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Originally Posted by troypiggo
We just got power back on here last night. I can't believe what I'm reading here.
Have the people here proposing a levee ever been to Brisbane, been up and down the river? If so, were your eyes opened?
A throwaway response to "what is your proposal then?" like "not my area of expertise, I'd leave that up to the civil engineers" is not acceptable by a long way.
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Agreed, totally, people who aren't here and are simply looking to shove a knife into a pollie should not comment. The NBN is something that people out here have been crying out for for ages. To say that it's a pink elephant and that we should be spending the money on construction projects is taking an extremely narrow point of view.
The people here in Chinchilla have been flooded twice in the last month, they are coping well, but it must be terrible for them. I'm lucky in that I'm staying in a motel and am merely inconvenienced in that I can't get home or to work.
As I suggested before, why don't you help. Some of you must have some spare cash laying about, why don't you make a contribution to the people that have been affected by the flooding.
I really don't understand the people on this forum who are just looking for a chance to stick the knife in, particularly at a time when people are losing everything that they own, some their lives. The people of Brisbane had a little warning and could have probably moved their most valuable possessions, but they couldn't have moved all their stuff, or their house. The people in the Lockyer valley and Toowoomba etc had no warning. The people here had to evacuate on Monday night in the middle of a raging storm.
Have some sympathy and empathy guys, this is not the time for the blame game, it's a time for giving and helping.
Stuart