Posted on 01/11/2011 3:00:44 AM PST by TonyfromOz
Brisbane, the capital city of the State of Queensland in Australia, is now being smashed by what could be the worst natural disaster in Australia's history. All reports say that this could be worse than the huge 1974 flood. The huge dams cannot hold back what is a truly immense amount of water flooding into the river that flows through the capital. There's links to news for a number of sources at this Post, and some background on that huge dam, that is now close to 200% full and pouring water down the spillway at the rate of 160 Billion gallons a day, and it's flowing into the dam faster than they can pour it down the spillways. This is absolutely huge here in Oz right now, and virtually every TV outlet is covering the disaster Live.
It’s summer in Australia. We need to see and hear more.
Pictures?
So sad! My son visited Brisbane just two years ago and loved it. Prayers for our Aussie friends.
After what nearly happened to Sacramento, CA in 1997, that’s why the Bureau of Reclamation in recent years often starts to open up the spillways at Folsom and Natomas Dams as early as possible so there is extra capacity to capture the extra water coming down from the Sierras so they don’t have to open up all the spillways like it has happened a small number of times in the past.
What in goodness name! I have not been following this ....how did it go from bone-dry to super-deluge? Goodness.
Which happened last year (and filled the dam). And again right now.
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