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GoodWitch58

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Oct 10, 2005
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Everyone, please keep my friend Jan and her husband John and their family in your thoughts...they live in Queensland Australia and are being affected by the intense floods there...her email several days ago spoke of needing helicopters to get her children and her Mom to high ground...one of her children was trying to get to her house to celebrate Christmas and he and his wife and two small children were stranded in their car on Christmas Eve night--the last I heard she was heading out in a helicopter to rescue her daughter who had gone to rescue some neighbors.
She says this is the worst flooding they have had in years and it has already destroyed their crops for this year, but so far only one injury: one of her grandsons was hurt and had to be medivaced to hospital..not life threatening, but serious.
they are a tough family and accustomed to difficult events on their station, but this is very bad.
Thanks for sending positive thoughts and prayers their way.
 

Miss Critter

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Mar 8, 2008
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Goodness, that's truly terrifying! I will send prayers, and we will do this collectively this evening.
 

scooterbug44

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May 8, 2007
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And still nothing in the news about it! IMO massive flooding like this IS news.

Well, yahoo thinks it's news even if MSNBC doesn't.
 
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Rita

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Dec 1, 2004
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It was being discussed on NPR when I was driving to work this morn.

CSM has a decent article today:

... "It hasn?t quite been 40 days and 40 nights of rain, but the Australia flooding has already been described as a ?disaster of biblical proportions,? slashing coal exports, ruining crops, and stranding 75,000 people in a coastal town-turned-island.

The flooding in northeastern Queensland covers an area the size of France and Germany combined, with at least 22 towns cut off or flooded. Authorities are saying that more than 200,000 people are affected, according to the Associated Press. ...."


Australia flooding of 'biblical proportions' slashes coal, agriculture exports - CSMonitor.com



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beachgirl66

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Sep 20, 2010
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I will definitely be praying for her and her family, and the others affected by all of the flooding.
 
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