A bit wet

[Sappho]

You guys have to check out youtube for the extraordinary flash flood that hit toowoomba... they are calling it an inland tsunami. Left a few dead and some missing.

Oh yeah... Outlaw, you should be entitled to the commonwealth emergency relief grant of $1000 and there may be another payment to which you are entitled.

[Showman]

I saw a few photos from toowoomba terrible stuff,,sad to see a a couple kids died or at least thats the report i heard,,

[freediver]

8 confirmed dead - more to come from neighbouring areas

[Ned Kelly]

Nasty stuff!!

[Sappho]

Brisbane river has broken it's banks... thousands of homes are at threat in low lying lands... evacuations of some inner suburbs have started... king tide today...

Toowoomba meanwhile is having yet another rain deluge of the kind that caused that wall of water and so at risk again of the same thing...

And that's just a couple of chapters in this mega flood event.

[Outlaw Yogi]

You guys have to check out youtube for the extraordinary flash flood that hit toowoomba... they are calling it an inland tsunami. Left a few dead and some missing.

Oh yeah... Outlaw, you should be entitled to the commonwealth emergency relief grant of $1000 and there may be another payment to which you are entitled.

Thanks for the tip Sappho, but I thought that money was for those who lost or has property damaged, and I haven't.
I'm staying with friends in Bundy and the few items I've brought with me I keep in a sealed 20 litre bucket.
Despite only getting the odd landscaping jobs on construction sites here and there, I'm still financially OK.

Why is Queensland flooded?
http://au.news.yahoo.com/qld-floods/a/- ... -it-happen

[Sappho]

@Outlaw.

when things have settled down a bit... find out if you qualify... this is not a crisis payment it is an emergency relief payment designed to help those who need immediate cash due to a disaster and not a personal crisis... it helps to pay for food, clothes etc whilst you are waiting for services to return to normal.

I'm pretty sure you qualify for the $1000 payment.

[Ned Kelly]

On what basis are you so sure of his entitlement? What are the requirement to qualify, and how do you know whether Outlaw comes within a bull's roar of meeting them?

[Sappho]

Thanks for the tip Sappho, but I thought that money was for those who lost or has property damaged, and I haven't.

On what basis are you so sure of his entitlement? What are the requirement to qualify, and how do you know whether Outlaw comes within a bull's roar of meeting them?

It is normal for unique requirements to be put in place as a response to a natural disaster. This flooding event is no different. Essentially, if a person is unable to gain access to their principal place of residence for a period of 24 hours or more, they would qualify for the payment. This is about helping people as much as possible. In most cases, Centrelink provides cash, cheques that have immediate clearance, or emergency benifit transfer cards, depending of the availability of bank services.

I ask have asked Outlaw to find out when things have settled down, because Centrelink has been affected by the floods also with many offices closed as a result. Centrelink is currently in the process of getting mobile services, technology, paperwork, cash to where it is most needed. Centrelink usually set up in the evacuation/recovery centres, but again, Centrelink is still mobilizing. Thankfully Outlaw seems in less need than others, yet still with a valid entitlement, so can wait a little while.

Hope that helps and good luck!

http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/i ... /index.htm
For more information on the Community Recovery Programs currently in play

[IQS.RLOW]

It is Gods retribution for QLDrs voting in a Labor govt

SA will be the next state of heathens to suffer His wrath