Originally Posted by pproehann (Post 9112399)

Would have thought they would have paired you up from a general safety point of view. What with looters, risk of what you might find Inc. snakes that have took up residence and just incase you hurt yourself cleaning up.

Originally Posted by Jen1977ni (Post 9112647)

There wasn't much organisation in all honesty at the pub/info centre where I signed up to volunteer, nobody really knew where to send me so I just drove around aimlessly til I was given the phone number of a girl. She then pointed me in the direction of a local whose little holiday cabin had been inundated, so I cleaned that up, and erm, went home?! :unsure:

Originally Posted by Alfresco (Post 9112651)

Yeah it got that stage in some areas where there were just too many volunteers and donations that it was hard to manage, especially a few days later.

Great spirit though that everyone turned up. :thumbup:

Our road had the last kerbside stuff collected today and now a huuuuuuuuuge thunderstorm has broken upon us.

Originally Posted by Jen1977ni (Post 9112695)

I don't think it was because they'd too many volunteers, I just think that so many peoples homes were beyond repair and stuff, really not good! Poor souls... My heart goes out to the people of Grantham right now, cant stop thinking about what they must be going thru... :(

Originally Posted by Jen1977ni (Post 9112695)

I don't think it was because they'd too many volunteers, I just think that so many peoples homes were beyond repair and stuff, really not good! Poor souls... My heart goes out to the people of Grantham right now, cant stop thinking about what they must be going thru... :(

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 9112791)

In some Brisbane suburbs it seems to have been a case - certainly over the weekend - of too many volunteers. People were turning up and being unable to help because there wasn't enough transport, and sheer volume of numbers made organisation difficult.

Originally Posted by Kelli28 (Post 9116052)

There seems to be lots of help, I was out shopping today and noticed a collection box for the floods on the check out that really needed emptying it was overflowing with $10 & $20 notes :thumbup:

Also my friends family have been located all is well.

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 9116067)

:thumbsup: That's fantastic news :)

Very stange here as we are moving back to "normal" working; once things move more into a Recovery stage rather than a Response we start to hand over to other departments to take the lead. It seems almost wrong that we are thinking of getting back to "normal" when for so many people "normal"will never be the same again.
We also realised tonight that the benchmarks at work have now changed. All of us here used to use TC Larry as the measuring stick for how bad things were, what requests we got, what meteorological records were broken etc. All that's changed now, this event overshadows everything.

I was filing flood warnings tonight, and came across one of those from that fateful night in the Lockyer Valley. Quoting the Bureau for "Lockyer Creek on Jan 10th......"Record flood levels of 18.92 metres were recorded at Gatton this evening before the equipment failed. This level is well above the previously recorded peak of 16.33 metres from the February 1893 flood."
So not only did the creek rise more than two and a half METRES higher than the previous record set in 1893, but it kept rising after the equipment failed under the deluge :scaredhair: That is a terrifying amount of water.

Originally Posted by Kelli28 (Post 9116129)

Those images of the water rushing through Towoomba were horrific! It was pretty terrifying, would never have belived that amount of water could rush down the street like that if it hadn't been captured on camera.

Originally Posted by hevs (Post 9116958)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X1MDqMylNI

Pretty cool footage. At about 2.40 ish in the dark you see the footbridge come apart :eek:

Originally Posted by Alfresco (Post 9117539)

Nice song.

Originally Posted by Jen1977ni (Post 9117659)

Tis, was that written especially?!

Originally Posted by Alfresco (Post 9117688)

Doesn't look like it as it's on her new album 'Hazardous' according to Google.

Originally Posted by Jen1977ni (Post 9117690)

o ok lol