Hi all,

I don't know if anyone gets any international news but Queensland in Australia has been copping some pretty bad and disasterous flooding.  It has been happening for a week now and it has affected places around Bundaberg (where my parents live and work, thankfully they are ok and so is there property but many others were so unlucky) and places around there last week.  Yesterday hit us fairly full on but we haven't flooded yet.  My aunt was flooded in (25 minutes away) where she lives but thankfully it was due to the low lying roads going under and she was safe in her home, she just couldn't get anywhere due to the roads... 10 people confirmed dead and another 60+ missing...

Scary part is it seems the worst is yet to come and they are predicting it is going to be worse than the disasterous 1974 floods.  Toowoomba was hit by an inland tsunami yesterday afternoon where a wall of water hit the town without warning and created a mass of devistation.  http://au.news......-isolated/

They are evacuating people and some areas are evacuating pets too.  Made me think about the fact that I don't think I could leave Koda.  They are having to chopper people out on Black Hawks.  I have played it over in my mind if I had to evacuate there is no way I would leave Koda and they would have to accept him because he has a disability and there is no way he would survive flood water as he can't swim being a tripawd...  Thank goodness though as I highly doubt that we will be hit with flood waters due to our location.  I was jokinbg to my husband that I would go as far as saying I was blind and he was my guide dog (he is a yellow lab). I know it is not good to joke but there is no way I could leave him and feel for those people who have had to leave their animals.  News today even showed people sitting on their roof tops waiting to be rescued with their dogs sitting with them!!!  People are evacuating with dogs under their arms and cats in cages, it is heart breaking as it is all within a 2 hour radius of us and as close as 25 minutes up the road!!! 

We are on a peninsula so the water that hits us makes its way to the ocean pretty quick and we are only connected with a bit of land so it would be a shock if much water travelled across that to us. Oh and as if we needed more problems we are at threat tomorrow and Thursday for when a King tide hits so they are expecting that to create and add to the havoc!

The main part of Brisbane (capital of QLD) is under major threat as all of the rain coming from Toowoomba and other areas East is making its way down and they think the Brisbane river will have its highest peak ever which will affect thousands of homes People were sent home from work palces in the CBD in Brisbane today and they are on high alert all night!!!!  They think tomorrow and Thursday are going to be worse for Brisbane and Ipswich residents.  They are cutting power to the major city tomorrow morning... Scary stuff!!!!

http://www.cour.....il.com.au/

Well I just wanted to post and ask you all to keep Queenslanders in your thoughts and prayers.  This has been going on for a week now and is getting depressing.  People just want to see sunshine!!!  We have been in drought for approx the last 10 years so I guess the drought is officially broken!!!  If the media and experts are over reacting then at least we are prepared for the worst...

I'll keep everyone posted...

Storm and Koda