[Coco] OT: flooding in Queensland

[Bob Devries]

Gene said:

> So yes Bob & anyone else waking around upside down, do stay HIGH & dry.

For anyone that's interested, here's a link to a video clip:

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-au&brand=ninemsn&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:f70fa9e2-655a-4c26-8391-211811c6302d&showPlaylist=true&from=news&fg=news^home

This city is approximately 85 km east from where I live.
Regards, Bob Devries

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gene heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] OT: flooding in Queensland


> On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 04:13:26 pm Wayne Campbell did opine:
>
>> I am glad to hear you are above water, Bob. :) I hope the flooding will
>> end soon, so things can return to some semblance of normal.
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>
> Yes, I was just reading a story on cnn where a 20 foot wall of water came
> down a valley and got a few people. How very sad.
>
> Reminds me a bit of June 9th, 1972 when a true canyon cleaner came down
> Rapid Canyon into Rapid City S.D., USA.  It got 272 people that evening.
> Many were never found.  It came within 6 feet of my parents front door!  I
> looked the list over when it had been collated & published, and I actually
> knew around 100 of them, including what was then considered the best
> neurosurgeon in the country and a personal friend of mine, Dr. Roy 
> Crowder.
> His house was a nice 2 story on a good sized cement slab, about a mile up
> in the canyon.  We found a piece of the slab, wedged into a break in the
> canyon wall about 1/4 mile downstream of where it had been poured 10 years
> before.  Nothing else was found, no trace of the Caddie in the garage was
> ever found either.  He was home, and might have heard the roar 30 seconds
> before it hit.  No one in that canyon at the time had a chance.  That was
> biblical.  One stock tank about 15 miles upstream that leaked and was 
> known
> to be dry that afternoon, still had, despite its leakage, 22" of water in
> it shortly after noon the next day when the rancher checked it.
>
> That was pretty local though, this AU situation covers several of our
> states!  So you have at least 10,000 times as much water there.
>
> So yes Bob & anyone else waking around upside down, do stay HIGH & dry.
>
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