Queensland

[Kea]

strange that the floods in Aus were on nearly every front page, whilst the ones in brazil never got a mention?

Not sure what papers you were looking at but I did a little survey and although Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley were flooded on Monday morning (Oz time) there was no report in any main paper in the UK until Wednesday in The Times the rest had nothing until Thursday and in all the main focus was not the flash flood further inland that killed people but the gradual arrival of flood water in Brisbane.

Brisbane people were able to take their most treasured possessions and leave. People in the Lockyer Valley had less than a minute to save themselves. That more people weren't killed is a miracle. If my brother hadn't stayed home he would have lost his wife as she was too small to struggle against the current to get a ladder on to the roof. He wasn't supposed to be at home that day.

[Kea]