Will the UK Government aid the Australians with their flooding?

Do they not have an railroad line over there that could be pulled into the area as the water recedes and live in box cars temporarily while they do the clean up?...and I'd be careful as Austrailia has most the world's most posionous snakes and spiders and other animals...maybe St. Partrick brought on the flood to wash them off the land? In the long run...make it safer to live there.

maybe they should round up these kids who don't want to be in school and ship them over there to help out....if they don't want 'book ' education, this would give them live, in person, first hand needy people experience and this activity away from their computers, tv, music,friends( or send their friends also) and expose them to what it;s like to volunteer time and energy to help someone other than themselves.

Sometimes these ventures actually teach what books can't ! Gives a whole new level of education.

Kids are different these days Beth...they have at times more money then do their parents. It's the ones that don't usually more apt to help. Look at my daughter n-law's cousins....their grandfather left them 7 million dollars each....about 5 years ago... when he passed on, true itis well planned on how they get it...and when...but they are kids that will never have to do labor type jobs because they are forced into it. These kids are more apt to do something because they like you...then because they have to do the work. But I must admit overall...they are good to thier younger cousins in the family and they are repsonsible. But as for book learning goes...they already have the money to  go into business doing anything they like if that's what they want. They aren't done inheirting it all as of yet either...they have an mother someday to inheirt from...and an father...divorced as they may be.  One of them watched my hubby struggling to repair our grass out front one day and came back from his dad's grandparents house (also owns his own nursery) with new green grass and re-turfed our whole front yard so we wouldn't have to work so hard.I bet you of you told him to do it...he'd say "Do it yourself!"

Neither have I and you know what, I've not seen anything over here like I did with the quake in Haiti either...nor Canada whom is close in relatioships with the Aussies...wonder if everyone is waiting for the water to recede before they do anything. You get the rift when I say that it is becoming time to tell everyone to store up food and an way to live in an emergency these days? I think about survival because of the Scouts I guess...but getting others in my family to do so is very hard...like most... they figure that they don't have the money or they will handle when the time comes...because until then they don't know what to prepare for...by then its to late.

It's an new year....things to help you live better......

1. Go get an fire/waterproof portable safe that can be taken with you and put your valuable papers and documents in it if you have not already done something of this nature.

2. Look at your decor...is it in keeping with safe living?  Do you have funiture placed that would survive through water damage...fire...hurricanes or tornado...earthquake. Suggestions...

Earthquake...heavier furniture should be put downstairs...and attached to the walls if possible. Electronics likewise...attached to not slip off easily and break. Use your upstairs for lighter furnishings..wicker chairs instead of heavy sofa. You might be glad to know that it may not fall on you in the middle of the night, if it's not over your head. Do you have ventians blinds to stop shattering glass from exploding into the room? Lastly are the kitchen cabinets able to be kept shut in an hurry if need be...door handles..with an stick to go through them maybe...but then again...are your items arranged also heaviest and most breakable toward the floor? Do you store extra tarps for the roof in case of damage? Do you have supplies outside the home to access to if you have to evacuate your premises? Do you have temporary shelter of some kind accessible from outside your house....heat...extra food...sleeping quarters? If you think you can bug out easily...whose going to stay at your house and watch over its safety from burgarly. People these days are stripping out burned houses as fast as the fire is put out...I mean right down to the plumbing...the light fixtures...the bricks in the walkways...the boards on the side of the house..etc. First time I saw this I was actually amazed it was really happening. It is done particularly in the city areas. Do you have more then one way out of your house on every floor?,,,,basement?...is your foundation high enough to protect the house from water damage...what can you do if it's not.  Last year's quakes in mexico...saw an lot of the new house construction with flat cement slabs for foundation...which are still very popular all over....they cracked with spewing ground water coming up into the homes. If you live on an hill side...that could slide down with excessive rains...do you have large tarps and rocks to hold them on the hillside so the rains wash off the tarp  and not into the ground, creating an slide when ti gets water soaked...something many people out here are doing now. It does not stop whole mountains from moving if that be the case...but it can sure help in small hilly areas to save an few houses. Do you have an boat or some kind of boat/raft in case you need to evacuate in high water. Low water if its running with an swift flow...how low...people have been known to drown in an baracade of 2 inches of of heavy flowing water..esp ff knocked unconscious...or pinned down in the water. You do have an handy crow bar underneath your bed don't you...or one in your car, and another one in an plain locked box on the side of your house along with an extra fire hydrant, and wrench for shutting off gas pipes.Do you have an wind up radio with an light on it?,,,,our Government here awhile back thought they were so important they were giving them out free for only the $5.95 shipping charge...two per house. These have AM/FM, Shortband(Govt emergency station) and NOAA weather alert radio bands. You did ask an distant relative to be your emergency spokeperson for you...and then you call them and tell everyone that knows you to call them in case of your emergency also...this free's up local telephones for emergency help...and yourself in the recovery process trying to handle loved ones calls.

3...about yourself....extra prescrition papers in your safe?...if need be and all medical needs...pictures of your kids if they should get lost....pets. Reading glasses....flashlight....hand and body warmers? You open them up and shake them to activate and put in your pockets and cover yourself up in clothing or an blanket to keep warm...no need for an fire to be built. High energy food bars...over here our miltary and Fema sells them and many such like outfits..one or two bars will replace everythiig your body needs to sustain itself for 24 hours. I recommend an week's worth of them for each person in your family along with water.  Your water needs will most likley depend on an water filter eventually. Possibly an tarp to contain rain water if need be or "dew" in the morning....you lick it off the tarp. If your in an arid or semi-arid desert area...with lots of sand...do you have an extra small tire to burn so that people can locate you through the black smoke it gives off. In your boat, do you have an orange tarp and life jackets...and th ekind that will keep your head above water if you fall out of the boat?  Small medical kit. Rubber boots to wade through water...snow possibly. Do you know simple basis self-survial techniques? Kind of late if you say "afterward" on many of these items.

Take heed of the lessons people are learning in world wide emergencies right now...we watched what was the most important thing to use in evacuation....an huge wheelbarrel on wheels...and what did they put on it if possible...an small bed mattress for sleeping....not an blow up type either....what else did they take...things to walk in water with and clothing to keep warm in the form of simple blankets. Watch your animals....they can lead you to safety before the emergency ever hits if your aware of them.

According to the News here this morning winds of up to 200 mph are about to hit Queensland! They are being told to literally batten down the hatches.

Wow, how do you stop nature?

You can' t Ron, completely and you don't want to.. for normal weather patterns so you have to work at lessnig it's energy...for that it takes an good many Shaman type light-workers doing thier visioning and mediations..and being in unity. There is also an element of God's will here as well.  I'm waiting to see how the country fairs this year with this magnectic pole shift going on. There was another "spike" in it occured couple days ago..you can tell because its registered like an magnectic scalar event, with no sun spot activity going on. Austrailia sends us an lot of their lamb products for the markets over here. I would imagine likewise for the middle east also perhaps. I think the so called "New world order" may be people helping people...not just the moneyed ellite helping themselves. Many people over here are doing prayers for Austrialia to overcome thier difficulties here lately with the flooding... and now this typhoon Yashi.