Queensland...

Unless you've been living under a rock of late, you'll know that a third of Queensland is currently underwater. Three-quarters of the state - which is more than double the size of Texas - has been declared a disaster zone. The situation is completely devastating - to date, nine people have died, and nearly sixty are missing. The death toll is likely to rise much higher once the flood waters recede and the authorities can actually get in to search the houses.

Parts of Brisbane are being evacuated, and Toowoomba was inundated yesterday by what's been described as an inland tsunami.

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Thousands and thousands of people have been effected, and the clean up will no doubt take months. You can donate to the Premier's Flood Relief Appeal here. Please donate what you can...

K xx

Further B-A-N-A-N-A-S

Okay, so that storm we had the other night? The one that trapped me in my house meaning I couldn't go to the gym? (Yeah, and I was ALL kinds of broken up about THAT!) It gave us a whopping 87.0mm of rain. EIGHTY SEVEN MILLIMETRES IN ONE DAY... And 86.6mm of that was after 5.30pm... The creek down the street from me was a couple of millimetres away from bursting its banks, which would have been interesting.

We're nowhere near as badly off as Wagga Wagga, where the Murrumbidgee River is at 9.6 METRES and rising, but it's been a pretty intense start to summer, that's for sure. Here's hoping the rain clears up soon, or I really WILL be investing in a pair of gumboots!

K xx