while i was cooped up in my little shell

while i was at home cooped up because of the rain, i didn't know that the situation was actually that bad out there. in places like coomera, oxenford (5 mins drive away), etc etc many other places..it was actually flooding really badly. people's horses got washed away and drowned..and like some people lost their boats..land was all covered over by water, roads were flooding so high that ppl that did not heed the flood warning and continued driving had to be rescued from cars...etc etc.

here are the news sites:
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/mother-dies-in-central-queensland-floods-20100207-nklw.html

pictures of the floods with random surfing people in between
http://tools.goldcoast.com.au/photo-gallery/photo_gallery_popup_preview.php?category_id=13021&offset=0