OT Ausie friends

[mlheppl]

All all of our Australian friends OK after the cyclone. Hope you guys all fared well through the storm. I hope all is well. Check in and let us know how you and your bumps are doing.
Mike

[cheek]

Yeh me too, hope all you Queenslanders are doin ok!

[Aussie_1970]

It's been a bad start to the year I can tell you

Floods 14 Jan
I got no damage but lots a mates had some flooding, one guy needed to swim out of his house at night. That floodwater was like muddy, oily chemical filled crap. Many houses are write offs after that...A good mate of mine had been doing up a 65 fastback stang for 12 months. Literally the week before the floods, the car was in bits and had been painted. 2 days before the flood, he worked about 26 hrs straight getting it driveable and parked the car on high ground....his garage went 1.5 mtr under.

But you guys may have seen the inland tsunami footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY
This was taken in Toowoomba, which is inland about 200km's and on top of a massive hill...where did this water come from? I heard a report that a super rain storm dumped in your measurements 10 inches in 1 hour...Jeebus

That day water also took out a lovely little place called Grantham...youtube that, it is shocking. A wall of water totally demolished houses, buildings etc

I was helping my mustang mate a few days after and there were thousands of people just walking around helping, providing food, drinks, etc. Great human spirit but man the streets looked like a warzone, everyone's stuff was out on the footpath waiting to be dumped.

have a look at this and follow the river in, zoom in, it's wild......it was taken during the flood...doesn't look that bad in some areas but anything with that brown yuk on it is a goner
http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.468907,1 ... 5&z=14&t=h

Cyclone Yasi 3 Feb
Did you see the size of that thing? Thanks the lord it hit land where there aren't many people. My wifes folks live in Townsville and had a tree go thru their roof...absolutely crapping themselves as you would expect. 120kph winds for almost 10 hrs after weeks of steady rain. Pretty much took out most big trees and many houses

Only 1 death at this stage - Queensland has an excellent warning system and emergency response

I'll pop up some links to more pics of these later

thanks for the thoughts guys