It’s situations like the one being experienced by the Queenslanders *at the moment* where Social Media really comes into its own. Thanks to some committed netizens, presumably on dry land, there are number of sources where you can see and hear the Brisbane flood stories happening in real time.
Two real-time streams of Tweets regarding the floods:
- http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23bnefloods%20OR%20%23qldfloods%20OR%20%23brislantis
- http://www.google.com/search?q=bneflood+OR+qldflood+OR+bnefloods+OR+brislantis+site%3Atwitter.com&tbs=rltm:1
Queensland Police are very active on Facebook, even live streaming their press conference
TwitPic shows the photos that are being tweeted from the scenes
UStream allows folk to stream video and audio from the source:
- http://www.ustream.tv/channel/brisbane-river-flood
- http://www.ustream.tv/channel/south-east-qld-flood-scanner
Some traffic cameras are showing the progress of people around the city, and some floodwaters
UPDATE: 4:28 Qld Time
Here’s what happened last time:
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BOM Report of 1974 Floods: http://www.bom.gov.au/hydro/flood/qld/fld_reports/brisbane_jan1974.pdf
- Survey Office (better)
http://www.brisbanebusinessfinance.com/images/1974_Flood_map.pdf
Update 23:50 Qld Time
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There’s now an App for that: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/queensland-floods-2011/id412831365?mt=8
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Doomsday scenarios explained with pictures here
http://youtu.be/XKvYHUkuuLc
Update Wed 4:37pm Qld Time
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A ‘crowdsourced’ incident map
http://queenslandfloods.crowdmap.com/main -
Another Live Stream of video of the river – includes debris and, get this, jetskiiers!?
http://www.livestream.com/brisbanefloods
Update Thu 1:33am Qld Time
- The BOM graph of the river levels:
http://reg.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDQ65389/IDQ65389.540198.plt.shtml
BONWAG 