[Koala77]

Originally Posted by tamiloo

I wonder if Anne can update us on Australia. My husband was on a two year mission for our church and he was in Brisbane and Toowoomba for most of that time.....prayers are you're fellow Auzzies...

I decided to start a new thread to answer the question about the floods, so as not to have a sad cloud hang over the wonders, but I hope it's OK that I not write too much about the floods today..... it's just too horific to think about with 12 dead and over a hundred missing, feared drowned.

I'm sorry Tammiloo but Toowoomba has been hit the worst with most of the dead (so far), coming from there. The city got hit by a flash flood with an inland tsunami of over 24 foot high, and people were just swept away.

Large parts of our 3rd largest city (Brisbane) is under water .... with only roof tops showing, and they're expected to disappear soon. The floods encompass 4 states at the moment with a 5th expected to be affected over the next few days.

I'm sorry .... but it's too distressing to talk about at the moment, but here's a news site with videos for you to look at. http://au.news.yahoo.com/local/qld/