Current floods in Australia.

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Damn can't believe Queensland Raceway has gone under. As much as I hate watching races there, it sure is a hoot to drive on.

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Jay
Hmm, this call for intermediates or full wets?


Given the amount of reconstruction Queensland and areas will need I doubt the circuit would be repaved at all this year, rescources better used on more pressing issues.
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This is a privately run track if my memory serves me correct and they had to resurface inorder to keep the contract for V8 Supercars. As the surface was getting really bumpy into turn one and maybe three. So im guessing they will need to have it done by then.
 
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Jay
Given the amount of reconstruction Queensland and areas will need I doubt the circuit would be repaved at all this year, rescources better used on more pressing issues.
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That's exactly why they're not going to begin the re-paving ASAP. The owners knew it would be selfish to use those rescourses when there's city and suburban streets which need them even more. 👍


I encourage any foreigners reading this thread to donate, even the smallest amount will make a difference.

http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html
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I just donated, myself. 👍
 
My thoughts and prayers that fellow GTP members,who are in Brisbane and who has family and friends there, are safe.

My girlfriend's family is located in Southwestern Brisbane, Forest Lake. They are safe and the water hasnt come through yet unlike the other areas around them. I hope it stays that way.
 
The water has gone down around where i live. People are being let back into Theodore after the whole town was evacuated (first in history). Food supplies have been cut off however. Hoping the roads are open within the next few days before everyone runs out of food :(
 
shaneth
Im sure the army will do relief drops before that ever happens. Did your place get affected??
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No thank god, the river is 8km out of town where i live, and we live on a small hill on the edge of town, so the flood water itself didnt effect us. Theodore just down the road, live right on that river system. Highest that river has ever been in history.
 
Slashzor308
No thank god, the river is 8km out of town where i live, and we live on a small hill on the edge of town, so the flood water itself didnt effect us. Theodore just down the road, live right on that river system. Highest that river has ever been in history.
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Good to hear you are dry, yes i heard about Theodore........
 
:lol: I was supposed to go to QR this weekend to pre run a historic formula ford that I'm running at the Bathurst 12 hour. I hope morgan park is dry :S
 
shaneth
This is a privately run track if my memory serves me correct and they had to resurface inorder to keep the contract for V8 Supercars. As the surface was getting really bumpy into turn one and maybe three. So im guessing they will need to have it done by then.
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Jackington
That's exactly why they're not going to begin the re-paving ASAP. The owners knew it would be selfish to use those rescourses when there's city and suburban streets which need them even more. 👍
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Doesn't mean they can get it done even if they really want to or even if V8 Supercars puts pressure on them. Every contractor that does work like this will be flooded (pun not intended) with work of state priority and I imagine contractors from other states will be sent over to help out also. Unless QR wants to get their shovels and rollers out, thats if they can source the materials which might also come into a temporal shortage.

We'll see I guess.
 
QR isn't affiliated with CAMS in any way except for the dispensation they get to run the V8's once a year. If you want to race there you have to buy a AASA licence in the main building. Even just practice days your CAMS licence means squat. I think Lakeside is a AASA event too. Can't remember

Anyway, last I heard QR was going broke and any cost from damage suffered to the track goes straight to the owner. CAMS and their affiliates stay well away from the guy. Could be a serious situation for the place if there is substantial damage.
 
Some good news has come from Queensland. The river which was predited to peak at 5.5m this morning at 4am Brisbane time, only got to 4.45m.

Does not seem like much, but a lot of homes were saved because of this.

It doesnot seem like any good news can come out of QLD, but his is certainly worth a mention.

Reports are the 4ish metre tide will be in for approx another 12-18 hours before dropping much more. But atleast it should not get any higher.

On a sad note, confirmed 13 deaths and currently 41 unaccounted for. Here's hoping they can be found safely.
 
Hello everyone from the inland island where I live in QLD, Gladstone. We're not flooded, but EVERYWHERE around us is completely underwater and has been for the past 2 weeks. From Rockhampton, to Emerald, to Theodore, to Agnes Waters, to Bundaberg. We're surrounded by water, and it's come to the point that people were punching on yesterday, on two seperate occasions, at the local IGA Supermarket over a loaf of bread and a 2L milk. People have been panic buying rather than emergency buying and showing various levels of stupidity in the shops due to this.

Things are a bit easier today as we had a truck get through to deliver a heap of bread so most of us will be okay for the next few days, but I can't understand why we can't use our airport (which ISN'T closed) or our port (which is the 2nd biggest port in the Southern Hemisphere) to become a distribution point for our food and supplies to come in through here. The scenes from Toowoomba were horrendous and astounding in the same breath, the raw power unleashed was unbelievable.

I hope the rest of the GTP'ers that are being affected by this get through this safe and sound. 👍
 
mafia_boy
People have been panic buying rather than emergency buying and showing various levels of stupidity in the shops due to this.
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This, THIS, this is what people need to understand. I work at Woolworth's at the checkout. That doesn't mean I know nothing of what happens in the shop, we all work as a team and we all know what is going on. On Christmas Eve we had EVERY checkout open, 1-13 and each checkout had a line of 2 trolleys at any given time. On Tuesday with word spreading that foods supplies could be lessened people ran like all sorts of crap to our supermarket (and many other around Australia) to have the shop become SIX TIMES BUSIER THAN XMAS EVE. I am not lying, this is the truth. By the time they all buggered off we had absolutely no produce/dairy or bakery stuff left at all. They had cleaned our store to the crumbs on the floor. We went through wednesday with only bread coming from our bakery and no milk at all. We had limited produce left and by the end of Wednesday we had no bread, no produce and no milk still.

Thursday morning we were told that milk would be in as long as the trucks weren't cut off, which they were. By lunch time the milk truck (only one truck after a huge half day detour) had arrived. We stocked the milk fridges and annouced on the PA, "Attention Customers, milk has just arrived however it is very limited and we would appreciate if you did not act selfishly and take only what you need". BOOOOOOOOMMM, everyone runs to the fridges and the milk is gone within 10 minutes. Several hundred different cold milk bottles, gone. That morning I had served a customer who bought ten 3L milk bottles and FORTY loaves of bread.

What I am getting at is that if people just bought normally as they would, lets say, two bottles of 2L milk and two loaves of bread we would have just as much stock as normal bar the milk. Milk would still be there but would be extremely limited. But no, people in my area who are lucky enough to still have a house were super duper selfish and just took everything. Not only that but they have the freakin nerve to complain about us not having this and that. Well too bad, people don't have houses and even family members out there anymore and all you guys worry about is having milk in a functioning fridge in a perfectly fine and working house. I hate people sometimes, so selfish we are.

/Rage.
 
Exactly what I'm getting at. There's a local bakery and normally a loaf of bread from there is about $2.50. This week, they have been charging $6!! An absolute scumbag move by the proprietors of that shop, taking advantage of people's worries and fears. I'm not so worried as we can get around this without too much hassle but people in this town aren't exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer so we have to put up with the stupid moves and things that they do. ;)
 
Surprised to hear a small town like Gladstone went that way. Not surprised at all about Brisbane though.
 
Now Victoria is flooding.

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UPDATE 5.35pm: The central Victorian town of Carisbrook is deserted and almost submerged as heavy rains flood communities across the state.

After days of deluge, the nearby reservoir couldn't hold any more water and the town of around 1000 people was inundated today.

"We have a town that is totally, totally covered in water," local CFA volunteer Philip Leech said.

"Every house in the centre of town is under about four or five feet of water. Everybody is out of town, apart from a few in double storey places who have stayed."

Mr Leech and three CFA colleagues have been on their truck on the bridge over Deep Creek on the Pyrenees Highway outside of town since yesterday morning, turning people away.

He says the normally tranquil 10m-wide creek is now running "very swiftly" and is about 500m wide.

It's just massive, it's the highest I've ever seen it," he said.

Most Carisbrook residents have evacuated to the emergency centre in Maryborough to the west.

Attempts at establishing an emergency centre in Carisbrook were abandoned as water cascaded through the town.

Mr Leech said residents had enough warning during the week to leave town, but many left it to the last minute.
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I can't get milk and veg on the gold coast now. Everything goes through the markets in brisbane and gets trucked here. It's funny how simple it is to completely stop food supply.
 
On the topic of panic buying of milk/bread etc...

I really dont understand why people feel that if they have to go a few days without these things, they will die.
Lets assume that you have an 'average' family - parents, a couple of school age kids - there will more than likely be a pantry and fridge both full of food. Take away milk and bread and you still have food... after a couple of days you might need to get inventive and little unorthodox in your meals, but by no means will you starve. This is particularly true for a place like Gladstone, which was not direct affected, but supply routes were temporarily cut. It is not an absolute shortage of food (3rd world type famine conditions), just that the ample suply of food is delayed by a couple of days. I have also seen this at Christmas/Easter when the shops are shut for a day or two (it's not just Australia, I saw people stocking up on canned food and toilet paper in prep for Christmas in Britain a few years ago)

Also, good luck to the people in Victoria who are in line for a 1 in 200 year flood, I hope you get the coverage and support that has gone to Qld over the last week or two.
 
Dotini
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/...armists-in-the-Queensland-flood-disaster.html

Were warmists culpable in the Queensland floods?
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We have a political party here called the greens (hippies in parlament hurr durr, but they support cannabis 👍) and they're claiming the floods were caused BY global warming and the big mining companies should be held responsible because they mine and burn coal or something stupid like that.

Also, my local Mcdonalds was only serving cheeseburgers, nuggets, medium sized fries and drinks today. They couldn't sell anything else because they can't get supplies because of the floods. Mcdonalds !!
 
An hour ago, one of our channels reported that there were sharks swimming in the water, in tows. How true is that?

I ask merely because that channel isn't exactly what I would consider a serious one.
 
Lucas
An hour ago, one of our channels reported that there were sharks swimming in the water, in tows. How true is that?

I ask merely because that channel isn't exactly what I would consider a serious one.
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I dont think they were making it up. See here. However, I would have been more worried about the snakes. Saw plently of news reports of deadly (brown and red-bellied black) snakes in the flood water seeking refuge on the same rooftops as the people who owned the particluar roof.
 
Dotini
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/...armists-in-the-Queensland-flood-disaster.html

Were warmists culpable in the Queensland floods?
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No, but Mr.Booker does make some very valid points. The issue of the dam releasing water is a very valid point, but other dams are experiencing amounts never before seen so the decision made by the South-East Queensland water authority to release water is absolutely baffling. For example, the dam at Emerald is currently at 175% of capacity!! Our local dam at Gladstone is over 110% itself with a 4ft wall of water pouring over the dam into the river, with lots of barramundi dying after hitting the concrete pylons at the bottom of the dam. My boss has pics to prove this too.

Barra333
On the topic of panic buying of milk/bread etc...

I really dont understand why people feel that if they have to go a few days without these things, they will die.
Lets assume that you have an 'average' family - parents, a couple of school age kids - there will more than likely be a pantry and fridge both full of food. Take away milk and bread and you still have food... after a couple of days you might need to get inventive and little unorthodox in your meals, but by no means will you starve. This is particularly true for a place like Gladstone, which was not direct affected, but supply routes were temporarily cut. It is not an absolute shortage of food (3rd world type famine conditions), just that the ample suply of food is delayed by a couple of days. I have also seen this at Christmas/Easter when the shops are shut for a day or two (it's not just Australia, I saw people stocking up on canned food and toilet paper in prep for Christmas in Britain a few years ago)
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It's not like that here. There's no bread, no milk, no produce, and very few items on the shelves or in freezers. Only 3 trucks have made it through in the past 2 weeks. Even my wife was almost in a punch-on yesterday because some stupid 🤬 of a woman wanted the bread that my wife had already in her trolley (and we only had 2 loaves which was what the limit was!) and she had eaten bread for the past 2 days whereas we hadn't had a sandwich in a week!! There's been punch-on's at other supermarkets because of the same issues, elderly are being pushed out of the way by greedy scumbags who only look out for themselves and aren't being Australian by not helping their fellow man.

Anes
We have a political party here called the greens (hippies in parlament hurr durr, but they support cannabis 👍) and they're claiming the floods were caused BY global warming and the big mining companies should be held responsible because they mine and burn coal or something stupid like that.
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It's a case of blame the mines when it was the deforestation of huge chunks of Australia that is really to blame, so why don't they take on the loggers?? Because the government already has and has lost on several occasions!!

Also, my local Mcdonalds was only serving cheeseburgers, nuggets, medium sized fries and drinks today. They couldn't sell anything else because they can't get supplies because of the floods. Mcdonalds !!
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I can top that.

McDonalds - The same as yours (nuggets, cheeseburgers/junior burgers, fries and shakes).
Hungry Jack's - Only nuggets, chicken wraps and chips.
KFC - NOTHING!!
Chinese - Only 1 restaurant open, all of the rest are out of food.
Red Rooster - Whole chooks, rippa subs (on rooster roll bread!! :yuck: ), chips and peas.
Dominos - Hawaiian and other basic pizzas only.

The only place around here that's done well is Subway because they bake their own bread daily and they always have a decent supply of stock. :)
 
mafia_boy
I can top that.

McDonalds - The same as yours (nuggets, cheeseburgers/junior burgers, fries and shakes).
Hungry Jack's - Only nuggets, chicken wraps and chips.
KFC - NOTHING!!
Chinese - Only 1 restaurant open, all of the rest are out of food.
Red Rooster - Whole chooks, rippa subs (on rooster roll bread!! :yuck: ), chips and peas.
Dominos - Hawaiian and other basic pizzas only.

The only place around here that's done well is Subway because they bake their own bread daily and they always have a decent supply of stock. :)
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It's a sign of the times we live in when roughly 1 billion people, a sixth of the worlds population, are starving each and every day yet the fact that a few fast food joints can't serve their full menu is seen as incredible. The irony in that is absolutely astounding.

I have a great deal of sympathy for the Aussies that are suffering at the hands of mother nature at the moment but lets put it into a little bit of context. Stories of the young lad who lost his life after insisting that his younger brother be saved first are truly moving but the people getting into scuffles in supermarkets over food should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. The former shows everything that is good about human nature the latter everything that is bad.
 
Flooding sucks, literally.

Been involved in one (2004 Asian Tsunami), it's even worse because you cannot even see it coming.

Great deal of sympathy to all those who have been affected by recent floods, not only in Australia, but the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Brazil, etc.
 
PzR Slim
It's a sign of the times we live in when roughly 1 billion people, a sixth of the worlds population, are starving each and every day yet the fact that a few fast food joints can't serve their full menu is seen as incredible. The irony in that is absolutely astounding.

I have a great deal of sympathy for the Aussies that are suffering at the hands of mother nature at the moment but lets put it into a little bit of context. Stories of the young lad who lost his life after insisting that his younger brother be saved first are truly moving but the people getting into scuffles in supermarkets over food should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. The former shows everything that is good about human nature the latter everything that is bad.
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What, I thought anarchy was thought to be a goal to strive for?

You should read Lord of the Flies if you haven't or again if you have.

When you have nothing but peace and love then the biggest guy in the room
will come over and give you some love for his piece of your food.

The fact is, there is always half of the group that only understand brut force.
 

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