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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Now Council didn’t know COSLA agreed it should lose grant for Isle of Seil
Today’s (14th January 2011) Scotsman reveals Continue reading
Brisbane as it was in Summer 2010
Video: Thanks for the memory – Brisbane summer 2010
The words of the backing track by an Oz band are:
Down River, Temper Trap
Finally we have seen some things
Some awfully nice
Some dreadfully bad
But we will sing
Wash the blood off our knees
‘Cause our love breaks through rough seas our ship will sail
And I don’t understand how this world would work
‘Cause time will tell us nothing
I’ll take a chance on something
Feeling old, feelings this time take you
Down river, down river, down river, down
Walk these stairs, put the pieces back together
Go don’t stop, go don’t stop, go don’t stop now, go
Finally, we have seen some things
But bells in your hallways
Don’t move you in the right place
So we will sing, cast our hopes out to sea
Though our hearts break, through violent winds our ship will sail
And I don’t understand how this world would work
‘Cause time will tell us nothing
I’ll take a chance on something
Feeling old, feelings this time take you
Down river, down river, down river, down
Walk these stairs, put the pieces back together
Go don’t stop, go don’t stop, go don’t stop
Go don’t stop now, go…
Amanda Hadfield
FoI reveals Argyll and Bute Council knowingly published a substantial lie
Argyll and Bute Council’s Schools Estate Asset Strategy and Management Continue reading
Step off the edge confidently with the Mid Argyll Community Pool
Launched with a splash today, the new easy access steps installed at Mid Argyll Community Pool Continue reading
Report into Tornado near-collision over Galashiels raises operational questions
A report now published into an incident involving two RAF Tornados Continue reading
Dick Walsh wasnae tellt how bad Argyll’s budget would be – so didnae know
Council Leader Dick Walsh has defended himself – uninterrogated (they don’t like that) – Continue reading
Brisbane floods: 13th January 2011 afternoon report and photographs
There’s some release today with the weather good again and supposed to be like that in the city area for around a week.
The river is flowing fast and will stay that way for a few more days. Water still has to be released upstream to take pressure off the Wivenhoe Dam and to allow for the possibility of further rain.
In lower lying suburbs the drains back up and they get flooded that way. We mentioned the submerged Fairfield yesterday. Some suburbs like Bulimba, occupying the top 180 degrees of one of the Brisbane River’s long narrow meanders, have been amazingly lucky and have escaped major inundation.
In that suburb’s Oxford Street shopping drag today, power was back on, lattes were being served and enterprising people had set up little street stalls, several of which, in other areas further upstream, are now floating down the river. Bulimba is something of a hub at the moment, because it has power; and people emerging from being holed up are wandering around taking stock.
The spirit of Oz is obvious in the way people are trying to get back to normal – and in the way the Queensland vounteering website has been overwhelmed.
The city has been divided into 5 zones to project manage the recovery. Aerial surveys are taking place. Traffic lights are still out and people are not returning to work yet as the damage is still being assessed. The focus is on clearing the main arterial routes and getting the traffic lights working again. Then they can assess what happens next.
There are now 127,000 homes without power but it’s progressively being brought on across the state.
Everyone is off work tomorrow (14th January 2011) – and many will remains so indefinitely whilst the Central Business District (CBD) is cleaned up.
The thing to remember is that whilst what happened in Brisbane has impact – the remote communities have been suffering for 20 days. Some places are completely cut-off, with no power, no water, no food and people can’t get to them. It is going to be a long process to clean everything up
Report: John Hadfield
Multimedia presentation: Thanks for the memory – Brisbane summer 2010
Amanda Hadfield
Photographs accompanying this report are by John Hadfield, Amanda Hadfield and Will Pegg and show, from the top:
- Taking stock – Brisbane comes to terms as major debris speeds downstream. Photo Amanda Hadfield
- Hawthorne gets off lightly. Photo John Hadfield.
- Re-establishing normality – street stall in Bulimba. Photo John Hadfield
- Let’s get on with it. The spirit of Oz. Photo John Hadfield
- Street stalls scooped up in the flood drift downstream in the muddy Brisbane River off the south bank. Photo Will Pegg.
- Aerial survey. Photo John Hadfield.
- Low lying roads in the Central Business District CBD) go under. Photo Will Pegg.
End of Fatal Accident Inquiry into 2009 Loch Awe deaths highlights19th century charts
The Fatal Accident Inquiry held at Oban Sheriff Court Continue reading
Argyll and Bute Council: the pack of cards
” The jury all wrote down on their slates, `She doesn’t believe there’s an atom of meaning in it,’ Continue reading