John, Flooding is tough to deal with. Stay safe! So many people get into trouble trying to drive their SUV's thru the water. It gets deep really quickly. Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:23 AM, John Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Wrong surname Brian, but thanks for the concern anyway! I have not heard > from Tanya, but here we are 30 metres above the river level, so it would > need a flood of biblical proportions to get us in trouble. Some local > flooding in our suburb, a few inches to a couple of feet making travel more > difficult. Odd to see, on my morning walk, boats being washed downstream > with not only no crew on board, but still firmly attached to their pontoon! > > <http://www.members.iinet.net.au/[email protected]/Flood_1.jpg> > Pentax *istD, SMC Pentax DA 50-200 F4-5.6 ED, 1/750 @ f8, 200ASA > > So far no bodies floating past, fortunately, but there are believed to be up > to 75 people missing, some of them(at least 10) killed in Toowoomba. > Ex-PDMLer Ryan Lee came to our place today, he is fine but his suburb has > similar problems. He's still toting a Canon which, I noted, must weigh > nearly as much as he does! Good pics, though. > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Brian Walters > Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2011 5:49 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Queensland Floods > > I don't know if those overseas are aware of the scale of flooding in > Queensland but things are fairly dire there. Brisbane may see the largest > flood in its history early on Thursday morning, local time. > > http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/11/3110839.htm > > As far as I know John Celio and Tanya Love are the only PDMLers in Qld - > hopefully they are OK but let us know John and Tanya. > > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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