Australian floods
 

The floods in Australia are the worst in history, one capital city will be flooded by tomorrow and the floods are currently covering a land mass bigger than france and germany combined. It is predicted that there will be flooding across 5 of the 7 states by the end of the week. It is absolutely insane and it is also predicted that over 100 or 200 people will be dead. It is the height of summer and it has been raing constantly for more than 6 weeks in Queensland and the amount of water is incredible. There was a tsumani several 100 km from the coast with waves up to 8 meters high.

water picking up cars like matchboxes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY&feature=aso

Also there is a large bush fire burning on the opposite side of the country...

I always think of Australia as basically a big desert island - I know thats not true. Seems this was a big surprise.

There are some people asserting the massive oil spill in the Gulf has changed the Gulf current, resulting in this years' cold spell in the UK and USA and other crazy weather changes globally. Which has also led to these huge fish kills. I'm just repeating this for discussion purposes, I haven't been convinced yet. I believe there are already methods in place to easily measure the currents and dis/prove this.

mother nature is pissed

The floods in Sri Lanka make for grim reading as well. The incessant torrential rain has resulted in 18 deaths and the displacement of almost a million people!

That's unlikely but would be totally insane if proved true.:mad:

and it was the worst drought ever when i lived in aus.

I don't want to rain on Australia's parade but torrential rain in Brazil has caused flooding and mudslides, killing 250 people!

yeah that is horrible... mountains of water and mut sliding down onto towns is not good at all.

hey mang what happened to your multicity tour that was going to take so many months, did you get stranded somewhere or it's not happening yet? bus + mud = no fun.

Schnitzel is the best Austrian food.

tour not till july.

oh brisbane :(

is it hitting brisbane hard? the valley is rife with sin and i always thought it'd be a decent candidate for a godly flood.

My state is experiencing flooding also (I live in Victoria) it's obviously not as bad as Brisbane but it's slowly moving down and they can't stop it ATM and they believe 20% of the state will be affected by the flood soon.

Queensland can't get a break with a category 5 cyclone to hit today. the storm is nearly as big as the whole state.

good to know your crew isn't being devoured by rampaging crocodiles.

not yet, but we have tough crew for when we do go...

Australia is about to get hit again?

Yeah got hit by a category 5 cyclone last night.

nice. at least it's warm weather.

yeah cyclones are nice benevolent nutural wonders... idiot.

whoa there bro, deep breaths

I'm curious, how do 180mph cyclones routinely hit pacific rim countries with relatively little damage and loss of life, and yet category 3/4 hurricanes on the East Coast (like Hurricane Andrew or Katrina or Ivan) with significantly slower winds cause apocalyptic damage. Is there a fundamental difference between cyclones and hurricanes I am not getting?

Jesus christ, I'm not one to really put much weight into global warming or 2012 shit...but lately with the gulf spill and all these disasters, looks like we're getting pretty close to something big...

but...

probably the earth just taking care of itself, I'm sure it recognizes it's overpopulated.

And these disasters always happen.

I was watching this documentary about the volcano krakatoa in Indonesia and how when it exploded/imploded into itself and sunk into the ocean it could be heard in Australia.

Well it formed a new island/volcana "child of krakatoa" and it's looking to be twice as deadly/dangerous and cause a huge tsunami and that should happen in our lifetime. Most likely.


Also, Beetlejuice will explode in our lifetime and we'll get two suns (though probably nothing TOO extravegant looking) and we should have no night for a week or two. It will apparently shoot photons through the earth and our bodies, possibley changing our DNA.

Shit is crazy.

wat

Can you tell I've been watching the history and discovery channel all week? haha

Australia's building standards are apparently fairly high in the world standings. The cyclone cut in between high population points and went straight through but destroyed alot still. Where the cyclone hit (the big one, there has been 5 in the last month) people have to build by cyclone safe standards. The houses may be still standing but the towns are smashed by the floods that have followed the cyclones.