Thread: Floods - Stupid things journos say

What about unaffected residents ringing authorities and complaining about noisy choppers.
Selfish mongrels IMHO.

Really? Bloody hell.

My 3 personal favourites are,

They guy trying to lock in his hubs in flood water in Toowoomba. Buy a landy.

The blonde channel 9 reporter showing a photo from facebook of a crocodile, alluding to it being in Brisbane, untill being corected by the presenter and having to back pedal.

Grant Denyer talking to a "home owner" of a freshly cleared house about to be innundated and asking her "how do you feel?" only to have her quip "well we only rent this place, but we have been her 5 years, so I suppose it feels like home"

On the subject of the land that has flooded. Apart from the Goodna area, most of the land was basically cheap up untill 1988. Then with the Bi-Centennary a change began. Alot of people with the tall ships arrival noticed all this inner city riverside cheap land and bought it to redevelop starting with Bulimba. West End, Chelmer, Bulimba, Rosewood, Yeronga, Milton all became innercity trendy spots through redevelopment. This is what has now gone under, as it did before, plenty of times. These areas where normally working class suburbs and industrial areas.

I feel for the people who have lost things. I only hope the trendites that now inhabit these suburbs, learn that possesions are NOT all that important, and gain the sense of others and go back to being decent human beings.

I have witnessed the change of suburbs like bulimba go from being hard working class suburbs, but with curteous and genuine people, be overtaken by the look at me and what I have got self absorbed types. This should be a reality check. As I said I do not wish them ill as well as feeling genuinely bad for them. I just hope they evolve a sense of community and some manners from this debacle.

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My favourite is the media keep refering this as a "once on a 100 year event.....".

its happened twice in 37 years!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by pohm66

My favourite is the media keep refering this as a "once on a 100 year event.....".

its happened twice in 37 years!!!!!!!

You can have a 1 in 100 year event twice in 2 consecutive days. Still doesn't stop it being a 1 in 100 year event. That's statistics for you

However many people have the same (erroneous) belief.

However, given there have been 4 major floods in ~120 years, I wonder if this flood will be sufficient to change the long term stats...

I laughed so hard at the crocodile twitter thing on ch9.
Don't believe everything on the internet!
They haven't mentioned it since.

Queensalnd Flood toll @15?

They have so QUICKLY forgoten the 12 that died before SE-QLD flooded.

Thats right nothing else matters out side Brisvagas

Did you know that the unfortunate Queenslander are in flood, it seems that Julia Gillard had to stress that, in her media speech with Bligh, she used the word Queensland probably a thousand times (well many times anyway) in the short 5min of speech, yes Julia, we know it's in Queensland.

on the segment with Kochie on Sunrise, they atually had a reporter on the Brisbane river watching and filming what was floating down the river, ie Church pews, fridges etc. Must have been real newsworthy.A good paying gig for the reporter.