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Monitor

10th January 2011, 23:40

Authorities expect to find more bodies in Queensland communities torn apart by flash floods that have so far killed eight people and left 72 missing.

Dozens of survivors remain stranded in small communities in the Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane, after it was hit by walls of water that earlier ripped through Toowoomba.

A massive effort involving defence helicopters is underway to reach people stranded in the devastated towns of Grantham and Murphys Creek, where bodies have been found, and at Withcott.

Advertisement: Story continues below Atrocious weather is continuing to lash affected communities, and Queenslanders have been told to brace for more deaths.

Premier Anna Bligh said authorities were very concerned about 11 people missing from Murphys Creek, a ravine area that felt the full force of the torrent.

"We are facing some just terribly, terribly sad and tragic stories and I'm very concerned that we're going to see more of those today," she told the Nine Network.

"Mother nature has delivered something terrible in the last 48 hours but there's more to go ..."

Queensland's Disaster Co-ordinator Ian Stewart said the toll would almost certainly rise, with 72 people still missing.

"I personally believe it will get worse today, and we are waiting on confirmation from a number of concerning reports," Mr Stewart told the ABC.

"Obviously, our focus now, today, will be to try and help the survivors because we still have a large number of people isolated in the township of Grantham."

Police have confirmed eight deaths so far, including several children. Bodies have been found in the Toowoomba CBD, Murphys Creek and Grantham.

Authorities on Tuesday said all the cars swept away in Toowoomba had been checked and no further fatalities from the CBD area were expected.

Ms Bligh said the scale of the disaster had put emergency services under enormous strain.

Four defence force helicopters have been sent to the flood zone along with extra swift-water rescue experts, Emergency Management Queensland told AAP.

"Right now we have every possible available resource deployed into this region to search for those people that we know are missing," the premier said.

"This is going to be, I think, a very grim day, particularly for the people in that region, and a desperate hour here in Queensland."

More heavy rainfall and possible severe storms are expected in Toowoomba on Tuesday, which is set to further strain rescue efforts.

But Bureau of Meteorology hydrologist Peter Baddeley said the wall of water seen on Monday in Toowoomba and nearby communities was unlikely to be repeated.

More than 50 people remain holed up at a school in Grantham, which looks like a cyclone has swept through it with houses and businesses destroyed and cars wedged in trees.

Grantham resident Christopher Field said the devastation was mind boggling.

"There were houses floating past ...," he told the ABC of the scenes he witnessed at the height of Monday's crisis.

He said historic buildings had been destroyed along with the local pub.

"Grantham shops are being all washed through, cars everywhere in the main street and cars back under the bridge," he said, adding the water had receded but with more rain falling was starting to climb again on Tuesday.

He said there were emotional scenes at the school where residents had taken shelter.

"... I had an elderly man come out and just give me a hug earlier, in tears, he'd lost his house."

Lockyer Valley Mayor Steve Jones said everything possible was being done to help those caught up in the disaster, which has sparked mass evacuations across the valley.

He said an evacuation centre at Gatton was almost full, with others holed up at effectuation points at Grantham, Heildon and Withcott.

The latest ugly chapter in Queensland's flood crisis will dramatically push up a damage bill the premier last week put at about $5 billion.

Regional Australia Minister Simon Crean said federal cash would continue to flow to communities hit by the "horrific" disaster.

"It's just massive in its scale, it's unrelenting and it's not over," Mr Crean told the ABC.

In Toowoomba, where a woman and boy were killed in the CBD, the scale of the damage from the tsunami-like torrent is extraordinary.

"It was just unprecedented. Some people are saying an inland tsunami, and I think that probably sums it up really," Mayor Peter Taylor told the Seven Network, saying the wall of water arrived without warning.

He said searches were still being conducted in some areas and efforts were also being turned to repairing infrastructure and the clean-up.

"There are buildings in the main CBD area in the lower lying areas that were penetrated by high levels of water, so there's a significant amount of damage ..."

Meanwhile, the flood crisis continues to play out in other parts of the state, with authorities warning of possible flooding in Brisbane city from Wednesday.

The Brisbane City Council has warned about 200 properties could be flooded, most in the areas of Rocklea, Albion, Milton and Auchenflower.

Ms Bligh said the water that fell in the Toowoomba area was expected to move into the catchment of the Wivenhoe dam system that feeds into the Brisbane River.

She said engineers were assessing what that would mean for the dam and the water release strategy into the river.

"The implications of this event are far from over," the premier said.

Overnight, residents in Dalby and Chinchilla were evacuated for the second time in a fortnight.

There was also flooding in Gympie with the water moving down the Mary River towards Maryborough.

Monitor

10th January 2011, 23:45

The following post was by Bill Ryan sometime in 2008...I think!

Secret Government Mega-Projects?

Everyone once in a while a reader email, or a news tip, comes along which just screams for more follow-up because it fits with a lot of 'rumbles' being heard lately. That was the case this week when the following email arrived from Australia:

"Hi George, keep it short, know you have tons to look at everyday? I just don't get it? my Husband is working on this huge project, in the first meetings the top management levels are informed the Government is building it for the 10,000 year flood and its not public knowledge. He looks around and hardly anyone bats an eyelid? The speaker looks my husband in the eye and says yes , the last time Noah was involved? yes, That flood! 45 billion being spent on this one. His part is in Brisbane, Queensland ,yet many roads being rebuilt higher all over the state and many new motor way tunnels. The tunnels in Brisbane are what we believe will be the way to relay the big floods out to sea (too bad if your in it at the time is my guess) Examining the way they have built the new hospital, it appears that ships could dock there, no reason to be built that high. No photography is allowed and this is regulated strictly. Must be finished before 2012, but last few days they have suggested to speed up works and intend to work under floodlight around the clock. Now, thats just making me a bit more nervous. Maybe your right, 2012 has been moved forward? Feel free to ask for more info, he will send it over the weekend if so. I probably would have dismissed it as myth myself, but when you're on the payroll for the big event, well, it doesn't get more real than that? Are there Any projects over there reporting the same reason for big projects. Maybe they weren't meant to slip the truth into this meeting? Just reply simply: more info...and I will forward facts if your interested. The company is sworn to secrecy but he hasn't signed anything and says he is willing to speak. Why should we be in the dark while they spend so much to safe guard the corporate structures? I really don't think we will get warnings on what they must already know is coming.

Needless to say, I wrote back and said "Heck yes, we want more details...as much as can be supplied..."
So overnight I got this:

"Hi George, I will describe the scope of the project I am involved with: I am building a holding tank which is approx 400 metres long, 200 metres wide, up to 11 metres deep , with the exit to the northern tunnel coming out level with the holding tank, and exit from southern tunnel is about 3 metres below it.The concrete walls are one metre thick. The Royal Womens Brisbane Hospital,(approx 1/4 klm away) has had a face lift, everything has been designed so water will not reach up to the fourth story (here ,that is approx 12 metres) The bus link built is in line with that height (4 storys) with a 12 metre dip in the road spanning half a kilometre, the flood waters would follow this pattern to the holding tank. Anyone observing the height of the overpass where it lines up with the 4th story of the hospital, running down to the road level, can see easily, when the floods come in there ,it is a perfect docking bay for large boats. The holding tank is obviously designed to slow the water when receding. All new roads rise over the underground tunnels which indicate where the flood waters will go. but, note here, in the event of a type of Marshal law, these tunnels are approx 8 metres high and 5+ metres wide, which would allow closures to the public and movement of military vehicles from all directions (except towards the east, being a river) 45 Billion is only whats been spent so far, which is coincidently the last bail out figure I was personally told it was for the 10,000 year flood from the project manager in a high level meeting. Looking at the contracts here, the project is under: (a variety of trusts and corporations) The Queensland State Government is funding it. plz protect my identity, any more info just ask. Like to know if same projects are happening in America? will include a photo, but your for eyes only and don't publish what you've seen. They WILL KNOW I TOOK THESE! 035.jpg is the full view of the construction of the holding tank, the furtherest excavator is at the southern exit of the bypass tunnels, and is rock breaking down to the level of the base of the tank. 33 & 34 ,jpg .photos: Connecting to
tunnels, last stage of opening it up to northern exit internal tunnels that are completed. best regards

Unbelievable pictures were included of the holding tank construction site as well as a picture of a rock wall against
which a huge arc can be seen which will be the tunnel from which the arriving liquid would flow. Now, we need to sit back as ask some
interesting questions:

*

What IF - and this is a HUGE IF - there is something behind the recent financial bailouts besides just the collapse of "too big to fail" banks. What if - instead - there is a planet-wide massive construction push underway to be ready for (fill in whatever blanks you care to here) and ask "Isn't a financial crisis a good raise to raise dough?"

The obvious question we might be asking is why? One reason may be that Brisbane is only 2700 miles from the Antarctic ice shelves which, if there was either a lot of global warming, or a planet-wobbling quake of sufficient
magnitude, could break ice off which is presently on land and such an event would no doubt cause a huge wall of water/sea level rise of catastrophic proportions. As to other cities in Australia, Victoria, or Melbourne, these may be equally at risk as they are a mere 2,000 miles from the ice shelves. A long time ago, USGS had a study - now
long lost to the 'net - that suggested that if all the glaciers and ice shelves in the world were to slide into the oceans at once, there would be a rise in sea levels globally on the order of 250-300 FEET/ However that number would be after things had settled down after the initial event. You can use your imagination to figure out the size of the waves that could wander across the planet.

Worse, that kind of an event would almost certainly have catastrophic impacts on large human-made projects like the Three Gorges Dam in China. Should that fail, not only could it spell the end of globalism, but in all perhaps a billion people - one 6th of the world's population could die as a result of both direct and indirect effects.

Needless to say, our source is protected and the pictures have been forwarded to multiple entry points onto the net as a kind of "insurance policy". Don't like 'thinking the unthinkable" but the thought rattling around inside my head is "Is it just way out on the fringe of possibility that the whole global financial crisis is contrived by governments in order to corral people into working, something they would not be inclined to do if the magnitude of coming events is of the scale this Australian megaproject portends? Or, to put it another way, if governments around the world announced one day this fall that "The Antarctic ice shelves and Greenland glaciers around about to slide off land and into the water and sea level is about to rise 300 feet....but no worries, ya'll just keep working and let's have no panic here...we have a plan and that whole financial panic stuff was just a ruse to allow us to raise money for our "life saving" projects...

Strange stuff to ponder, huh? Say, did that "No more floods" covenant have an expiration date on it? Might want to keep your eyes open, especially in the 200-600 foot elevation areas of big cities near coasts...
WOW.

An Ark?
Now I'm really confused.
If that one is hidden, it has nothing to do with this project since it's public knowledge, right?

The Australian Ark
10-28-2008, 05:17 AM
Hi, All:

As the world continues to change, and we all hurtle on into whatever future awaits us, I wanted to make a public statement here: that I'm no longer thinking of basing myself in Switzerland, but am seriously considering relocating to Australia.

The reasons for this are many (and some of them are obvious... many people think I'm Australian already!) - and I'd like to list them below:

1) Kerry and I met a lot of totally wonderful people there. We were both blown away by the remarkable friendship and hospitality we were shown on every day of our visit.

2) I'm an outdoorsman. I love wildlife, the forest, the sea and the desert. I was brought up in West Africa. A few years ago I drove across the Kalahari. In my time I've been a fairly serious mountaineer. Australia is a land where I can really feel at home, wherever I am.

3) Australia, working closely with a number of other governments, is preparing to take on the role of the Ark of the world.

4) The doors may close soon.

5) We've been offered a safe place to be, planned and designed by a very remarkable person. We had the pleasure and privilege of spending many hours with him and his family, and got to know him well. He is (amongst other things) a good friend of Duncan Roads, the well-known and widely-respected editor of NEXUS magazine.

We'll be delighted to share the details about this planned community. I'm awaiting more information - some images, maps and a powerpoint presentation - and will write up a full report as soon as I can.

The community is on the east coast, a couple of hours from Sydney. 35 million Australian dollars (AUD) of purpose-built infrastructure is already in place, including roads, power, water and drainage.

More investment is needed to complete the construction. The community is planned to house about 1000 adults and children. Based on what we know, and the detailed plans we have seen, this is the best solution we've yet encountered to the problems which MAY be in store for us in a worst-case scenario.

The location is extremely geologically stable and our friend, who has done substantial research and is exceptionally well-informed, has convinced us this is one of the safest locations on the planet measured by a number of different parameters.

The facility has been planned for twenty years and a great deal of thought and planning has already been completed. It's called The Australian Ark.

The 'Ark' is currently envisaged to include a shielded underground facility with hydroponics, technical and craft workshops, exercise and recreation facilities, a school, a comprehensive library, communication facilities, medical facilities, the most advanced water recycling technology, its own micro-economy and democratic structure,

and (believe it or not) its own very clean mini nuclear reactor

which will generate enough self-sufficient power for at least fifty years.

The best analogy to describe all this is the comprehensive facilities of a cruise liner which is not actually sailing anywhere. (Rather, it's on top of a forested ridge in an idyllic location which Kerry and I have visited. We loved the place.)

Community members will need to contribute several hundred thousand AUD (a bargain right now, as the AUD is so low) as an investment in the property/real estate which they will own. Detailed figures have been calculated but as I write I don't have the numbers to hand. All legal safeguards will be in place.

We are as certain as we can be that this person can be trusted fully. We like him a great deal and he is a highly intelligent, spiritual, capable, practical, values-driven man with a most interesting background. He is a Camelot and Avalon follower, has seen every one of our videos, admires our work, knows we are real (he checked our background thoroughly!) - and is delighted to invite interest, with his warm personal regards to you all, from the Project Avalon community.

We will release full details of the 'Ark' soonest and we'll set up a special e-mail address for interested parties (from anywhere in the world) to find out more. To register interest and log your name on a contact list to receive further details and updates, send an e-mail to ark@projectavalon.net (which can be blank if you don't want to write anything) with the subject 'AUSTRALIAN ARK', or with AUSTRALIAN ARK in the message body. Your details will not be passed on to any other party.

Our friend encourages anyone considering relocating to Australia to start to take steps immediately - even if the first step is to find out more information about immigration procedures and protocols. I am doing just that and am currently planning to be in Australia by Christmas.

My own personal regards to my new Australian friends: do get in touch, and it'd be great a pleasure to hear from you. I may soon be seeking formal membership of the Australian Ground Crew

Very best to all, Bill
Last edited by Bill Ryan; 11-06-2008 at 12:25 AM.

Ross

10th January 2011, 23:59

Im in between the floods, on the coast but am being hammered by rain. Gympie 1 hr north, the Mary Valley river has peaked at 19.3 mtrs/63 feet! serious amount of water!

Ross

astrid

11th January 2011, 00:40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1JxXzVMdyE

Wow Ross...please stay safe. My thoughts will be with the flood victims and their families today.

Ross

11th January 2011, 00:55

Thanks astrid, many folk are displaced. Toowoomba,(town) which is inland some 250km has had a tsunami, RIVER tsunami!

My road has disappeared, built on sand, on the coast. Its gonzo.

astrid

11th January 2011, 01:02

I have been to Toowoomba, from memory it was quite elevated, so this is a serious amount of water.
I just posted some video footage in the previous post showing how serious this is.

Stay save everyone,

Blessings ,
Astrid

Ross

11th January 2011, 01:02

Toowoomba:

There were cars literally picked up like matchsticks, swept along by the floodwaters. There were people clinging to light poles for their lives and emergency service workers were suddenly getting calls from all over the city for help.

There were people stranded on top of cars. Just incredible to think that in this city that could happen and it was right in the middle of the CBD (central business district).

I think of all the images we've seen throughout this flood crisis in Queensland, this would have to be amongst the most dramatic scenes that we've ever seen.

bluestflame

11th January 2011, 01:02

Massive iceberg calves from the Mertz Glacier

26 February 2010

http://www.antarctica.gov.au/media/news-archive/2010/massive-iceberg-calves-from-the-mertz-glacier

"A massive iceberg, measuring 78 kilometres long and 39 kilometres wide, has calved from the Mertz Glacier in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
The iceberg has a surface area of 2,500 square kilometres and broke off the glacier after another 97 kilometre-long iceberg (B9B) collided with the tongue of the glacier.

The calving event was detected recently by Australian and French researchers who have been studying the Mertz Glacier since 2007.

The tongue has had major rift in it from opposite sides for many years and the piece that has broken off is about half the length of the tongue."

concievably this event ( in conjunction with other world wide weather anomalies, could be seen to have contributed to unusual summer weather conditions

http://images.aad.gov.au/img.py/5d68.jpg?width=640&height=480

http://images.aad.gov.au/img.py/5d6b.jpg?width=640&height=480

Mertz Glacier under the microscope

The western crack of the Mertz glacier tongue (Photo: Ben Legresy)
4th January 2011

An array of underwater cameras, moorings and sensors will be deployed at the Mertz Glacier in east Antarctica this summer for the first time since a major iceberg calving event.

In January last year, 78 kilometres of the Mertz Glacier tongue broke off after being hit by another 97 kilometre-long iceberg.

A team of nearly 40 Australian and international scientists will depart Hobart today on the Aurora Australis for a month-long voyage to the glacier to measure the impacts of the calving event.
http://www.antarctica.gov.au/media/news/2011/mertz-glacier-under-the-microscope

there's a video at the bottom of the page listed above well worth watching

Ross

11th January 2011, 01:07

Word amongst some of the alternative crew, are saying this crisis is NATURAL enhanced by earthbound hands.

Monitor

11th January 2011, 01:11

http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2011/01/11/3110183.htm

astrid

11th January 2011, 01:17

Hmmm... im in the process of selling and relocating... me thinks the mountains are looking good......

str8thinker

11th January 2011, 01:21

Here are links to the two threads you described:

TPTB working on a massive cover up in OZ... (http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=20696)

The Australian Ark (http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6267)

also

ref: The Australian Ark (http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6312)

I live in Australia so naturally these topics are of concern to me.

These earlier threads are worth reading in their entirety.

Who thinks "weather warfare" may be playing a part in this flood? Watch History Channel - That's Impossible (Weather Warfare) S01E03.

astrid

11th January 2011, 01:31

same here...im inland, but maybe not inland enough i figure i moving anyways.. so there's no harm in going further in and higher up.

Monitor

11th January 2011, 03:16

Here are links to the two threads you described:

TPTB working on a massive cover up in OZ...

The Australian Ark

also

ref: The Australian Ark

I live in Australia so naturally these topics are of concern to me.

These earlier threads are worth reading in their entirety.

Who thinks "weather warfare" may be playing a part in this flood? Watch History Channel - That's Impossible (Weather Warfare) S01E03.

Yes it's a big concern to me too. I live up in Canberra. The Australian Ark post is too big a coincidence and those donut shaped cloud formation that were picked up on radar images in the past, makes me wonder!

Monitor

11th January 2011, 04:09

http://media.smh.com.au/national/national-news/watch-how-flash-flood-grew-in-minutes-2127942.html

Macka

11th January 2011, 05:42

Hi
I live in Brisbane (Queensland Aus) the floods we are experiencing here are of biblical proportion.
I believe it was two weeks ago they said that the area affected with flooding was equivalent to the size of France and Germany combined.
It is much worse that that now.
I have my TV on and they started evacuating the city (this is the capital of the state) and some of the surrounding suburbs as I write this.
There is no end in sight and more is yet to come.
We have been lucky that we haven’t seen thousands die as probably would have been the case if this was any number of other countries.
I fear that this may not be the case before we finally get through all this.
One of the main things that I see from all this is the spirit of humanity.
Despite all of our negative characteristics as a species, when we shine, we really shine.

jcocks

11th January 2011, 06:33

My thoughts and prayers are with theose affected in Qld. I don't even want to think about how bad its' going to get for you guys, but my gut feeling is that the worst is far from over :(

Ross

11th January 2011, 06:39

My thoughts and prayers are with theose affected in Qld. I don't even want to think about how bad its' going to get for you guys, but my gut feeling is that the worst is far from over :(

Yes the Brisbane River has broken its banks...It looks like the "Great Flood Of 74" will be surpassed, Things here are long ways from getting better. Macka, I'm paying for ya!

fifi

11th January 2011, 06:45

My prayers to everyone living in Queensland, Australia now. I hope all Avalon members will be safe.

Ross

11th January 2011, 07:03

32 suburbs in brisbane on high alert. Tomorrow when the high tide hits will be a telling story.

The flash flood that ripped through Toowoomba produced an 8 meter wall of water! This is very serious indeed

astrid

11th January 2011, 07:18

Not to mention the crocs.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/8238302/Australian-floods-crocodile-warnings-for-Queensland-residents.html

Australian floods: crocodile warnings for Queensland residents
Officials have been carrying out forced evacuations and have issued warnings about marauding crocodiles as people in Queensland continue to be trapped by rising waters of one of Australia's worst floods.

Ross

11th January 2011, 07:34

Crocs not this far south where current extreme flooding is occuring (Brisbane region)

Ross

11th January 2011, 08:17

Houses from Murphys creek have ended up 20km/12.4 miles down stream.

astrid

11th January 2011, 08:37

jackovesk

11th January 2011, 08:37

Update 1:

G'Day All,

I thought I would Give You All a 1st Hand Look at some of the Photos I took of the Swollen Brisbane River.

People have started sanbagging their properties, the worst flood in recent memory were the 1974 floods where it peaked at approx. 5 metres.

It is expected to be worse than the 1974 floods and is expected to peak 3.4 metres today, 4.5 metres tomorrow and above 5.4 on thursday with the King Tide.

Here are some of the Photos I took today...Will keep you updated tomorrow.

Regards,

Jackovesk

bluestflame

11th January 2011, 08:53

.. the timing of the king tide

Anchor

11th January 2011, 09:22

The following youtube was posted by "whitelightbringer" (interesting name dont you think...) and depicts the speed at which a flash flood can become overwhelming and is yet another display of natures power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY ]

The video was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald.

Check out the 4x4 driver locking his front hubs before making a getaway, as you can see not very many cars made it.

Lita

11th January 2011, 11:59

So far 10 dead and over 78 missing, the city of Brisbane will be in trouble until at least Thursday Aust. time.

vericocha

11th January 2011, 13:13

Amazing stuff and not quite the hot sunny image of OZ you'd expect!

vericocha

11th January 2011, 13:19

An awesome demonstration of nature's power.

jackovesk

11th January 2011, 14:20

I hope this picture gives you and idea of what the 'Aussie Spirit' is all about when times are tough. Our native wildlife and pets are important too.

http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2011/01/11/1225985/912088-rollover-strap-main.jpg

irishspirit

11th January 2011, 16:05

Brisbane evacuated as floodwaters threaten city

Thousands of people are being evacuated from Brisbane as floodwaters threaten Australia's third biggest city. Traffic jams in the city centre built up as residents fled the heavy rains and started filling evacuation centres in neighbouring towns

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/852342-brisbane-evacuated-as-floodwaters-threaten-city#ixzz1Ak9OKHTl

irishspirit

11th January 2011, 16:12

10 die as 'instant tsunami' hits Australia town

BRISBANE, Australia — Greg Kowald was driving through the center of Toowoomba when a terrifying, tsunami-like wall of water roared through the streets of the northeast Australian city.

Office windows exploded, cars careened into trees and bobbed in the churning brown water like corks. The deluge washed away bridges and sidewalks; people desperately clung to power poles to survive. Before it was over, the flash flood left at least 10 dead and 78 missing.

"The water was literally leaping, six or 10 feet into the air, through creeks and over bridges and into parks," Kowald, a 53-year-old musician, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "There was nowhere to escape, even if there had been warnings. There was just a sea of water about a kilometer (half a mile) wide.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40996681/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Brothers and sisters in Australia please know you do not now, nor will you ever walk alone!

irishspirit

11th January 2011, 16:17

This is for you guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkO58XYvBN8&feature=related

irishspirit

11th January 2011, 16:49

THE nation confronts its worst flood disaster in living memory, with 30 people believed dead and 78 missing in southeast Queensland.

The wall of water bearing down on Brisbane threatens to engulf thousands of homes and put more people at risk.

The official death toll from the flash flooding that ripped through Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley on Monday stands at 10, with half the victims children, but Julia Gillard warned that this was bound to increase.

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said the number of suspected deaths was twice or more the confirmed toll. A senior emergency official told The Australian more than 30 people had died, including nine whose bodies had been located but not yet recovered.

The identified victims include Steven and Sandra Matthews of Spring Bluff, who died saving the lives of their children.

As the focal point of the crisis shifted to Brisbane, the State Emergency Service reported last night that a four-year-old boy had drowned in floodwaters in the Ipswich region on the capital's western fringe. Rescuers saved his mother but the little boy was lost during a rescue at Marburg, 60km west of Brisbane, when he fell from a boat sent to reach them after the woman's car became stranded.

Last night, Black Hawk army helicopters completed the evacuation of Forest Hill, 67km west of Brisbane, after it was menaced by swiftly rising waters. Its entire population of more than 300 was airlifted to nearby Gatton.

The once picturesque hamlet of Grantham, which took the brunt of the tsunami-like torrent that poured down the Great Dividing Range from Toowoomba, was a scene of epic destruction. Police believe bodies are buried beneath the silt the flood left behind.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/queensland-floods/deadly-wave-heads-for-brisbane/story-fn7iwx3v-1225985949229

Rocky_Shorz

11th January 2011, 17:09

great SUV commercial for the next few years...

when disaster strikes what are you driving?

Eric J (Viking)

11th January 2011, 17:15

WOW!!!

What is going on???

Thanks John...

viking

Ross

11th January 2011, 22:26

Latest update:

Brisbane area:

40,000 home will be effected by the time Thursday/Friday arrives, 3,500 Businesses, 2,100 streets will be flooded.

10 confrimed dead and 90 missing. The death toll will rise today.

75% of Queensland is declared a disaster zone: 1,206,750.00 sq km or 749,839 sq miles.

The Brisbane river is rising at a rate of 1mtr per hour. The official peak will not hit untill Thursday 3pm. This peak is expected to last for 3-days.

TigaHawk

11th January 2011, 22:33

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/733/dsc00017wz.jpg

edit - 2 hours later - this is still just water from the stormdrain, water stops where the witches hat is on the left and goes for about another 6m to the right of that pic http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/2121/dsc00022xy.jpg

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/6654/dsc00023wo.jpg

This is Margaret st, Brisbane CBD. The water is coming from the drain pipes. It's not river water yet.

We've got reports of boats + the stuff they were tied to coming down river, there's a boat and something stuck to one of the walkover bridges right now.

They have not cut power to this building yet. They were meant to at 7am.

Most people have up and left - the morning looking down on the city has been like watching ants evacutaing. And people putting up garbage liners and sandbag's against shop fronts.

Can hear lots of evac sirens and the such in the background - can never make out what the man is trying to say in them tho.

Steph's thoughts = lots of Overhype atm. Will wait for said "killer king tide" to be convinced. *edit - im prepared to eat foot for this one.

Being a geekhouse - we have a large number of laptop's fully charged, and a single net connection indipenedant from the land line for them as well. If it gets eventfull here i will log in and post updates for yall :)

and OMG flatmate just whipped out a windup phone charger... pro! :P

Ross

11th January 2011, 22:44

Steph's thoughts = lots of Overhype atm. Will wait for said "killer king tide" to be convinced.

All figures are based on the '74 flood, from officials in regards to expected peaks. The Brisbane river has boken its banks in several places.

Zook

11th January 2011, 22:47

I hope this picture gives you and idea of what the 'Aussie Spirit' is all about when times are tough. Our native wildlife and pets are important too.
[...]

Wow ... what is happening?? I don't watch mainstream news anymore and Avalon has been busy with the other threads, so the import of the flooding in Australia totally escaped me until a family friend told me to look at the news when I phoned him about an hour ago.

My heartfelt prayers for all the people in the affected regions. Hope our Avalonian Australians are on safe ground.

:typing:

Teakai

11th January 2011, 23:49

Thanks Jackovesk, brought to my mind this picture during the bushfires:

http://www.koalaexpress.com.au/graphics1/sam%20koala%20drinking%20water.jpg

Monitor

12th January 2011, 09:34

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/12/3111596.htm

witchy1

12th January 2011, 13:48

http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1294826847/764/4535764.jpg (http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/4531356/Worst-disaster-on-record-for-Queensland)

Sabrina

12th January 2011, 17:37

Colin Andrews on a year of unexplainable radar patterns in Australia
http://www.colinandrews.net/Australia-WeatherBreakdown-Radar.html

Ba-ba-Ra

12th January 2011, 17:44

The following is an email that was posted on UrbanSurvival.com from someone in Australia. The underlining is mine.

"hi George, keep it short, know you have tons to look at everyday? I just don't get it? my Husband is working on this huge project, in the first meetings the top management levels are informed the Government is building it for the 10,000 year flood and its not public knowledge. He looks around and hardly anyone bats an eyelid? The speaker looks my husband in the eye and sais yes , the last time Noah was involved? yes, That flood! 45 billion being spent on this one. His part is in Brisbane, Queensland ,yet many roads being rebuilt higher all over the state and many new motor way tunnels. The tunnels in Brisbane are what we believe will be the way to relay the big floods out to sea (too bad if your in it at the time is my guess) Examining the way they have built the new hospital, it appears that ships could dock there, no reason to be built that high. No photography is allowed and this is regulated strictly. Must be finished before 2012, but last few days they have suggested to speed up works and intend to work under floodlight around the clock. Now, thats just making me a bit more nervous. Maybe your right, 2012 has been moved forward? Feel free to ask for more info, he will send it over the weekend if so. I probably would have dismissed it as myth myself, but when you're on the payroll for the big event, well, it doesn't get more real than that? Are there Any projects over there reporting the same reason for big projects. Maybe they weren't meant to slip the truth into this meeting? Just reply simply: more info...and I will forward facts if your interested. The company is sworn to secrecy but he hasn't signed anything and sais he is willing to speak. Why should we be in the dark while they spend so much to safe guard the corporate structures? I really don't think we will get warnings on what they must already know is coming. yours..."

jackovesk

12th January 2011, 18:08

Update 2:

UNBELIEVABLE! This is really a Full-On Disaster Zone! Over 30,000 homes in Queensland have been effected by the floods so far (That's 75% of the Entire State!) and it's not expected to Peak until tomorrow!

As previously mentioned, I knew the Brisbane river was going to rise even further, every single access path was flooded and blocked off by either the Police or Emergency Services!

I am still finding it hard to believe that the flood waters can rise so quickly!

Here are some updated photos as promised.

My Prays go out to all those who have lost Lives, Homes & Livelyhoods!

irishspirit

12th January 2011, 19:33

Flooding situation worsens across the globe

January 12, 2011 – The flooding picture across the globe has worsened over the last 24 hours. The Great Barrier Reef is now threatened by the extensive flooding inundating Australia. Jon Brodie told CNN News, “These are extraordinary events. The whole of the inner-shore reef lagoon filled with river water,” says Jon Brodie, Principle Researcher for the James Cook University’s Australian Center for Tropical Freshwater Research. Mass evacuations are occurring in Brisbane as rivers continue to swell in Australia’s 3rd largest city. In the Philippines, the death toll from flooding has risen to 40 and more rain is in the forecast. In Sri Lanka, the death toll from flooding has hit 18.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uRv5RTUAP_U

TigaHawk

12th January 2011, 21:00

My front doors thismorning.

Small note - all the building's in the city's fire alarms that went off yesturday. They never turned them off last night, even tho we have no power. They are still going now.

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/8407/dsc00035hb.jpg

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/1044/dsc00034zs.jpg

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9274/dsc00033rf.jpg

Deega

12th January 2011, 21:52

Hi All Avalonians, Guests,

I came upon this home video of the flood water power in Australia. Thought, you might be interested to see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY&feature=player_embedded

All my blessings.

Deega

shiva777

12th January 2011, 22:07

9eagle9

12th January 2011, 22:09

HOLY COW. That's incredible. I cannot believe how fast that water just overwhelmed everything.

Thanks for posting that for a variety of reasons. A lot of us on the other side of the world just dont' get the opportunity to commiserate or really be able to see just what folks are experiencing these days since media censorship deems this sort of stuff not sensational enough to mention but in passing.

jmj12

12th January 2011, 22:36

Rocky_Shorz

12th January 2011, 22:44

absolutely incredible... We haven't forgotten, more like speechless...

how many people seeing the empty food shelve thought about the message from the 33?

Teakai

12th January 2011, 22:45

yes 75% of queensland is under water. larger than the area of france and germany combined big food shortages on the way.in my 52yrs the most devasting event i have seen in aus.
lol to all in qld it seems the rest of the world has forgotten about us

Don't take it personally, jmj. Pakistan was ignored, too.
Besides - look how Haiti was helped - seriously, best if we handle this ourselves. All the other countries are broke anyway.

Deega

12th January 2011, 22:47

lots of pictures of the flooding...we are still having aftershocks here in Christchurch,New Zealand...about 4500 since the big one...but the scale of the destruction is nothing compared to what's going on in Australia....imagine the mess that will need to be cleaned up after this

http://news.msn.co.nz/slideshowajax/139619/floods-ravage-queensland.slideshow

...things are only going to get more and more intense as time goes on...so spiritual centered-ness is going to be your greatest asset..and a much needed one for most people in the years to come.If your not mediatating or doing a regular spiritual practice to connect to your Divinity you are going to find it increasingly more difficult to face what's happening in your hologram.Some TOUGH LOVE from the universe will get a lot more people asking the BIG questions and needing to find the answers within...that's the positive side of things...........

Thanks Shiva,

New Zealand is caught up in Earth pouring rain on the land, seem, from what you said it ain't as bad as Australia.

As your link confirm, Australia is in devastation, it's overwhelming, in my prayer, I will have a thought of relief to the Auzzie people caught in this.

IMHO, I guess you are right, we will be confronted by the will of Earth, by the will of the Universe, coming weather pattern will be as this one and bigger, I guess that we will have to dig deep inside ourself to find the energy to stand in this.

The Illuminati, the Financial World don't hold much power over this...!

Thanks again for your comments.

All my blessings.

Deega

jmj12

12th January 2011, 22:52

intial estamates 20% of all aus agriculture wiped out 6moths of fruit and veg is all we have left.still early days 2weeks before full extent is known.33 maybe i smell harrp.
jmj12

jmj12

12th January 2011, 23:09

Teakai

12th January 2011, 23:26

Teakai i agree best we handle this ourselves,i dont take it personally but find it ironic that if something happens anywhere in the world from wars,natural destruction etc we are one of the first nations to help

That's true - and that's a great thing.
I was watching 60 minutes about the floods in Pakistan and the Australian red cross were there saying "where the hell is all the help, why is this being ignored by everybody?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljuIxvEM1qg

So, we already have all the best resources right here :)

The US military will just row them to Guantanamo Bay, (like they did with Haitians) and then take their bananas - which will likely be $30 each if there are any to be had. They're into claiming the resources of countries they aid.
So, be very careful what you wish for.
:)

Note: this is a poke with the (not so) funny stick at the US shadow government - not at all at the citizens of the USA.

bluestflame

13th January 2011, 00:19

and i was supposed to be moving up north to start a vegie garden in feb , methinks that one's well and truly on hold

Ouroboros

13th January 2011, 00:54

bluestflame

13th January 2011, 03:41

Now 2 cyclones for AustraliA January 12 2011

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look at the low pressure system developing a "spin" in Victoria

possibility of a third cyclone developing off the coast of Victoria near Warnambool

and Victoria DOES NOT GET cyclones !
on map they seem to triangulate

jmj12

13th January 2011, 04:00

bluestflame looks like its not over yet,i am in northern vic on fruit farm have been checking radar and pressure systems hourly for last 5days have not seen this type of cell structures before.
there has been a rogue spinning cell south east of alice springs for the last 12 hrs it is headingmy way not sure what it may bring

Ross

13th January 2011, 04:15

The power of nature unleased is a mighty sight to behold.

"An area the size of France and Germany combined" has there (in recent history) been flooding on this scale?

My thoughts are with all caught up in this phenomena.

You know...what we have seen globally this past few months, as bad as it has been , this is nothing to what the Earth can produce.

We are seeing panick buying, no bread, milk, eggs, veg, fruit. all gone! tin food, lifelong milk are almost gone.

ALWAYS, have stored food, water, gas burners, candles, battery radio and anything else you can think of. We as humans are far to docile in our thinking , as seen in Brisbane where people purchased property in flood zones, next to rivers ect, thinking "It wont happen again" or "not in my life time" or simply no thought at all.

I will not be surprised to see more of this in OZ in the coming days, weeks, months, as Bluestflame has pointed out

bluestflame

13th January 2011, 04:15

I am in old brick building where i am , pretty solid but buildings here were not cyclone rated , lets hope it's just a bit of rain

check out advice on BOM site

Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/

jackovesk

13th January 2011, 04:27

The aftermath of the Lockyer Valley devastation where the Inland Tsunami swept through the little town of Grantham showing no mercy whatsover.

http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2011/01/12/1225986/399587-lockyer-valley.jpghttp://resources3.news.com.au/images/2011/01/12/1225986/399623-lockyer-valley.jpghttp://resources0.news.com.au/images/2011/01/12/1225986/399660-lockyer-valley.jpghttp://resources3.news.com.au/images/2011/01/12/1225986/399635-lockyer-valley.jpghttp://resources1.news.com.au/images/2011/01/12/1225986/397913-lockyer-valley.jpghttp://resources0.news.com.au/images/2011/01/12/1225986/397880-lockyer-valley.jpg

irishspirit

13th January 2011, 13:25

(CNN) -- Heavy rains and flooding in Brazil have caused 260 deaths in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, CNN affiliate TV Record reported Wednesday.

The greatest damage was in a cluster of towns in a mountainous area northeast of the city of Rio from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, where civil defense officials said 147 lost their lives.

That included 114 people reported killed in Teresopolis by a mudslide, local officials told CNN. Some 1,000 others were left without shelter and were being moved to a local gym and schools.

And, in nearby Petropolis, 18 deaths were recorded, the state government said, according to Agencia Brasil. Three deaths were reported in Itaipava, while in Nova Friburgo there were 12.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/01/12/brazil.floods/?hpt=Sbin

irishspirit

13th January 2011, 15:57

BRISBANE, Australia (Reuters) – Floods left parts of Australia's third-biggest city on Thursday looking like a war zone in need of years of reconstruction, the state premier said, while fresh threats loomed with a cyclone forecast offshore.

The floods across the state of Queensland have killed at least 19 people, 12 of whom died in the Toowoomba area inland, and 61 were missing, the state government said.

Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley region, west of state capital Brisbane, were devastated by tsunami-like flash flooding on Monday.

Large parts of Brisbane have become muddy lakes, with an entire waterfront cafe among the debris washing down the Brisbane River, a torrent that has flooded 12,000 homes in the city of 2 million and left 118,000 buildings without power.

Aerial views of Brisbane showed a sea of brown water with rooftops poking through the surface.

"What I'm seeing looks more like a war zone in some places," Queensland Premier Anna Bligh told reporters after surveying the disaster from the air. "All I could see was their rooftops ... underneath every single one of those rooftops is a horror story."

Floodwaters in 35 suburbs, which on Thursday peaked below disastrous levels predicted a day earlier, forced residents to take to boats to move about the streets, where traffic signs peeped above the water.

The floodwaters destroyed or damaged many parts of the city's infrastructure. One group of residents was lucky not to disappear into gushing waters when the street they were walking along collapsed.

"The ground started to move and began to rumble like thunder. We all started to run as fast as we could," said Rebecca Bush. "The next minute we heard this huge cracking noise that sounded like lightning had just struck. We turned around and the pathway was gone. It had completely collapsed."

An emotional Bligh said her state, reliant on farming and mining in rugged outback regions, would recover regardless of the cost and estimates that three quarters of it -- an area the size of South Africa -- was now officially a disaster zone.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110113/ts_nm/us_australia_floods

irishspirit

13th January 2011, 16:00

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This is crazy

irishspirit

14th January 2011, 17:32

Bull sharks spotted swimming down the main street in Goodna - 30km from the coast

TWO bull sharks have reportedly been spotted swimming down the main street of a flooded Queensland town, 30km inland.

Butcher Steven Bateman spotted two bull sharks swimming near his Goodna shop yesterday - one of several reports of a sharks in Goodna's main street.

Ipswich local councillor Paul Tully confirmed it was a bizarre but true story out of Queensland's flood disaster.

"It would have swum several kilometres in from the river, across Evan Marginson Park and the motorway,'' Cr Tully told The Queensland Times.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-reports/bull-sharks-have-been-spotted-swimming-down-the-main-street-in-goodna-30km-from-the-coast/story-fn7kabp3-1225987897834

irishspirit

14th January 2011, 19:19

A rain-making method developed by Thai king Bhumipol Adulyadej is set to aid Queensland in battles with drought after an agreement between the state government and the Thai royal household.

The Queensland government's access to the rain-making technology, developed by King Bhumipol over the past 30 years, came a year after the state approached the royal household last year.
As a result, Queensland is set to be the first major region outside Thailand where the rain-making technology will be put into full effect.

In the past, Australia had joined other nations requesting information exchange and technology on the technique.
But Soothiporn Jitmittraparp, secretary general of the National Research Council of Thailand, said similarities in topography in Thailand and Queensland would be beneficial to the success of the project.
"The climate and geology of Queensland drought area is very similar to some parts of Thailand. So we're quite sure this technology can be used effectively in Queensland," Soothiporn told AAP.
The technique largely relies on cloud seeding generally undertaken using chemicals that promote the formation of water droplets within the cloud formations.
The chemical cloud seeding in turn creates clouds with differing temperatures at different altitudes.
There are several stages in the process, with sodium chloride used in the final stage to trigger rain.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/thai-rain-making-comes-to-qld-20100808-11q5f.html

A story going back to August last year, but interesting none the less when you see what is going on there, in their summer season.

irishspirit

15th January 2011, 08:29

ELEANOR HALL: The Federal Government is defending its decision to award $10-million to a company to trial rain-making technology.

The Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced the grant to the Australian Rain Corporation, a company part-owned by Rupert Murdoch's nephew, Matt Handbury.

But researchers commissioned by the National Water Commission to investigate the technology have questioned whether the $10-million grant should have been awarded now, saying a more careful evaluation of the science is needed first.

Mr Handbury himself agrees the science is in no way conclusive, but denies his family connections have helped him secure the federal money.

Tanya Nolan has our report.

TANYA NOLAN: It's a technique developed in Russia in the last decade, and it involves sending electrical charges into the atmosphere to make clouds and ultimately rain.

But the problem with it, says Neville Fletcher, a visiting fellow at ANU and emeritus professor of physics at the University of New England, is that it hasn't ever been examined in a thorough scientific way, nor has it been peer reviewed.

NEVILLE FLETCHER: I haven't seen yet enough evidence to say that I'm persuaded that it's going to work. The measurements in Queensland showed that there was more rain in the catchment area than there usually was when the equipment was running. But there was a lot more rain in that part of Queensland at that time as well. So it's a little bit hard to say. It didn't show that the equipment worked, but there was nothing to indicate that it didn't work. So it was a possible.

TANYA NOLAN: Professor Fletcher's conclusions are contained in a report released in August, prepared in conjunction with Ken McCracken from the CSIRO and commissioned by the Government's National Water Commission.

The report warned the commission not to go ahead with any trials of the technology until the science behind it could be more thoroughly tested. But it did say that if it could be done "at no great expense" a trial could be "worthwhile".

The report was produced after a small-scale trial of the technology was conducted in May in conjunction with the University of Queensland, which concluded there was an increase in rainfall at the time and recommended more scientific testing be done.

Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has now awarded $10-million to the Australian Rain Corporation, which owns the technology, to conduct a full scientific trial of it.

MALCOLM TURNBULL: The report commissioned by the National Water Commission recommended a further scientific trial. The University of Queensland went a lot further than that and recommended a very substantial long-term operational trial as well, which would have cost a great deal more than $10-million.

What I've endeavoured to do is to ensure that we do, we have both a meaningful operational trial and a scientific assessment so that we can investigate this technology in a timely fashion.

TANYA NOLAN: Professor Fletcher says the money would be better spent in stages, rather than funding all the stages simultaneously as the Government is doing.

NEVILLE FLETCHER: My preference would have been first to spend a smaller amount of money doing a careful evaluation of the science, and then, if that looked reasonable, to go onto a field trial. The trouble with jumping in immediately with a field trial in parallel with the science is that the science may turn up things which indicate the field trial ought to be done in a different way.

TANYA NOLAN: Professor Fletcher's view is supported by the water commissioner, Peter Cullen, who is quoted in the News Limited press as saying he is surprised the full $10-million has been awarded before the first step is taken of seriously evaluating the technology.

Chairman of Australian Rain Corporation Matt Handbury says he appreciates that argument, and agrees there are some holes in the science.

MATT HANDBURY: I can understand that logic, but as I said, even when you've worked out the science, how it works, we still wouldn't have demonstrated that it works, and the need for water supplies is so critical in Australia.

TANYA NOLAN: You're name has come up in connection with your uncle, Rupert Murdoch, as possibly a reason why you might be getting all this money at once without the rigorous scientific testing?

MATT HANDBURY: Oh, I haven't heard that Tanya. I think I don't seem to be able to get my name in the paper without my family connections, which I'm proud of and delighted in, but I don't see how… Rupert's aware of this, he's pretty interested in the environment and climate change at the moment, and very interested, but he has no direct involvement, and…

TANYA NOLAN: You don't think your family connection may have precipitated this $10-million windfall for your technology?

MATT HANDBURY: Not in the slightest. I think that… not in the slightest, I can't see the connection.

ELEANOR HALL: The chairman of the Australian Rain Corporation, also the nephew of Rupert Murdoch, Matt Handbury, speaking to Tanya Nolan.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2007/s2069159.htm

irishspirit

15th January 2011, 10:52

After receiving an urgent e-mail from a contact in Australia informing me of bizarre weather on the weather satellite imagery, I checked out the data and just hours later more strangeness. I am waiting to hear from the Australian Government’s weather bureau for their own explanation.

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Written at 2230 Hrs (US Eastern) 15th January 2010.

A contact in Australia just alerted me to what he describes as “very strange weather taking place over the south west of Australia”. He told me to go to the national weather satellite images if I could not open the images he attached (See left). By the time I had discovered the e-mail and checked, the large clearly defined ring had mostly dissipated but still was just visible on a time loop which was spiraling counter clockwise (Low Pressure system).

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The images above is what my contact sent which shows a wide band ring covering many hundreds of miles across the south west of Australia with a small dot (presumably cloud) shown just right of center.

I saved the loop of the area when I checked the site several hours later but unfortunately it was encrypted not to permit this. The loop is not now on the site but the satellite image taken at 16:30 UTC is also very interesting. It shows a very large rotating over the western Australia where the mysterious large ring appeared from which a small but brief condense trail formed off the coastline and from the center what had been the huge ring a series of what appears to be three mini spiraling arms are seen moving out of the area, moving north east. This is one of those rare occasions when I could buy weather experimentation effects or other experiments being performed by HAARP are being observed. It is hoped to receive an explanation from the Australian Government Weather Bureau for these series of strange effects.

Posted at 4.15 pm US Eastern. January 16, 2010. Colin Andrews

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THANKS TO http://beforeitsnews.com/story/357/400/Huge_ring_appears_over_Australia,_is_HAARP_involved.html

str8thinker

15th January 2011, 13:05

Thanks irishspirit for this interesting info but attachments 3790-3792 could not be viewed as they were invalid. I have notified Admin. Would these have been the images in the beforeitsnews article? Very disturbing.

Here is the link:

http://www.bom.gov.au/satellite/

PA forum australian members, if you get time to monitor this map, please take a screen capture of, and post, any other bizarre anomalies. For what it's worth, I find the freeware screen capture tool Jing (http://www.techsmith.com/jing/) by Techsmith extremely simple to use.

The person asking the Australian Government for answers to these questions in beforeitsnews is no less than Colin Andrews of crop circles fame. See his web page on satellite weather map anomalies here (http://www.colinandrews.net/OtherCircles.html).

(added later)
Thanks irishspirit for fixing the images.

irishspirit

15th January 2011, 13:45

Thanks irishspirit for this interesting info but attachments 3790-3792 could not be viewed as they were invalid. I have notified Admin. Would these have been the images in the beforeitsnews article? Very disturbing.

Here is the link:

http://www.bom.gov.au/satellite/

PA forum australian members, if you get time to monitor this map, please take a screen capture of, and post, any other bizarre anomalies. For what it's worth, I find the freeware screen capture tool Jing (http://www.techsmith.com/jing/) by Techsmith extremely simple to use.

The person asking the Australian Government for answers to these questions in beforeitsnews is no less than Colin Andrews of crop circles fame. See his web page on satellite weather map anomalies here (http://www.colinandrews.net/OtherCircles.html).

Yes Pal, they are the same images.

I have tried to attach them to the file and it came through this way. I have not had any problems with viewing them.

Thanks for the type, will try to fix.

irishspirit

15th January 2011, 13:49

fixed thanks for pointing this out pal.

jackovesk

15th January 2011, 13:51

Yes Pal, they are the same images.

I have tried to attach them to the file and it came through this way. I have not had any problems with viewing them.

Thanks for the type, will try to fix.

G'Day Irishspirt,

Check out this Direct Link in Real Time 24/7...

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDE00902.loop.shtml

http://www.bom.gov.au/gms/IDE00035.201101151230.jpg

irishspirit

15th January 2011, 18:28

My son's a hero: Boy, 13, sacrifices his life to save brother in raging Australian floods

A boy of 13 gave up his chance of being rescued from the floods so that his younger brother’s life could be saved.
Jordan Rice told rescuers to take his ten-year-old brother Blake and their mother Donna from their trapped car before going back for him.
His selfless act meant Blake was saved – but tragically, Jordan and his mother were swept away in the car and died.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1346418/Australia-floods-Queenslands-Jordan-Rice-13-sacrifices-life-save-brother.html#ixzz1B87TQmle