I saw Tony’s post today and that says he is okay and online, so the water isn’t too deep, but how about our other “upside down” friends. Everybody okay? The videos are devastating, I know they only show the worse and it is a big country, but water can be a very unforgiving liquid. 
Oh, they have been getting absolutely hammered down there, nasty stuff.
Ric, thanks for your good wishes.
But not to worry. I am over 1,200 miles from the floods.
My Mother and Sister live right in Brisbane where the floods are but so far they are dry and safe.
My Daughter, her Husband and my two Grandsons live in Lismore not that far from the Grafton area but so far they are OK as they are on quite high ground.
I was supposed to be going North at the end of next week to visit my Mum. The major highways are cut at present and until the waters subside I will have to postpone the long drive North for a few days.
Once again, thanks for your concern and good wishes.
Thanks for the reply. Dry land is a good thing. No matter how far you live from water, its always nice to know how high it can get. Coasties have a thing about waterlines in living rooms, never a good thing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_australia_floods
"Reuters via Yahoo News" said:
...the Brisbane River, a torrent that has flooded 12,000 homes in the city of 2 million and left 118,000 buildings without power.Officials warned of the real risk of further severe flooding in the coming weeks, with the wet season far from over and dams built to protect the city and surrounding regions at bursting point.
The floods have killed at least 18 people and 78 are missing, according to revised figures. Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley region, west of Brisbane, have been completely devastated, with whole towns unrecognizable.
But the water peaked at almost a meter below the level of deadly 1974 floods in Brisbane, with authorities saying a protective dam built after that tragedy had helped spare the city from the expected worst-case scenario.
Insurers face a huge bill, with some economists expecting $6 billion in damage from the floods that began last month in Queensland, a mining state, crippling the coking coal industry and destroying roads, railways and bridges as they flowed south.
One central bank economist has warned the floods could cut the gross domestic product (GDP) measure of national income by as much as 1 percent, a blow that would wipe A$13 billion from the economy and place at risk the government’s promise of a return to surplus in 2012-13.
An emotional Bligh said her state, reliant on farming and mining in rugged outback regions, would recover regardless of the cost and estimates that three quarters – an area bigger than France and Germany – was now officially a disaster zone.
Puts all our little niggles into perspective doesn’t it.
TonyWalsham said:
Ric, thanks for your good wishes.But not to worry. I am over 1,200 miles from the floods.
My Mother and Sister live right in Brisbane where the floods are but so far they are dry and safe.
My Daughter, her Husband and my two Grandsons live in Lismore not that far from the Grafton area but so far they are OK as they are on quite high ground.I was supposed to be going North at the end of next week to visit my Mum. The major highways are cut at present and until the waters subside I will have to postpone the long drive North for a few days.
Once again, thanks for your concern and good wishes.
Tony this is good news. I hope you all stay safe.
Geoff
That is good news.
Is the snow that the upper Midwest has had been melting or is downstream facing flooding in the spring?