Will the UK Government aid the Australians with their flooding?

Well why not? They give money to far less deserving cause's around the world. I say take notice of POE people David Cameron and help Australia now!

So c'mon David Cameron, register as a new member with POE and let us hear it here in the forum first hand!!

It would be an nice gesture...and I think if the weather keeps up around the world we need some kind of relief help in general going on world wide. I just called back east as I read an tornado went through he next town over where hubby's family in Missouri lives and killed an older lady in Rolla, Mo. When I talked to Ruby she said the tornaodo missed thier town, but her grandson Deninis lives on the rural side of town closest to Rolla, and several of the families there have thier home destroyed due to lightening stikes. It got Dennis's house I guess, they won't know the extent of the damages until tomarrow but no family injuries thank heavens...now half an state away in Little Rock, arkansas....2,000 blackbirds fell from the sky...evnviromental protection agency is out there and says they looked to have suffered body trama before they fell...and some are wondering if they weren't part of an tornado taken high up inot the atmosphere and dropped down into Arkansas. Told my sister in-law I was sending protective prayers out for them this  year and the family in general.

Then I called my other sister in-law  because I listened the other night to an radio talk show about this group of pyramids in Bosnia...like the Giza pyramids...and its largest is twice as big as Giza....and emits an 30 foot wave beam light they think is anti-gravity particle. Her son did an peace corps stint over there in Bosnia at one time just before he went into college to become an teacher. I am wondering if he knows of this pyramid complex or not. Threy unearthed it from soil they said had covered them for 12,000 years.

I understand that the snows are so bad already in the upper mid-west that they are going to be expecting an lot of flooding along the Mississippe River come Spring if it continues...and now is the time when we should be planning for it...but I am also reading that England has seen more cold weather thi syear then it has in 800 years across it's northern parts and the same for Europe in general. Bopp's board our dear host just posted that sceintist are now saying we have about 1800 hours on the clock to never being able to stop the earth changes enviromentally if nothing is done NOW in reguard to this problem. I vote..for number one....that we start to train people how to scoop up dirt where they live.... an mold into emergency housing....such as has been "fire burned bricks" since the time of the bible. Because these expenisve small houses are going to cost thousands to replace in such disasterous ordeals...and our world wide suppluy of wood is not going to help us...and if we aren't carefeul and stop rearranging the earth fro land developments and taking down the trees..we might see disasterous winds all over...as well as drought. For the trees have an lot to do with it all. Also in stabilizing the weather around the equator belt...so there is an weather season north and south of it. I don't think we can turn our backs to this to much more an dismiss it and I don't think we can take and bunch of "carpet-baggers" raping us all to make moneyof this issue this time around either. It is an very real problem....I would say perhaps someone can send Austrialia some very big conduit pipes to reroute the water when it floods. I have seen it done here most effectively on an large scale and small scale operation. The large scale was in the Nevada Mt.s and they re-ran the pipe beside an river and down into the Great Salt Lake as "over flow"...rather then let it go wild in flooding parts of their towns out on its course out of the mountains... and even in our small town where they ran the over flow into an area that is an marsh for wild birds...it also drains off and into an small creek that empties into an river... if its volume rises to high. Both have been successfu adventures. The piping can be taken apart and moved to any river needed..or left and covered up for any future needs. The pipes I saw in the case of Nevada were big enough an person could easily walk through them and not touch the top of them...they were huge....certainly 20 feet high and round.

I was shocked to read that the area of the floods and devastation in Queensland, Australia, is the equivalent of the area of France and Germany together or larger than the State of Texas!! 

That is a dreadful amount of flooding, especially after about 10 years of drought.

I think they may be needing a lot of help there.

Today's newspaper saw some pictures of this flooded area over there and with it that people are being asked to not walk in the water due to snakes, crocadiles and then general pollution of it. Areas look like an vast low level lake of an sorts. Reminds me of hurrican Katerina aftermath in some low laying areas. Ah,,here were helped by donating goods to "Habitat for Humanity" and built houses up in panels to be flown down and erected by construction workers on the sites..the volunteers here could build 7 houses an week and did for an year. But even then recovery never came to some people, they simply realized to move out of low laying areas to begin with. Fema now has to trailers for people to live in emergencies also...but for most many people know helping each other is the real difference to recovery...not to stand by looking for help that may never come.

During the 1906 San Francsico "fire" when much of the city was destroyed...I have articles where ladies all over the nation baked and made extra food and they took it by wagons daily with the mail across country to the food lines. Of course the closer you lived the easier it was to get unspoiled food to the people...in the form of baked bread... But I know I can leave here and be in the midwest pretty much the next day if I have help in the driving to get there. Maybe they have some abilty to set up things outside the affected area likewise? These disasters always make me wonder "why" and what's the lesson to be learned from it all. Maybe it is we never prepare and try to handle things in the after-math instead..when it at times its not much help in ways. When Veronia, Oregon flooded here...the local furniture shops donated an lot of new furniture to the families and took it off their taxes as Chartible gifts. I know because my son drove an 18-wheeler truck loaded with it and three other trucks to with them back then. Since then though they have rebuilt and new High School and incororated it into and emergency shelterso they are better off in the future...many people jacked thier housesup in the air and make garages under them and it keeps their foundations out if anything happens in the future also....some bought tailer houses, they can lift up and take off an move out of harms way.