[MR] Australian floods: Lochac news

[David Chessler]

== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Jan 11 2011 7:11 pm 
From: djheydt at kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) 


In article <slrniipqne.75j.zebeej at gmail.com>,
Zebee Johnstone  <zebeej at gmail.com> wrote:
>As a quick bit of information...
>
>Despite great chunks of Queensland[1] being underwater, reports are that all
>SCAers are fine.
>
>Some are "a bit damp" and some have had to evacuate, but no one hurt
>and so far no one seriously flooded out.
>
>To help out see http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html
>
>In some ways we are dead lucky the SCA is a very city-based
>organisation.  We don't have a group in Toowoomba or Rockhampton or
>Ipswich, and while Brisbane itself is definitely soggy, it's not
>catastrophically so as some towns are.
>
>Silfren
>
>[1] I heard it described as "more land area under water than Oklahoma
>and Texas combined" and "about the size of Poland and Germany
>combined".  But I think that was before Toowomba had 70mm (2.75") in
>of rain in an hour...

Oh, ouch.  Best of luck to Lochac, and may the sun soon come out
so you can dry out all your canvas.

-- 
Dorothea of Caer-Myrddin                         Dorothy J. Heydt
Mists/Mists/West                               Vallejo, California
PRO DEO ET REGE                         djheydt at gmail dot com
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== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Jan 12 2011 5:55 am 
From: mikea  


Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt at kithrup.com> wrote in <LEw3Iw.1nrA at kithrup.com>:
> In article <slrniipqne.75j.zebeej at gmail.com>,
> Zebee Johnstone  <zebeej at gmail.com> wrote:
>>As a quick bit of information...
>>
>>Despite great chunks of Queensland[1] being underwater, reports are that
all
>>SCAers are fine.
>>
>>Some are "a bit damp" and some have had to evacuate, but no one hurt
>>and so far no one seriously flooded out.
>>
>>To help out see http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html
>>
>>In some ways we are dead lucky the SCA is a very city-based
>>organisation.  We don't have a group in Toowoomba or Rockhampton or
>>Ipswich, and while Brisbane itself is definitely soggy, it's not
>>catastrophically so as some towns are.
>>
>>Silfren
>>
>>[1] I heard it described as "more land area under water than Oklahoma
>>and Texas combined" and "about the size of Poland and Germany
>>combined".  But I think that was before Toowomba had 70mm (2.75") in
>>of rain in an hour...
> 
> Oh, ouch.  Best of luck to Lochac, and may the sun soon come out
> so you can dry out all your canvas.

I saw some "footage" of the flood moving through Brisbane: water flowing
deep and *Very* fast -- at least 30 miles/hour, with cars floating in
it. There were reports of a 26 foot high wall of water moving through
Toowoomba, which just makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. 

Stay safe, _PLEASE_!

-- 
" ... a language is just an dialect with an army and a navy."
                  -- written by someone very perceptive, 
                    used by Paul Tomblin in a.s.r.




== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Jan 12 2011 9:58 am 
From: djheydt at kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) 


In article <bfo008-brk1.ln1 at mikea.ath.cx>, mikea  <mikea at mikea.ath.cx> wrote:

>" ... a language is just an dialect with an army and a navy."
>                  -- written by someone very perceptive, 
>                    used by Paul Tomblin in a.s.r.

First used in that form by Max Weinrich, in 1945, in Yiddish.  
"A shprakh iz a diyalekt mit an armey un a flot."  But used earlier
without the "and a navy" part: note that Austria and Switzerland
don't have seacoasts nor, hence, navies.



-- 
Dorothea of Caer-Myrddin                         Dorothy J. Heydt
Mists/Mists/West                               Vallejo, California
PRO DEO ET REGE                         djheydt at gmail dot com
Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress.
kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.