At least eight people have died in dreadful flooding in South East Queensland and Brisbane. The slow moving rain system moved south through NSW, inundating towns, and has arrived in Sydney and surrounds, where evacuations have begun.
Despite the pain, some are already exploiting the situation for their climate religion or their retirement plan. What was torrential rain is now a rain-bomb, and to stop floods they yell at us that the Climate Change Emergency must be our priority!
A few days ago the floods in Brisbane peaked at 3.85m. Apparently this was due to a surplus of coal fired power or a lack of wind turbines, or something like that. But this photo below, was taken in Brisbane 129 years ago, when there were almost no coal turbines anywhere in the world, and CO2 levels were ideal, yet floods reached 8.3m.
Not climate change: the flood waters rose to 8.3m.
And in the land of flood, fire and drought, it keeps happening. In 1974, floods in Brisbane reached 5.45m. In 2011 the waters were 4.46m deep. Obviously things have changed a bit: the Wivenhoe dam wasn’t there during the first two floods, and the hydrology of city streets is not like it used to be. Nonetheless the flood of 1893 was shocking.
An incredible 907mm or 35.7 inches of rain fell in a single 24 hour period. That was at Crohamhurst on the Sunshine Coast. If that isn’t a rain-bomb, what is?
Brisbane floods 1893, Poul C Poulsen
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The 1893 Black February Flood was not just one flood but three floods in a row in one month that caused 35 deaths. Another 190 were hospitalized.
The tide gauge in the city reached 8.35m, which was almost as high as the 8.43m rise recorded in floods in 1841. (Imagine how bad that flood was?)
Both the Victoria bridge and the Indooroopilly Railway bridge collapsed.
Trove. National Library of Australia.
Indigenous people, apparently knew of the risks of flooding and built their camps on higher ground. Probably, flooding has been going on since time began. It is said that they tried to warn the settlers not to build to close to the river but the settlers did it anyway.
Trove. National Library of Australia. | Click to enlarge or follow the link to read in full.
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Shocking footage though a few days ago:
Brisbane.
terrifying moment houseboat smashes into ferry terminal before capsizing forcing man to swim through dangerous waters to safety – as #floods continue to ravage #Queensland pic.twitter.com/YVSyCHQ2m8
— Hans Solo (@thandojo) February 28, 2022
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Lismore (which is definitely not Brisbane, sorry to mix themes):
#lismore #floods at roof level 😢 pic.twitter.com/wGOuxPMnnO
— Viking Trader (@VikingDayTrader) February 28, 2022
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Addendum: It’s a Cult:
The unvaccinated are not allowed to fill sandbags. Better to flood a home than let an unvaccinated person volunteer:
Volunteers need vaccination to sand-bag
On a lighter note, kangaroos do jump through houses.
Best wishes to everyone affected by flooding.