Toowoomba Flood, 10 Jan. 2011

By Tuesday January 11, 2011

Found by Cinàedh.



23 Comments
  1. foobar says:
    1/11/2011 at 10:51 am

    Disaster porn.

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  2. msbpodcast says:
    1/11/2011 at 11:01 am

    Well, so much for Australia never having any rain.

    I wonder what the train tracks look like on the Null Arbor plain right now?

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  3. God, also known as Allah says:
    1/11/2011 at 11:15 am

    aaaaaaaah……… sorry, I couldn’t hold it any longer.

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  4. Jetfire says:
    1/11/2011 at 11:27 am

    That’s some great co-workers they have there. We’ll just take videos of your car getting swept away and not tell you.

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  5. podman says:
    1/11/2011 at 11:27 am

    @ #2
    The train tracks on the Nullarbor Plain look like train tracks.
    This flood is over 2000 kilometres away from there.

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  6. Zybch says:
    1/11/2011 at 11:57 am

    #4 So if they did tell you, just what would you have been able to do…

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  7. Zybch says:
    1/11/2011 at 12:08 pm

    Just so you guys can get an idea of the size of the flooded area, currently 62% of the state is flooded (1,148,638 square km2).
    To put that into perspective California and Texas combined is around the same area. (423,970 / 696,241 km2) so thats a freaking HUGE area under water right now.

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  8. No Fly Zone says:
    1/11/2011 at 12:11 pm

    Is that the Tweed River? I remember the nice town.
    Queensland’s rainy season corresponds to the same time of the year as California’s…

    I don’t think I would have parked so close to the river.
    whew!

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  9. noneofyourbusiness says:
    1/11/2011 at 12:16 pm

    “Should we move our cars?” REALLY?? YOU HAVE TO ASK???? No, dumb-ass leave it there to make a great video.

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  10. ECA says:
    1/11/2011 at 12:34 pm

    WOW,
    they have time to video the PAIN..
    but not the time to Run around and warn people TO MOVE THEIR CARS..

    For those KIDS that have ever dug HOLES in the ground with a water hose. You should understand what a SMALL amount of water can do..NOW magnify by 1000-10,000 times the water and FORCE.

    to these idiots, and the FEW buildings they were IN/Watching…THANKS (for nothing except an insurance bill)..

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  11. Jetfire says:
    1/11/2011 at 12:49 pm

    #6 He said in the video he’s glad he parked on the other side of the building. As the cars started to being over taken by water, he ask should we move the cars. I would told the people to move their cars right away and make that place a no parking area just to be safe.

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  12. anon says:
    1/11/2011 at 1:02 pm

    #7 – No Fly Zone:
    >Is that the Tweed River?

    Nah mate. The Tweed is like 150 miles away. Toowoomba is at the top of a mountain range, it isn’t even on any rivers. What’s in the video is officially a “creek”, but really it’s just a stormwater drain, that has overflowed from an hour of heavy rain (I think about 3 inches or so).

    The eastern half of the town drains through this little drain, so it’s literally a flash flood caused by inadequate infrastructure (obviously heavy rain isn’t unusual in Queensland).

    BTW, cars washing away is nothing. The news yesterday had footage from other towns of houses literally washing away in the flood waters…

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  13. God, also known as Allah says:
    1/11/2011 at 1:36 pm

    Everyone in the area (except Sandra) knew that the cars were in danger. The news quickly spread throughout the building while that Michael was recording, and he knew it. Anyone who wanted to, had ample opportunity to take the risk to save their car. Ye are so quick to judge on so little evidence.

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  14. sargasso_c says:
    1/11/2011 at 2:25 pm

    Australia is big, flat and has few natural river systems. It floods from time to time. Parked cars are however, not a natural phenomenon.

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  15. No Fly Zone says:
    1/11/2011 at 2:26 pm

    Of course, I was thinking of Murwillumbah.. but, it is downstream though… At least the Tweed is a real river…

    I do remember driving to Toowoomba… you’re right, it’s on the top of a high platau/mountain. wow! I bet the water really drains fast!!

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  16. Cursor_ says:
    1/11/2011 at 2:28 pm

    Toowoomba? Dude I loved their Tubthumping song, but this video is lame.

    They need to stick to music.

    Cursor_

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  17. bobbo, the evangelical anti-theist says:
    1/11/2011 at 3:49 pm

    Bad day to sleep in.

    It would be “fun” to see the survey of everyone that lost their car that day:

    1. “When did you become aware that it was raining heavily?

    2. When did you first think that the rivers where/might start flooding.

    3. When did you first think your car was in a bad location?

    What?

    Ha, ha. Stoopid Hoomans.

    I’ve learned “never” to buy a house in the “low spot” of any area. Irritates me I inherited a house in the lowest spot of a drainage system. Water regularly comes up 6 feet to the foundation of my house. Really wouldn’t take much to come up another few feet.

    Flood areas should be ZONED against residential areas–they should all be parks and recreation/green zones===or even parking lots. Just more wealth transfer from the poor to the SUPER rich and government aiding the process.

    Silly Hoomans.

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  18. bobbo, the evangelical anti-theist says:
    1/11/2011 at 4:33 pm

    Brisbane, Oz’s 3rd largest city now under threat. Of course, a “well contructed” skycraper should take a flood very well – but totally saturated ground is a very real threat to a heavy structure. Tilt.

    Rain in the desert? AGW? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaa! But it rains everywhere so whats the issue. Ha, ha.

    http://msnbc.msn.com/id/40996681/ns/world_news-asiapacific/?GT1=43001

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  19. Speter says:
    1/11/2011 at 9:03 pm

    In Perth we are under heavy water restrictions and have a save 60 litres a day program active (even though we have huuugge underground supplies, but shhhh don’t tell anyone or we cant scare the people into compliance)

    Ironically watching that video on the Chanel 7 website showed a “save 60 – have you reached your target?” advert. oh the insensitivity of automatic rotating ads…

    we had some huge storms last year but nothing of this calibre. Some dude is sitting on our roof fiddling away with his haarp i rekon.

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    Info about Perth water if anyone is interested:
    http://viacorp.com/perth_water.htm

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  20. Brian says:
    1/12/2011 at 7:12 am

    weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

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