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  1. 13th January 2011, 08:42 PM #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by isuzurover View Post
    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...
    Hmmm - now how many hundreds of years of statistics do we have on the Brisbane River

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    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
    Was thinking along them lines today - Rockhampton, Gympie lots of other places seem to have miraculously disappeared.


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    Let's hope that the floods will continue for a few weeks or a couple of blokes get stuck somewhere. That way they'll be able to treat us like dunderheads and bore us to tears like they did with Beaconsfield and then the fires.

    "What emotions are you feeling?" journalism is a pile of excrement. Who do they think is interested?
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    I like that the images of the cars getting bumped and launched by the water in the toowoomba floods is still being used to promote the brisbane river floods.

    my favorite... From the most of the TV newsomercial hosts.

    Of course those of you who cant see this on the TV you can goto our website blahhdy blah.blurg. OR......

    yes because computers dont need electricity or power or phone lines or of course the requirement of the person who cant see this on the TV to know what your website is.
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    that koshie bloke to a disaster is like a rat up a drain pipe, if we are going to have shallow personalities on tv at least make em female and blond
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bushie View Post
    Hmmm - now how many hundreds of years of statistics do we have on the Brisbane River
    Well at least 170 years I would imagine. I am no hydrologist, however I believe there are ways of obtaining information of previous floods from other records - e.g. coral cores (but that won't give height data).

    I don't know for sure that the 4 floods in the last ~120 years were all classified as 1 in 100 year floods??? Some may have been 1 in 50 or 1 in 200???
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    In other less well organised parts of the world, hundreds die in floods:

    More than 250 dead amid Brazil floods - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Philippine floods, landslides kill dozens - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Deadly flooding worsens in Rio - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    18 dead in Sri Lankan floods - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Easier to ignore when they aren't in front of your journalistic nose.
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    Quote Originally Posted by weeds View Post
    good thing i don't watch TV........unless there is a kookaburra or sherrin involved

    i have watched about an hour of news in the last four days...i'm betting you are seeing the same images over and over again

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    unfortunately its a good representation of the general publics mind set watching media watch is a great leveler of commerical press.

    I mostly watched ABC 20 for news and spoke to people on the ground in Toowoomba who have more than a pea brain...
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    What hacks me about the floods is that the rest of the world seems forgotten. Was there much reporting about the floods in Tasmania? How about Victoria and NSW?
    I get really p*sssed off because 7,9,10 and ABC only report what is happening in QLD bugger the rest of the country!
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    LMAO,Ok Vlad time for a little more reporter/news bashing. Now i hear you all complaining about how the eastern states media treats the viewers like idiots, wellll i bet you can't top our lot here in Perth. They actually brought on a highly trained Hydrologist who was asked and i quote "So what's going on in Qld?" To which she replied, and i'm serious " Flooding" But to further elaborate she then went on to explain what flooding actually was ROTFL. So for those who may not know, "flooding is when too much rain falls in a short period of time and the run off can not be handled by the areas river system"
    Took us 10 mins to stop laughing at work and gave us great material for the rest of the day.
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