The floods in Australia have been catastrophic and the images have been dramatic. Here are some of them.
Water swamps Brisbane:
And Queensland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-BEMTwh4hI
With images of dramatic rescues:
And flash floods to NE Australia:
It is being called a disaster of Biblical proportions:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.