A body was found today 80 kilometres, yes eighty kilometres! down stream from the first country township hit by the unannounced wall of water that swept houses away hundreds of metres with people trapped inside.
It is a daunting task for service personnel and volunteers looking for 51 missing persons who if drowned their bodies could be kilometres away off the original water course, dumped or trapped in debris, fencing or where the water rapidly receded. The search area where the initial flood fanned out will be hundreds of square kilometres.
For a comparison of the magnitude of flooding the total area that is/was flooded is well over the area of Texas!
Remarkably areas of Brisbane (capital city of Queensland) have seen flood waters drop as much as 4 metres in less than 24 hours. Thousands of volunteers have moved into down town Brisbane cleaning up the mud and debris spoiled in the homes and businesses that is already stinking in the sun from sewerage.
While I know that there will be a lot of public infra structure requiring replacement in Brisbane and across the state I have no knowledge if there could be a need for surveyors and engineers for the next year.
RADU
A tragedy indeed. 🙁 The wrath of Mother Nature sometimes is just not understandable!!! :-@
If I was there I'd be helping right along with your fellow countrymen, RADU. *hugs* :love:
That tragedy is not forgotten here. It is in the news daily.
The Youtube video of a Toowoomba creek is incredible. Water can be a powerful (and dangerous) force.
Yea, I thought, solely by the looks of it, that looked like it had to be a dam break or something.
Very sad.
My heart goes out to all of those affected by this massive flood.
Bad as it is DU don't forget about our breathern in Brazil. They haven't been farin too well either. In fact, lately, for some reason there's been a lot of unusual weather world wide.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110114/wl_afp/brazilweatherflood
Take care,
Ed
Not a pleasent thing to hear about...Hang in there..and be safe.
What can a person say, hope the normal can be gotten back to as quick as possible.
We just finished up work on a dam just south of Brisbane. One of our guys just sent me a link to an article about bull sharks being spotted swimming in the streets.
80 KILOMETRES = 50 MILES
