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  • #31
    Originally posted by bobcat View Post
    gee like those crazy people that built a major city below sea level right next to the gulf of mexico and then insist on spending millions of dollars of taxpayer money to figure out why it keeps flooding ever time someone sneezes in that direction.

    (yeah im never moving to new orleans)
    Actually, New Orleans is built well inland, but the oil & gas industry has been busy chopping canels in the wetlands south of the city, and then the Army Corps of Engineers in its on-going war on the Mississippi River, severely restricted the flow of silt down into the Mouth of the Mississippi River (the mouth has actually moved well north of were it was in the 19th Century due to the lack of silt) that were the prime factors in the flooding...inadequate and out-dated pumps...certain home-owners associations that sued and won the last time that the Corps of Engineers tried to widen and heighten the levees in the area also played major roles in what happened. Not to mention the sheer stupidity of people building their homes and business at the foot of the levees, when simply walking to the top of the levee (all of 10 minutes) would have showed that the water was within a couple of feet of the top in clear weather, let alone when ole hurricane starts to blow!

    Living right across the state line from New Orleans, I got to see ground zero of Katrina up front and personal...to add insult to injury, the Mississippi Gulf Coast got hit worse than New Orleans, had a sizable precentage of its federal aid redirected to New Orleans, and rebuilt faster than New Orleans. Even today, almost 5 years afterwards, there are portions of New Orleans that still have debris piles from Katrina....it does make one wonder just were all of that federal aid went....
    The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.

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    • #32
      Can it get any worse for them
      http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/11/3110450.htmsection=justin

      Brisbane is the captial of Queensland (a state of Australia) and the third largest city in the country. Video of the flash flooding yesterday was just jawdropping and every last drop of that is heading towards Brisbane....
      If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.

      Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"

      Mors ante pudorem

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      • #33
        Yeah, NOW is when the Aussies get worried about floods. The situation now is far more serious than when this thread was started. Tomorrow or the next day the city of Brisbane is going to look more like Venice. Nearly 80 people are missing in the state of Queensland already and my suspicion is that many of them will be dug out of the mud or pulled from submerged cars in the coming days. That footage of a wall of water smashing through Toowoomba... devastating.
        sigpic "It is better to be feared than loved" - Nicolo Machiavelli

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        • #34
          Hang in there folks. Stay safe!
          Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.

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          • #35
            Just in the last 36 hours there's been 10 confirmed dead and over 90 missing. Many of the missing are likely to be found in the coming weeks, drowned in the wreckage of their oblitterated homes.










            Last edited by Legbreaker; 04-29-2021, 04:57 AM.
            If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.

            Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"

            Mors ante pudorem

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            • #36
              These are the worst floods in recorded history.

              Last edited by Legbreaker; 04-29-2021, 04:57 AM.
              If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.

              Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"

              Mors ante pudorem

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              • #37
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                http://news.ninemsn.com.au/slideshowajax/139318/floods-ravage-queensland.slideshow


                More pictures being added every minute it seems.
                Some of them are funny, others scary, with a few just plan shocking.
                If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.

                Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"

                Mors ante pudorem

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                • #38
                  I've returned to my true career of media monitoring. Guess what I'm mostly monitoring in the media at the moment...
                  sigpic "It is better to be feared than loved" - Nicolo Machiavelli

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                  • #39
                    I don't know what coverage there is overseas regarding the effected areas, but Grafton, at the southern end is my hometown. This flood really isn't anything out of the ordinary.
                    Brisbane and Queensland in general however is coping a hammering!
                    If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.

                    Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"

                    Mors ante pudorem

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                    • #40
                      Sky and BBC have both been giving it a lot of coverage in the last couple of days...seem to have been focusing on Toowoomba (sp) although one of them (I think the BBC) have sent a reporter to Brisbane.

                      What they have been showing looked pretty bad...I hope everyone manages to stay safe...
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                      • #41
                        Well what happened to Toowoomba was pretty shocking... a flash flood that wiped out half the town with almost no warning. Luckily Toowoomba isn't a very big place but I do feel sorry for the people there.
                        sigpic "It is better to be feared than loved" - Nicolo Machiavelli

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by Legbreaker View Post
                          http://news.ninemsn.com.au/slideshow...land.slideshow

                          More pictures being added every minute it seems.
                          Some of them are funny, others scary, with a few just plan shocking.
                          Leg,

                          Thanks for the link!

                          It's important to note that most flood-control measures will be defunct in the aftermath of the Twilight War. Even with altered weather patterns and reduced rainfall in most parts of the world, local conditions will cause temporary flooding, either flash floods or seasonal changes to river levels.

                          If you run a PBeM or other game, these images are useful in visually conveying the power and destructive force of floodwaters.

                          Tony

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                          • #43
                            I've lived through a lot of floods over the years, but the devastation in SE Queensland is just unimaginable! Most flooding is a relatively sedate affair with the waters rising fairly slowly. What happened on Monday was anything but slow - in some places it was all over in ten minutes leaving a path of destruction in it's wake.

                            This shows just how terrible it was. http://www.youtube.com/watchv=kYUpkP...layer_embedded
                            If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.

                            Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"

                            Mors ante pudorem

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