Pray for relief in Australia

[MJhasSpoken]

Floods in Brisbane Australia has killed 15 people...with more than 70 people missing...lets pray relief from the floods come soon.

[2good2btrue]

I live in Melbourne Australia and we are watching it all unfold........those poor people.

We are also experiencing some strange weather phenomenon with our weather also.  It has been one of the wettest summer ever!!

What in hell is going on with this weather extremes we are experinecing???  

This has to be a sign of irreversible global warming.  I'm praying for the Queensland people.  God Bless xoxoxo

[MJhasSpoken]

I live in Melbourne Australia and we are watching it all unfold........those poor people.

We are also experiencing some strange weather phenomenon with our weather also.  It has been one of the wettest summer ever!!

What in hell is going on with this weather extremes we are experinecing???  

This has to be a sign of irreversible global warming.  I'm praying for the Queensland people.  God Bless xoxoxo

Me too...I hope it stops raining for Brisbane and us...it was raining so hard today and they said it will rain the whole week...on Sunday the Tennis players like Rafa are having a rally...I wish I could go but I'm busy.

[willddoMJ]

:shock:  guess what, food prices are rising alot more, cause that where fruit and veggie mainly come from

[MJhasSpoken]

:shock:  guess what, food prices are rising alot more, cause that where fruit and veggie mainly come from

Yeah esp. bananas...do you live in Brisbane?

[willddoMJ]

:shock:  guess what, food prices are rising alot more, cause that where fruit and veggie mainly come from

Yeah esp. bananas...do you live in Brisbane?

No Victoria, south alot more

[ForstAMoon]

The unprecedented floods were also here in Poland last year. This is absolutely enormous disaster and I feel very sorry for the ones what have lost their lives and homes. I just feel that the forces of nature are giving us some strong warnings recently.

[Melzy777]

I'm watching skynews. It's just so devastating and sad. Mother nature is an uncontrollable force.

My thoughts are with everyone affected already, and those that will be affected in the days to come still. Goondiwindi is on high alert tonight.. I hope everyone makes it out safely.

And, I'm near Melbourne too. It's been raining heavy here.. The weather is unbelievable all over the east side of Oz. What a crazy summer.  :shock:

But, it's all made me think of those science experiments to create rain...

Scientists Create 52 Artificial Rain Storms in Abu Dhabi Desert
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Hail, lightning and gales came through the state’s eastern region this summer thanks to scientist-puppetmasters.
As part of a secret program to control the weather in the Middle East, scientists working for the United Arab Emirates government artificially created rain where rain is generally nowhere to be found. The $11 million project, which began in July, put steel lampshade-looking ionizers in the desert to produce charged particles. The negatively charged ions rose with the hot air, attracting dust. Moisture then condensed around the dust and eventually produced a rain cloud. A bunch of rain clouds…
While fascinating, this is not the first time scientists have attempted to mess with Mother Nature. China has been tinkering with cloud seeding for years, not always successfully.
But the idea that countries in the Middle East could actually create rain in this water-poor region could go a long way to solving the area’s problems with drought and is considered to be cheaper than desalination. But how controllable the weather can be is still in doubt, and the consequences of meddling with nature at this level are yet to be seen....  :!:

[nick_93]

I too am in Melbourne, great to see so many of us that are in here but sad to meet in such circumstances. I am deeply saddened by what is happening in QLD at the moment. It saddens me that much I often find myself flicking over to 7WO to watch the tennis. I really want to help these poor people. I wish we could do some hands on stuff aswell as donating. Yes in Melbourne we are experiencing some strange weather too. It's very unusual for our state and especially at this time of year. It's very muggy and monsoonal type weather. The humidity is up and it's very wet, much like places closer to the equator. My thoughts go out to all the people affected by the floods and best of luck to any of you that may be on here who are fighting through these hard times. Always remember, you are not alone!

L.O.V.E

[willddoMJ]

Heavy rain here too, but not melbourne

The electricity restoration is going to take a very long time ,cause every house, effected by floods, needs to be inspected. Oh and Halls Gap is being evacuated, due to an increase levels of water in a lake there, may cause some flooding there. Our weather is crazy, bush fires ,and hot, 1 year, cold, wet and floods the next. :arrow:  :?

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Here link to the story about Halls Gap

[2good2btrue]

I am down at the Mornington peninsula on holidays, and so far have hardly been to the beach......tonight, with all that rain, the humidity is so high and unbearable.  Everything is damp, from the walls to the floors, and all the beds mattresses carpet etc...

We are having a plaque of mosquitos that are actually transmitting the mexamatosis virus amongst rabbits and is killing off all of the family pet rabbits.  My sister has lost 3 rabbits to the virus.......I have one, and I'm watching him carefully.

This is not good for asthma sufferers.....the emergency departments at all the hospitals are inundated with severe attacks........

We just have to keep on praying...and HI and GOODAY to all my fellow Aussies..  xoxox

[RK]

I'm a Brisbane girl. We were not flooded thankfully. It has been chaos.   Most supermarket shelves are empty. No produce available as the Rocklea markets are under water. Pauls milk factory is on the river at sth Brisbane, so milk is unavailable unless Norco ships it up from northern NSW. People have been panic buying everything from bottled water to long life milk. Today was a sunny day here. Seems like the first one in months. What is most worrying is they are forcasting a cyclone to hit in 3 weeks time around Australia Day. And we can't take any more rain. I was here during the 74 floods as well, although a youngster, I still recall the smell and I am aware of what it will take to clean that mud out of people's houses. Our family will be doing our bit to help where we can with the clean up. The only good thing to come out of this is a great sense of community and strangers and neigbours performing random acts of kindness. People will pick themselves back up and start with the rebuilding of their lives again. We are Australians, we may get knocked down, but we don't stay down.

[Melzy777]

Thinking of those in Brazil too who have had devastating mudslides, and many, many loss of lives - they say hundreds - from the same kind of heavy rains.  :cry:

They are saying it is all caused by the La Nina climate pattern.
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[Elsa]

I'm a Brisbane girl. We were not flooded thankfully. It has been chaos.   Most supermarket shelves are empty. No produce available as the Rocklea markets are under water. Pauls milk factory is on the river at sth Brisbane, so milk is unavailable unless Norco ships it up from northern NSW. People have been panic buying everything from bottled water to long life milk. Today was a sunny day here. Seems like the first one in months. What is most worrying is they are forcasting a cyclone to hit in 3 weeks time around Australia Day. And we can't take any more rain. I was here during the 74 floods as well, although a youngster, I still recall the smell and I am aware of what it will take to clean that mud out of people's houses. Our family will be doing our bit to help where we can with the clean up. The only good thing to come out of this is a great sense of community and strangers and neigbours performing random acts of kindness. People will pick themselves back up and start with the rebuilding of their lives again. We are Australians, we may get knocked down, but we don't stay down.

Hi RK, glad to here you're not flooded.  I was on the QLD/NSW border at Christmas for a week and it rained continually - heavy driving rain - and the ocean was brown from the river.  Its not surprising it flooded like this afterweeks of that kind of rain .  If there is going to be more bad weather - perhaps a cyclone - I hope people are able to get out of the area.  


I think breakodawn is also from Brisbane. Hope you're okay too breakodawn!

[MJonmind]

I feel very sad for all those suffering with these floods and food disruptions. I'm from Canada, but I just wrote this thing on Scotland's First Minister's New Year's speech. He said they had the worst weather in 100 years.