Queensland floods: Australia airport submerged and crocodiles seen after record rain

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Flash floods in north Queensland have led to an entire town being evacuated and people trapped on a hospital roof.
Thousands have been evacuated but others remain stranded, in what authorities expect to be the Australian region's worst-ever flood.
Extreme weather driven by a tropical cyclone has dumped a year's worth of rain on some areas.
Images show planes submerged at Cairns airport, a crocodile seen in the middle of a town, and people fleeing in boats.
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@machidaman 8 ай бұрын

My sister in Cairns is living on 1st floor, no electricity and has lost her car and motorcycle to the flood so far. That said, she and her dogs are safe for now which is the main thing.b

@charlottehardy822 8 ай бұрын

Have family there too. It’s not a great place to be right now. Hope your sister and her dogs remain safe.

@flufwix 8 ай бұрын

So glad she’s safe at least. ❤

@TravelsTTG 3 ай бұрын

I hope see stayed safe. I can’t with crocs there too.

@celestinaphang4528 8 ай бұрын

Never been so Happy, seein..........NEWS like *THIS* !!

@cookiescrooks2201 8 ай бұрын

They are *X- convicted CrooKs* !!

@Drawingboredi 7 ай бұрын

What evil sh* are you even saying

@celestinaphang4528 7 ай бұрын

U @Drawingboredi , NO Understand *inklisch* !?? G0 BACK to Kindergarten.............😅🤣😂 @@Drawingboredi

@sasamiami1816 7 ай бұрын

They are *X- cons.* from the Land down_Under, Britain., ENG.!! the ABorogines should be Celebratin NOW!!

@sasamiami1816 7 ай бұрын

Me too. The aborogines should be Happy & celebrating this News now esp. the *X-convicted* from UK had taken over their ..........LAND!!

@Lifts_QWERTY 8 ай бұрын

I’m from South East Queensland and we also received terrible thunderstorms and mountains of rain! This reminds me of last year’s floods! It was horrible. Hope everyone up north is recovering well

@sgillard960 8 ай бұрын

But hang on, they announced a 'la nina' weather pattern and dry conditions going forward!!! Hasn't stopped raining since they said it.

@uzaiyaro 8 ай бұрын

@@sgillard960apparently El Niño doesn’t impact cyclones much.

@herryblackstudio 8 ай бұрын

🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤😭😭😭😭💐💐💐💐💐🙏🙏🙏🙏

@newgabe09 8 ай бұрын

thanks. It's a relief to us that it didn't keep raining all Monday. And so sorry for the people further north.

@ssveta0088 8 ай бұрын

All truth about it was announced at the international online forum "Global Crisis. There is a way out".

@glenfield9199 8 ай бұрын

I’m in port Douglas the rain was unbelievable. I might add there’s no supplies getting here anytime soon …the roads are under tons of landslides.

@bceyre8204 8 ай бұрын

Sending love and support, from Tassie. Stay safe.

@lynnnicholas5832 8 ай бұрын

Take care. Thinking of everyone in my favourite Qld town

@rhondah1587 8 ай бұрын

I've seen flooding like that here in south Louisiana too. We have to look out for snakes and alligators when the waters rise. Fortunately we have a group that self-organized called the Cajun Navy and they do a great job at getting stranded people out to safety. Best wishes to you all. You have my sympathy.

@catherinemacaskill1421 8 ай бұрын

I live in Canada. Right now high winds and heavy rain are a problem. Loss of power is also an issue. Thank heavens no snakes nor alligators. Our weather is changing. However, I will take the time to wish everyone a safe happy holiday season. I hope 2024 is a good year for our world.

@thebottles2667 8 ай бұрын

That's right. It's all about you.

@davidhobbs5679 8 ай бұрын

Maybe, but I doubt that having over 50 INCHES (1300 mm) in a week is normal. Up here floods it the regularly, but never this bad.

@rhondah1587 8 ай бұрын

@@davidhobbs5679 I can sympathize with you as where I live in the U.S., we had a flood in 2016 that was a flood they called a 100-year flood from rain and 100s of thousands of people lost their homes and sat on roof tops and in trees. It was from freakish heavy rain for just a few days. We also suffer regularly from devastating hurricanes as well. That's why I can have sympathetic feelings for all of you going through some of the same misery. Mother nature is merciless on what life is on her earth.

@rhondah1587 8 ай бұрын

@@thebottles2667 Sorry you think having sympathy because one has had such an experience is making it about themselves. When you see someone experience the same pain you have had, it resounds deeply and can be felt sincerely for the other's suffering more so than if you'd never had that pain.

@sanchurros6030 8 ай бұрын

yes!!! YES!!! *Santa clausss....... is comin to TOWN* .........🎄🎄🎅

@taxitaxi922 8 ай бұрын

😂😅❤

@allenthien3103 8 ай бұрын

ThanK GOD , FINALLY the GOD here its doin @their Job & the *TRUTH* on these Aussies_Australians!!

@cookiescrooky499 8 ай бұрын

EXACT 100% They are Typical *British X- Convicted croooKs* !!

@phillipbriggs895 8 ай бұрын

you guyz are _CANCERS, Breastcancers Final 4th- staged!!

@sanchurros6030 8 ай бұрын

May wish you a Merry ChristX'mass, may wish you a merry ChristX'mass, may WISH you a merry ChristX'mas, *AUSTRALIA is FLoooding in- TOWN* 🥰🥰 Happy NEW YEAR 2024 , Dear &X- convicted British croooKs* 😘

@cookiescrooks2201 8 ай бұрын

🤭🤭👍 , finally someone is speaking the Truth about these aussies.

@cookiescrooks2201 8 ай бұрын

👍👍🙏

@180_karma 8 ай бұрын

How is the British media is covering this better than the Australian media?

@jettstream2886 7 ай бұрын

It's not

@davidkelly153 8 ай бұрын

It’s very serious up there. My sister is trapped in Cairns whilst her husband and son are in Townsville. Probably won’t get back to cairns until at least Wednesday. I think the Aussie reporter liked saying the town name of Wujil Wujil though.

@kerrynight3271 8 ай бұрын

American here. The first time she said it I thought she was stuttering. I wish your family well.

@majorlaff8682 8 ай бұрын

@@kerrynight3271 Yes, he was nervous and stuttering, 'Wujil, wujil, wujilisten to me when I'm speaking to you.'

@rabbitrabbit1243 8 ай бұрын

No it bloody serious take the piss out if it if U like but you would b shittin g yourself if you were stuck there.

@mortofromoz1 8 ай бұрын

To give some perspective, some areas have received 800 - 900 mm of rain in one day. The whole of Far North Queensland’s 380,000 km2 is affected (compared to UK’s 243,000 km2)

@maralfniqle5092 8 ай бұрын

Heck yes crocodiles would be almost everywhere in those areas. Stay safe, everyone, hope help and supplies get through quickly

@TheFijntje54Annie 8 ай бұрын

My heart goes out to all people. It's terrible. 😪😪 With love from the Netherlands ❤️❤️

@LookupUnited24Tohelp-ph8ir 8 ай бұрын

Love ❤

@Caitness1 8 ай бұрын

Spent many years in the Far North and endured several cyclones. The flooding with Jasper is worst I’ve seen. Stay safe everyone and keep the kids close.

@sandramaiden4707 8 ай бұрын

The aboriginal people along the Darling River had a fear of the bunyip, that came with the floods. The bunyip was a crocodile, washed down the river from Queensland. We as kids were warned not to go near the river or the bunyip would get us.

@kevinjackson6387 8 ай бұрын

Oh my god was out that way in sept- oct visiting me mate and had great weather can’t believe this ,Mother Nature doing her worst ,keep safe everyone there x

@JayneCooney-ym9kp 8 ай бұрын

Prayers for Australia

@laurakyplain2413 8 ай бұрын

Karma for greed/stolen Indigenous land

@Jnoooooo 8 ай бұрын

That's helpful...

@golinlim2221 8 ай бұрын

🥰😘😘 Can i kisses YOU🤝🙏

@taxitaxi922 8 ай бұрын

Well- said❤😊

@bandohjfusion4885 7 ай бұрын

How is it karma when Indigenous communities are affected? Use your brain cells please.

@taxitaxi922 7 ай бұрын

@@bandohjfusion4885 NO.!!! It’s NOT❌❌ its *X-convicted British* crooks like YOU are affected the most👍 Perhaps used YOURS!!!

@svenlabots1869 8 ай бұрын

My feelings are with the victims and families. Hang in there, people, hope you'll be fine in the end....

@bblacker8434 8 ай бұрын

*Wishing for safety of the indigenous Aboriginal Australians*

@trevorgale1176 8 ай бұрын

That croc is not a worry, it's just a baby, it's the mummy, daddy, grandparents and great granddaddy's and mummy's you have to worry about.🤔

@tishbrett 8 ай бұрын

Still big enough to make a mess of someone

@davidjacobs828 8 ай бұрын

I advise everyone in a flood zone to go up stairs as crocodiles cannot run up stairs quickly .

@EpicCrust 8 ай бұрын

Thoughts with our Aussie Brother's & Sisters from the UK

@user-dc1mm9yc9i 8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 this is unbelievable

@pattyarbelaez2883 8 ай бұрын

Prayers for Australia. Here in Alberta Canada is 1 Celcius in winter. Last year was -30 Celcius at this time. I am so worry.

@MichihiroHonda 7 ай бұрын

El Nino.

@Aussiemarco 8 ай бұрын

The BBC probably should have shown a map of where this is happening. It gives the impression to anyone who doesn’t know Australia that major cities are underwater with crocs swimming around the streets of somewhere like Sydney or Melbourne. It’s taking place many thousands of kilometres north of Melbourne, Sydney or even Brisbane - the state of Queensland is massive!! Far northern Australia has two seasons - the Dry Season and the Wet Season. It’s now the Wet Season and this is just exceptionally wet. The people living up in Far North Queensland are tough, they’ll be taking this and getting through it. And from the predictions of extreme hot weather happing over this summer, this region will possibly be hit by a cyclone in February or March. This is why you need to be tough to live up there.

@SamiKotiranta 8 ай бұрын

Stay safe over there❤️❤️❤️

@LookupUnited24Tohelp-ph8ir 8 ай бұрын

Oh Australia 🙏❤️

@ronnie7075 8 ай бұрын

North Qld is well used to cyclones and floods. This one is different as it remained in the one big area as a rain bomb. These floods are several metres above what they usually experience.

@muhammedallah386 8 ай бұрын

Oh boy! Crocks are going to have early Christmas gifts..😮

@user-hi9im6vw2g 8 ай бұрын

This kind can only be caused when the moon is disturbed or tempered with

@brianfreeman8290 8 ай бұрын

For those of us with friends and family over there, a map might be reassuring !

@IIISentorIII 8 ай бұрын

Its to late now, just moments ago a giant meteor wiped put the entire town. But the Crocs are fine it seems.

@brianfreeman8290 8 ай бұрын

Cheers. Thanks for 'eff all !@@IIISentorIII

@carokat1111 8 ай бұрын

It's very far north in Queenland on the east coast of Australia.

@brianfreeman8290 8 ай бұрын

Thank you. My daughter lives above Brisbane, which also appears to have been affected. Moreover, I'm unable to contact her !@@carokat1111

@marcusfox2443 8 ай бұрын

I'm in Townsville,Ingham is 111klms north of us and Cairns is 350klms north of us and a lot of flooding north of Cairns and the Daintree and inland . If you look up these towns on google maps you'll see the area affected.

@afsahdurgauhee1648 7 ай бұрын

Hope everyone is fine.no loss of life. Wish u all lots of courage..😊

@justinr9784 8 ай бұрын

Just play Tom Petty over this footage and you got yourself a GTA VI trailer.

@sandgroperwookiee65 8 ай бұрын

Just play Tom Petty anytime! 🎩 🤘🤘

@Coffeeordie._88. 8 ай бұрын

May God protect you all.🤍🙏🙏🙏

@Jnoooooo 8 ай бұрын

Good shouldn't have sent the cyclone and all that rain to begin with......

@flufwix 8 ай бұрын

Hoping everyone stays safe up there. In Florida an alligator was found dragging a body along a residential street during floods.

@XSemperIdem5 8 ай бұрын

When did that happen? Every time there's hurricanes and big storms hitting Florida I wonder why more people aren't talking about gators lurking in the murky flooded streets.

@petejams7340 8 ай бұрын

Humanity needs to address climate change. The costs to try and fix this will be cheaper than enduring the costs of these disasters year after year.

@raclark2730 8 ай бұрын

This is a Normal cyclonic event for Northern Australia and is not out of bounds of natural. We would not have any rainforests or extensive wetlands without such events. A 1 in 100 year event is more common than people realize. As these events are spread across the entire North, There can be multiple within a century.

@CHINESE_PRIDE 8 ай бұрын

Fun fact: China builds two new coal plants a week. That's more than every other country combined.

@bb5979 8 ай бұрын

Happens every year in this region. “Climate change” lol fool.

@howunacceptibleofme2145 8 ай бұрын

Fool , nature don't give a shit about money ....

@deanpd3402 8 ай бұрын

I would suggest that if we started seeing cyclones in the middle of an Australian winter, then this would be evidence of climate change but instead we continue to see cyclones only happening during the cyclone season. Remarkable that. I notice though, that you continue to take advantage of the things that a fossil fuel economy produce by continuing to use your computer. As they say, put up or shut up.

@Sk8Bettty 8 ай бұрын

Geez, Ozzies are tough. Gobbless yall. 🙏

@FMFvideos 8 ай бұрын

This channel comments section is infested with thousands of scammer bots..

@joelc9439 8 ай бұрын

And people from the UK think that Australia is all dry and warm.

@plentyofnothing 8 ай бұрын

No we don't - we know the Southern hemisphere has less land mass and the oceans warm quicker than land as a result of global warming and climate change. It will get worse

@NinjaOrchids 8 ай бұрын

Maybe Hartley's Adventures is missing a croc that would normally show up for the snap shots? .... yikes, though! What a scary situation 🙏

@MariaMartinez-researcher 8 ай бұрын

Australia...😳

@user-eh9li5tx7h 8 ай бұрын

Good luck everybody.

@IIISentorIII 8 ай бұрын

Its to late now, just moments ago a giant meteor wiped put the entire town. But the Crocs are fine it seems.

@dumolwenkosigwetu6943 8 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@majorlaff8682 8 ай бұрын

Just a few light winds and scattered showers in the tropics.

@yeahnah773 8 ай бұрын

Refreshing bbc and abc not trying to push an agenda and just expressing what’s happening with the floods here. Keep that up

@davidhoward4715 8 ай бұрын

Yes, not supporting the Tory criminals for a change.

@cooncheez5547 8 ай бұрын

The agenda is and always has been about "views!"

@mikewinston8709 8 ай бұрын

Poor old Oz.

@charlesstevensEnki 8 ай бұрын

Did someone save that poor crocodile 😮

@billyouka448 8 ай бұрын

His poor little face

@dijonvolner6024 8 ай бұрын

Yes, he was taken to safety at a sanctuary

@flowerpower8722 8 ай бұрын

From what? He's at home. They would have collected him for human safety.

@beano9343 8 ай бұрын

The thing is, it came after cyclone Jasper,they had some idea early that bad weather was coming. The cyclone threat was reduced, but still there is always rain and it spreads across most of aus after a cyclone. They had fair warning but it went bad :(

@gracek8859 8 ай бұрын

Rain does not spread across most of the country after a cyclone at all.

@markshark7521 8 ай бұрын

You can't prepare for this, and weather forecasters are crap, and we are getting rainfall never had before, it is worse than after Yasi. You can't hold back mother nature!

@markshark7521 8 ай бұрын

@@gracek8859exactly right

@rickh3714 8 ай бұрын

People think its all over when the Cyclone passes. It wasn't with Cyclone Gabrielle in NZ, it won't be with Cyclone Jasper. Rivers take time for the backlog to clear. We had 'atmospheric rivers' and many months of wet weather in the NI of NZ earlier this year both prior to & after the Cyclone. It felt like someone had flicked a switch.

@flufwix 8 ай бұрын

No one could forecast that the cyclone would slow down and therefore dump a bunch of rain in one spot. Nature is not completely predictable

@savemowbraypark7712 8 ай бұрын

Leave it alone! That's our pet crock!

@user-qf7ud5de9h 8 ай бұрын

Crocodile says what is the problem?

@lazynow1 8 ай бұрын

They all drive on the wrong side of the road ...what do you expect....

@janecme 8 ай бұрын

Australia posts signs about sewage spills!! Thames Water could learn something, but maybe don't have enough signs.

@SethiozProject 8 ай бұрын

sounds like dinner time for crocs

@Lifes_deepest_secrets 8 ай бұрын

Praying for everyone’s safety 🙏

@LookupUnited24Tohelp-ph8ir 8 ай бұрын

🙏 Prayers

@damag3plan 8 ай бұрын

Prayer. The best way to feel like you're doing something when you're actually doing nothing helpful at all👍

@Lifes_deepest_secrets 8 ай бұрын

@@damag3plan indeed

@endurodadclint5377 8 ай бұрын

600 mm of rain in 24 hrs ! Let that sink in

@mojo_joju 8 ай бұрын

Great, as if the floods weren't bad enough, now there's crocodiles in there too. What's next? Bull sharks and fire?

@t-rex4211 8 ай бұрын

Spiders seeking shelter too 🥴

@jturtle5318 8 ай бұрын

Like Florida during a hurricane, with sharks cruising along the streets.

@abdiver12 8 ай бұрын

An entire year of rain (2 meters) in only 5 days. I saw photos of airplanes underwater at their airport. Absolutely crazy what global warming is doing to the weather and expect to it get MUCH worse in the coming years.

@Techo1329 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, like this has never ever ever happened before. Intense rain and flooding in the tropics, who'd of thought this was even possible? Good thing we have all these wind farms otherwise the rain would of been so much worse. Thank God we're well on the way to controlling global weather systems, we just need to manufacture and transport a few billion more solar panels and giant windmills, and then keep replacing them every 15-20 years, too easy, mother nature will be tamed.

@nameless7174 8 ай бұрын

Global warming 🤣

@abdiver12 8 ай бұрын

@@nameless7174 only a complete idiot would still think it’s fake with all the scientific evidence to the contrary. But it really doesn’t matter anymore because it’s unstoppable at this point.

@kartoffelwaffel 8 ай бұрын

2010 called, they want their climate change denial posts back

@flowerpower8722 8 ай бұрын

It's not global warming. It's the natural weather pattern for ever in that part of the world. The day the cyclones and floods stop is when people might become concerned. Nature doesn't have to be nice to be correct.

@shahzadazulfiqar1 8 ай бұрын

Barron River & it's streams (adjacent roads) 😮😮

@trojanthedog 8 күн бұрын

Near record. So, not a record. In fact things we've seen before and often.

@hasgotech380 8 ай бұрын

Attracted by the word crocdile.

@bikramjitsingh8708 8 ай бұрын

Boy and I thought we had problems!!

@CalebRota-fe7gn 8 ай бұрын

gosh so sad

@Harry-me1zq 8 ай бұрын

Having spent time in Qld the name rain forest is bit of a clue.

@sohansvlog838 8 ай бұрын

How 😢😢

@BondJFK 8 ай бұрын

"would you would you"

@robnewman6101 7 ай бұрын

There's a Crocodile! Look out!

@subashchandrasabar6116 8 ай бұрын

Oh, God

@louisveerapen4589 8 ай бұрын

The Bible have already predicted that!

@GDB11 8 ай бұрын

But they told us a few years ago that it will never rain again in Australia

@paul7TM 8 ай бұрын

It will always rain in QLD mate. My family and I lived there as ten pound poms in the 70s. I was just a kid but remember the '74 Brisbane floods well. Cheers.

@ajc5479 8 ай бұрын

Who is they? Those invisible friends of yours? lol

@GDB11 8 ай бұрын

@@ajc5479 "They" as in the experts and the same news channels that now report on the floods. Guess you were just living in a cave at the time mate

@aindriubradleymarshall6226 8 ай бұрын

Fear porn....

@smallies7154 8 ай бұрын

Remember they changed it from global warming to climate change because people were noticing that it was get colder

@risa_sh.youtube3244 8 ай бұрын

The world has changed **Nam myoho rengekyo** 🙏 pray 🌍 peace be safe ___:

@KingChuaga2 8 ай бұрын

Click to get news in Kenya

@hlwanmoe9279 8 ай бұрын

ဟယ်လို့မဂ်လာပါ🙋‍♂️

@daisy8297 8 ай бұрын

Crocs are always an issue during flooding in Qld, noone should be wading through floodwaters

@Jirangaaa 7 ай бұрын

Wujal Wujal my clan ❤

@marysagwas7397 7 ай бұрын

Das sind die Sonnenstürme gewesen

@syednasranshamilsyeddin1966 8 ай бұрын

This is army flood from God.

@user-bo1ux2pv1l 8 ай бұрын

I think they have to re-think about the materials they use to cover the grand for building roads and squares, the fresh and clean rains are good climates’ signs I think, but some materials they have been using are not environmentally friendly.

@user-jh6vl4kx7c 8 ай бұрын

Is so many Crocs up there now since they stopped hunting them probably some monsters in those waters

@mjlewi4024 8 ай бұрын

That’s NOT a small little face.

@Quillotita 8 ай бұрын

I think it’s time for Queenslanders to start building their houses on a higher grounds… every year we hear the same story, I think is time for the government to act on this as weather events are going from bad to worse

@sgillard960 8 ай бұрын

Queensland has had cyclones forever. Nothing has changed. There is just way more houses and construction in general over the last few decades. Remember 1974? Look up flood charts for the 1890s, half the decade had bigger floods than 1974. www.bom.gov.au/qld/flood/fld_history/floodsum_1890.shtml

@James_Doyle83 8 ай бұрын

Gta 6 got real

@ramonhelder3138 8 ай бұрын

I,tink the Water tak,s the rule over this moment,you can see all over the Planeet.

@gus8493 8 ай бұрын

Every drain system should have a hydroelectric generator...Turns wet weather into power... So we can we can watch the BBC of course...

@flowerpower8722 8 ай бұрын

If we're not burning we're drowning, sometimes both at the same time in various places. I'm very sorry for the people of Cairns and NQ as this is one of those one in 100year floods. Due to cyclone Jasper parking it's soaking wet arse in the Peninsula for no good reason. The wind wasn't much to write home about, so it's making itself known by doing this.

@jem5597 3 ай бұрын

@3:56 that’s the street I live on. I’m just a few house down from the White House.

@pinto2399 3 ай бұрын

অস্ট্রেলিয়া বৃষ্টি হওয়ায় নদী

@thealhayy 8 ай бұрын

Heavy spill took crocodile on roads

@user-iu7ec6je1g 8 ай бұрын

OT: Benny Hill considered funnier than Monty Python by two TV stations--WOR and WLVI!

@davocc2405 8 ай бұрын

The crocs are out there to stop drains being clogged up by kids who were told not to swim there

@SherienElBehery 8 ай бұрын

😔

@andrewf1326 8 ай бұрын

What an utterly sensationalist example of journalism. Not ONCE was there any mention that this "rainfall" was generated from a cyclone. As an ex pat i would expect a better level of journalism from the BBC. So sick of non factual news. Get your facts together, and tell the TRUTH!!!