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Are you Aussies OK?
#243411 - 01/11/11 05:48 PM
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| DMala |
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Sleep is overrated
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Re: Are you Aussies OK?
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#243419 - 01/11/11 07:07 PM
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Holy cow... We had some unusually high water around here last spring, but nothing like that. That's... biblical. Scary. 
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Queen High Slapper
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Re: Are you Aussies OK?
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#243470 - 01/12/11 08:42 AM
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Wondering if Brad got belted in Qld. 75% of the state is under water. It's going to take years to recover from this. Poor bastards. For flood water to reach the Brisbane CBD is unheard of. The waters in and around the city centre are due to peak at about 4am tomorrow morning at about 5.5 metres.
Worst natural disaster in Queensland's history.
Still, I'd never leave this country.
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded Lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens,
Is running in your veins;
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies -
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains,
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me.
The tragic ring-barked forests
Stark white beneath the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
An orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the crimson soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart around us
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold;
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown Country
My homing thoughts will fly.
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Re: Are you Aussies OK?
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#243474 - 01/12/11 10:40 AM
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> Wondering if Brad got belted in Qld. 75% of the state is under water. It's going to
> take years to recover from this. Poor bastards. For flood water to reach the Brisbane
> CBD is unheard of. The waters in and around the city centre are due to peak at about
> 4am tomorrow morning at about 5.5 metres.
Moose is a Brisbane boy, too, isn't he? Hope he wasn't caught in it. I'm still splitting my time Sydney/Melbourne, so I'm not affected.
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| AeroCityMayor |
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Entity formerly known as alien_mame
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Re: Are you Aussies OK?
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#243519 - 01/12/11 08:28 PM
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Glad ya still got ya nose above water y'old tart!
Cheers,
Ralph.
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| AeroCityMayor |
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Re: Are you Aussies OK?
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#243520 - 01/12/11 08:28 PM
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Glad ya still got ya nose above water y'old tart!
Cheers,
Ralph.
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Re: Are you Aussies OK?
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#243649 - 01/14/11 12:47 PM
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