Queensland floods

[rustypup]

:/ bull sharks are known to have a high tolerance to fresh water and are regularly encountered in rivers all over the place, (check the linked coverage)... with the flooding, the restrictions imposed by the river are gone - why would the shark stick around if there's all that fresh ground to cover?..

sharks are naturally inquisitive, (a large part of the reason for their longevity as a species), so a new environment would be like going to disneyland...

i'd be more concerned about the snakes, spiders and drop bears...

[Siemens]

drop bears...

Kualas? Yes I see your concern.

[rustypup]

dropbears

[doo_much]

drop bears...

Kualas? Yes I see your concern.

You don't read a lot of Pratchett do you?

[rustypup]

good grief, queensland... - did you murder zeus' cat or something?
:/

CYCLONE YASI has been upgraded to Category Four and is likely to cross the coast earlier than expected at 10pm Wednesday evening, according to the latest update from the Bureau of Meteorology.

[KatrynKat]

as if the floods were not enough..... second cyclone for them this year.....

[hamin_aus]

Category 5 too, will bigger than Katrina, or so they say - due to hit the east coast at around midnight

[Tribble]

Good luck

[ryanrich]

Yoh, this thing looks pretty woes!



http://twitpic.com/3vr6pc

[hamin_aus]

Wasn't that bad - only 3 towns practically wiped off the map

I don't know which deity has it in for Queenslander's, but they had better start making some sacrifices to it ASAP

[Tribble]

Wow - what a waste of property and life

[ryanrich]

Yeah it's been one helluva tough time for QLD lately.

Surprisingly no reports of any deaths yet, which is great news! Property is properly buggered though...

[Tribble]

I am really surprised - with a category 5 storm one would have thought there would be. Don't get me wrong - I am glad there isn't.

[GreyWolf]

I don't know which deity has it in for Queenslander's, but they had better start making some sacrifices to it ASAP

The god of Internet freedom?
The goddess of sensible names?
The grand pubah of acceptable accents?

[rustypup]

Boom! Ha! Didn't see that one coming, did you?!"

:/

[Anakha56]

Erm hamin dont know if you noticed but ... Ever since you moved there Aus has been having problems, maybe they need to kick you back to S.A.?

Seriously though what the hell is happening to Aus? Global warming and cooling happening all in one?

*edit*

Possible answer...

http://www.helium.com/items/2083868-mag ... uperstorms

Magnetic polar shifts causing massive global superstorms

by Terrence Aym


NASA has been warning about it…scientific papers have been written about it…geologists have seen its traces in rock strata and ice core samples…

Now "it" is here: an unstoppable magnetic pole shift that has sped up and is causing life-threatening havoc with the world's weather.

Forget about global warming—man-made or natural—what drives planetary weather patterns is the climate and what drives the climate is the sun's magnetosphere and its electromagnetic interaction with a planet's own magnetic field.

When the field shifts, when it fluctuates, when it goes into flux and begins to become unstable anything can happen. And what normally happens is that all hell breaks loose.

Magnetic polar shifts have occurred many times in Earth's history. It's happening again now to every planet in the solar system including Earth.

The magnetic field drives weather to a significant degree and when that field starts migrating superstorms start erupting.

The superstorms have arrived

The first evidence we have that the dangerous superstorm cycle has started is the devastating series of storms that pounded the UK during late 2010.

On the heels of the lashing the British Isles sustained, monster storms began to pummel North America. The latest superstorm—as of this writing—is a monster over the U.S. that stretched across 2,000 miles affecting more than 150 million people.

Yet even as that storm wreaked havoc across the Western, Southern, Midwestern and Northeastern states, another superstorm broke out in the Pacific and closed in on Australia.

The southern continent had already dealt with the disaster of historic superstorm flooding from rains that dropped as much as several feet in a matter of hours. Tens of thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed. After the deluge bull sharks were spotted swimming between houses in what was once the quiet town of Goodna.

Shocked authorities now numbly concede that some of the water may never dissipate and have wearily resigned themselves to the possibility that region will now contain a small inland sea.

But then only a handful of weeks later another superstorm—the mega-monster cyclone Yasi—struck northeastern Australia. The damage it left in its wake is being called by rescue workers a war zone.

Has another 3 pages for reading...

[rustypup]

Ever since you moved there Aus has been having problems

ordinarily i'd point out that correlation does not equate to causation... however, in this case, i'd have to concur that there is something suspicious about the timing...

[Anakha56]

Ever since you moved there Aus has been having problems

ordinarily i'd point out that correlation does not equate to causation... however, in this case, i'd have to concur that there is something suspicious about the timing...

You notice how when hamin left KZN dropped in fondling crimes?

Updated my post with a article on super storms...

[hamin_aus]

Ever since you moved there Aus has been having problems

ordinarily i'd point out that correlation does not equate to causation... however, in this case, i'd have to concur that there is something suspicious about the timing...

Well as powerful as I may be, it's hard to affect the weather on the other side of a continent...
But on the other hand, there are now some very bad bush fires in my neck of the woods, 50 homes burned and counting less than 15 minutes drive from where I say
http://www.watoday.com.au/environment/w ... 1ai22.html

Waiting to hear all the jokes about friction causing heat

[PureFire]

http://www.helium.com/items/2083868-mag ... uperstorms

This makes me want to hide in a bunker in the mountains

[KALSTER]

Waiting to hear all the jokes about friction causing heat

This just in:

"Fumbling foreign fool formerly from Africa fans flourishing flames with furious fapping."