How's Keith doing?

[Tony Alfrey]

Shawn Tayler wrote:
> I heard from Keith today:
> 
> /*
> 
> Oh Yes! Its now a disaster of gigantic proportions as 80% of Queensland 
> is now under water and a tragic loss of life as far a Toowoomba and the 
> Lockyer Valley is concerned.


That's what we see here on YouTube videos of newscasts in Oz, 
specifically these regions Keith mentions.


> Brisbane is fast flooding as I type in; mostly in the flood plain that 
> was revealed in the 1974 flood, places that flooded then are going
> under 
> first. However many of the properties
> are under new ownership and most have not done their homework and
> looked 
> to see the history of that district. I would not buy a home near a
> river 
> in Queensland as if
> it rains enough as it has done: the average rainfall has been 50ml/hr 
> some places 100 or 150ml/hr, over 24 hrs that is tons of water and we 
> have had it since last Friday.


Many of the houses shown in the videos were built on stilts.  Not a good 
sign.


> 
> If you remember we ar in the hillier western part of Brisbane, but 
> Toowoomba is about 800mtrs above sea level and that did not stop the 
> 'inland sunami' they had visit them.


Precisely what they called it on the videos.  Scary stuff.  Very fast 
moving water.


> 
> So yes we are dry, ground too soggy to mow, and it needs it, but not
> for 
> at least another week.
> 
> Thanks for thinking about us, Keith and Val


Stay safe and dry;  the governor of Queensland was basically saying 
don't hesitate to split if you think water is coming.