Some startling footage here of floodwater clearing a car park in Australia.
Look out for the guy who manages to rescue his.
Worth watching until the end to see the cars stacked on top of each other.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12161502
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I watched this at lunchtime... impressive bit of video. Having been around the sea on and off for 50yrs I have huge respect for the power and danger from water.
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>>Having been around the sea on
>> and off for 50yrs I have huge respect for the power and danger from water.
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You and me both. Most people don't realise it's power. Go in after a dog, or wave dodge on a sea wall during a storm, absolute madness.
Last edited by: Old Navy on Tue 11 Jan 11 at 15:01
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Must be from Queensland
"take the air out of the tyres to stop it floating"
Seriously I have friends and family in Brisbane, they have been on alert for a few days now.
Like the rest of the country, the weather down there is wild.
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I liked the panache with which he carried his umbrella, and appeared to be checking the tyre pressures were OK before moving his car. He must have been British.
It was curious the way some cars floated away in about 6" of water, and others remained firmly fixed even when the water was flowing right over them.
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"In the Wet" Neville Shute - damned good read.
Last edited by: Pugugly on Tue 11 Jan 11 at 15:26
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>> It was curious the way some cars floated away in about 6" of water, and
>> others remained firmly fixed even when the water was flowing right over them.
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They must have tied the van of blue down, sport.
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What surprised me was the attitude of the people interviewed, they seem stoic bordering on the cheerful, not a "gutted" or "devastated" amongst them, admirable national psyche in Australia.
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The non city types are at one with environment, with a "take what ever the country or weather can throw at you" attitude. In relative terms its a young country and parts are still being "civilised" so they still think like frontiersmen.
The suburban city-ites would soon be burbling and wailing.
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Isn't it strange that nowadays whenever there is anything happening out of the ordinary, people start filming and photographing it? In years gone by it would maybe be tears or calls to action to try and minimise damage. But now we stand and watch.
The same thing happened to me when I had to stand in the street and watch my house on fire. The adrenalin is pumping through you, in a weird sort of way and its only after the event when things calm down and you fully take in the consequences that it hits you hard.
Maybe we are all inbred H&S trained now that we don't take risks, maybe we are all insured so don't care about our "disposable" goods.
Have a nephew and his girlfriend backpacking in Australia just now and they are in Brisbane.
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BobbyG risk assesment is something you either learn at a young age by mummy and daddy saying no or you go on to a short life and kill yourself
i often see old people doing things like crossing a road in a dangerous place and asking myself why they didnt kill themselves years ago
h@s is a new word for telling others who are stupid foolhardy and or reckles that they shouldnt be doing it
a bit like dont come crying to me if you cut your head off with that bandsaw
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>> BobbyG risk assesment is something you either learn at a young age by mummy and
>> daddy saying no or you go on to a short life and kill yourself>>
Unlike that teacher who demonstrated how a sledge works to his science pupils, and was sacked for not having done a risk assessment first.
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Very odd that - read as a strange enough story that on the BBC website - the BBC local news report had some "nuances"
Last edited by: Pugugly on Tue 11 Jan 11 at 21:18
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fantastic footage
glad im not there
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Friends of ours live just outside the city. They sent us some photos from their house of the floods. They have a steep garden down to a ( normally) small river and are not at risk from it. The spread and depth of the water is jaw dropping. They tell me the speed of the water across the flood plain appears to be the same as the main river and the local bridges are under water.
Some quality photos from a variety of sources
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12120239
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Family member lives in Toowoomba, brother rang him this morning. Apparently caused by a Boscastle type event breaching a dam further up river, which then breached another one, which is why the water hit so suddenly, like a sort of tsunami.
Apparently many people killed.
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It is reassuring to know the Kia Rio floats well as seen in the video.
Now if I ever get stuck in a ford or something, I can drown happy.
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Cars swept away down under - Fenlander
