My friend in Queensland, Chris' bull terrier, Chopper died last year and in memory of him, she is donating a pet/owner hampers to flood victims who lost their dog/s during the floods.

Great graphic of Cyclone Yasi's path as it heads towards Mount Isa, tonight

http://www.abc.net.au/news/infographics/cyclone-season-2010-2011/

as it passes over Mount Isa it will then continue across the state border

into the Northern Territory and then head towards Alice Springs

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"Mining giant Xstrata is evacuating personnel from its operations at Mount Isa and Cloncurry in the face of Cyclone Yasi. Only a handful of essential personnel will remain on site for critical site monitoring activities after 4pm #TCYasi"

http://www.facebook.com/QueenslandPolice/posts/109105539164108

Weather bureau downgrades Cyclone Yasi

to a tropical low as it nears Mount Isa.

Cyclone Yasi.

Jo Nova of joannenove.com.au reports >To give you some idea of just how expansive Yasi is, look at the size of it compared to the continental USA, and the UK just for scale.

More here

Cyclone Yasi to on its way to Northern Queensland

Yasi will cross the coast Wednesday night and is expected to gain momentum and strength. It is currently a category two and predicted to be a category four on touchdown.

Looking at the WeatherChannel site you can watch the movement of the cyclone. To me it looks like a giant comet is about to crash onto the coast.

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Late News Tonight-

Just announced at Gabba Stadium, Brisbane at the Day/Night cricket match between Australia vs England flood relief contributions from cricket teams & supporters is $6,009,602. Magnificent effort from all.

An Englishman living in the Western Suburbs of Brisbane.

Bob in Oz.

His account of the floods.

I have been on Facebook to check how my nephews living in Brisbane are going ... Adam's street has been closed and the flood is on the other side of the hill, they are hoping the hill protects them.

Later, I was on the phone to my sister and Adam rang to ask his dad to go on ebay and put a bid on for him. :-) (on a bike he wants) as he now has no internet.

Brisbane River currently at 4.26m and rising.

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John Birmingham writes >> It always comes out of the west ... more

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More video footage from 10 January floods in Toowoomba.

Thanks to whitelightbringer for uploading to youtube.

These waters are heading East towards Brisbane.

On Thursday, the city will have 6,500 homes in danger of flooding.

Extraordinary footage of flash flooding in

Toowoomba, Queensland today.

NewsOnABC

This is scary, people were in these cars.

Eight Dead, 72 Missing.

ABC News(Australia) have asked the flood victims to record their experiences of the onset of the floods in their regions.

Anne and Bruce Chater, a schoolteacher and doctor from the small central Queensland town of Theodore returned from a trip to Nepal on 20 December in time for Christmas and are now coping with floods waters surging around their house and surgery and are now providing updates and photos.

http://blogs.abc.net.au/news/after-the-deluge/

Two photos of the floods in north eastern Queensland.

Depot Hill, Rockhampton.

(MECHIELSEN LYNDON/AFP/Getty Images

Rescued Kangaroos, Wellington.

Rodney Dowton ferries a boatload of kangaroos

through floodwaters near Wellington, Australia.

(AP Photo/Lake Burrendong Sport and Recreation Centre, Tracy Woods

I got these two photos from

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/01/australian_flooding.html