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Who’s been in a flood?
I’m in Queensland Australia & again we are flooded in already with the worse yet to come but we are far better off than some. The thing is with panic buying, some people buy up what they can but end up throwing a lot of it away that someone else who did without could have used, very annoying & unethical to say the least.
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Kate Blake 50+
They said 30 properties have been destroyed, one has shifted to the middle of the road and another one they cannot locate at all! The infra structure is gone completely - water, power, sewage, roads. Just completely destroyed. Some roads are washed away another with a hole two metres deep and 100 metres long.
All those people will be sleepless tonight worried if it's their property gone completely. Do hope they call me in soon.
Forgot to mention that one of the politicians doing the rounds of the worst hit areas is saying very loudly that he wants the govt. to help relocate these residents. Some of the roads and bridges washed away had only been completed in December after the 2011 flooding. He says they can't keep rebuilding on the flood plains, we must move these people. Harsh for those concerned but realistic considering the circumstances.
Mary M. 100+
But, relocation is probably the best solution, I can't imagine the gov't rebuilding a city over and over again when there are other alternatives.
What a dilemna!!!
Mathew Naismith 10+
This is a very good point in continuously building in flood areas, I look around Maryborough & Hervey Bat & I can see where the councils have allowed estates to be built in areas that are swampy &/or flood prone, is it the same in Bundy Kate? I don’t know how they get away with it but they do.
Maryborough had a flood I think in 1886 that devastated the original settlement area so they built up higher but of course this didn’t alleviate the problem all together but did it helped immensely. We know in the wet season we could be in flood so anything that is in these flood prone areas should take the initiative & prepare themselves for flood even if it doesn’t flood but to allow buildings to be built in known flood areas is reckless. The authorities should monitor these rising waters & inform these people who live & work in these flood prone areas that there is a likely hood of a flood coming their way but anyone who’s situated in flood areas should also show initiative as well, we do!!!
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Kate Blake 50+
They know that their infrastructure will take at least 3-5 months to put into place. And then of course the discussion about whether it will happen there. They say everything is just smashed. So these people will be without homes for months to come ....