication of long
term climate trends ...

Actually, the rain was part of the La Nina cycle.

On 14/01/2011, Troy Piggins wrote:
* Alan Browne wrote :
You guys have your heads and gear above water?

What's going on?

G'day Alan and everyone else! Thanks for your kind thoughts.
We've been without power for a couple of days. Just came on
again last night and only just got enough time to get my news
server up and running again.

As you've probably seen on the news, we've had a bit of water
here. I can't describe in words what it's been like. Bit
surreal and I'm sure you've seen image on the news.

We were extremely lucky here. The suburb I live in was one of
the worst hit - Auchenflower. The water stopped just 1.4 metres
from our home. That's a bit close for comfort. They were
predicting the water levels would get a bit higher, but
thankfully it was downgraded. Houses at each end of my street
were inundated though. So sad. Been out helping where we can.

My work's office was also extremely, I can't express, lucky.
Most of the TV coverage here has focused on Rosalie shops as they
went fully under. My work office is on the same street. Also
just on the other side of the train lines businesses went under.
I don't know how we managed to keep dry there too.

Also extremely lucky were my in-laws. They live right near the
river and water stopped pretty much at their property boundary.

Of course we have many friends that are out of house and home.
The emergency services and government response, and volunteers
etc have been awesome. So efficient and informative. THe media
has been helping transport some people separated from loved ones.
Everyone is just pulling together. We'll get through.

Not sure where Mark Thomas lived, so not sure how he is. Doug
lived out Wynnum way somewhere and I think that wasn't too bad.

Some were lucky, some were not. Good to hear that you were in the
lucky group, Troy.

I worked at home on Wednesday and couldn't concentrate on anything. I
just kept watching the news on TV every time I moved away from the PC.