Dreadful floods in Australia

I'm not watching news at the moment but my son says he hasn't seen much mention of this. Strange. Guess Ukraine has wiped much else out but very strange and so sad and awful.

Hope they find something quickly, kalu

I have been following what is also happening in the Sydney area nanna. A close friend of DD’s lives in the area as does our SiL’s brother and his wife who is seven months pregnant and homeless at present.

We are in close contact with all of them. My heart goes out to each and everyone who is caught up in this nightmare. ?
DD is currently looking for a property to rent in the meantime.

I know, nanna8.

But no-one seems interested even with the implications for the world, too.

It isn’t getting any better, really bad flooding round Sydney now. Lots of people who can’t go home, several dead.
smh.com.au

Thank you Alex Beresford for reporting this, albeit briefly, on the extended ITV News.

It is being described as a once in 1,000 year event over there.

At last the Army has been called in to help.

People sitting on top of their houses, stranded, have had to rely on volunteers with small boats to rescue them. People stranded on main roads have been left without food or water by the authorities.

I’ve seen plenty about the floods on the BBC news website.

If not for Putin’s Hitler-type actions taking up so much room in the papers, I dare say there would have been more mention of the Australian floods.

There was plenty about the drought and bushfires not so long ago - when we didn’t have Putin monopolising the news.

Just heard from sister in Brisbane they recorded 780mm rain in 4 days over 30 inches!, they are on high ground so no damage.
The most she remembers in 40yrs, “you get used to it”, it’s the stoical attitude you have to have if you live in Australia, floods, droughts and bush fires are all part of life as is useless polititians.

Thank you Baubles. Typical, isn’t it? Everything going well in the family, too good to be true, it was only a matter of time until another problem came along.


I fear this will scupper their plans to come here in the spring this year, so a ripple effect, (excuse the pun), we may hopefully see them later in the year.

Like many on GN, we haven’t seen ours since summer 2019?

My thoughts are with all, here and in Australia ??

Compared to the news that is concentrated on Ukraine the coverage of the floods in Australia has been tiny but the Times has been reporting on it on a daily basis.
None today though, just an article about Clive Palmer who has bought Hitlers Mercedes’ for his new motor museum in Brisbane!

I hope everyone who has been adversely affected by the disaster gets some help. Australia is a very resilient country and will get through this as it always seems to.
I know that my DD’s department will be up to speed, as they were during the fires.

My son and family live about 20mins north of Byron Bay...on the coast...are trapped as they cant drive or walk anywhere..people stuck in cars on the M1 for two days...its a terrible situation...

Just chatted to DD, it was sunny yesterday so people were clearing up, she made three journey to the tip with a car full of her friend's ruined belongings.

However, a hailstorm is forecast for tonight, everything being covered, moved or battened down.

I’ve seen and heard nothing about this awful flooding until I clicked onto this thread.

I’m so sorry to hear of the plight of your family Kalu.

Still raining here in Sydney, Nanna8. Everything is beginning to smell now!

Thanks Call and I hope your family are safe! Still hasn’t rained down here but I would probably prefer drought to flood!

nanna8

The press don’t hear or care about us over here, more concentrated on Europe but things are getting more and more desperate. Funny because we hear about Europe even if they just have a bit of a downpour. Ah well, out is sight, out of mind.

You're not out of our minds, nanna8 on here.

I mentioned it at a meeting I went to this evening and, in the main, most were unaware.
They are now.

Kalu thank you, and sending kind thoughts to your DD and SIL. I hope there will be no more rain there just yet.

The press don’t hear or care about us over here, more concentrated on Europe but things are getting more and more desperate. Funny because we hear about Europe even if they just have a bit of a downpour. Ah well, out is sight, out of mind.

So sorry to hear of this. We have friends and relatives dotted around NSW and Queensland and weren’t aware. I hope you and yours are safe and that the water levels are receding.

Well done your DD Calli. DD has told me the support and kindness from neighbours and strangers reduced her to tears at one point.

Fingers crossed your DD isn’t stuck in a flood area. x

Oh no, I'm so sorry Kalu, how dreadful.

I am so upset, too, that this has had no more than a flippant 30 seconds coverage on the news.

The Ukraine situation is devastating, frightening and upsetting and deserves its place as the main topic of news but there are other disasters happening which deserve more than a passing mention too.

I had a FaceTime call from DD which was upsetting news. The the water levels had reached the roof of their house. Her latest call showed the water had receded but everything in their house has been badly water damaged to render them unfit for purpose.

They have been instructed to place whatever they can manage to lift and place it at the front of their house for refuse collection.

It’s heartbreaking to see how badly their home has been destroyed. ?

They had over a metre of rain in a few days, think.
The whole of Lismore was evacuated.

DD was going out today to try to help others who had been flooded rescue their stuff. Now I'm worrying in case she got stuck in a flood somewhere. Mothers never stop worrying.

Like PamelaJ1, my son and his family are on higher ground but they have received flood warnings, severe weather warnings, road weather alerts, hazardous surf warnings and marine wind warnings.

It is not good and although I believe they are safe he tells me that a lot of people are being evacuated in regional areas. It has rained solidly for a week and between 8 pm and 12 pm, their time they have a "rain bomb" coming; whatever that may be. They are expecting 100mm of rain in the next 24 hours.

I think we would be hearing a great deal more about it but Ukraine is pushing other news down the broadcasts.

Sorry to hear people are suffering in Oz.