Atsehole of the year award goes to

[Rona]

"Sorry officer, some guy from down the road ran up and told me his house was going under and he needed to borrow a car to get his stuff out so I lent him mine. Must have been him driving it, don't know his name sorry."

Agreed you could either argue the legitimate route and probably get off with a warning ie matter of urgency due to a natural disaster or very easily create reasonable doubt.

[BigMuz]

Is it too late to nominate Tony Abbott for (political opportunist) Ftuckwit of the Year?

http://beginrant.wordpress.com/2011/...lood-disaster/

What did he actually say? I think alkl the back-patting has ignored the fact that the city flooded. Sure they are doing what looks to be a good job dealing with it but the planning that failed to keep Brisbane safe has to be scrutinised?

[9triton]

Sure they are doing what looks to be a good job dealing with it but the planning that failed to keep Brisbane safe has to be scrutinised?

has anyone seen a comparison of rainfall amounts from 1974 flood compared to jan 2011 rainfall amounts?

if can see it ,will tell a story as to how effective the dams were at preventing /mitigating floods.

i did a google but is so much stuff out there cant see a concise comparison

another thing is that as you get more urban sprawl all the hard standing ie roads , houses , factories ,rooves (roofs?), carparks etc increases /concentrates the run off -as it displaces soils/open ground to soak the water away

[Bob Saget]

Just because there is a flood you don't have a free pass to break the law, wtf are you on about towie...

[Bob Saget]

What did he actually say? I think alkl the back-patting has ignored the fact that the city flooded. Sure they are doing what looks to be a good job dealing with it but the planning that failed to keep Brisbane safe has to be scrutinised?

It rained for nearly a month solid. I'd love to see the rain fall comparisons, because most of QLD is flooded, not just Brisbane.

[Mr Ed]

Just because there is a flood you don't have a free pass to break the law, wtf are you on about towie...

There is a law that says youre responsible for any water that falls on a developed area of your property and are not suppose to discharge it onto a downhill neighbouring property. This means half of Queenslander's are now criminal scum, better get the old gallows going!!

FFS, extenuating circumstances much??

[9triton]

It rained for nearly a month solid. I'd love to see the rain fall comparisons, because most of QLD is flooded, not just Brisbane.

if you can find the 2011 figures :

here is the 1974 figures: fuck 1.3 m of rain in 5days...

Total rainfall for the 5 day period from 9 am Thursday 24 January to 9 am
Tuesday 29 January is shown as an isohyetal map in Fig 7. Totals in the
Brisbane metropolitan area ranged from 500 to 900 mm and exceeded 300 mm
over all but the extreme western parts of the Brisbane River catchment area.
Among the highest 5 day totals were 1318 mm at Mt Glorious, in the catchment
of the middle reaches of the Brisbane River, and 819 mm at New Beith, near the
head of Oxley Creek. The Brisbane Bureau, in the heart of the city, recorded 650
mm during this period.

from here : page 26 , 27
http://www.bom.gov.au/hydro/flood/ql...ne_jan1974.pdf

[Peuty]

Isn't the dude who sits in the van a rent-a-cop? ie, just some security guard type contractor?

No mate, they still use real cops here. Probably won't be too much longer before it's contracted out though.

[9triton]

heres month to date for queensland:

http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/rain/...cmonth&area=qd

looks like brisbane and around has had 600 to 800mm and out side of that was400-600mm

similiar to 1974 ?

[9triton]

here

[Mr Purple]

if you can find the 2011 figures :

here is the 1974 figures: fuck 1.3 m of rain in 5days...



from here : page 26 , 27
http://www.bom.gov.au/hydro/flood/ql...ne_jan1974.pdf

Total rainful in the Brisbane river catchment was apparently double that of 1974 in 2011.

We were partly saved by the fact that in 1974 it fell pretty much directly on Brisbane - the creek levels were a lot lower in 2011 as a result.

[Sketchy]

Fuck me, you were always well aware that a metric fuckload of rain was coming down but 800mm in 2 weeks? Jebus.

[ALLMTR]

All of you civilians are c*nts for looting peoples shit during this disaster. . .

Please remember some cops are pulling dead 4yo's out of drains.

[nastysven]

i dont think they are having a go at the cop himself, maybe the dick that told him to set up there though.

[Norminator]

All of you cops are c*nts for looting peoples wallets during this disaster. . .

wat?