When it comes to big events like the recent floods in Queensland and Victoria, it’s information overload. The news organisation love it, broadcasting incessantly and devoting great slabs of print to it. I don’t want to add to that, so this post is just a scrapbook of, for me, the most striking images. These are all aerial photographs from Nearmap, if you click, you’ll go to the ‘wet’ image on nearmap. Incredible stuff.
1. Disappearing house
2. Having a cow of a day
3. There’s a caravan in our tree
4. Rearranging the riverside
5. Backyard salvage by canoe
6. Where did you park the digger?
…and that’s not all
More amazing sights are being found every day by nearmap forum members.
Saturday morning in The Age newspaper, endless coverage of the floods. A large article on how much of the lessons of the 1974 Brisbane flood had been forgotten and development development development taken place all along the riverbank. Directly below the article, a big advertisement for lifestyle waterfront developments here in Melbourne. She’ll be right mate…