floods due to constant rain

Well last summer in Australia and in my State of Queensland in particular, there were many floods which just kept happening over and over again during the wet season. There was lots of damage, some of which you would have heard about. I just heard on the radio this morning that they are predicting more than average rainfall again this coming summer but not as bad as last year. at least this time, we have had a dry end to winter and it has been a dry start to spring so far. This will help to hold off some of the flooding as dams will be lower than last year, but there still will be some flooding in some places. There always is during the wet season. Most of the time though, there is more warning than last year and they hit areas with less population.

Anny Recently we had one such, the road infront of our home had 3' high water, it rained nonstop for 3 days, the drains on the sides of road are blocked by garbage and plastic bags..

Sweety In my discussion http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2575809.aspx?p=0 I have said.. My house is about 800 meters away from river Mahanadi, downstream; the longest earth dam of Asia, HIRAKUD DAM is 3 kilometers upstream. It is raining continuously since last 30 hours; as the water reservoir was full and crossed safety level, 22 gates were opened to release water to the river, there is heavy flood; water has entered some low-level areas, people having houses there have been warned and advised to vacate, more rain is expected. People have taken shelter in schools, temples, where relief camps are opened; free food etc will be given soon. I have given shelter to 3 families in one of my houses that were vacant; they will go back when it is safe. Thanks for sharing Best of luck. Professor Thanks for sharing Best of luck. Professor

Our place is somewhat similar with your place. A little rain and there's flood because drainage systems are clogged. Only earlier part of this month, we suffered from big flood as two tropical storms hit our place. Thanks goodness we're in higher grounds but some are not lucky. Their place was totally submersed in water and only the house's roofing can be seen. We have two days of total blackout and no signals for cellphones and internet.

When i was kid there was almost every time flood in my area as that time rods were not made with proper care. I used to go to the highway to have my shoes in while going to school. Now the problem is solve but still some water logging is there. I even seen some places around in my are as in kid only when water flooded in to houses of many people. Since we had so calle water pump that take water from ground we don't have to worry about it and people had use to the flood so they didn't think more of it. Electricity is always the problem whether folood is or not So no need of describing about it. Govenrment just take tax and didn't build the road and solve the problem of water logging and to get more worst people in the area they throw any material into the road or in the place where water fllows that jam the flow of water and more logging of water.

The other night we got flood too. We are sleeping but one of my brother is awake that's why our house is not so full with flood. My father prepared some wooden rectangle shape to put it in our doors so that the flood waters won't enter our house. One thing we didn't noticed are the holes connected to our bathroom that makes the flood water enter our house. Our electricity here is fine because the rain is not so heavy but our fence was destroyed by the flood.