Brisbane Flood 2011 by Stuart Smith

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This week we have a guest writer. Thanks Stuart!

Before I came to work in Gifu, I lived in Australia for a year. I spent 5 months in Perth, Western Australia and 7 months in Brisbane, Queensland.

I have many good friends in Brisbane. I lived there with two of my best friends and we had a great time. I worked as an English teacher there, so I got to meet many wonderful people from all over the world - and a lot of them stayed in Brisbane to start a new life. I still keep in touch with them now, and I think of them as my friends.

So it was a shock to me to see the city suffer terrible flooding last week. The River Brisbane, which runs through the centre of the city, burst it's banks and flooded large parts of the city. I used to spend lots of time walking along the river, in the Queensland State library and the Museum of Modern Art. All of those places were flooded, and lots of damage done to them.

It wasn't only Brisbane that was flooded. Large parts of Queensland were flooded after a huge, surprise storm hit the state. In the city Toowoomba, 2 hours west of Brisbane, the storm was so strong that 25cm of rain fell in just one hour.

Queensland is a beautiful place, with many great places to visit. It has great beaches for surfing, a lot of interesting museums, some great natural scenery and very friendly people. Queensland & Brisbane residents are strong people, and I'm sure they will do a good job of cleaning the area after the floods have gone. Hopefully Brisbane will just as vibrant, nice and cool as it was before the
floods.


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投稿日 2011-01-21 19:05
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I blame Sarah Palin.