Just keep swimming
Jan. 12th, 2011 07:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeMy icon on DW (a street sign reading FLOODWAY almost completely immersed in floodwater) comes from the last big Queensland floods.
Right now, a vast proportion of Queensland, approximately equivalent to Texas, is underwater. This, unfortunately, includes my home town. Family and friends are okay so far, although my mother's town is completely cut off from the rest of the world (so nothing new there. *RIMSHOT*) but today they're predicting more rain, plus controlled release of water from the overflowing damns, plus a king tide.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand, because this is all about me, I'm torn between staying home to keep refreshing the news, or going to work and refreshing the news there. Some joker in IT decided that all the Brisbane news sites should be blocked for obscene content (insert joke about the Murdoch press here), but my supervisor said I could use her computer to check stuff when I needed.
I'm reminded of the Black Saturday bushfires a couple of years ago, where my line manager at Borders spent most of the afternoon listening to fire updates on the radio and trying to call her parents. Speaking of which, I've lost the link (since I was reading the news on my phone before I got up), but a town that was all but wiped out by said fires is now raising money for flood relief. Incidentally, donation options.
So, um, yeah! If anyone needs me, I'll be reloading this and being otherwise quite useless!
Right now, a vast proportion of Queensland, approximately equivalent to Texas, is underwater. This, unfortunately, includes my home town. Family and friends are okay so far, although my mother's town is completely cut off from the rest of the world (so nothing new there. *RIMSHOT*) but today they're predicting more rain, plus controlled release of water from the overflowing damns, plus a king tide.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand, because this is all about me, I'm torn between staying home to keep refreshing the news, or going to work and refreshing the news there. Some joker in IT decided that all the Brisbane news sites should be blocked for obscene content (insert joke about the Murdoch press here), but my supervisor said I could use her computer to check stuff when I needed.
I'm reminded of the Black Saturday bushfires a couple of years ago, where my line manager at Borders spent most of the afternoon listening to fire updates on the radio and trying to call her parents. Speaking of which, I've lost the link (since I was reading the news on my phone before I got up), but a town that was all but wiped out by said fires is now raising money for flood relief. Incidentally, donation options.
So, um, yeah! If anyone needs me, I'll be reloading this and being otherwise quite useless!
