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HOW ABOUT THIS WEATHER?
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Cocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
Cocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
So my state is currently underwater. This ain't one of your vagina American states you can drive across in 40 minutes, no, Queensland is three times the size of Texas.
last year was a break to a 15 year drought, and this year the water's come back with a vengeance.
In Queensland, when it rains it pours... for 3 straight months.
About a month ago, the sky outside my work looked like this
then chunks of ice the size of a fist fell from the sky and did terrible things to my new car. Caused about $10,000 worth of damage (for which I'm thankfully insured).
But the kicker is that all these months of solid rain was just leading up to yesterday and today.
That rainfall radar has looked the same for about 48 hours. That image represents about 300 miles of coast. Yesterday, the inland city of Toowoomba was flash flooded when the drinking water dam burst its banks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY
8 people so far are confirmed dead and another 50 or so missing after being swept away.
Today the flood is finally hitting Brisbane, Queensland's capital and my home, which is hilariously enough built around a river. People in the downtown business district have all been evacuated, along with a bunch of suburbs around the river, tons of workplaces are sending people home and the state emergency service has given out hundreds of thousands of sandbags in the last five hours.
Luckily, my house is halfway up a mountain so we'll be cool, but close friends are packing up their valuables and leaving their houses with crossed fingers.
So I guess what kind of crazy weather have you lived though? Ever been near a tornado? a monsoon? rain of frogs?
WEATHER
last year was a break to a 15 year drought, and this year the water's come back with a vengeance.
In Queensland, when it rains it pours... for 3 straight months.
About a month ago, the sky outside my work looked like this
then chunks of ice the size of a fist fell from the sky and did terrible things to my new car. Caused about $10,000 worth of damage (for which I'm thankfully insured).
But the kicker is that all these months of solid rain was just leading up to yesterday and today.
That rainfall radar has looked the same for about 48 hours. That image represents about 300 miles of coast. Yesterday, the inland city of Toowoomba was flash flooded when the drinking water dam burst its banks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY
8 people so far are confirmed dead and another 50 or so missing after being swept away.
Today the flood is finally hitting Brisbane, Queensland's capital and my home, which is hilariously enough built around a river. People in the downtown business district have all been evacuated, along with a bunch of suburbs around the river, tons of workplaces are sending people home and the state emergency service has given out hundreds of thousands of sandbags in the last five hours.
Luckily, my house is halfway up a mountain so we'll be cool, but close friends are packing up their valuables and leaving their houses with crossed fingers.
So I guess what kind of crazy weather have you lived though? Ever been near a tornado? a monsoon? rain of frogs?
WEATHER
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PLEASE STAY THAT WAY
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godspeed you brave souls
shit's falling from the sky
end times etc.
Steam
a few times in the last month it's almost been worth MORE than the US dollar
yes but that is a completely different state
though Victoria is getting a bit of rain too
WA remains blessedly cloudless
HOT AS FUCK
but cloudless
You fail to realize that this is just the method the great white sharks are using to invade. Brushfires are the least of their worries.
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will he have to drill his penis into the earth's core and explode to jumpstart it?
same with canada!
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
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but image a giant, black golfball with wheels.
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maybe
to be fair a part of WA is always on fire at any given time
what the
Steam
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I mean, I don't actually remember it apart from a couple of flashes, as I was verr verr drunnnk, but the amount of water on the floor of my room the next morning (and in my clothes) would suggest it belted it down and I got caught in it.
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feel my pain, australia
There are layers of meaning in this picture.
which is still pretty
LOOK AT ME I AM GOING OUTSIDE WITHOUT MY UMBRELLA WHOOOOOOOAAAAAAA
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
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All Americans meet me in the room of Delicious Apple Pie Deliberation at 1:00pm.
According to Mythbusters, that should improve your mileage.
Edit: Oh, well look at that...