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Monday, January 10, 2011 11:59:06 PM
‘Incredibly harrowing circumstances’: QLD floods .. [now also moving to northern NSW]
by Amber Jamieson Tuesday, 11 January 2011
A torrent of water swept through Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley yesterday afternoon, devastating the region with flash flooding
and leaving eight people confirmed dead (another five bodies have apparently been found, but reports are unconfirmed) and 72
missing. Brisbane, Ipswich and surrounding areas are preparing for flood waters. Crikey will be updating this story as it unfolds.
Update: 3:15 pm
A look at the latest photos from Twitter on the floods.
Photos from Brisbane, posted by @nathan_m. Riverwalk: ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O5RsQF3-IM&feature=player_embedded
It is long, with more video, and multi photos .. http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/11/inland-instant-tsunami-devastates-southern-qld/
GPs in Toowoomba are the latest to be hit by the Queensland flooding disaster as torrents of water swept through the city yesterday.
by Gemma Collins
Many practices across the area remained shut today as the Toowoomba’s city centre was
closed off and the search for those 72 people still missing in the area, west of Brisbane, continues.
Dr David Van Gend who runs the Mackenzie House Family Medical Centre opened this morning to see
emergency patients, but says he is battling with no telephone line or internet and is concerned for his patients.
He told 6minutes he watched the “angry and disturbing scene” as raging waters swept past his surgery yesterday afternoon.
“The window of the furniture store had been smashed so there were tables, sofas, and cars being carried by the flood down the café precinct,” he said.
“I walked up the road to see where the main torrent had hit and it had come up so strongly. One man had to be
rescued from a tree and I later heard a car had been washed away with a mother and daughter in it who drowned.
“It is a very depressing and bewildering shambles. I still do not know if my patients were able to get home yesterday.
“Our surgery is 100 years old, but we had never seen anything like this before.”
At least eight people are believed to be dead
http://www.6minutes.com.au/articles/z1/view.asp?id=526822
More on the Australian flood here .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58276863&txt2find=flood and following.
by Amber Jamieson Tuesday, 11 January 2011
A torrent of water swept through Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley yesterday afternoon, devastating the region with flash flooding
and leaving eight people confirmed dead (another five bodies have apparently been found, but reports are unconfirmed) and 72
missing. Brisbane, Ipswich and surrounding areas are preparing for flood waters. Crikey will be updating this story as it unfolds.
Update: 3:15 pm
A look at the latest photos from Twitter on the floods.
Photos from Brisbane, posted by @nathan_m. Riverwalk: ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O5RsQF3-IM&feature=player_embedded
It is long, with more video, and multi photos .. http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/11/inland-instant-tsunami-devastates-southern-qld/
GPs in Toowoomba are the latest to be hit by the Queensland flooding disaster as torrents of water swept through the city yesterday.
by Gemma Collins
Many practices across the area remained shut today as the Toowoomba’s city centre was
closed off and the search for those 72 people still missing in the area, west of Brisbane, continues.
Dr David Van Gend who runs the Mackenzie House Family Medical Centre opened this morning to see
emergency patients, but says he is battling with no telephone line or internet and is concerned for his patients.
He told 6minutes he watched the “angry and disturbing scene” as raging waters swept past his surgery yesterday afternoon.
“The window of the furniture store had been smashed so there were tables, sofas, and cars being carried by the flood down the café precinct,” he said.
“I walked up the road to see where the main torrent had hit and it had come up so strongly. One man had to be
rescued from a tree and I later heard a car had been washed away with a mother and daughter in it who drowned.
“It is a very depressing and bewildering shambles. I still do not know if my patients were able to get home yesterday.
“Our surgery is 100 years old, but we had never seen anything like this before.”
At least eight people are believed to be dead
http://www.6minutes.com.au/articles/z1/view.asp?id=526822
More on the Australian flood here .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58276863&txt2find=flood and following.
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