Saturday, January 15, 2011

Flood in Australia

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Beside Brazil, Australia also faces a serious flood in their country where the flood starts in late November across the waterlogged state of Queensland. Australia's third largest city, Brisbane's rivers are rising forcing people to flee both suburbs and skycrapers. The flow of water is terrifying and powerful where it carried away cars and people.

Accroding to the news at wordpress.com,"The water was literally leaping, six or 10 feet into the air, through creeks and over bridges and into parks," Kowald, 53, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "There was nowhere to escape, even if there had been warnings. There was just a sea of water about a kilometer (a half-mile) wide." Other than that, the flood even crushed the office window, causes the car crashed into the tree and washed away the bridges and sidewalks.

We can see the situation of Australia through this video:




The floods have caused many people deaths and missing in Australia since late November. Helicopters and other emergency vehicles were moving into the flood area to rescues the victim. However, the death toll would likely to rise as the flood situation has getting worst. For more information on the development of flood in Australia, can refers to the articles about Queenlands Flood Disaster 2010/2011, it shows the situation at Australia from 30 November 2010- 5 January 2011.

More pictures of flood situation in Australia:

I think this time the flood incident happened in Australia really give an big impacts to Australia whereby not only the huge number of victim is scarified, it also caused big impact on the Australia's economy. Besides that, all the everyday activities and the basic needs also been affected since the road and transportation system are all dysfunctional due to the flood. However, I hope the flood incident will be better as time goes along. The victim's family must be positive and be brave facing this difficulties.


Natural Disaster in Brazil

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Brazilians’ are experiencing the worst fears when floods and mudslides happened in the mountains areas near the city of Rio de Janeiro. It was the country’s worst natural disaster on record. A large number of people had died in floods and mudslides. The following video has shown the situation in Brazil:




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Natural disaster really is an terrifying experience and it came without any warning. My feeling is that since we cannot control the natural disaster that are going to happen, we should treat everyday as our last day and must appreciate everything around us including our family, friends and others so that we will not leave this world with the feelings of regret. We should live a happy life everyday!