Queensland, Australia Floods – HELP

Linkin Park Live member Schadowfax1007 just posted this message on LPLive

Hey everyone,

I know I’m not involved with LPL much any more, but I’m still on here twice a day checking updates and the forums.

As you may or may not have heard, we are experiencing some extreme flooding here in Queensland, Australia. There has already been massive loss of life, houses, belongings and other important services. Roads have been destroyed, businesses ruined, cars taken away. Almost every terminal for our water ferries in the city has been ripped away, our city is now as ghost town as all power is off and people evacuated. For anyone familiar with Australia, this is going to get worse than the floods we had in 1974.

I myself spent most of yesterday, helping people evacuate and save there belongings, but no matter what anyone did, we still saw so much lose – houses, property, everything washed away in an instant. Thankfully my home and belongings are currently unaffected, although my family is stranded in different locations. Others haven’t been so lucky.

Things are only going to get worse. With a king tide expected this afternoon, which is predicted to last over 18 hours, waters will riser faster and higher then they have before. Things are expected to get progressively worse all the way into Friday.

I’m reaching out to the LPL community because I know everyone is generous here and when they band together they can achieve anything. If anyone has anything they can spare, even just a few dollars instead of your daily coffee, it would be much appreciated!

You can donate online HERE through our governments website. The link is fully secure and your details are kept private. At the time of posting almost 36 million dollars has been raised, which sounds like a lot but much more is still needed.

You can read more about the flood here or on various other Australian news websites, which are full of reports, photos and videos.

With any luck, maybe even MFR would get involved. Since I don’t have admin rights anymore, can someone please move this onto the front page of LPL so that everyone hears about what we are dealing with.

Thanks everyone!